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“luc leruth”

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  • Economics and Literature

    A Novel Approach

    Edited by François Bourguignon, Avinash K Dixit, Luc Leruth, Jean-Philippe Platteau ...
    Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyze human decisions and interactions in markets and other institutions. Fiction writers also provide keen insights into individual minds and motives, examining how their characters respond to conflict and tensions in varied situations. This book explores the insights to be gained from developing this parallel.In each chapter, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Filmonomics

    Economists Discuss the Silver Screen

    Edited by André de Palma, Luc Leruth ...
    What could movies as diverse as The Last Samurai, Cléo from 5 to 7, or Dr. Strangelove have in common? Filmonomics has a simple yet intriguing answer: economics as the main driving force of the plot or as the main motivation of the characters’ actions.This book analyses how movie makers use economic and financial motives in their plots or to build their characters. Have they done it in line with ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Crisis and Miss Emily's Perceptions

    by Luc Mr. Leruth, Pierre Nicolas ...
    The Crisis and Miss Emily's Perceptions draws an analogy between the theme and the characters in Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and the global financial crisis. In Faulkner's story, all the characters try to deny realities, thus allowing an unstable situation to last longer than it should have. The paper briefly reviews the literature on perception biases and argues that all economic ... Read more

    $13.79 CAD

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  • Mass Flourishing

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    In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-expression, and ... Read more

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  • Good Value

    Reflections on money, morality and an uncertain world

    by Stephen Green ...
    How should we create wealth in societies, and why is it necessary to do so? What improves the lives of the largest number of people? And how do we, living in a globalised world caught in an age of financial and ecological turbulence, respond to the differing needs of individuals and institutions?Stephen Green, Chairman of HSBC, reflects on how the human desires for exploration and exchange have ... Read more

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  • Homo Economicus

    The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material ... Read more

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  • Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power

    Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons

    by Max Haiven ...
    Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself?In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that ... Read more

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  • After Capitalism

    Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship

    by Kennan Ferguson, Patrice Petro, Geoff Mann, Andrew Ross, Ivan Ascher, Jeffrey Sommers, Sherryl Vint, Marcus Bullock, Esther Leslie0, Cristina Venegas1, Niki Akhavan2, A. Aneesh3, Bernard C. Perley4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an unstoppable entity that takes new forms as it engulfs its opposition?After Capitalism brings together ... Read more

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  • Narrative Economics

    How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

    by Robert J. Shiller ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic virusesStories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in ... Read more

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    Revised and Expanded Third Edition

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  • The Haves and the Have-Nots

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