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  • Control of Cracking in Reinforced Concrete Structures

    Research Project CEOS.fr

    by Francis Barre, Philippe Bisch, Daniele Chauvel, Jacques Cortade, Jean-Philippe Dubois, Silvano Erlicher, Etienne Gallitre, Jacky Mazars, Claude Rospar, Alain Sellier, Jean-Michel Torrenti, Jean-François Coste, Pierre Labbé, François Toutlemonde ...
    This book presents new guidelines for the control of cracking in massive reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. Understanding this behavior during construction allows engineers to ensure properties such as durability, reliability, and water- and air-tightness throughout a structure’s lifetime. Based on the findings of the French national CEOS.fr project, the authors extend existing ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

  • The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism

    A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy

    Edited by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Jacques-Henri Coste, Jean-Baptiste Velut ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    Despite the reversal of America’s fortune from the triumphalism of the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained surprisingly unchanged. In fact, if the crisis questioned the sustainability of the US capitalist paradigm, it did not fundamentally challenge academic theorization of American political economy.This ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

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  • Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

    A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

    Edited by Alex Himelfarb, Jordan Himelfarb ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadian Commentaries
    Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Over the Cliff?

    Acting Now to Avoid New Brunswick's Bankruptcy

    by Richard Saillant ...
    Series series Roméo LeBlanc Series
    In this important and timely study, Richard Saillant provides a compelling account of New Brunswick's perilous fiscal situation. In an engaging and accessible style, he explains how we got there and where we are headed unless we change course soon. Saillant provides New Brunswickers with a roadmap to steer away from the cliff and ensure that we do not bequeath an unmanageable burden to future ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Rethinking Capitalism

    Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    Edited by Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato ...
    Series series Political Quarterly Monograph Series
    "Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics.”Gillian Tett, Financial TimesFor further information about recent publicity events and media coverage for Rethinking Capitalism please visit http://marianamazzucato.com/rethinking-capitalism/Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated o... ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Economism

    Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

    by James Kwak ...
    Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists, clueless politicians, and ignorant pundits.In order to ... Read more

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  • One Economics, Many Recipes

    Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local economic and political realities rather than obeying the dictates of the international globalization ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

    An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    It’s time to rewrite the rules—to curb the runaway flow of wealth to the top one percent, to restore security and opportunity for the middle class, and to foster stronger growth rooted in broadly shared prosperity.Inequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Economics in Two Lessons

    Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly

    by John Quiggin ...
    A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes—and failures—of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • International Economics and Business

    Nations and Firms in the Global Economy

    by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk ...
    With a new title (following the successful first edition of Nations and Firms in the Global Economy), this second edition undergraduate textbook combines the dual perspectives of international economics and international business, providing a complete overview of the changing role of nations and firms in the global economy. International Economics and Business covers the key concepts typically ... Read more

    $59.99 USD