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  • Norway's Pharmaceutical Revolution

    Pursuing and Accomplishing Innovation in Nyegaard & Co., 1945-1997

    by Knut Sogner ...
    The pharmaceutical revolution that gathered pace in the 1930s delivered a plethora of almost magical new drugs such as penicillin, streptomycin, cortisone, and the birth control pill. This revolution grew from academic-business relationships in five countries: USA, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and France. Many other countries tried and failed to replicate this success, yet a handful of ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Emergence of Corporate Governance

    People, Power and Performance

    Edited by Knut Sogner, Andrea Colli ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions. Corporate governance is also about persons of power seeking performance, and they do so in ways that transcend structures and pre-conceived notions of the structural set-up of the business.This book emphasises the decision-making dimensions of corporate governance, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Truth About the Drug Companies

    How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

    by Marcia Angell ...
    During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Value of Everything

    Making and Taking in the Global Economy

    by Mariana Mazzucato ...
    The award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation.“A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits.” —Martin Wolf,... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Lies My Gov't Told Me

    And the Better Future Coming

    by Robert W. Malone, MD, MS ...
    A WALL STREET JOURNALNATIONAL BESTSELLER*AS SEEN ON TUCKER CARLSON TODAY AND THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE*A guide for the times—breaking down the lies about COVID-19 and shedding light on why we came to believe them.When he invented the original mRNA vaccine technology as a medical and graduate student in the late 1980s, Robert Malone could not have imagined that he would become a leader in a ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Economists and the Powerful

    Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards

    by Norbert Häring, Niall Douglas ...
    “Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on an array of empirical and theoretical studies by a series of distinguished economists, this book reveals a stark and unpleasant truth: that the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Megaprojects and Risk

    An Anatomy of Ambition

    by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter ...
    Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an unhealthy cocktail of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • As the Future Catches You

    How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth

    by Juan Enriquez ...
    You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with a series of unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financial issues, dramatically demonstrating the cascading impact of the genetic, digital, and knowledge revolutions on your life.Genetics will be the dominant language of this century. Those who can “speak it ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy

    Markets, Speculation and the State

    by William H. Janeway ...
    The innovation economy begins with discovery and culminates in speculation. Over some 250 years, economic growth has been driven by successive processes of trial and error: upstream exercises in research and invention and downstream experiments in exploiting the new economic space opened by innovation. Drawing on his professional experiences, William H. Janeway provides an accessible pathway for ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Overdosed America

    The Broken Promise of American Medicine

    by John Abramson ...
    " Overdosed Americ a reveals the greed and corruption that drive health care costs skyward and now threaten the public health. Before you see a doctor, you should read this book." —Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food NationUsing the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American ... Read more

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  • Corporate Governance

    Principles and Issues

    by Donald Nordberg ...
    Offering a fresh look at the commonly accepted view of what constitutes good governance, Donald Nordberg explores the contexts of board decisions and draws upon his academic research and years of business and financial journalism in Europe, North America and Asia to provide a distinctive and pertinent contribution to the literature on corporate governance. The book:- Features 21 detailed case ... Read more

    $99.89 USD