Dollars and Change: Economics in Context

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Dollars and Change: Economics in Context
Louis Putterman
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0300087101

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In this clear and engaging book, economist Louis Putterman places the economy and the study of economics in a broad historical and social perspective. He explores the history of the discipline, the history of the modern economy, different perspectives on the market economy, and the relations between economic matters and questions of human nature, social aspiration, and justice. Putterman connects the field of economics with other important spheres of life, building bridges of understanding that are too often absent in the study of economics.

This book explains economic ideas in nontechnical language and is accessible to readers with little background in economics. Recognizing that abstract models and theories can leave readers puzzling over the meaning and significance of economics, Putterman addresses such questions as: Why is the economy organized the way it is? Can economic efficiency and economic justice coexist? Will those who live in the world's poor countries be able to join the well-off? Is the economy optimally arranged for maintaining the life-sustaining capacity of our planet? The author encourages readers to think more deeply and widely about economic issues and offers notes and recommendations for further reading at the end of each chapter.

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Great Text.......2001-02-18

Excellent text that should serve many levels of readers. Check this scholarly piece out.

Dollars and Change: Economics in Context

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Dollars and Change: Economics in Context
Louis Putterman
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSCUIS

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Your roadmap to becoming the CEO of your own job and a leader for organizational change. Argues that the responsibility for renewing the vital bond of trust and commitment is far too important a task to be left to senior management, and shows how you can secure your own future--and the future of your organization--by responding actively, creatively, and effectively to the new demands of the organization in flux. Demonstrates why now--more than ever--we must take responsibility for becoming leaders of change rather than waiting for our organizations to take the first step.

Dennis T. Jaffe, Cynthia D. Scott, and Glenn R. Tobe draw on their extensive consulting experience with corporate executives and managers of such leading organizations as IBM, Pacific Bell, General Mills, The Gap, National Semiconductor, and Estee Lauder to demonstrate how to: * create a new employee empowerment contract * define the values and vision that will guide you to a new sense of mastery in life and work * develop a committed, productive workforce across the organization * invest in the future by designing work groups and systems that develop the new skills and capabilities required in yourself, in others, and in the organization.

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Get all you need to know with Super Reviews! Each Super Review is packed with in-depth, student-friendly topic reviews that fully explain everything about the subject. The Microbiology Super Review examines the history and scope of microbiology, equipment, techniques, diversity of microorganisms, microbial metabolism, transport of molecules, bacterial growth, control of microbial growth, microbial genetics, microbes in disease, microbes in the environment, and more! Take the Super Review quizzes to see how much you've learned - and where you need more study. Makes an excellent study aid and textbook companion. Great for self-study!

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Great reference for undergraduate microbiology.......2003-08-05

I took a microbiology class in undergraduate and found this book quite thorough and well-organized no nonsense approach. It got right to the point, without the added wording of many textbooks. I also used the Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi which is on amazon.com.
I found the last book to be quite on the mark with the type of questions to know for the test. These two books really helped alleviate many surprise questions on my microbiology exams. My friend who took microbiology last year recommended these two books. He was right, these two books helped me get an A.

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Biology Super Review
The Staff of Research & Education Association
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Get all you need to know with Super Reviews! Each Super Review is packed with in-depth, student-friendly topic reviews that fully explain everything about the subject. The Biology Super Review examines the chemical and molecular basis of life, cellular organization, cellular metabolism and energy pathways, nutrition in plants and animals, the circulatory systems of animals, the nervous system, behavior, reproduction, genetic inheritance, evolution, and ecology. Take the Super Review quizzes to see how much you've learned - and where you need more study. Makes an excellent study aid and textbook companion. Great for self-study!

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This pocket-size survey presents more than 100 extinct or endangered animals from around the world. Find out why each is threatened or has disappeared, and about conservation efforts. The featured animals include mammals (Giant Panda, Killer Whale), amphibians (Golden Toad), fish (Masked Angelfish), birds (California Condor), reptiles (Gila Monster), insects, and invertebrates.

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very basic.......2006-03-28

Received this book as a gift and found it to be interesting but very basic. It will get you out on an executive 9-hole course but without a clue as to what is going wrong with your shots, swing, stance, etc.

Pick Golf for Dummies if you want a more informative and entertaining golf instruction book.

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Excellent comprehensive yet clear compendium of golf basics.......1999-07-20

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Best book ever for young boy into flags!

A colorful and fun reference work

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Smithsonian Handbooks: Flags (Smithsonian Handbooks)
William G. Crampton
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Binding: Turtleback

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The visual guide to more than 300 flags from around the world. Smithsonian Handbooks: Flags is a book for anyone who has ever wondered why the Mexican flag features an eagle and serpent, or needed to find out what kind of flags flew over America before the first raising of the Stars and Stripes. Fully annotated, full--color graphics of all the world's national flags (and many special flags) combine with detailed description of each flag's history and symbolism to take students, travelers, and curious browsers on a fascinating round--the--world journey. Includes over 300 flags--all nations plus possessions and historical flags.

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Best book ever for young boy into flags!.......2007-02-07

My son is 7 and he loves this book. The pictures and history of each flag were just perfect. he has spent hours drawing and then telling everyone about contries I did not even know about. We have had a a wonderful history lesson. Well put together for any age, adult to child. Perhaps a smart child. but a great book none the less.

A colorful and fun reference work.......2003-11-21

"Flags" is a Smithsonian Handbook that covers the national flags of the world. The bulk of the book consists of country-by-country entries. Each entry includes a full color illustration of the national flag along with text detailing the history and symbolic significance of each flag. The individual entries also contain various other visuals, such as national coats-of-arms, presidential flags, etc.

Other features of the book are sections explaining the parts of a flag and various flag terminology. Particularly fascinating is the large number of subnational flags that are depicted and explained in the book. Among these are the flags of Canadian provinces, U.S. states, French overseas territories, Spanish regions, Russian republics, and Malaysian states. I found many of these subnational flags really visually striking--from the fairy-tale like elements of the Swiss canton flags to the bold colors and geometric designs of the Brazilian state flags, and beyond. There is also section on the flags of international organizations such as the Arab League and the United Nations.

My only complaint about this fine book is that the descriptive text around the pictures of many of the national flags has lines pointing from the text onto the drawing, unnecessarily marring the illustrations. This descriptive text would have been just as effective without these distracting lines. That complaint aside, this book is a richly informative and visually exciting reference work--it's a book you can turn to again and again.

Flags.......2003-01-27

This book is perhaps the most up-to-date authority of the flags nation's fly today. It is richly colored and provides good analysis of what the flags consist of. It has the flags of the world, and many individual states or provinces within the several countries. Its organizational layout is a bit perflexing at times, but the flags are there. This book should remain the standard on the topic until flags change (which is about every three months or so).

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In Market à la Mode, Erin Mackie examines the role that The Tatler and The Spectator, two eighteenth-century British lifestyle magazines, played in the growth of fashion and how they influenced their readers. She traces the commercial context in which they operated, focusing on the processes of commodification, fetishization, and revisions of gender identity. Mackie's study makes clear that fashion publications, far from being commentaries on passing trends, assumed a leading role in defining women's legitimate sphere of activities as well as in the development of commerce as recreation.

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There really are three secrets to great customer service: taking care of your customers, taking care of your organization, and taking care of yourself and your team. Smile Training Isn't Enough proves that the principles of good customer service apply equally both inside and outside an organization and that good customer service stems from a business' stance toward its customers and employees.

To make your transactions with customers friendly and productive, you must be more than nice. You must pay attention to what they say and do in order to treat each situation with a certain degree of class and integrity.

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When the three steps to customer service are followed in harmony, your customers will be happy, your employees will enjoy coming to work, and your business will be profitable.

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A "must-have" book in your customer service library!.......1998-10-21

Rich Gallagher is an expert practitioner who really understands customer service from the trenches all the way to the executive suite. This book is easy to read and, better yet, easy to apply to your company situation right away. Good stuff!

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Globalization and Development draws upon the experiences of the Latin American and Caribbean region to provide a multidimensional assessment of the globalization process from the perspective of developing countries. Based on a study by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), this book gives a historical overview of economic development in the region and presents both an economic and noneconomic agenda that addresses disparity, respects diversity, and fosters complementarity among regional, national, and international institutions.

For orders originating outside of North America, please visit the World Bank website for a list of distributors and geographic discounts at http://publications.worldbank.org/howtoorder or e-mail pubdistributors@worldbank.org.

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Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. In this book, ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and multidimensional assessment of the globalization process from the perspectives of developing countries. In view of the glaring contrast between increasingly global problems and the incomplete, asymmetrical nature of the international agenda for dealing with them, developing countries need to adopt a proactive agenda that will enable them to seize the opportunities and avert the risks of globalization. Globalization and Development offers up a series of principles and an agenda for achieving just that aim. 'This book provides a profound analysis of key problems facing the global economic order. Equally important, the agenda put forward provides perceptive food for thought for all who are committed to overcoming the fundamental asymmetries that pervade the world economy today. It recognizes that success in creating a better global order must go beyond the topics that have been at the center of discussion in the past: There must be an adequate supply of global public goods, and we need to incorporate at the global level values that we often taken for granted at the national level--a commitment to global democracy, global citizenship, and global social justice." Joseph Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia University, and Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics

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The essays in this volume consider the state of China's economic reforms, the institutional changes necessary for China to become a global economic power, and the interplay between market reforms and social development in China.

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