Author: Ross Gittins
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Keywords: headed, hard, happiness, economist, happy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2011-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1741756731
ISBN-13: 9781741756739

A provocative look at an area few economists dare to tread—the importance of happiness Most economists are obsessed with financial and economic measures, but here the author mounts a provocative and persuasive case for happiness being the most important measure of all. Distilling the practical wisdom from many recent scientific studies of happiness by psychologists and economists, he argues that happiness is not about maintaining a forced smile or a self-centered concern to maximize pleasure and minimize pain, but about living a satisfying life of endeavor, achievement, and mutually re

Author: Editor
Publisher: Profile Books, Ltd.
Keywords: figures, world, pocket, economist
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1861973683
ISBN-13: 9781861973689

Author: Irving Horowitz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: intellectual, festschriften, public, economist, ginzberg, eli
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0765801329
ISBN-13: 9780765801326

The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych - a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg’s work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smith to C. Wesley Mitchell, and placing that understanding in what might well thought of as economic ethnography. Such studies took Ginzberg on travels from Wales in the United Kingdom to California in the United States. The poignant account of Welsh miners in an era of economic depression and technological change is a landmark work, and of a cross country trip of the first year of the New Deal

Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: books, economist, management, brand, handbook
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-03-21
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0201632799
ISBN-13: 9780201632798

A complete resource on managing brand names, the most powerful strategy in marketing. Brand names are now recognized as major corporate assets. Marketing managers must know the best strategies for promoting brand-name products, and under the new tax laws, financial managers will have to learn to put a monetary value on trade names.

Author: Emily Riesenberg
Publisher: Caffin Press
Keywords: economist, home, book, canning, preserving
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2010-03-13
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 144469877X
ISBN-13: 9781444698770

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Huw David Dixon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: economist, inquiring, essays, economics, surfing
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2001-07-06
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0333760611
ISBN-13: 9780333760611

This book brings together a number of essays by one of Europe’s most innovative economists. The essays are written for a general economics reader and particularly a student with some basic knowledge of economics. The approach taken by the author is to focus upon new and interesting ideas, to make them simple and understandable, and to explain what is really important. The book will be a valuable and stimulating resource.

Author: Donald Moggridge
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: biography, economist, keynes, maynard
Number of Pages: 992
Published: 1995-07-24
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0415127114
ISBN-13: 9780415127110

John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century, also made a unique contribution to public affairs and to Britain’s cultural life. In Maynard Keynes--the only one volume biography on Keynes currently available--D.E. Moggridge draws on an unrivalled knowledge of Keynes gained from twenty years of editing his papers. Fresh in its outlook, revealing in its scope and complete in its coverage, this is the definitive biography of Keynes.