Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
How to Change the World:Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship--in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether delivering solar energy to Brazilian...
Social Entrepreneurship:What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more...
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all...
Exorbitant Privilege:The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese...
Misunderstanding Financial Crises:Why We Don't See Them Coming
Why We Don't See Them Coming
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there...
Economics of Good and Evil:The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller...
Trading and Exchanges:Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2002
This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue traders, and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer...
The Accidental Investment Banker:Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Jonathan A. Knee had a ringside seat during the go-go, boom-and-bust decade and into the 21st century, at the two most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an industry in free fall, Knee captures an exhilarating...
The Enigma of Capital:And the Crises of Capitalism
and the Crises of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s,...
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find...
Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated...
by Stephen Berg
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1978
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life...
by Stephen Eric Bronner
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives...