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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
ISBN: 9780593297704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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72,41 zł |
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Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human
ISBN: 9780330458078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them
A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live i...
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55,97 zł |
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
ISBN: 9780143120544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage,...
A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities America is an urban nation, yet cities ...
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81,80 zł |
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The Governance of Not-For-Profit Organizations
ISBN: 9780226297880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy, but little attention is paid to the pressures and challenges that affect their governance. We know such firms don t try to maximize profits, but what do they maximize?
The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations tackles that question head-on, assembling experts on the not-for-profit sector to examine the diverse and wide-ranging concerns of universities, art museums, health care providers and even the medieval church. Contributors look at a number of different aspects of not-for-profit operations,... Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy, but little attention is paid to the pressures and challenges that affect th...
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152,88 zł |
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Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium
ISBN: 9780199290444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 220 million Americans crowd together in the 3% of the country that is urban. 35 million people live in the vast metropolis of Tokyo, the most productive urban area in the world. The central city of Mumbai alone has 12 million people, and Shanghai almost as many. We choose to live cheek by jowl, in a planet with vast amounts of space. Yet despite all of the land available to us, we choose to live in proximity to cities. Using economics to understand this phenomenon, the urban economist uses the tools of economic theory and empirical data to explain why cities exist and to analyze urban issues...
220 million Americans crowd together in the 3% of the country that is urban. 35 million people live in the vast metropolis of Tokyo, the most producti...
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389,59 zł |
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Agglomeration Economics
ISBN: 9780226297897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as transportation and communication costs fall. Paradoxically, however, cities have become increasingly important, and even within cities industrial clusters remain vital.
Agglomeration Economics brings together a group of essays that examine the reasons why economic activity continues to cluster together despite the falling costs of moving... When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs ...
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466,83 zł |
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Exploring General Equilibrium
ISBN: 9780262514095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fischer Black is known for his brilliance as well as his sometimes controversial opinions. Highly respected for his scholarly writings in finance, he now moves into different territory with this incisive, unconventional assessment of general equilibrium theory and what that theory reveals about business cycles, growth, and labor economics.The general equilibrium approach, Black asserts, can be used to explain most of the economy's behavior. It can explain business cycles and growth without using sticky prices, irrationality, economies of scale, or imperfect competition. It can explain the... Fischer Black is known for his brilliance as well as his sometimes controversial opinions. Highly respected for his scholarly writings in finance, ... |
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307,65 zł |
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Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable
ISBN: 9780844742731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Despite the recent drop in house prices, housing remains unaffordable for many ordinary Americans. Particularly along the coasts, housing remains extremely expensive. In Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable, Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko explain why housing is so expensive in some areas and outline a plan for making it more affordable.
Despite the recent drop in house prices, housing remains unaffordable for many ordinary Americans. Particularly along the coasts, housing remains extr...
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86,10 zł |
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Housing and the Financial Crisis
ISBN: 9780226030586 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn t fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no different from any other asset in its ability to climb and crash.
Housing and the Financial Crisis looks at what happened to prices and construction both during and after the housing boom in different parts of the American housing market, accounting for why certain areas experienced less volatility than others. It then examines the causes of... Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn t fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twe...
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556,92 zł |
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Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
ISBN: 9780226299587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and Reform, contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption worldwide today.
Contributors to this volume address the measurement and consequences of fraud and... Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud an...
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267,54 zł |
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Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment
ISBN: 9780226800585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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638,82 zł |
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Housing Markets and the Economy: Risk, Regulation, and Policy
ISBN: 9781558441842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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163,80 zł |
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Urban Empires: Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World
ISBN: 9781138601710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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357,85 zł |
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Urban Empires: Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World
ISBN: 9781138601703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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803,99 zł |
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After the Flood: How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought
ISBN: 9780226443546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets--and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great Recession in the United States to the banking crises in Japan and the Eurozone. As we try to make sense of what caused these crises and how we might reduce risk factors and prevent recurrence, the fields of finance and economics have also seen vast change, as scholars and researchers have advanced their thinking to better respond to the recent crises. A momentous collection of the best...
The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets--and not in politically unstable countries but in...
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262,08 zł |
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The Governance of Not-For-Profit Organizations
ISBN: 9780226297859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy. In health care, education, culture, and religion, we trust not-for-profit firms to serve the interests of their donors, customers, employees, and society at large. We know that such firms don't try to maximize profits, but what do they maximize?
This book attempts to answer that question, assembling leading experts on the economics of the not-for-profit sector to examine the problems of the health care industry, art museums, universities, and even the medieval church. Contributors look at a number of different... Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy. In health care, education, culture, and religion, we trust not-for-profit f...
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316,68 zł |
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