Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Reference - General

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The ultimate insider's guide to getting into the nation's most competitive colleges

Written by a former senior admissions officer at Harvard University, this book provides keen insights into what it takes to get into America's top schools. With the help of case studies of successful Harvard applicants, Charles Hughes II defines the goals and mission of highly selective schools. He explains the relative weight given to:

• Academics
• Extra-curricular activities
• Personal qualities
• Intangibles in the admission process

Hughes breaks down the...

American International Oil Policy offers an insight into the political mechanics of American international oil policy in the long decade from 1973 to early 1986, when oil prices were highly priced. It is furthermore the intention of the author to delineate the link from United States policy to the political organization of the international oil system.

Written at a time when oil prices had recently shrunk, this book makes valuable and timely reading for those interested in the topic at a time when oil prices have sky-rocketed again. The book provides a fascinating insight into...

Economic development may be seen from many different points of view: in terms of history, theory or empirical generalization. The Political Economy of Development draws these points of view together as it explores the practice of economic development itself and considers the issues that arise in attempting to devise development strategies for developing countries and to implement them.

The term 'political economy' highlights the fact that economics cannot be conducted in isolation, and always has to be related to the political and social setting of the countries with which it...

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Desde Aristoteles y Tomas de Aquino, pasando por Adam Smith y John Maynard Keynes, hasta los lideres del pensamiento economico contemporaneo, El libro de la economia es una referencia imprescindible para estudiantes y cualquier lector interesado en saber como funciona la economia.

Graficos claros, citas escuetas y un texto totalmente accesible ejemplifican las aplicaciones practicas de la teoria economica, haciendolas explicitas a traves de ejemplos y situaciones cotidianas.

Edicion tambien disponible en ingles.

From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith...