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The Myth Of The Rational Market : A History Of Risk, Reward, And Delusion On Wall Street

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Justin FoxPublication Details
Book1st edHarper Business2009Description
Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. In his landmark treatment of the history of the world’s markets, Fox uncovers the new ideas that may come to drive the market in the century ahead. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB3731 .F69 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Healthcare, Guaranteed : A Simple, Secure Solution For America

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Ezekiel J. Emanuel ; with a foreword by Victor R. FuchsPublication Details
Book1st edPublicAffairs2008Description
By eliminating employer-healthcare and establishing an independent program to evaluate healthcare plans and insurance companies, he offers a no-nonsense guide to how government can institute private insurance options that will allow each of us a choice of doctor and plan. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) RA395.A3 E43 2008 AVAILABLE
Animal Spirits : How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, And Why It Matters For Global Capitalism

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George A. Akerlof and Robert J. ShillerPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2009Description
In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life–such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes–and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB74.P8 A494 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
McDougal Littell Economics Concepts And Choices

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senior consultants, Sally Meek ; John Morton ; Mark C. SchugPublication Details
BookMcDougal Littell2008Description
Hardcover ECONOMICS Concepts and Choices Teacher’s Edition. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS K-12 CURRICULUM (LOWER) Hs.42 M478m 2008 Teach AVAILABLE
Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, And Happiness

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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. SunsteinPublication Details
BookYale University Press2008Links
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Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) HB74.P8 T53 2008 DUE 11-25-09
The Scientific Life : A Moral History Of A Late Modern Vocation

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Steven ShapinPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2008Description
From the early twentieth-century origins of corporate research laboratories to the high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin argues that the radical uncertainties of much contemporary science have made personal virtues more central to its practice than ever before, and he also reveals how radically novel aspects of late modern science have unexpectedly deep historical roots. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) Q180.55.M67 S53 2008 AVAILABLE
The Skeptical Economist : Revealing The Ethics Inside Economics

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Jonathan AldredPublication Details
BookEarthscan2009Description
The Skeptical Economist rejects the story told by other popular economics books. In this revealing and entertaining book, the author exposes these hidden assumptions, and in doing so opens the black box of modern economics to reveal that the conventional wisdom is not what it appears to be. In short, The Skeptical Economist rediscovers the ethics at the heart of economics. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB72 .A345 2009 AVAILABLE
Green Economics : An Introduction To Theory, Policy And Practice

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Molly Scott CatoPublication Details
BookEarthscan2009Description
Green economics offers an alternative to mainstream economics, which views society and the ecosystem as subsets of the wider, limitless global economy. This highly readable introduction explains the axioms of green economics including views on taxation, welfare, money, economic development and work through the work of its inspirational figures including Schumacher, Robertson and Douthwaite. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HC79.E5 C383 2009 AVAILABLE
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The Ascent Of Money : A Financial History Of The World

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Niall FergusonPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Description
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the world?s biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generation?an economic transformation unprecedented in human history. Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts?sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HG171 .F47 2008 AVAILABLE
On The Wealth Of Nations

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P.J. O’RourkePublication Details
Book1st edAtlantic Monthly Press2007Links
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Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB161 .O76 2007 AVAILABLE
The Cult Of Statistical Significance : How The Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, And Lives

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by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskeyPublication Details
BookUniversity of Michigan Press2008Links
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?Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB137 .Z55 2008 AVAILABLE
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