Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler
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Isbn-13: 9780300122237

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. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler…

Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
by Francis Fukuyama
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Isbn-13: 9780815729907

A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surprises–such as the sudden end of the cold war–have caught governments and societies unprepared in recent decades. September 11 is only the most obvious example among many unforeseen events that have changed, even redefined, our lives. We have every reason to expect more surprises in future. Certain kinds of unanticipated scenarios–particularly those of low probability and high impact–have the potential to escalate…

Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolutions (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
by Wes Sharrock

Isbn-13: 9780745619286

Thomas Kuhn’s shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern classic. His influence on philosophy, social science, historiography, feminism, theology, and (of course) the natural sciences themselves is unparalleled. His epoch-making concepts of ‘new paradigm’ and ’scientific revolution’ make him probably the most influential scholar of the twentieth century. Sharrock and Read take the reader through Kuhn’s…

The New Gulf - How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good
by Edmund O’Sullivan
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Isbn-13: 9781860632297

A new Gulf is rising one that will be radically different to the one we know. This book is about the economic, social and political transformation sweeping the 6 Gulf states of the GCC… Now the fastest growing part of the world economy. This absorbing new publication provides a concise but complete description of the Arabian countries benefiting most from the affluence sweeping the Middle East in the 21st century. The New Gulf How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good focuses on the economic,…

God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage)

by Walter Russell Mead
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Isbn-13: 9780375713736

A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries’ predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America’s liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed….

Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier
by Harry G. Broadman

Isbn-13: 9780821368350

China and India’s new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa - home to 300 million of the globe’s poorest people and the world’s most formidable development challenge - presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of the Sub-Saharan continent into the global economy. Africa’s Silk Road finds that China and India’s South-South commerce with Africa is about far more than natural resources, opening the way for Africa to become a processor of commodities and a competitive…

A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights
by Elizabeth Borgwardt
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Isbn-13: 9780674025363

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of “war and peace aims.” In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter–buttressed by FDR’s “Four Freedoms”…

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City
by Elizabeth Currid
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Isbn-13: 9780691128375

Which is more important to New York City’s economy, the gleaming corporate office–or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said “office,” think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as–if not more than–finance, real estate, and law. And these creative industries are fueled by the social life that whirls around the clubs, galleries, music venues, and fashion shows…

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

by Angus Maddison

Isbn-13: 9780199227204

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, Part 1begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia,the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th century to the present. Part 3 looks to the future and considers what the shape of the world economy might…