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…

by Susan Strange
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Isbn-13: 9780472066933

The world’s financial system is crazier and even more out of control than it was ten years ago. Mad Money analyzes the erratic nature of change and innovation in financial business in recent years and discusses the weak points–political as well as economic and technical–of a system driven more by volatile markets than by governments. The central issue is global finance; “mad money” is how Susan Strange characterizes the alternately rampant and depressed financial markets of recent years. She sets…

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
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Isbn-13: 9780226458083

There’s a “Frank & Ernest” comic strip showing a chick breaking out of its shell, looking around, and saying, “Oh, wow! Paradigm shift!” Blame the late Thomas Kuhn. Few indeed are the philosophers or historians influential enough to make it into the funny papers, but Kuhn is one. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is indeed a paradigmatic work in the history of science. Kuhn’s use of terms such as “paradigm shift” and “normal science,” his ideas of how scientists move from disdain through doubt…

by Richard Humphreys
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Isbn-13: 9780878466276

On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and had immediate repercussions throughout Europe. The author, a young Italian poet named F.T. Marinetti, demanded that writers and artists reject the classic art of the past and celebrate the dynamic technology of modern city life. Joined by a group of like-minded artists, over the following years Marinetti pioneered an art that would represent…

by Leopold Boeckl
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Isbn-13: 9780615179285

Our civilization is the product of the human animal astoundingly domesticating ourselves. How did this process of domestication occur and what were the historical drivers which propelled humanity to achieve the relative uniformity we see today? God’s Evolution answers these questions through the construction of a model documenting our domestication cycles. Human domestication was and is directly tied to the development of technologies which drove the three distinct economic eras humanity has passed…

by Jonathan Friedman

Although the United States is currently the world’s only military and economic superpower, the nation’s superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several chapters are devoted to the study of hegemony in premodern world-systems. And several chapters scrutinize…

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…

by Fred Krupp
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Isbn-13: 9780393066906

How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe.The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that’s not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing…