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Michelle Baddeley

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and ...

John Stuart Mill

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', ...

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, ...

James Fulcher

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism ...

Erle C. Ellis

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, ...

Lawrence Freedman

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a ...

Robin Attfield

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of ...

Richard Susskind

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard ...

Harm De Blij

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

A decade into the 21st century, our world is more interconnected than ever before. Yet even as the global community becomes increasingly more complex and competitive, the world is ...

Ian Goldin

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve ...

Colin Mayer

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business ...

Philip N. Jefferson

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people ...

Geoffrey Nowell-smith

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to ...

Christopher J. Berry

Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa

In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being called the 'father of economics'. Today he is associated with ...