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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. Based on revolutionary research and original studies SuperFreakonomics promises to once again challenge our view of the way the world really works.
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English
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Why do educated women get fewer responses on online dating websites? Is buying local food economically efficient? Does bribing kids improve their performance on school tests? Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the quirky geniuses behind "Freakonomics" are back at it. Here, for the first time, the very best of their more than 8,000 posts are together in a single place. It showcases the brilliance that has made Levitt and Dubner an international sensation,...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Make more money. Change the world. Live the life you deserve. In Good Money Revolution, Derrick Kinney is the fresh financial voice to guide you there. You hate debt and worked hard paying it down. Now you wonder, What's next? As you worry about the future, you can't afford to get it wrong and need a financial plan that fits your unique goals and dreams. You want to make more money and make the world better, but you don't have a clue where to start....
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Penguin Random House Grupo
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
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Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto...
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Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we're faced with daunting questions - is our democracy under threat? How will Big Tech change our lives? What does job security look like for me? America is on the brink of massive change - change that will disrupt the workings of our economy and drastically...
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Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world, the future of the university, the temporal...
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Publisher
Blackie Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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Manuel acuchilla a un policía antidisturbios que quería pegarle. Huye. Se esconde en una aldea abandonada. Sobrevive de libros Austral, vegetales de los alrededores, una pequeña compra en el Lidl que le envía su tío. Y se da cuenta de que cuanto menos tiene, menos necesita. Un thriller estático, una versión de Robinson Crusoe ambientada en la España vacía, una redefinición del concepto "austeridad". Una historia que nos hace plantearnos...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet. Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Economists have long based their forecasts on financial aggregates such as price-earnings ratios, asset prices, and exchange rate fluctuations, and used them to produce statistically informed speculations about the future--with limited success. Robert Shiller employs such aggregates in his own forecasts, but has famously complemented them with observations about the influence of mass psychology on certain events. This approach has come to be known...
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