Search Results: Business / Economics from Infinity Books Japan

US: Routledge, 2003. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Economics students will welcome the new edition of this excellent textbook. Mathematics is an integral part of economics and understanding basic conce pts is vital. Many students come into economics courses without having stud ied mathematics for a number of years. This clearly written book will help to develop quantitative skills in even the least numerate student up to the required level for a general Economics or Business Studies course. This se cond edition features new sections on subjects such as: matrix algebra part year investment financial mathematics Improved pedagogical features, such as learning objectives and end of chapter questions, along with the use of Microsoft Excel and the overall example-led style of the book means that it will be a sure fire hit with both students and their lecturers.

US: Allen Lane, 2023. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate break down. The 'Big Con' describes the confidence trick the consulting industry perfor ms in contracts with hollowed-out and risk-averse governments and sharehold er value-maximizing firms. It grew from the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of reforms by both the neoliberal right and Third Way progressives, and it thr ives on the ills of modern capitalism, from financialization and privatizat… Read More

US: Advantage Media Group, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Huge Shifts in Consumer Behavior Made Easier to Understand, Quantify and An ticipate Demographics determine the direction of your business. Demographic trends c an be overwhelming, misleading, confusing, conflicting, and difficult to pr edict. Not anymore. John Burns and Chris Porter wrote this book to help make demographic trends easier to understand, quantify, and anticipate. Readers of this book will have a huge competitive advantage because they will be making decisions wit h facts, and they will be better able to adjust their strategies when unant icipated events shift prevailing trends. Know the facts, and learn to: plan your business better; support your decisions with facts; and clarify the demographic confusion using the groupings and frameworks used i n this book. Usable Generational… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, binding its billion-plus population more tightly to the global economic system, the Asian giant's prodigious appetite for food, technology and natural resources has dramatically accelerated profound changes already well underway across the planet. Kynge, the Financial Times's former Beijing bureau chief, makes the voracious "appetites" of the new China his constant concern, as he uncovers the sources of and limitations on the giant country's epochal growth. Beginning with a scene in Germany's postindustrial Ruhr--where a steel mill is sold, deconstructed and shipped more than 5,000 miles for reassembly near the banks of the Yangtze River--Kynge assesses the socioeconomic transformations of China's low "Industrial Revolution-era" labor costs and modern production technology at home and abroad.… Read More

Singapore: Wiley, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib edition: The next Director-General of the WTO explores the earthquake that will occur as China enters the WTO and the political, economic, and social implications for this giant country and the world economy.

US: The MIT Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The United States is bankrupt, flat broke. Thanks to accounting that would make Enron blush, America's insolvency goes far beyond what our leaders are disclosing. The United States is a fiscal basket case, in worse shape than the notoriously bailed-out countries of Greece, Ireland, and others. How did this happen? In The Clash of Generations, experts Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns document our six-decade, off-balance-sheet, unsustainable financing scheme. They explain how we have balanced our longer lives on the backs of our (relatively few) children. At the same time, we've been on a consumption spree, saving and investing less than nothing. And that's not to mention the evisceration of the middle class and a financial system that has proven it can't be trusted. Kotlikoff and Burns outline… Read More

US: The Crown Publishing Group, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Leh man Brothers by Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, ofte n astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the st raight answers-right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street inside r, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has eve r done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald's Hor atio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing proj ect to the New York… Read More

US: Penguin Group (USA) Incorpor, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubin i "A succinct, lucid and compelling account . . . Essential reading." -Michik o Kakutani, The New York Times Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified the financial community by predicting the current crisis before others in his field saw it coming. This myth-shattering book reveals the methods he used to foretell the current crisis and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future. Using an unconventional blend of historical analysis with masterful knowledge of global economics, Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm, a journalist and professor of economic history, present a vital and timeless book that proves calamities to be not only predictable but also preventable and, with the right medicine, curable.

US: Thomson Learning, 1994. Good.

US: Contemporary Books, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Schlosstein charts the rapid political, economic, social and educational decline of America over the past twenty years and the dramatic growth of Asian countries.

Armonk, N.Y.: M E Sharpe Inc, 1994. Near Fine. A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: A case study of a company that exemplified the 80s.

US: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The New York Times bestseller: "A lucid account" (New York Times) of the re cent financial crisis and the way forward by the Nobel Prize-winning econom ist, with a new afterword. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called , has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depres sion. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate beha vior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sp arked an essential debate about America's economic missteps, the soundness of this country's economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist s ystem. Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics,… Read More

UK: Penguin, 2010. Very Good. This acclaimed and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic t hinkers, dissects the flawed ideas the led to the crisis, but also looks to the future. Drawing on his years spent shaping policy at the World Bank, N obel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz shows why far more radical reforms are needed to avoid future crises.

US: MIT Press, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featurin g large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable. In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen ta kes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the Bretton Woods System of the period 1958 to 1973. T hen, as now, it has been argued, the United States ran balance of payment d eficits, provided international reserves to other countries, and acted as e xport market of last resort for the rest of the world. Then, as now, the st ory continues, other countries were reluctant to revalue their currencies f or fear of seeing their export-led growth slow and suffering capital… Read More

US: Green Books, 1990. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The idea that growth is beneficial underlies the economic strategies of all major political parties, but the reality of recent years is that the negative effects of growth have far outweighed any positive ones. In Ireland growth has been the root cause of unemployment; in Britain it has led to an eightfold increase in crime, the breakdown of family life and a deterioration in general levels of health and education; in the USA real incomes have fallen; in India people have been driven from the land into urban slums; and the natural world suffers increasing threat and inexorable erosion. The Growth Illusion exposes the real nature of undirected economic growth, and refutes Adam Smith's belief in the 'invisible hand' ensuring that self-interest would serve the common good. Rather than strive for constant expansion to stave off… Read More

US: Penguin, 2010. Paperback. Good. How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our mo st recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - th e idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture be hind the financial headlines, tracing the rise and fall of free market ideo logy from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan. Full of wit, se nse and, above all, a deeper understanding, How Markets Fail argues for the end of 'utopian' economics, and the beginning of a pragmatic, reality-base d way of thinking.

US: Fraser Publishing Company, 2015. Paperback. Near Fine. A new foreword by the author in 2001 brings new perspective to the original How to Buy. This book compliments Mamis' When to Sell by providing a concr ete path to reaping profits in the stock market year by year. How to Buy's chapters include information on:--Safe times to buy--How to pick a stock th at's about ready to move up--Exactly when to buy (what day and hour)--How t o check out rumors and recommendations--Market action indicators--Basic buy ing strategy.

US: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. India's is a tale of private success and public failure. Prosperity is, indeed, spreading across the country even as governance failure pervades public life. But how could a nation become one of the world's fastest-growing economies when it's governed by a weak, ineffective state? And wouldn't it be wonderful if India also grew during the day-in other words, if public policy supported private enterprise? What India needs, Gurcharan Das argues, is a strong liberal state. Such a state would have the authority to take quick, decisive action; it would have the rule of law to ensure those actions are legitimate; and finally, it would be accountable to the people. However, India has always had a weak state and a strong society, says Das, which means that achieving something better will be an… Read More

US: Palgrave Macmillan, 1985. Paperback. Good. vii, 180 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references (p171-176) and index.

US: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. During the past 15 years, civilization has changed at an unprecedented rate - it's as if a new continent has been discovered and the impetus for explo ration has come from business. People with courage and curiosity are changi ng the way of life on the old continents irrevocably. The only difference i s that the new continent - the new, interlinked, web-shaped economy of the 21st century - has no land. Yet its economic, political, social and busines s consequences are real. The new and "invisible continent" where Microsoft' s business far outweighs the GNP of most nations has been commented on, but until now the links between the forces that created it have not been fully understood. This book sets out to provide solutions to successfully integr ating the old and the new, and outlines strategies to settle the new contin ent by building "golden platforms" - standards and agreements that set its limits and structures.