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The \Out of Africa\ Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
This research advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the prehistoric exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory distance to various settlements across the globe affected genetic diversity and has had a persistent hump-shaped effect on comparative economic development, reflecting the trade-off between the beneficial and the detrimental effects of diversity on productivity. While the low diversity of Native American populations and the high diversity of African populations have been detrimental for the development of these regions, the intermediate levels of diversity associated with European and Asian populations have been conducive for development.
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Popular economics : what the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James can teach you about economics
\"Tamny uses ... stories from sports, movies, popular culture, and famous businesses to explain the basic principles of economics. [With a conservative bent, he examines] how money really works--a lesson politicians try (and fail) to grasp every day\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics
The past decade or so has seen a dramatic change in the way that economists can learn by watching our planet from above. A revolution has taken place in remote sensing and allied fields such as computer science, engineering, and geography. Petabytes of satellite imagery have become publicly accessible at increasing resolution, many algorithms for extracting meaningful social science information from these images are now routine, and modern cloud-based processing power allows these algorithms to be run at global scale. This paper seeks to introduce economists to the science of remotely sensed data, and to give a flavor of how this new source of data has been used by economists so far and what might be done in the future.
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Practical business negotiation
\"Practical Business Negotiation introduces university students to business negotiation as practiced in the globalized business world. There are no other textbooks which take on this topic in depth with non-native English speakers in mind. Current textbooks about negotiation tend to be dense, academic and less than practical in content. Many are demotivating to students who are not easily able to consume a few hundred pages of academic writing. This textbook takes a step by step approach providing bite-sized presentation of negotiation concepts with practical exercises that include linguistic as well as negotiation content. Explanations are reinforced with practical questions and problem solving and recent examples drawn from a business world that includes much more than North American and Europe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Equality and Efficiency
Originally published in 1975,Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoffis a very personal work from one of the most important macroeconomists of the last hundred years. And this new edition includes \"Further Thoughts on Equality and Efficiency,\" a paper published by the author two years later.
In classrooms Arthur M. Okun may be best remembered for Okun's Law, but his lasting legacy is the respect and admiration he earned from economists, practitioners, and policymakers. Equality and Efficiency is the perfect embodiment of that legacy, valued both by professional economists and those readers with a keen interest in social policy. To his fellow economists, Okun presents messages, in the form of additional comments and select citations, in his footnotes. To all readers, Okun presents an engaging dual theme: the market needs a place, and the market needs to be kept in its place.
As Okun puts it: Institutions in a capitalist democracy prod us to get ahead of our neighbors economically after telling us to stay in line socially. This double standard professes and pursues an egalitarian political and social system while simultaneously generating gaping disparities in economic well-being.
Today, Okun's dual theme feels incredibly prescient as we grapple with the hot-button topic of income inequality. In his foreword, Lawrence H. Summers declares: On what one might think of as questions of \"economic philosophy,\" I doubt that Okun has been improved on in the subsequent interval. His discussion of how societies rely on rights as well as markets should be required reading for all young economists who are enamored with market solutions to all problems.
With a new foreword by Lawrence H. Summers
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The economic dynamics of law
\"This book offers a theory of law and economics focused on change over time, aimed at avoiding systemic risks, and implemented through an analysis of law's economic incentives and how people respond to them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From Cashews to Nudges
In the beginning there were stories. People think in stories, or at least I do. My research in the field now known as behavioral economics started from real life stories I observed while I was a graduate student at the University of Rochester. Economists often sneer at “anecdotal data” and I had less than that—a collection of anecdotes without a hint of data. Yet, each story captured something about human behavior that seemed inconsistent with the economic theory I was struggling to master in graduate school. Behavioral economics has come a long way from my initial set of stories. The current generation of behavioral economists are using all the modern tools of economics, from theory to big data to structural models to neuroscience, and they are applying those tools to most of the domains in which economists practice their craft. This is crucial to making descriptive economics more accurate.
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The Rhythm of Strategy
This book provides a well-documented analysis of the strategy of the Salim Group, one of the largest family conglomerates in Southeast Asia. Using a multitude of sources, including interviews with the Salim family and Salim Group managers, the author provides a comprehensive corporate biography of this fascinating family firm.
The Rhythm of Strategy: A Corporate Biography of the Salim Group of Indonesia criticises existing theories on ethnic Chinese firms and instead provides a more nuanced view of the evolution of a small migrant trading business into the largest family business group in Southeast Asia. It argues that the strategy of this group oscillated irregularly between a business model built on connections and a professional business model adapted to markets. Due to its size and closeness to the Suharto regime, the Salim Group has played an important role in shaping Indonesia's economy.
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