Charles Kenny – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Charles Kenny. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
10 produkter
Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better , in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against …
Plague Cycle
The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Ljudbok, 2021
298 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” ( Booklist , starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” ( Publishers Weekly )—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza . For …
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Utility
Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought
Av Charles Kenny, Anthony Kenny m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
491 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny. The book is an updating of Johnson's famous lines: 'How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves …
Results not Receipts
Counting the Right Things in Aid and Corruption
Häftad, 2017
217 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health to deliver basic healthcare to 90 percent of the population, at a cost of $4.50 a head. The program played a vital role in improving the country's health; …
Plague Cycle
The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Häftad, 2022
257 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly)—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.For four …
Plague Cycle
The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
E-bok, 2021
186 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” ( Booklist , starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” ( Publishers Weekly )—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza . For …
Information and Communication Technologies and Broad-Based Development
A Partial Review of the Evidence
Av Jeremy Grace, Charles Kenny m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
118 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as integral to the development process. This paper reviews some of the evidence linking telecommunications and the Internet and economic growth, the likely impact of these new ICTs on income inequality and anecdotal evidence …
