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16 produkter
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
Häftad, 2019
187 kr
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This is a new edition of the best-selling economics book that won’t put you to sleep. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favourite of students and general readers includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade and income inequality. Ten years after the financial …
Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
Häftad, 2014
240 kr
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Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy." From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps …
Centrist Manifesto
Häftad, 2013
277 kr
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From debt ceiling standoffs to single-digit Congress approval ratings, America’s political system has never been more polarized—or paralyzed—than it is today. As best-selling author and public policy expert Charles Wheelan writes, now is the time for a pragmatic Centrist party that will identify …
Naked Money
A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
Häftad, 2017
190 kr
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We use money every day. Yet the practice of exchanging paper or bytes for goods and services seems absurd if you think about it. Naked Money explores why money exists and why it so often gets entire nations in trouble.Charles Wheelan explains with his trademark wit and refreshing clarity how our …
Write for Your Life
A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing (and Presentations)
Inbunden, 2022
277 kr
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How would you create a winning pitch for your latest investment idea? Or persuasively argue for a major policy change? Or successfully ask your boss for a raise? The answer: clear and effective communication, whether in writing or through a presentation.Best-selling author Charles Wheelan has spent …
Rationing
A Novel
Häftad, 2021
206 kr
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America is in trouble—at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Originally …
Introduction to Public Policy
Inbunden, 2010
1197 kr
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A new textbook by Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics, Introduction to Public Policy uses economic principles to demonstrate that sound public policy occurs when unfettered private markets provide the greatest good for the greatest number. Only when it does not do this is government …
We Came, We Saw, We Left
A Family Gap Year
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"—and with an eye toward a world emerging from a …
Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
E-bok, 2016
55 kr
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Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps …
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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"Clear, concise, informative, witty and, believe it or not, entertaining." ―Chicago TribuneFinally! A book about economics that won''t put you to sleep. In fact, you won''t be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general …
Naked Money
A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
E-bok, 2018
68 kr
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Charles Wheelan''s wonderfully whimsical, best-selling Naked series tackles the weird, surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an …
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
Inbunden, 2002
234 kr
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Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of Alan Greenspan in the …
10 ½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said
Inbunden, 2012
168 kr
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The antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who’s ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan’s 10½ head-turning aphorisms—backed up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science research—set the record straight. Readers everywhere agreed, turning a Dartmouth …
Write for Your Life
A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing (and Presentations)
Häftad, 2023
191 kr
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How would you create a winning pitch for your latest investment idea? Or persuasively argue for a major policy change? Or successfully ask your boss for a raise? The answer: clear and effective communication, whether in writing or through a presentation.Best-selling author Charles Wheelan has spent …
