Popular Economics

Plenty of novelty acts in investment management have their fifteen minutes offame only to fade into the vast collection of notions we wish we'd never heardof. The ideas thatlast are the onesthat have survived the vetting of the people in the profession who make it theirbusiness to find out what real... More

In India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, our most distinguished scientist, and close associate Y.S. Rajan examine India’s strengths—and weaknesses—to offer a vision of how India can be among the world’s first five economic powers in the year 2020. They cite gro... More

Developed as a discipline in the early days of the U.S space program, project management has expanded rapidly into government, the military, and industry. Project management brings together the critical elements of skilled, talented people with the facilities, tools, equipment, and the information s... More

This book deals with system dynamics which blends the art of traditional manage-ment with the science of feedback control to conceptualize a problem, map it into easily understandable diagrams, and develop mathematical models using friendly algebra.... More

Roughly once a year, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. treasury secretary and in some cases the finance ministers of other G-7 countries will get a call from the finance minister of a large emerging market economy. The em... More

In this comprehensive revision of the most influential, widely read analysis of the US trade policymaking system, Destler addresses how globalization has reshaped trade politics, weakening traditional protectionism but intensifying concern about trade`s societal impacts.... More

THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF AMERICA'S LEADING INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONS In the late 1990s, the New Economy threatened to eclipse the Old Economy of traditional industrial corporations. Yet with the recent spectacular tumble of the Nasdaq and the crushing failure of dot.coms, it is clear that whi... More

This reader assembles some of the most important works from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield. A distinguished cast of contributors presents much-needed frameworks for understanding and contextualising the debates on ... More

Quantitative methods have revolutionized the area of trading, regulation, risk management, portfolio construction, asset pricing and treasury activities, and governmental activity such as central banking to name but some of the applications. Downside-risk, as a quantitative method, is an accurate me... More

Political Economy in Macroeconomics is the first full-length work on the issues of “new” political economy. This is a multi-disciplinary subject to which increasing numbers of economists are dedicating their time. It analyses the influence of political forces on economic policy by using the anal... More

Sales professionals today know that successful selling is part of an overall process and not just hard-sell presentation and closing techniques. You must learn the art of uncovering your prospect's hidden motivations and them you must learn to ask for the business. However, closing the sales is diff... More

This book is a collection of essays by authors with different experiences and from diverse analytical traditions, who discuss the relations between science, technology and development in the context of citizenship. It also considers how knowledge is framed and why justice and democracy are essential... More

Best-selling author Sharon Beder unleashes a penetrating expose of how corporations are crafting the global agenda for their own benefit at the expense of billions of people, the environment and democracy.In this brilliantly researched expose, 'communications Rottweiler' Sharon Beder blasts open the... More

This book presents a provocative comparative history of environmentalism through a study of two large, ecologically and culturally diverse democracies—India and the United States. Guha takes as his point of departure the dominant environmental philosophies in these two countries, identified here a... More

How to Plan and Execute Strategy provides you with 24 practical steps for devising, implementing, and managing market-defining, growth-driving strategies. Encompassing every stage of the strategic process, this tactic-filled handbook tells you what you need to do to: * Define your businesses * Under... More