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Agglomeration Economics by Edward L. Glaeser
RRP: €101.75Booksplease Price: €98.48When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume... -
Housing and the Financial Crisis by Edward L. Glaeser
RRP: €121.38Booksplease Price: €116.89Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed... -
The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations by Edward L. Glaeser
Booksplease Price: €33.97Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy, but little attention is paid to the pressures and challenges that affect their governance. We know such firms don't try to... -
Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment by Edward L Glaeser
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €135.86Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed... -
Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium by Edward L. Glaeser 9780199290444
Booksplease Price: €96.28220 million Americans crowd together in the 3% of the country that is urban. 35 million people live in the vast metropolis of Tokyo, the most productive urban area in the world. The central city of... -
Housing Markets and the Economy - Risk, Regulation, and Policy Edward L. Glaeser 9781558441842
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558441842Author Edward L. GlaeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land... -
After the Flood: How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought by Edward L. Glaeser
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €56.29The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great... -
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History by Edward L. Glaeser 9780226299587
RRP: €58.31Booksplease Price: €57.41Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world's least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of... -
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.56A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nationsAbout the AuthorMancur Lloyd Olson Jr. was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of... -
Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable by Edward L. Gleaser 9780844742731
Booksplease Price: €16.81Despite the recent drop in house prices, housing remains unaffordable for many ordinary Americans. Particularly along the coasts, housing remains extremely expensive. In Rethinking Federal Housing... -
Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America by Stephen L. Klineberg
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €14.46Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents "a trailblazing study" (Kirkus Reviews) that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America's future-based on a meticulously researched,... -
Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future by Matthew E. Kahn 9780465063833
Booksplease Price: €24.78We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a... -
In The Post-Urban World: Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy by Tigran Haas 9781138394155
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.69In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we find ourselves at the juncture between entering a... -
Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles by Jose Scheinkman 9780231159029
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.62As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles-those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow... -
Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America by Robert P. Inman 9780691131054
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €46.33Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy... -
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do about It by Josh A. Lerner
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.37Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity,... -
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War by Dora L. Costa 9780691137049
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €25.95When are people willing to sacrifice for the common good? What are the benefits of friendship? How do communities deal with betrayal? And what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse...