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Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures

Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures by Tyler Cowen

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A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of...
 
Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding

Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding by Tyler Cowen

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Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible - and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased...
 
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist by Tyler Cowen

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"Freakonomics" revealed much about our society. Now, one of Americaas most respected economists reveals how "individuals" can turn economic reasoning to their advantage in their daily lifeaat home, at work, even on vacation. Tyler Cowen explains how understanding the incentives that work best with each individual...
 
Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding

Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding by Tyler Cowen

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Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible - and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased...
 
Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty Vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters

Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty Vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters by Tyler Cowen

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This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers. Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to see how globalization...
 
Market Failure or Success: The New Debate

Market Failure or Success: The New Debate by Tyler Cowen, Eric Crampton

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Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets of labour, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a few examples....
 
What Price Fame?

What Price Fame? by Tyler Cowen

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In a world where more people know who Princess Di was than who their own senators are, where Graceland draws more visitors per year than the White House, and where Michael Jordan is an industry unto himself, fame and celebrity are central currencies. In this book, Tyler Cowen explores and elucidates the economics...
 
In Praise of Commercial Culture

In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen

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Does the market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the late 1990s intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favourable attitude towards the commercialization...
 
Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives

Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives by Tyler Cowen

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Risk and Business Cycles examines the causes of business cycles, a perennial topic of interest within economics. The author argues the case for the revival of an important role for monetary causes in business cycle theory, which challenges the current trend towards favouring purely real theories. The work also...
 
Markets in the Firm: A Market Process Approach to Management

Markets in the Firm: A Market Process Approach to Management by Tyler Cowen, David Parker

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Businesses around the world face increasing turbulence in their economic and social environments. The pace of change in market economies seems to be ever accelerating. In this book, the authors consider some of the implications for management of different views of the firm. They point to the need, in these days of...
 
Economic Welfare

Economic Welfare by Tyler Cowen

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Presents a collection of leading writings in the fields of policy evaluation. The volume focuses on the conceptual issues behind welfare economics, drawing upon contributions from economics, moral philosophy, and social philosophy to show approaches both for and against.
 
New Monetary Economics

New Monetary Economics by Tyler Cowen, Randy Kroszner

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This work, designed for students and specialists in monetary economics, provides a systematic examination of monetary economics from a new viewpoint - one in which markets provide financial services without recourse to traditional concepts of money. In this analysis, Cowen and Kroszner: examine the potential...
 
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World

Create Your Own Economy: Think Differently, Master Digital Culture, Create Your Own Economy by Tyler Cowen

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The Future of Culture in a Globalised World: The 2005 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture

The Future of Culture in a Globalised World: The 2005 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture by Tyler Cowen

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The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy

The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy by Tyler Cowen

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Modern Principles: Economics

Modern Principles: Economics by Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok

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From the authors: "See the Invisible Hand. Understand Your World." That's the tagline of "Modern Principles" and our teaching philosophy. Nobel laureate Vernon Smith put it this way: "At the heart of economics is a scientific mystery... a scientific mystery as deep, fundamental and inspiring as that of the...
 
Modern Principles: Microeconomics

Modern Principles: Microeconomics by Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok

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From the authors: There's a common view that "all micro texts are the same," but we believe that innovation is possible! We offer a whole chapter on incentive design, with many business and real world applications from choosing salaries or piece rates to setting up an ideal tournament. Business applications are...
 
Modern Principles: Macroeconomics

Modern Principles: Macroeconomics by Tyler Cowen

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From the authors: Modern. Simpler. These were our goals. We knew that to reflect modern macroeconomics we had to cover the Solow Model and the economics of ideas, Real Business Cycles, and New Keynesian economics. While most texts now cover the rudiments of economic growth, the importance of ideas is rarely even...
 
Descubre al Economista Que Llevas Dentro: El USO de Incentivos Para Enamorarte Sobrevivir A Tu Proxima Reunion y Motivar A Tu Dentista

Descubre al Economista Que Llevas Dentro: El USO de Incentivos Para Enamorarte Sobrevivir A Tu Proxima Reunion y Motivar A Tu Dentista by Tyler Cowen, Natalia Rodriguez Martin, Paloma Gomez Crespo

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Weltmarkt Der Kulturen

Weltmarkt Der Kulturen by Tyler Cowen

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