The Return of The Economic Naturalist, Robert Frank
Автор: Robert H Frank Название: The Economic Naturalist ISBN: 0753513382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753513385 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13500 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Economics doesn`t just happen in classrooms or international banks. It is everywhere and influences everything we do and see, from the cinema screen to the streets. This book reveals why many of the most puzzling parts of everyday life actually make perfect (economic) sense.
Автор: Frank Robert Название: Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich ISBN: 1400134455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400134458 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 41020 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Full of captivating profiles and expert insights into the lives and lifestyles of the nouveau riche, "Richistan" tells the real story of a new gilded age. The recent explosion of wealth has created a new breed of multimillionaires. Ed Bazinet, for example, who turned miniature ceramic villages into a $250 million fortune. Or Tim Blixseth, who became a billionaire by trading remote stretches of timberland. "Richistan" takes readers inside a rarified world to see how these blue-collar-workers-turned-billionaires are earning, spending, and living. From ""Butler School,"" where domestics are specially trained to serve the newly wealthy, to self-help groups for coping with the strains of $10 million incomes, you'll discover how the nouveaux riches learn to be riche. In addition, Frank investigates where their money is going. With so much in the hands of so few, the personal whims of the extremely wealthy can make or break charities and research foundations. Will they support cancer research or the arts? Supernatural exploration or archaeological digs? The influence wielded by the newly wealthy goes far beyond their fashion choices or participation in reality TV shows. "Richistan" looks behind the glitz to find the real story behind new money and its impact on the richest nation in the world.
Автор: Robert H Frank and Philip J Cook Название: The Winner-Take-All Society ISBN: 0753522268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753522264 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13500 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us. Why does the top one percent of the population capture such a disproportionate amount of the wealth? Why do top athletes win dozens of sponsorship deals, yet competitors who finish just moments behind struggle to attract a single deal? Why does one product become a runaway success, while others flounder and fall? The answer is the rise of `winner-take-all` markets, in which small differences in performance lead to huge differences in reward.
Автор: Hoffmann, Frank Batchelor, Robert P Manning, Martin J. Batchelor, Bob Название: Basketball in america ISBN: 0789016133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780789016133 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 62690 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A pioneering analysis of the history of basketball and its effect on popular culture from the 1970s to today. Examines the social and cultural impact of basketball on American society across the amateur and professional arenas.
Автор: Hunter Robert Frank Название: Classics Here and Now: The Jungle Book: Mowgli`s Story... ISBN: 1847807976 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847807977 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20410 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Stunning retelling of Rudyard Kipling`s classic text, set against the backdrop of modern-day Mumbai.
Автор: Losue Robert V., Mussano Frank Название: College Tuition: Financial Deception and What You Can Do about It ISBN: 1935628399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935628392 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 23730 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: College Tuition erases the notion that colleges are automatically trusted places of reverence. When it comes to finances, colleges lust for money and self-interest knows no bounds. The higher education system is broken and its future depends on developing a more productive mode of operation. This book is well documented with striking, clear, easy to understand data and illustrations. The writers unveil the issues most directly related to the unnecessary rise in costs, and will help college-bound students identify cost effective schools and use techniques to secure the most beneficial financial aid deals. It will better prepare the general public and spur policymakers, board members, presidents, donors and employees at every college and university to speak more forcefully on the subject of institutional finances. College costs continue to rise at a level twice the CPI while todays high unemployment is making jobs for graduates hard to come by. Add to these problems changing in financial aid and declining family income and you have the perfect storm for controversy. Students and parents across the country are seeking straightforward answers about why college costs have spiralled out of control and what they can do on a practical level to minimise their expenses.
Автор: McLynn, Frank Название: Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0712658939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780712658935 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 15580 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A sensual Calvinist, a Tory radical, a consumptive celebrant of action, a Passionate Scot who chose to live anywhere but Scotland. But it was a life tormented by an autocratic father, recurring illness, the prudery of the Victorian reading public and, most of all, the stresses imposed on him by his wife and stepchildren.
Автор: Frank Robert Название: Riches to Rags: The Rise and Fall of America`s Rich ISBN: 0307589897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307589897 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 17780 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: high-beta rich (hi be'ta rich) 1. a newly discovered personality type of the America upper class prone to wild swings in wealth. 2. the winners (and occasional losers) in an economy that creates wealth from financial markets, asset bubbles and deals. 3. derived from the Wall Street term "high-beta," meaning highly volatile or prone to booms and busts. 4. an elite that's capable of wreaking havoc on communities, jobs, government finances, and the consumer economy. 5. a new Potemkin plutocracy that hides a mountain of debt behind the image of success, and is one crisis away from losing their mansions, private jets and yachts. The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts - models of financial propriety - suddenly set off on a wild ride of economic binges. Not only do they control more than a third of the country's wealth, their increasing vulnerability to the booms and busts of the stock market wreak havoc on our consumer economy, financial markets, communities, employment opportunities, and government finances. Robert Frank's insightful analysis provides the disturbing big picture of high-beta wealth. His vivid storytelling brings you inside the mortgaged mansions, blown-up balance sheets, repossessed Bentleys and Gulfstreams, and wrecked lives and relationships: - How one couple frittered away a fortune trying to build America's biggest house --90,000 square feet with 23 full bathrooms, a 6,000 square foot master suite with a bed on a rotating platform--only to be forced to put it on the market because "we really need the money." - Repo men who are now the scavengers of the wealthy, picking up private jets, helicopters, yachts and racehorses - the shiny remains of a decade of conspicuous consumption financed with debt, asset bubbles, "liquidity events," and soaring stock prices. - How "big money ruins everything" for communities such as Aspen, Colorado whose over-reliance on the rich created a stratified social scene of velvet ropes and A-lists and crises in employment opportunities, housing, and tax revenues. - Why California's worst budget crisis in history is due in large part to reliance on the volatile incomes of the state's tech tycoons. - The bitter divorce of a couple who just a few years ago made the Forbes 400 list of the richest people, the firing of their enormous household staff of 110, and how one former spouse learned the marvels of shopping at Marshalls, filling your own gas tank, and flying commercial. Robert Frank's stories and analysis brilliantly show that the emergence of the high-beta rich is not just a high-class problem for the rich. High-beta wealth has national consequences: "America's dependence on the rich + great volatility among the rich = a more volatile America. " Cycles of wealth are now much faster and more extreme. The rich are a new "Potemkin Plutocracy" and the important lessons and consequences are brought to light of day in this engrossing book.
Автор: Frank Robert Название: Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich ISBN: 0307341453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307341457 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 11620 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population larger than Belgium and Denmark; typical citizens include "spud king" J. R. Simplot; hair stylist Sydell Miller, the new star of Palm Beach; and assorted oddball entrepreneurs. 3. A country that with a little luck and pluck, you, too, could be a citizen of. The rich have always been different from you and me, but Robert Frank's revealing and funny journey through "Richistan" entertainingly shows that they are truly another breed.
Автор: Frank Robert Название: Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich ISBN: 1400104459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400104451 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 20500 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Full of captivating profiles and expert insights into the lives and lifestyles of the nouveau riche, "Richistan" tells the real story of a new gilded age. The recent explosion of wealth has created a new breed of multimillionaires. Ed Bazinet, for example, who turned miniature ceramic villages into a $250 million fortune. Or Tim Blixseth, who became a billionaire by trading remote stretches of timberland. "Richistan" takes readers inside a rarified world to see how these blue-collar-workers-turned-billionaires are earning, spending, and living. From ""Butler School,"" where domestics are specially trained to serve the newly wealthy, to self-help groups for coping with the strains of $10 million incomes, you'll discover how the nouveaux riches learn to be riche. In addition, Frank investigates where their money is going. With so much in the hands of so few, the personal whims of the extremely wealthy can make or break charities and research foundations. Will they support cancer research or the arts? Supernatural exploration or archaeological digs? The influence wielded by the newly wealthy goes far beyond their fashion choices or participation in reality TV shows. "Richistan" looks behind the glitz to find the real story behind new money and its impact on the richest nation in the world.
Автор: Frank, Robert H. Название: My party band 00/lilac ISBN: 0007185332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007185337 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 4360 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Collins Big Cat" is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children`s authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children should love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book.
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