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Niall Ferguson

Издател: Allen Lane

The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what is the cause? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions - the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail - are

Christian Saint-Etienne

Издател: Hoover Institution Press

Economists as diverse in approach as Lord Keynes and Milton Friedman have analyzed the causes of the Great Depression, and their answers have ranged from underconsumption to failings in monetary policy. In Part 1 of the Great Depression, Christian Saint-Etienne compares these theories with economic statistics for the interwar period and adds a

Robert P. Crease

Издател: W. W. Norton & Company

The Great Equations tells the stories of how these equations were discovered, revealing the personal struggles of their ingenious originators. From "1 + 1 = 2" to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Crease locates these equations in the panoramic sweep of Western history, showing how they are as integral to their time and place of creation as are

Gregory Zuckerman

Издател: Penguin Books

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career

Ilona Tomova

Издател: International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations

Various representatives of the Roma intelligentsia have shown an increased interest in their community's culture in recent years. We are looking forward with interest to a collection of Roma tales and legends gathered and set out by Yosif Nunev, a head teacher in Rakitovo, which is due to come out in print. Manouche Romanov and Vasil Chaprazov