The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, Paperback - Daron Acemoglu

From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flo...

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Reducere. • Una dintre cele mai bune carti ale anului 2019: Financial Times / Kirkus Reviews • Finalista The Lionel Gelber Prize Astazi traim vremuri caracte...

Reducere. What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authori...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why N...

Astazi traim vremuri caracterizate de o destabilizare dureroasa. Avem nevoie de libertate mai mult decat am avut vreodata, dar coridorul spre aceas...

Putere si progres. Lupta noastra din ultimul mileniu pentru tehnologie si progres • Daron Acemoglu, coautor al cartii Coridorul ingust Daron Acemog...

Reducere. Dumas Malone's classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jeffer...

Coridorul ingust. State, societati si soarta libertatii - Daron Acemoglu

Reducere. Astazi traim vremuri caracterizate de o destabilizare dureroasa. Avem nevoie de libertate mai mult decat am avut vreodata, dar coridorul spre aceas...

Reducere. The best one-volume history of the United States ever written (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, E...

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the re...

Floods, Famines and Emperors. El Nino and the Fate of Civilisations - Brian Fagan

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marshall PoeIllustrator: Leland PurvisNathaniel Smithfield is a ten-year-old boy living with his family in Boston, Massachu...

Reducere. Que determina que un pais sea rico o pobre? Como se explica que, en condiciones similares, en algunos paises haya hambrunas y en otros no? Que pape...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

Dealing with the imminent decline of cheap oil, this book shows how oil and war have been closely related in the 20th century. Tracing the crucial ...

Putere si progres. Lupta noastra de o mie de ani pentru tehnologie si progres - Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of h...

Reducere. This title collects Berry's signature views on the interconnectedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians ha...

A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Eva RosenIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x ...

Reducere. "Written for the youngest audience...the text is very simple yet manages to convey all the major events in Liberty's creation....The full-color wat...

Reducere. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Rise...

DescriptionGet a new perspective from the 'other half' of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and...

Reducere. For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's in...

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirma...

Reducere. LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. This book is a masterpiece of argumentation, and shockingly radical in its conclusions. Rothbard...

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, benefi...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before g...

Reducere. In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as "the ...

Lessons from the Hindu culture are used to teach the world methods of sustainability.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Vandana ...

One-volume account of the USA, from the earliest Native Americans to the McCain/Obama presidential race. 'The author stands beside Simon Schama as ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

Reducere. The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic.Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on t...