[Milton Friedman's] relatively simple and rational approach to explaining and demonstrating how to best achieve economic prosperity was by utilizing the natural motivation of a free people functioning in a free market inspired me to learn more about economics....It is my hope that those reading the correspondence that follows will also be able to profit from the knowledge conveyed by this Nobel Laureate who was so deserving of the award." -From the Introduction
[Milton Friedman's] relatively simple and rational approach to explaining and demonstrating how to best achieve economic prosperity was by utilizing the natural motivation of a free people functioning in a free market inspired me to learn more about economics....It is my hope that those reading the correspondence that follows will also be able to profit from the knowledge conveyed by this Nobel Laureate who was so deserving of the award." -From the Introduction
Written by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals’ “handling” of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effects As chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing directly on what he had learned from years of studying the causes of the economic catastrophe of the 1930s—work for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize. Essays on the Great Depression brings together Bernanke’s influential work on the origins and economic lessons of the Depression, and this new edition also includes his Nobel Prize lecture.
Second edition of a textbook first published in 1981 for Year-9 secondary geography students in NSW. Contains large sections of new text and many new illustrations. Among other areas it looks at changes in mediterranean lands, temperate grasslands and tropical forests. Includes an index.
Contains teaching aids (maps, games, etc.) & revision tests & exercises, designed for easy duplication, to accompany the secondary school text of the same title.
Contains teaching aids (maps, games, etc.) & revision tests & exercises, set out for easy duplication, to accompany the secondary school text of the same title.
...the book is fun, but it is more than fun. It's a meditation on a collision of cultures, and it will make you think." – Dr. Allen Matusow, Professor at Rice University "a good read full of humorous antidotes of the author’s encounters with oil-rich Arabs in the Middle East and Houston." – Fred Hofheinz, Former Mayor City of Houston Bumbling with the Arabs All the Way to the Bank chronicles the true story of two young, naïve Houston real estate go-getters as they rub elbows with some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the Middle East. In 1980, Ben Koshkin and his business partner bumbled into a real estate deal and ended up with a Kuwaiti billionaire as a partner. Through this partnership, Koshkin befriended the undersecretary to the oil minister of Kuwait. For four years, if the undersecretary didn't sign the contract, Kuwait didn't sell the oil. Throughout the eighties, Koshkin and his partner closed over 250 million dollars' worth of business with the Arabs and experienced firsthand a culture the United States still doesn't fully understand. After every trip to the Middle East, men in dark suits, sporting sunglasses and short haircuts, would line up outside their Houston office to ask questions about their business overseas and the people they met on their trips. Bumbling with the Arabs All the Way to the Bank documents experiences and encounters most people will never come close to experiencing in a hundred lifetimes. At times, these stories were hard for even Ben Koshkin to believe-and he lived them! "Bumbling is outstanding, different, educational, and highly entertaining." – Clayton Lee, Clayton Lee Counseling "Having heard the stories from [Ben Koshkin] all these years, it was nice to have them come to life on paper. [His] writing style and how the book was structured made this an easy read that kept my attention throughout. Our perception of life and people in the Middle East is certainly different from reality." – Brad Dill, BD Realty Advisors “If I knew what my son was doing, I would never have survived to live this long.” – Naomi Koshkin Friedman, Ben’s 101-year-old mother
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