The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) was founded in 1920, largely in response to controversies between free market advocates and proponents of centralized government planning, over the “fair” distribution of income in the American economy. As a result of an early agreement between...

David Bornstein`s How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world--what Bornstein calls social entrepreneurs. These men and women are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-roots approaches to a wide variety of social and...

Friedrich Alfred Krupp war der bedeutendste deutsche Industrielle an der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert und der reichste Mann Deutschlands. Gleichwohl hat er bis heute keinen Biographen gefunden. Dieses Buch geht dem Leben des Unternehmers nach, seiner Rolle in Politik, Wirtschaft und...