Robert Frank

Avoiding excessive reliance on formal mathematical derivations, Frank and Bernanke presents concepts intuitively through examples drawn from familiar contexts. The authors introduce a well-articulated short list of core principles and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. Students are periodically asked to apply these principles to answer related questions and exercises. The text also encourages students to become "Economic Naturalists," people who employ basic economic principles to understand and explain what they observe in the world around them. An economic naturalist understands, for example, that infant safety seats are required in cars but not in airplanes because the marginal cost of space to accommodate these seats is typically zero in cars but often hundreds of dollars in airplanes. Such examples engage student interest while teaching them to see each feature of their economic landscape as the reflection of an implicit or explicit cost-benefit calculation.

Richistan: A Journey Through The 21St Century Wealth Boom And The Lives Of The New Rich In this riveting book, Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires - many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds - and how this new gilded age is affecting wider society. Profiles of ''instapreneurs'', dot-com billionaires, and eccentrics from the lower and upper reaches of Richistan take us into the rarified world of people like Ed Bazinet, who became a multi-millionaire by selling miniature ceramic villages, and Tim Blixseth, who earned billions by trading remote stretches of timberland. The influence wielded by the newly wealthy goes far beyond their earning power, and Frank also explores the lifestyles developing around them (butler schools and a new type of service employee, self-help groups for people worth million or more) as well as where their money is going (the commodification of the art world, the rise of ''market-driven'' philanthropy). As wealth creation becomes more and more globalised, Richistan looks behind the glitz to find the real story of new money and its impact on the world.

El mundo cotidiano está lleno de paradojas y hechos inexplicables. Respondiendo a preguntas como: ¿por qué hay una luz en la nevera y o en el congelador? o ¿por qué los huevos blancos y morenos tiene diferentes precios cuando su valor energetico es el mismo? Frank hace acopio de talento y mucho sentido del humor para poner de manifiesto la diaria realidad economica, llena de trampas y engaños. Nos encontramos con un libro que abre los ojos, invita a pensar, advierte del peligro del despilfarro cotidiano y es todo un manual de comprension. Un libro inteligente, ameno, para el gran publico interesado en las cuestiones de intendencia.

Texto que cubre los temas esenciales de la microeconomía intermedia, mediante el estudio de la relación entre el análisis económico y el comportamiento humano. Microeconomía Intermedia es un texto riguroso y amigable para el usuario porque presenta las herramientas analiticas fundamentales a traves de una variedad de ejemplos y aplicaciones tomados de contextos familiares que ayuden a los estudiantes a comprender la economia.Microeconomia Intermedia prepara a los estudiantes en la solucion de problemas a traves de la inclusion de problemas que van desde lo rutinario hasta los mas exigentes al final de cada capitulo.

Motivar para una formación eficaz Muchas veces la motivación es la gran olvidada de la formación. Los mejores programas formativos y los profesionales más preparados se pueden estrellar ante una evidente falta de interes de los participantes. Desde luego, hay factores que no estan al alcance del formador, pero es su responsabilidad hacer todo lo posible para fomentar una actitud positiva hacia la formacion y evitar todos aquellos comportamientos o practicas que conducen a la desmotivacion o rechazo. Robert Mager, con su habitual estilo directo y didactico, salpicado de ejemplos y anecdotas, ha abordado el tema desde una perspectiva basada en las llamadas conductas de aproximacion y conductas de evitacion. En esta obra desgrana todos los factores que inciden sobre la motivacion y la manera de potenciarlos; ademas, ofrece pautas para la motivacion mas alla de la imparticion, esto es, para que se produzca una optica transferencia de lo aprendido al puesto de trabajo.

Ephemera captures our curiosity. Through it we get a glimpse into the personalities, personal moments and ponderings, and sentiments of beloved public figures. Presented here are many such glimpses, along with several longer looks, into the life of legendary photographer, Robert Frank. New York to Nova Scotia was originally published in 1986 to accompany a retrospective exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has long been out of print. The book is the best source for much of the most absorbing material on the great artist: there are letters from a young Robert Frank to his parents telling them of New York, there is a facsimile of his 1954 proposal (considered a landmark document in the history of photography) to the Guggenheim Foundation that started his legendary journey across America, a letter from an Arkansas State policeman who arrested Frank during his trip to produce the photographs in his masterpiece, The Americans, as well with such other items like an account by Jack Kerouac about the trip he made with Robert Frank to Florida. The theme of this account is the now-classic one of a modern artist''s restless peregrinations--travel as a physical and spiritual journey, as search and as self-discovery. The chronology and personal spirit of Frank''s complex career as a photographer and filmmaker are evoked through these previously unpublished letters, pictures, reviews, and essays, as well as through 18 of his classic photographs. Some of the letters are by Frank; others were written by photographers and contemporaries, such as W. Eugene Smith, Louis Faurer, Keith Smith, and Gotthard Schuh, and by legendary curators Hugh Edwards and Robert Delpire. (Frank''s writings reveal his lesser-known side: considerable talent as a literary artist.) Authors of the essays include Walker Evans, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Coles, as well as the exhibition curators, Philip Brookman and Anne Tucker. New York to Nova Scotia also includes still images from Frank''s films, and pictures of Frank throughout his career. I''m trying to forget easy photo, trying to make something from within.Time moves on and never stops or waits. -Robert Frank Essays by Philip Brookman, Robert Coles, and Anne Wilkes Tucker.

Esta obra cubre los tópicos esenciales de la micreoeconomía mientras que explora la relación existente entre el análisis económico y el comportamiento humano. El comportamiento humano es en su contexto de gran interes para la comunidad academica. La clara narrativa del libro introduce topicos modernos. Anima al estudiante a "pensar como un economista". Novedades: Incluye apendices matematicos de gran interes en esta su 5ª edicion para sustentar el naturalismo economico. Mas ejemplos de empresas basados en la realidad Material y ejemplos actualizados Apendices reubicados en el texto.