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“bruce wydick”

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  • Shrewd Samaritan

    Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor

    by Bruce Wydick ...
    Learn to live the message of the Good Samaritan and make a global impact, using the resources already at your disposal.If there were a popularity contest among all the parables of Jesus, the Good Samaritan would probably win. Nobody is against the Good Samaritan because being against the Good Samaritan is like being against Mother Theresa or Oskar Schindler or the firefighters who ran into the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Games in Economic Development

    by Bruce Wydick ...
    Games in Economic Development examines the roots of poverty and prosperity through the lens of elementary game theory, illustrating how patterns of human interaction can lead to vicious cycles of poverty as well as virtuous cycles of prosperity. This book shows how both social norms and carefully designed institutions can help shape the 'rules of the game', making better outcomes in a game ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    Shrewd Samaritan

    Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor

    by Bruce Wydick ...
    Narrated by Mike Terry ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    Learn to live the message of the Good Samaritan and make a global impact, using the resources already at your disposal.If there were a popularity contest among all the parables of Jesus, the Good Samaritan would probably win. Nobody is against the Good Samaritan because being against the Good Samaritan is like being against Mother Theresa or Oskar Schindler or the firefighters who ran into the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Taste of Many Mountains

    by Bruce Wydick ...
    Narrated by Bob Borquez ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 35 min

    The global coffee trade is a collision between the rich world and the poor world.A group of graduate students is about to experience that collision head-on.Angela, Alex, Rich, and Sofi a bring to their summer research project in Guatemala more than their share of grad-school baggage—along with clashing ideas about poverty and globalization. But as they follow the trail of coffee beans from the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

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    The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this ... Read more

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  • World 3.0

    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

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  • What the U.S. Can Learn from China

    An Open-Minded Guide to Treating Our Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher

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    Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth

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  • Economists and the Powerful

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