Deadly Indifference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deadly Indifference write by Michael D. Brown. This book was released on 2011-06-16. Deadly Indifference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history.
A Deadly Indifference
A Deadly Indifference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Deadly Indifference write by Marshall Jevons. This book was released on 2014-09-22. A Deadly Indifference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman trails a killer in the UK, using economics to try to solve the case Harvard professor Henry Spearman—an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation—is sent by an American entrepreneur to Cambridge, England. Spearman’s mission is to scout out the purchase of the most famous house in economic science: Balliol Croft, the former home of Professor Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes’s teacher and the font of modern economic theory. After a shocking murder, Spearman realizes that his own life is in danger as he finds himself face-to-face with the most diabolical killer in his career.
Fatal Equilibrium
Fatal Equilibrium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fatal Equilibrium write by Marshall Jevons. This book was released on 1986-07-12. Fatal Equilibrium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death. For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide. A Question of Cost Accounting... Or does he? It's hard to imagine why a young man with a brilliant scholarly future -- at Harvard or not -- would come up with an equation in which the opportunity cost of killing himself (a high price, considering his potential earnings) would be outweighed by the emotional cost of failing to receive tenure. ... Or Utility? Then two members of the P and T Committee are murdered, and it becomes clear to Professor Henry Spearman of the Economics Department that the killer must be on the committee. But which of his illustrious colleagues would have significantly increased his -- or her -- utility (i.e., happiness) by murdering a faculty member or two? Or three?
Murder at the Margin
Murder at the Margin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder at the Margin write by Marshall Jevons. This book was released on 2024-05-14. Murder at the Margin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor and amateur sleuth Henry Spearman uses economics to try to solve a murder while on a Caribbean vacation Cinnamon Bay seems like the ideal Caribbean getaway. But for Harvard economist and amateur detective Henry Spearman it offers an unexpected and decidedly different diversion: murder. With the police at a loss, Spearman investigates on his own, following a rather different set of laws—those of economics. Theorizing and hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the killer’s trail as it winds from the perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a resort to the bustling old port of Charlotte Amalie to the perilous hiking trails of a dense forest. Can Spearman crack the case using economics—and before it’s too late?
The Mystery of the Invisible Hand
The Mystery of the Invisible Hand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mystery of the Invisible Hand write by Marshall Jevons. This book was released on 2024-05-14. The Mystery of the Invisible Hand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Economics professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman tackles a mystery where the price of art is murder In The Mystery of the Invisible Hand, Henry Spearman, an economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, is pulled into a case that mixes campus intrigue, stolen art, and murder. Arriving at San Antonio’s Monte Vista University to teach a course on art and economics, he is confronted with a puzzling art theft and the suspicious suicide of the school’s artist-in-residence. From Texas to New York, Spearman traces the connections between economics and the art world, finding his clues in monopolies, auction theory, and Adam Smith. How is a company’s capital like an art museum’s collection? What does the market say about art’s authenticity versus its availability? What is the mysterious “death effect”—and does it lie at the heart of the case? Spearman must rely on his savviest economic thinking to answer these questions—and pin down a killer.
