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Is life getting better? At the accelerating rate of advancing technologies? Food availability, income, and life span are up for the lucky few while disease, child mortality, and violence are barely improving for the rest all across the globe. The world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper but are still not accessible for the vast majority. Population growth is slowing but is exploding in the poorest countries and...
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, bestselling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition,...
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Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth and...
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Great Courses volume 12
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Sovereign wealth funds are investment portfolios owned and managed by the government, generally in countries with commodity-oriented economies or large trade surpluses, such as Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Examine the history of these funds, how they operate, and their increasingly important role in the global economy today.
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this book cover the entire solar panel industry and history, from its humble in visioned beginnings to expansion into the commercial and industrial usage to residential new power grid revolution of today and the modern day renegades/ visionary's like Elon Musk of Solar City, Marketing genius and entrepreneur Jonathan Budd CEO of Powur the fastest and visionary planet changing company of today sure to make massive impact on reducing the carbon footprint...
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Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Alexandra Harmon examines seven such instances of Indian affluence and the dilemmas they presented both for Native Americans and for Euro-Americans--dilemmas rooted in the colonial origins of the modern American economy. Harmon's...
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Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era. Johnson begins by charting the rise and fall of the U.S. protectionist system from the time of Alexander Hamilton to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. Challenges to protectionist dominance were frequent and often serious, but the protectionist regime only faded in the wake of the Great Depression....
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Are Your Family Business and Wealth Prepared for MAJOR Transition?
Everything is in Transition. Look around...Business is in Transition. Family is in Transition. And the thing that no one wants to truly admit...Wealth is in Transition. You will be faced with some very difficult choices in the months and years to come.
Now is not the time to bury your head in the sand and pray that challenges in your family business will magically work themselves...
10) An Economic History of the World since 1400: Episode 46,China, India: Two Paths to Wealth Extremes
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The Great Courses
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2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Take a trip to the new frontiers of the world economy. You'll learn how India, by promoting its wealth of human capital, and China, by promoting foreign investment, have become two of the world's great economic powers. You'll also consider the influence played by political figures, including Gandhi, Mao Zedong, and Deng Xiaoping.
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Economists are sometimes praised and often chastised for what happens to the nation and the world economies. But what exactly do economists do to earn either praise or scorn? Author Attiat F. Ott with Sheila Vegari explores the answer to that question in What Economists Do: A Journey through the History of Economic Thought. Ott and Vegari outline the discipline of economics through the views and ideas of nine political economists of the seventeenth,...
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FBI Special Agent Finn Wright, put on leave after bending too many rules, helps his detective friend in England when a killer strikes in Cornwall. Decoding the cryptic murder scene inside the mansion leaves even Finn stumped-until a shocking twist reveals what he could have never imagined....
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
-Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)
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WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING is book #4 in a...
13) When You're Safe
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FBI Special Agent Finn Wright, put on leave after bending the rules, decides to stay in England and help his detective friend with a new case: a noble has been found murdered in a spectacular historic mansion in the center of London, and with the media all over it, the clock is ticking before this killer strikes again. Was it random? Or is there a killer lurking in this world or privilege?
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
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FBI Special Agent Finn Wright, put on leave after bending too many rules, stays with his friend in England when she needs his help: a body has been found in a spectacular mansion on a remote island. Rumored to be haunted, surrounded by envious locals, and
15) When You're Sane
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FBI Special Agent Finn Wright, put on leave after bending too many rules, is needed by his detective friend when an American couple is found dead in their estate in Scotland, their mansion burned by fire. With their brash personalities and gaudy reno, the Americans had attracted many enemies-and yet the killer, Finn realizes, may be someone that no one would ever suspect....
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
-Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto...
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FBI Special Agent Finn Wright, put on leave after bending too many rules, is needed by his detective friend when descendants of royalty become the latest targets of a ruthless serial killer. Can he decipher the historical clues to prevent another execution before it's too late?
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
-Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)
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WHEN YOU'RE SILENT is book #6 in a long-anticipated...
17) When You're Mine
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FBI Special Agent Finn Wright, put on leave after bending the rules, visits his detective friend in England, when his help is needed with a high-profile murder in a historic mansion in the British countryside. Finn finds himself out of his element, immersed in a world of wealth and privilege, hunting a killer who is clearly a genius-and who seems able to outsmart Finn's every move-until, in a shocking twist, Finn realizes this world is not at all...
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2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Before modern energy, wealth was tied to land ownership. Today, wealth is tied to energy and who controls it. WEALTH traces a centuries-long journey across the world to show us the energy that gives us wealth.
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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The Great Courses
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2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Sovereign wealth funds are investment portfolios owned and managed by the government, generally in countries with commodity-oriented economies or large trade surpluses, such as Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Examine the history of these funds, how they operate, and their increasingly important role in the global economy today.
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