"...Nelson D. Schwartz explores a new aspect of economic inequality that is profoundly reshaping public and private life. In recent years businesses and venture capitalists have stepped in to exploit the gap between the rich and everyone else, worsening services for the masses while finding new ways to serve the privileged... And with corporate leaders and other decision makers living on the friction-free side of the velvet rope, they are less inclined...

With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith gets at the heart of what economic security means in The Affluent Society. Warning against individual and societal complacence about economic inequity, he offers an economic model for investing in public wealth that challenges "conventional wisdom" (a phrase he coined that has since entered our vernacular) about the long-term value of a production-based economy...

After half a decade of austerity based crisis management by international lenders, Greece is still caught up in a debt trap. Two thirds (!) of its youth is out of work and forty per cent of its population lives below the poverty line. Even the IMF has had to admit that stabilization of the country has failed. Is Greece hopelessly corrupt and lazy as a matter of national character? This book starts out by refuting these widespread cultural stereotypes...

A highly paradigm shift manifesto that is a call to action to most Zimbabwean citizens with regards to their role in the economics of the country. The citizens are exposed to the priorities they need to be focusing on if the economics of the nation should improve. And part of the advise goes beyond just political revolutions and protests.

What kind of world have we created? Increasing numbers of us live in fear of losing our homes and jobs, many forced to rely on the charity of food banks to feed ourselves and our children. Many of us live on the streets in utter destitution, often with mental health problems, and no-one seems to care. Many more of us live in poor countries where for want of clean water and basic sanitation we must watch helplessly as our children and infants die...

What is a "green job" anyway? Few can adequately define one. Even the government isn't sure, you will learn in these pages. Still, President Obama and environmentalist coalitions such as the BlueGreen Alliance claim the creation of green jobs can save America's economy, and are worth taxpayers' investment. But in Regulating to Disaster, Diana Furchtgott-Roth debunks that myth. Instead, energy prices rise dramatically and America's economic growth...

Are the impoverished victims of circumstance or are they contributing to their situations through their own actions and principles? This perplexing question does not have a simple answer. "Generational Poverty: An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor" examines both sides of the coin. Written by an economist, the book provides a unique perspective into the study of this emotionally-charged issue. It shows that economic analysis can shed light...

Cet ouvrage aborde à la fois les notions d'équité en emploi et d'équité salariale dans les régimes juridiques applicables aux entreprises de compétence québécoise et canadienne. Parmi chacun de ces régimes, il faut encore distinguer un régime général applicable à tous et des régimes particuliers qui s'appliquent à certains employeurs et à certains travailleurs. Dans cette 2e édition, on retrouve des descriptions statistiques mises...

Rick Roedel provides a comprehensive overview of the loss of manufacturing in America, the effects this loss has had on the U.S. economy, and the important steps that need to be taken in order to bring manufacturing and jobs back to America. As product manufacturing has moved oversees, so have American jobs. To bring these jobs home, Americans must start supporting companies that manufacture here... in the United States.

"100 . . . infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and historical wonders of North America"--Provided by publisher.