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First published in 1879, "Progress and Poverty" is the groundbreaking treatise on the relationship between industrialization and poverty by Henry George, the American social theorist and economist. A huge commercial success when it was published and one of the bestselling books in America in the late 19th century, George's work had a profound influence on economists, politicians, and social reformers all over the world. In "Progress and Poverty",...
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Most commonly accepted economic "facts" are wrong. Here's the unvarnished, politically incorrect truth. The liberal media and propagandists masquerading as educators have filled the world-and deformed public policy-with politically correct errors about capitalism and economics in general. In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Capitalism, myth-busting professor Robert P. Murphy, a scholar and frequent speaker at the Ludwig von Mises Institute,...
3) Angrynomics
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Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer the world most of us experience day-in and day-out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive. In Angrynomics, Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive...
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The government should be a government of people, not money. The Occupy Wall Street movement senses this but lacks focus. This book provides that focus.
The government has roles to play in the safety, conflict resolution, and pooling resources. The roles that the government has to play require strict adherence to the rules. There can be no forgiveness.
Religion asks for perfection. To ask for the impossible guarantees failure. The role religion...
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With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort of capitalist nation to become. In Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, Dorothee Bohle and Béla Geskovits trace the form that capitalism took in...
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El título de este libro es el acrónimo formado por los principales instrumentos de poder en la ciencia de la estrategia aplicada al mundo actual. Así lo refiere el autor en los primeros párrafos de su obra. Pero hay mucho más.
En primer lugar, este libro tiene cuatro (¡sí, 4!) prologuistas que, desde las múltiples aristas de DIME (Diplomacia—Información—Milicia—Economía) nos adelantan que tenemos en nuestras manos un compendio de anécdotas...
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The UK’s vote to leave the European Union is a pivotal moment in British history. Over the past forty years, the UK’s economy has become increasingly intertwined and dependent on its relationship with the other EU member states with both the EU and the UK’s economic landscape irrevocably fashioned by its membership. Brexit takes both parties into unchartered territory. At such a time of uncertainty, what can we say for certain about the UK’s...
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Le phénomène est important: depuis 2008 — et encore davantage avec l'avènement de la crise sanitaire —, les gouvernements interviennent de plus en plus dans l'économie. Ce n'est pas qu'ils avaient cessé de le faire, c'est simplement qu'ils intensifient leur action. En Écosse et au Québec, deux nations subétatiques, ces investissements sont plus importants qu'ailleurs et diffèrent en cela des modèles libéraux britannique et canadien...
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Karl Marx is one of the most influential social theorists and political philosophers of the 19th century. His hugely significant works "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" fundamentally changed the way the world viewed economy and politics. His groundbreaking theory that much of a society's conflict is based on an economic imbalance between the wealthy ruling class, the bourgeoisie, who control the means of production, and the working class,...
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The relative effectiveness of various institutions, such as the market or government, is based on the ability for individuals to access and use dispersed knowledge in society and the incentives that steer their actions. Market process theory emphasizes the effectiveness of the price system to consolidate and transmit knowledge in the marketplace.
Together this framework provides new insights on the capability of individuals to cooperate and improve...
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"Co-Winner of the 1999 Distinguished Publication Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998" Edwin Amenta is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University.
According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional--exceptionally stingy and backwards. But Edwin Amenta reminds us here that sixty years ago the United States led...
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Why life is harder on American families than it's been in decades-the book that takes the blame away from moms and puts it where it really belongs.
Pressed for time and money, unable to find decent affordable daycare, wracked with guilt at falling short of the mythic supermom ideal-working and non-working American mothers alike have it harder today than they have in decades, and they are worse off than many of their peers around the world. Why? Because...
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Este libro analiza las consecuencias del estilo de crecimiento peruano desde la década de 1990 y sus diferencias con lo que ocurrió entre 1950 y 1980.
En primer lugar, las reformas y políticas del periodo neoliberal, 1990-2020, consolidaron una estructura productiva primario-exportadora y ocasionaron una desindustrialización prematura. La industria manufacturera perdió capacidad de generación de empleo y redujo su participación en la generación...
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Over the past thirty years, we've seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. Here, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging data to show exactly what the 99/1 percent divide means in the real world and the damage it causes to individuals, businesses, and the earth. Most important, he answers the burning question, what can be done about it? He offers a common-sense guide to...
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From the author of Popular Economics comes a surprisingly sunny projection of America's future job market. Forget the doomsday predictions of sour-faced nostalgists who say automization and globalization will take away your dream job. The job market is only going to get better and better, according to economist John Tamny, who argues in The End of Work that the greatest gift of prosperity, beyond freedom from painful want, is the existence of work...
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This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole, global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and whole system thinking. It is a thoroughly hopeful book. The focus is on the possibility of a better world, a more fulfilling way of life, rather than what's wrong or what we have to give up. Could this...
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The truthful anecdotes and fictional characters take you on an insightful and exciting journey that is serious, witty and redeemingly triumphant. It is a gripping account which depicts how the media, unbridled capitalism, residual racial bias and politics as usual collude to control, suppress and subvert the natural election process in the American South. Included in this well-researched historical novel is an assessment of the successes and failures...
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In the spring of 2012, an unlikely transformational figure inadvertently breaches the perimeter of U.S. politics. Unencumbered by political ambition and devoid of greed or lust for power, Jonathon Braxton reluctantly enters the arena. Fueled solely by a desire to advocate for more medical research funding to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes afflicting his son, Braxton agrees to speak at the 2012 Republican National Convention courtesy of two influential...
20) How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth
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How hedge funds make money by taking it from the rest of us?and how you can join them! Top hedge fund managers make more than Oprah, Rupert Murdoch, and A-Rod combined?but they aren't running news and entertainment empires or playing baseball for the New York Yankees. Aren't you curious about how these hedge fund dudes make so much doing who knows what? You may even wonder if you can get there, too. After all, this is America!
This book gives you...
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