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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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First published in 1884, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State" is the groundbreaking treatise on the history of the nuclear family unit by Friedrich Engels. Largely based on notes written by Karl Marx found by Engels after his death, the treatise examines the findings in American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan's book "Ancient Society", which posits that human progress may be divided into three stages: savagery, then barbarism,...
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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"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...
5) The Nigerian Dependent Management & Leadership Development in the Post World War Ii Colonial Nigeria
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The main theme of this book is to provide a critical analysis of the Nigerian dependent management and leadership development in the post world war II colonial Nigeria. (1945-to-1960) and beyond, using foreign fi rms-global/multinational and transnational corporations; U.A.C., SHELL, NNPC and OPEC. All these foreign fi rms have their parent companies resided in their foreign countries of origin (advanced metropolis) and have their subsidiaries or...
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Americans have, since our founding, participated in a variety of alternative institutions-self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business to change society. From the town meetings that still serve as our ideal of self-governance, to the sustainable food movement that is changing the way we think about farming the land and feeding our families, these secondary structures have given rise to many of our...
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This book is a response to the fundamental questions that have confronted the UK economy for decades which successive governments of the right and the left have failed to deal with adequately. Some of these questions are obvious, such as:
•Why does poverty still beset a large number of people, whilst others are grossly well-off?'
•Why are house prices continuously rising much faster than inflation, so that more and more people are left without...
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El libro tiene un marcado carácter económico y social abarcando un amplio período entre los siglos XV y XIX. Está centrado en Cogeces del Monte, aunque en ocasiones se incluyen a poblaciones del entorno: Aldealvar, Bahabón, Campaspero, Santibáñez, Torrescárcela, Montemayor, Quintanilla de Abajo, Langayo, Cuéllar, y otras de la comunidad de villa y tierra de Cuéllar.
Los contenidos que se abordan tratan fundamentalmente de: la demografía,...
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Dr Jacob Chikuhwa continues with his academic analysis of both the political and economic developments in Zimbabwe. Supported by well researched historical narrative and economic data, Zimbabwe: The End of the First Republic examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project leading to the adoption of a home-grown constitution and the July 31, 2013 elections. Although the war of liberation led to Zimbabwes independence in 1980,...
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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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A pesar de todas las advertencias, la democracia se ha convertido en un sistema de acoso múltiple a la indeterminación común de la existencia. Y es ahí, en ese peligro, donde el presente libro se sitúa, intentando colaborar al fin de cierta ilusión política en la que ha cristalizado nuestra metafísica separadora.
Sin dejar de registrar minuciosamente cada uno de los rincones que configuran nuestro cotidiano presente, Votos de riquezase plantea...
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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...
13) 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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Desde algunas corrientes de pensamiento, se considera a la economía como una caja de herramientas a la que acudir para resolver necesidades múltiples contando con recursos escasos. Desde otras, en cambio, se adopta la categoría de economía política como clave para articular teoría y conceptos con el análisis de procesos históricos y sujetos sociales. Este es justamente el camino que sigue Eduardo Basualdo en este libro, en el que toma el concepto...
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Republicans have proven adept at getting middle-class voters to vote against their own pocketbooks. George W. Bush and his advisors promised economic growth, jobs and an ownership societybut delivered a housing finance bubble, Wall Street profits fueled by fraud, a recession, budget deficits, low economic growth, massive job losses and upward transfers of middle-class wealth. In Fools and Knaves, author Howard Green explores both the short-term and...
18) Giants
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A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.
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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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