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The Lilliput Press
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[1992]
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1 online resource (383 pages)
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English
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"Is economic growth improving our lives? In 1992, when the first edition of The Growth Illusion appeared, most people had little doubt that the answer was 'Yes'. Today, however, the climate of opinion has changed and there is widespread acceptance that, while growth might be necessary to generate jobs, the development path we are following isn't making life better for ourselves or our children. This new, revised edition of The Growth Illusion explains...
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For decades the liberal class was a defense against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class -- the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions -- have collapsed. In its absence, the poor, the working class, and even the middle class no longer have a champion.
In this searing polemic Chris Hedges indicts liberal institutions, including his former employer, the New York...
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In On The Wealth of Nations, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don't have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes-including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page "digression concerning the variations...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxviii, 908 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The economic historian and award-winning author of Freaks of Fortune traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era through the recession of 2008, citing the political discord that has brought the economy to another major turning point.
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How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive...richly detailed and erudite."—Financial Times
There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest...
There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest...
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Abbott Press
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2014.
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xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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John Lofgren, an intellectual patriot, explains how the liberal movement and faux conservatives are perverting the entire fiscal system in this powerful narrative that uncovers startling parallels between the past and present. He traces the frightening trajectory of U. S. fiscal policy beginning with the 1840s Erie Canal financing. By providing a platform for proposing solutions to the corruption and misguided views rampant in government, the author...
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Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts — from recessions, war, changing fortunes within the iconic steel and coal industries, the rise and decline of manufacturing, as well as the gradual rise to dominance of the service sector — the changes were as dramatic as was the intensity of attempts to deal with their consequences. Wales was a laboratory...
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Parler de croissance conomique pour rduire la pauvret dans laquelle Hati se trouve condamne parait inadquat aux nouvelles thories avances en macroconomie. Lconomie hatienne est marque par sa faible capacit exporter, une grande demande dimportations incluant mme les produits agricoles qui jadis fi rent la renomme de cette ile caribenne. Durant les dernires dcennies, le revenu national est devenu fonction des dons de la charit internationale et des...
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In the 20th century, privatization and market capitalism have reconstructed Eastern Europe and lifted 800 million people - in China, Brazil, and India - out of poverty. In Economics Does Not Lie, noted French journalist Guy Sorman reveals that behind this unprecedented growth is not only the collapse of state socialism but also a scientific revolution in economics - one that is as of yet dimly understood by the public but increasingly embraced by...
11) La economía de las desigualdades: Cómo implementar una redistribución justa y eficaz de la riqueza
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El aumento de las desigualdades generadas por un capitalismo ávido es el gran tema de este libro. ¿Por qué un grupo de ricos herederos debería disponer de unos ingresos vedados a los que sólo cuentan con su fuerza de trabajo y sus talentos? Thomas Piketty está sacudiendo con sus propuestas el mundo del análisis y el pensamiento económico y social.
A partir de una base de datos monumental y en constante actualización, y tomando distancia de...
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Summary of Makers and Takers by Rana Foroohar | Includes Analysis Preview: Rana Foroohar's Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business argues that finance has become an increasingly dominant force in controlling the organization of the US economy. This has weakened American business and created growing inequality. The argument against the growing power of finance capital is not an argument against capitalism itself. Rather,...
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Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The society was created by Friedrich Hayek as a forum for leading economists and intellectuals to discuss and debate classical liberal values in the face of a rapidly changing world and political trends toward socialism. Bruce Caldwell, a major scholar of Hayek, provides...
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This muckraking classic, which eventually led to regulation of the Standard Oil Company, was the inaugural work for crusading journalists whose mission was to expose corruption and abuse during the early 20th century. The history combined descriptions of John D. Rockefeller's business practices with his personal characteristics, creating an image of a cunning and ruthless person.
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Este ensayo constituye un intento de entender cómo se fue formando la economía de la Nueva Granada bajo unas relaciones sociales caracterizadas por la servidumbre y el esclavismo. Encuentra, sin embargo, que no se desarrolló un sistema político feudal, lo cual fue impedido por la política de la Corona española. Se trata en especial de realzar el legado institucional que deja España, que incluye los sistemas político, legal y religioso. Se...
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La expansión de la frontera agropecuaria y la inversión de infraestructura en viviendas, caminos y presas a lo largo de toda la Cuenca del Río Pilcomayo, caracterizan las trayectorias recientes de los proyectos de desarrollo implementados en la región. La aceleración y reconfiguración de los procesos de apropiación y valorización en esta formación social de fronteras han promovido niveles de diferenciación económico-sociales inexistentes...
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El libro fundamental de José Manuel Naredo, la voz más prestigiosa de la economía ecológica en este país. Una visión de la ciencia económica que trasciende la pura técnica de relaciones entre objetos a base de variables cuantitativas para abrirla a las decisiones humanas inspiradas en valores sociales y moldeadas por redes institucionales.
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Paul W. Drake and Mathew D. McCubbins are Professors of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Drake is the author of Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932-52; The Money Doctor in the Andes; and Labor Movements and Dictatorships. McCubbins is coauthor of The Democratic Dilemma (with Arthur Lupia); The Logic of Delegation (with D. Roderick Kiewiet); and Legislative Leviathan (with Gary W. Cox).
Why would sovereigns ever grant...
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Horst Siebert is President Emeritus of the Kiel Institute for World Economics, Steven Muller Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and Jelle Zijlstra Professorial Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He previously served as a member of the German government's Council of Economic Advisors for twelve years. He is the author of The World Economy, Economics of the Environment, and the author or editor of numerous other...
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D. P. O'Brien, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Durham, is the author or editor of many books, including J. R. McCulloch and Thomas Joplin and Classical Macroeconomics.
The Classical Economists Revisited conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s. D. P. O'Brien thoroughly...
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