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"The term 'home economics' may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople that were otherwise foreclosed. In [this book], Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's...
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English
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and individual freedom? A prime mover of "market fundamentalism"? An apologist for human selfishness? Or something else entirely?
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Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, with text from Twenty-two Cents and additional sidebars"--
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxii, 628 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate three-page "biographical fantasy" of her great friend, John Maynard Keynes, attempting to encompass no less than 25 themes, which she jotted down at its opening: "Politics. Art. Dancing. Letters. Economics. Youth. The Future. Glands. Genealogies. Atlantis. Mortality. Religion. Cambridge. Eton. The Drama. Society. Truth. Pigs. Sussex. The History of England. America. Optimism. Stammer....
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"In Maverick, Jason Riley explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential and trenchant Black social critics and conservative intellectuals alive today. Riley offers an introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to politics, economics, and education. Riley considers Sowell's own history alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking"--
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Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Conventional economic theory holds that when individual users share a common resource, such as fishing waters, pastures, the atmosphere, or the office refrigerator, each will act independently in his or her own self-interest, using the resource to depletion or ruin. The two options for avoiding are to privatize the resource or impose government regulations, famously argued by Garrett Hardin in his 1968 essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons." Elinor...
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