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John R. Talbott's ingenious new book, The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street, exposes the lies and then exposes us to the truth of what it will take to rebuild our economy. As a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Talbott knows firsthand how the financial system operates and what it will take to fix it. As the "oracle" who predicted the housing crisis in his 2003 book, The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, warned of a global banking crisis in...
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Stephen Krasner's assumption of a distinction between state and society is the root of his argument for the superiority of a statist interpretation of American foreign policy. Here he challenges the two dominant and rival interpretations of the relationship between state and society: interest group liberalism and Marxism. He contends that the state is an autonomous entity acting on behalf of the national interest, and that state behavior cannot be...
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Hezbollah provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial and misunderstood Lebanese party. Where previous books have focused on aspects of the party's identity, the military question or its religious discourse, here Joseph Daher presents an alternative perspective, built upon political economy.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and dozens of interviews, as well as new archival and other primary sources, Daher's analysis confidently...
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"We're becoming like Europe." This expression captures many Americans' sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession's onset in 2008: that an economy once characterized by commitments to economic liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal responsibility has drifted in a distinctly "European" direction. Americans see, across the Atlantic, European economies faltering under enormous debt; overburdened...
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Amid urgent debates around the function of welfare in the post-industrial 21st Century, and how we pay for it, David Byrne and Sally Ruane deploy the concepts and analytical tools of Marxist political economy to better understand recent developments, and the possibilities they present for social change.
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La forma de encarar un problema público ha tenido como referentes el reduccionismo o el análisis como proceso de separación o división que privilegia el fragmentar para conocer. La complejidad, por el contrario, es un llamado a la síntesis o integración de conocimientos. Entremedio, se han desarrollado numerosas perspectivas dedicadas a analizar el diseño, la implementación y la evaluación de la política pública. El presente texto es un...
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Obviously the World is in a financial instability and the macroeconomic management of some countries appears inappropriate. This seems to be the continuation of the subprime crisis (crisis of mortgages at risk) which began in 2007 in the USA. Many solutions have been tried in U.K, first by Mr. Gordon Brown:
1 – Nationalization (Northern...
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Why has prosperity for all been an elusive dream? Because we have failed to build great societies and nations! For 7,000 years leaders of our societies have used the doctrine of Conquer and Oppress to rule our nations. This book will describe for you a new doctrine that Brian Sear calls Compete and Empower. This doctrine is based on overcoming the pitiful performances of world leaders that have caused 5.5 billion of the world's population of 6.8 billion...
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Kenneth A. Oye is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the editor of Cooperation under Anarchy (Princeton) and coeditor of Eagle in a New World: American Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era (HarperCollins).
Did bilateral and regional bargaining choke off international commerce and finance in the 1930s and prolong the Great Depression?...
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It is not in the US interest to adopt tax and regulatory policies that would discourage global engagement by US multinational corporations (MNCs). Research presented in this book shows that the expansion of foreign affiliates of US MNCs is positively associated with more production, greater employment, higher exports, and more research and development (R&D) in the United States. These findings suggest that less investment abroad by US firms would...
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De los planteamientos de la teoría de la complejidad, aprendemos que los ejercicios de la gestión y las políticas públicas deben reconocer y promover, a través de mejores diseños, la capacidad de autodirección de los agentes y las organizaciones, superando la tradicional práctica de predefinir desde la cúspide y desde el centro predeterminadas metas a través de predefinidas rutas. No menos trascendental es reconocer en toda intervención...
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During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves. Corporate Europe goes beyond the divisions between nation-states, focusing instead on the division between the corporate elite and the peoples of Europe.
David Cronin spent a year investigating the privileged access that big business enjoys in Brussels. In this book, he reveals...
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Many cities have struggled with the decline of key industries, from Philadelphia's shipyards to New York's textile industry, but Detroit-which is now in bankruptcy-is both a victim of the decline of the Michigan automobile industry and a cause of it. A city with a history of civil disorder-it is the only American city occupied on three separate occasions by federal troops-its poisonous blend of race-based politics and union domination has left it...
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Throughout our history Americans have embraced the myth that our national debt is immoral and destructive.This deeply rooted belief goes back to our Founding Fathers: Jefferson excoriated debt as "the greatest of dangers to be feared." Andrew Jackson demonized debt as "a national curse." Current political leaders continue to endorse this negative view of our national debt. Obama said that incurring debt was "irresponsible" and "unpatriotic." John...
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¿Cómo se puede explicar la fascinación que muchos sintieron con el macrismo? ¿Cuándo te diste cuenta de que eras peronista? ¿Te agarraste a piñas por política? ¿Hay que mantener la relación con el Fondo Monetario? ¿Cuánto de la política económica de Macri fue planeado y cuánto fue un error? ¿Cómo se aborda la cuestión de la corrupción? ¿No hizo mal el kirchnerismo en pelearse con el campo? ¿Qué nivel de reforma política requieren...
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"Winner of the 2005 Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" Thomas Bernauer is Professor of Political Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and a widely published author on international economic and environmental issues.
Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between...
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This book introduces and analyzes a new and more predictable bankruptcy process designed specifically for large financial institutions-Chapter 14-to achieve greater financial stability and reduce the likelihood of bailouts. The contributors identify and compare the major differences in the Dodd-Frank Title II and the proposed new procedures and outline the reasons why Chapter 14 would be more effective in preventing both financial crises and bailouts....
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Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers. In this provocative Broadside, E. J. McMahon explains how the policies of the Obama administration have shielded most state and local government employees from the worst effects of the Great Recession. President...
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STUNG BY THE ECONOMIC CRISIS? CINDERELLA'S HOUSEWORK TELLS HOW SECURE, HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL FAMILIES CAN SAVE OUR ECONOMY. All that is precious and treasured is created by mothers, families, and households. And the real treasure is the creativity of the human mind to solve human problems and develop human ideas into wealth that will improve the condition of all people and the Earth.
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In 1977, Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote Your Erroneous Zones, a book focused on how negative thoughts are created and manifested in destructive behaviors. Your Erroneous Zones also offered advice for ridding its readers of the emotional baggage they'd been carrying around. Dyer struck a cord. The book spent 64 weeks on the NY Times Bestseller list and has sold more than 35 million copies. Erroneous Drones by David Foran focuses on America's biggest economic...
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