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Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.S. trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. Opening America's Market offers a bold critique of U.S. trade policies over the last sixty years, placing them within a historical perspective. Eckes reconsiders trade policy issues and events from Benjamin Franklin to Bill Clinton, attributing growing political unrest...
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A partir de diversos enfoques de investigación y de una encuesta realizada a cerca de 700 líderes de la coalición Chile Vamos, este libro es una formidable exploración al carácter y comportamiento de los partidos de derecha chilenos: la Unión Demócrata Independiente, Renovación Nacional, Evópoli y el Partido Regionalista Independiente. La organización y financiamiento de los partidos, las distintas sensibilidades que conviven en ellos, la...
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This Broadside will look at the changes that can be made to halt the full implementation of the law over the next few years, including repealing parts of the act that are unpopular with members of both parties. These parts are the medical device tax, IPAB, the new 3.8 percent tax on unearned income, to name a few. Also covered will be potential reforms to Medicare and Medicaid, two major entitlement programs that, if not reformed to ensure sustainability...
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Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths and reveals how excessive government regulation and the minimum-wage law have imposed incalculable harm on the most disadvantaged members of our society....
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We have experienced a shift in American character: we've become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts on Wall Street to the alarming increases in personal default and dependency, from questionable tax exemptions to enormous pension, healthcare, and other entitlement costs, the new moocher culture cuts across lines of class, race, and private and...
146) La maison brûle
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La maison brûle. De menace lointaine, la crise du climat est devenue une urgence absolue. Pourquoi n'agit-on pas? Que faut-il faire pour éteindre le feu une fois pour toutes?
Naomi Klein défend depuis longtemps le projet d'un New Deal vert, une profonde transformation de l'économie pour combattre de front les bouleversements climatiques et les inégalités sociales. À l'heure o montent les eaux et la haine, Klein démontre que seul un programme...
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Desde la conformación del Estado nacional a fines del siglo XIX hasta las noticias de ayer, la élite empresarial ha sido un actor central con un poder de veto determinante en la economía argentina. Por eso, analizar la cúpula de las grandes empresas en distintos momentos históricos es una perspectiva reveladora que ayuda a comprender las dificultades recurrentes del país para reducir sus niveles de dependencia y desigualdad.
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This book explores the way that neoliberal policies have formed the basis of political transformation in Poland, championed by both post-communist and post-Solidarity governments.
Poland was central to the historic changes that took place across Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. It is the largest economy in the region, and was at the forefront of opposition to communism. Since then, neoliberal policies have controlled the country.
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«Les libéraux n'aiment pas les femmes.» Voilà une proposition qui fait sourciller : les libéraux disputeraient donc aux conservateurs l'éminent privilège de s'attaquer aux droits et libertés des femmes ? C'est là le dur constat de ce petit livre. En s'en prenant à la santé publique, à l'éducation, aux garderies et aux groupes communautaires, les politiques d'austérité du gouvernement Couillard frappent les femmes plus durement que quiconque.
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El análisis económico de los treinta años comprendidos entre el retorno de la democracia y el 2019 ofrece claves para entender el turbulento Chile actual. Fue un período de logros sociales, pero también de desafíos inconclusos. Décadas de prosperidad y construcción de instituciones no fueron suficientes para catapultar a la nación más rica de América Latina al desarrollo. Mientras caía la pobreza y mejoraba la distribución de ingresos,...
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Con un rico y variado trabajo de archivos, donde caben desde libros de teoría y artículos de prensa hasta entrevistas y correspondencia privada, Juan Gabriel Valdés realiza una formidable disección del neoliberalismo. Se remonta a los años cincuenta, cuando un pequeño grupo de economistas partió a la Universidad de Chicago y, tras varios años confinado en la academia, supo aprovechar la oportunidad que significó la dictadura militar para...
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Enough of the imbalance that is causing the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right and paralysis in the political center. We require an unprecedented form of radical renewal. In this book Henry Mintzberg offers a new understanding of the root of our current crisis and a strategy for restoring the balance so vital to the survival of our progeny...
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In America's early days, most immigrants entered America through New York. For many, New York was synonymous with America and the American dream itself-a beacon of hope for the rest of the world. Now, for the first time ever, people are fleeing New York by the millions. Plagued by high taxes, big government, excessive regulations, and other obstacles to liberty, there are few reasons for one to want to remain in the state under Governor Andrew Cuomo's...
154) May Justice Be Done
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2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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By any standard Argentina was a very rich country until the 1970s, with competitive industries, modern agriculture, and a prosperous middle class. By 2001, 21 out of 36 million people were living below the poverty level, and formerly eradicated diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy reemerged. May Justice Be Done goes into the streets of Argentina, tracing the roots of the crisis in scholarly detail, back to the irresponsible lending policies of...
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One of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
Families today are
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The Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?
In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge...
In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge...
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The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets....
158) On Inequality
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"Harry G. Frankfurt, 2017 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" Harry G. Frankfurt (1929–2023) was professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books include the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, The Reasons of Love, and Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen (all Princeton).
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit,...
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"El libre mercado se encuentra íntimamente ligado al proteccionismo. Propone que el Estado se inmiscuya lo más mínimamente posible en los hechos económicos, y que sea el propio mercado el que equilibre la oferta y la demanda. El proteccionismo es una injerencia manifiesta en este sentido por parte del Estado al realizar disposiciones de medidas coercitivas para inferir al mercado acciones que distorsionan esa oferta y demanda".
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Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalised artists, the 'dark matter' of the art world, are essential to the survival of the mainstream and that they frequently organize in opposition to it.
Gregory Sholette, a politically engaged artist, argues that imagination and creativity in the art world originate...
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