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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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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Political Economy for Beginners is a timeless introduction to the Classical Political Economy of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. The book was so well regarded that it broke the record for the number of editions published of an elementary textbook. In this important work, Fawcett explains the theory of production, exchange, and distribution of wealth....
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"What Serbs Must Do to Survive", second edition, is the book written by Djordje Teofilovic. It outlines strategies Serbia and Serbs must adopt in order to survive and thrive. The book offers unique approach to public policy and it details impact of these policies on society and crucial ministries in the Serbian government.
The pivotal concept of the book is regulation that limits public service to 8 years in the lifetime for most of professions....
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The government should be a government of people, not money. The Occupy Wall Street movement senses this but lacks focus. This book provides that focus.
The government has roles to play in the safety, conflict resolution, and pooling resources. The roles that the government has to play require strict adherence to the rules. There can be no forgiveness.
Religion asks for perfection. To ask for the impossible guarantees failure. The role religion...
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Most commonly accepted economic "facts" are wrong. Here's the unvarnished, politically incorrect truth. The liberal media and propagandists masquerading as educators have filled the world-and deformed public policy-with politically correct errors about capitalism and economics in general. In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Capitalism, myth-busting professor Robert P. Murphy, a scholar and frequent speaker at the Ludwig von Mises Institute,...
7) 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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With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort of capitalist nation to become. In Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, Dorothee Bohle and Béla Geskovits trace the form that capitalism took in...
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Karl Marx is one of the most influential social theorists and political philosophers of the 19th century. His hugely significant works "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" fundamentally changed the way the world viewed economy and politics. His groundbreaking theory that much of a society's conflict is based on an economic imbalance between the wealthy ruling class, the bourgeoisie, who control the means of production, and the working class,...
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Los GuíaBurros son manuales básicos para aprender a utilizar una herramienta, realizar una actividad o adquirir un conocimiento determinado de manera sencilla y fácil.
GuíaBurros Poder y pobreza, economía desde el corazón. Cada vez es más palmaria la brecha que existe entre personas que tienen una riqueza estratosférica y las personas cuya renta y riqueza es bastante exigua. Esto hace que el poder detentado sea aún más fuerte en manos de...
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The relative effectiveness of various institutions, such as the market or government, is based on the ability for individuals to access and use dispersed knowledge in society and the incentives that steer their actions. Market process theory emphasizes the effectiveness of the price system to consolidate and transmit knowledge in the marketplace.
Together this framework provides new insights on the capability of individuals to cooperate and improve...
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Le phénomène est important: depuis 2008 — et encore davantage avec l'avènement de la crise sanitaire —, les gouvernements interviennent de plus en plus dans l'économie. Ce n'est pas qu'ils avaient cessé de le faire, c'est simplement qu'ils intensifient leur action. En Écosse et au Québec, deux nations subétatiques, ces investissements sont plus importants qu'ailleurs et diffèrent en cela des modèles libéraux britannique et canadien...
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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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El desempeño de la economía argentina es un enigma hasta para los más avezados analistas. Hacia 1913, el país integraba el pequeño grupo de naciones que contaban con un elevado ingreso per cápita, al finalizar el siglo, ocupaba ya un lugar muy secundario. Aunque la primera década del nuevo milenio pareció augurar el inicio de un ciclo de crecimiento sostenido, a partir de 2012 la Argentina entró en un nuevo período de estancamiento e inflación....
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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...
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In "The Future of Agriculture," the author delves into the multifaceted repercussions of global warming on the agricultural landscape. Through rigorous research, field studies, and predictive models, this compelling work paints a picture of a world where the changing climate has upended traditional farming paradigms and where new opportunities and challenges await farmers, policymakers, and consumers alike.The author begins with a comprehensive overview...
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Este libro analiza las consecuencias del estilo de crecimiento peruano desde la década de 1990 y sus diferencias con lo que ocurrió entre 1950 y 1980.
En primer lugar, las reformas y políticas del periodo neoliberal, 1990-2020, consolidaron una estructura productiva primario-exportadora y ocasionaron una desindustrialización prematura. La industria manufacturera perdió capacidad de generación de empleo y redujo su participación en la generación...
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Over the past thirty years, we've seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. Here, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging data to show exactly what the 99/1 percent divide means in the real world and the damage it causes to individuals, businesses, and the earth. Most important, he answers the burning question, what can be done about it? He offers a common-sense guide to...
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