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Americans have, since our founding, participated in a variety of alternative institutions-self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business to change society. From the town meetings that still serve as our ideal of self-governance, to the sustainable food movement that is changing the way we think about farming the land and feeding our families, these secondary structures have given rise to many of our...
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Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private businessmen and select state officials during a critical period of transition, this book examines Syria's political economy from 1970 to 2005 to explain...
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What is the American Dream? The concept is widely discussed by political candidates and in the popular media, but only vaguely understood. The late Michael Ford, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the American Dream at Xavier University, was uniquely qualified to write this authentic analysis. His book, The American Dream: "Or What's a Heaven For? " was published by Cincinnati Book Publishing in cooperation with Xavier University Center's...
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The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on the Great Recession as a political crisis, one with...
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This is a true story from Maj. Harold Ferguson's personal diary and letters describing his experiences during World War I and his life as a citizen of Los Angeles during the formative years of the 1920s.
Maj. Harold Ferguson was a Stanford graduate lawyer and member of the United States National Guard returning from service in World War I to his home in Los Angeles, a city growing into a thriving metropolis. But Los Angeles was a different city from...
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The New South African Review revives the tradition of critical, analytical scholarship developed by the South African Review in the 1970s and 1980s. Accessible to a wide readership and drawing upon authors from well beyond academia, its objective is to be informative, discursive and, at times, downright provocative. It seeks to provide contemporary comment and engage with current controversies. The first volume in the series, 2010: Development or...
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Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on the state, and political options, giving citizens incentives to perpetuate the political status quo and disincentives to embrace liberal democratic change....
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Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shares a vision for America's future embracing first principles, free markets, and small government. Kirk provides a roadmap on how to return to a free America, with an emphasis on reaching our youth and engaging them in the process. During the 2016 Presidential election cycle, it has become clear that there is growing frustration on the part of many Americans with the general direction of the nation. There has...
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La presente obra, con un formato de manual básico, tiene como objetivo fundamental ser un elemento activo del acompañamiento de todo alumno en las asignaturas en las que se aplique la metodología active learning, en cualquiera de sus variantes, siempre en el marco de la dirección y administración de empresas.
90) Unto This Last
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Originally published in "Cornhill" magazine in 1860, "Unto This Last" is a series of four essays on the politics of economics and capitalism by the prominent English art critic of the Victorian era John Ruskin. While Ruskin was most well-known for his writings on art, he was also an accomplished painter and an influential social philosopher and philanthropist. Considered by Ruskin himself as one of his most important works, the ideas introduced in...
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Woher kommt das Geld? Wieso ist es meist knapp und in Krisen auf einmal schier unbegrenzt verfügbar? Weshalb gibt es die erbitterten Kämpfe zwischen den beiden großen Lagern der Keynesianer und der Neoklassiker? Woher nimmt die Bundesregierung in Zeiten von Corona auf einmal Hunderte Milliarden von Euro? Anschaulich und für ein breites Publikum erklärt Monika Stemmer die Formen der Geldschöpfung, die Rolle des Staates mit seinem Währungsmonopol...
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Die unbekannte Supermacht - ein neuer Partner für den Westen?
An Indien scheiden sich die Geister. Obwohl oder gerade weil kaum jemand im Westen dieses widersprüchliche Land versteht. Zwischen Slums und Prunk, zwischen Yoga und Hightech, zwischen Bollywoodkultur und Kastenwesen ist uns das Land, dessen Bedeutung für die Weltgemeinschaft immer größer wird, ein Rätsel geblieben. Oliver Schulz liefert einen tiefen Einblick in die verschiedenen...
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Utopía y mercado es una antología que busca reflejar los diferentes rostros del pensamiento libertario. De los fundamentos de los liberales libertarios a los clásicos de la izquierda libertaria, pasando por el paleolibertarismo de la década del noventa. De las posiciones de la tradición libertaria en materia de sexualidad, drogas, arte y cultura al libertarismo del siglo XXI, en particular el desarrollo de las criptomonedas y las startups tecnológicas....
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Is it actually possible?...that we might emerge from this pandemic with a peaceful global power switch from those, who have too much to those ,who don't have enough? With billionaires able to decide the fate of nations, private corporations more powerful and less accountable than ever, and political autocrats around the world shaking our confidence in democratic institutions, power resides in all the wrong places. And so, our world is in crisis. In...
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Et si la crise de 2008 n'avait été que l'annonce de chocs sociétaux titanesques ? Le capitalisme anglo-saxon contribue-t-il à créer une société illibérale dans un monde désordonné ? Comment rendre à l'État son autorité sans qu'il devienne autoritaire ou liberticide ? Quel monde nous prépare la numérisation ? Dans nos sociétés de consommation, reste-t-il une place pour l'idéal et le sens du bien commun ?Voici quelques-unes des questions...
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Este libro ofrece una interpretación de las causas por las que Chile entró, desde hace años, en una fase de desarrollo económico y social mediocre. Se argumenta que la conjunción del estancamiento económico, la percepción de abusos por parte de la élite, la globalización y las redes sociales han ido creando un profundo malestar en las personas, y en especial en la clase media emergente. Dicho malestar habría sido una de las principales causas...
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La crisis de la deuda de los ochenta constituyó un parteaguas en las economías y en las políticas económicas de los países de América Latina: marcó el fin del modelo de industrialización liderada por el Estado y el inicio del esquema basado en las exportaciones y las inversiones extranjeras, redefiniendo la forma de inserción de la región en el mundo. Los autores de este libro buscan despejar interrogantes sobre los avances logrados en varios...
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This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying China and a sense of the country's distinctiveness due to its grand size and long history. The moniker Middle Kingdom, a direct translation of the Chinese-language word for China,...
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Este libro no fue escrito para deleitarse en la catástrofe, ni para ser grosero, ni para discutir con puntillosos demográficos académicos. Tampoco fue escrito para alarmar de manera gratuita a la población sin ofrecer esperanza y soluciones concretas, viables y sostenibles en el tiempo, como deben serlo al menos durante un par de generaciones. No.
El propósito es el de mostrar un análisis de las causas y las consecuencias que ponen en peligro...
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Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise. But traditional methods of managing political risk are no longer legitimate or effective.
In “Tectonic Politics”, Nigel Gould-Davies explores the complex, shifting landscape of political risk and how to navigate it. He analyses trends in each form of political risk: the power to destroy, seize, regulate, and tax. He shows how each of these...
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