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Explains the failure-on both sides of the aisle-of the War on Poverty
The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods. America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities that have traditionally been havens for the homeless are arresting, harassing, and expelling their street people.
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¿Qué es el dinero, de dónde viene, quién lo controla?
El dinero mueve el mundo, pero no sabemos bien qué es o cómo se crea. De hecho, ignoramos quién maneja su producción o a qué intereses sirve. Ni el dinero es un medio neutral de intercambio ni los bancos son unos simples intermediarios entre los ahorradores y los que piden préstamos.
Este libro lúcido y militante desvela el misterio explicando de forma clara en qué consiste el invento...
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License to Loot is a full of fire and fury look at America's problems and how we begin to solve them. It unapologetically examines illegal immigration, opioid misuse, controversial vaccinations, and ethnic prejudice.
This book is about helping low-waged employed folks do their best to get off government handouts, and encouraging able-bodied job refusers to stop viewing Uncle Sam as their piggy banks, not caring or not aware of their nation's...
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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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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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Perú: desarrollo, naturaleza y urgencias se divide en dos partes. La primera estudia los fenómenos geológicos, atmosféricos e hidrológicos de la naturaleza, y su observación permanente y mejorada por parte de las poblaciones humanas, con el objetivo de aproximar al lector a la idea fundamental del desarrollo; esto es, la creación de condiciones, instituciones e infraestructura que permitan resolver problemas reales con carácter definitivo...
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The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done little to assuage economic anxieties. Conditions like these seem designed to produce a generation-defining intervention to balance the economic scales and enhance opportunities for those at the middle and...
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From the author of Popular Economics comes a surprisingly sunny projection of America's future job market. Forget the doomsday predictions of sour-faced nostalgists who say automization and globalization will take away your dream job. The job market is only going to get better and better, according to economist John Tamny, who argues in The End of Work that the greatest gift of prosperity, beyond freedom from painful want, is the existence of work...
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In the spring of 2012, an unlikely transformational figure inadvertently breaches the perimeter of U.S. politics. Unencumbered by political ambition and devoid of greed or lust for power, Jonathon Braxton reluctantly enters the arena. Fueled solely by a desire to advocate for more medical research funding to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes afflicting his son, Braxton agrees to speak at the 2012 Republican National Convention courtesy of two influential...
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When Bush came to office in 2001, the 10-year budget balance was officially projected to be at a surplus of $5.6 trillion. But after three big tax cuts, the bursting of the stock-market bubble, and the devastating effects of 9/11on the economy, the surplus has evaporated, and the deficit is expected to grow to $ 5-trillion over the next decade. The domestic deficit is only the half of it. Given our $500 billion trade deficit and our anemic savings...
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Drive through a low-income neighborhood and you're likely to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in "alternative financial services" directed at the poor and those with credit problems. Howard Karger describes this world as an economic Wild West, where just about any financial scheme that's not patently illegal is tolerated.
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Este libro analiza el proceso de descentralización en el Perú, iniciado en 2003, en la producción, la distribución, el empleo, el bienestar y el desarrollo humano con el fin de verificar si ha contribuido a la solución de los tres problemas estructurales en las regiones: la débil integración, la divergencia en el crecimiento y las desigualdades entre regiones y dentro de ellas. En consecuencia, el autor evalúa no solo los resultados de las...
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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...
16) DIME libertad
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El título de este libro es el acrónimo formado por los principales instrumentos de poder en la ciencia de la estrategia aplicada al mundo actual. Así lo refiere el autor en los primeros párrafos de su obra. Pero hay mucho más.
En primer lugar, este libro tiene cuatro (¡sí, 4!) prologuistas que, desde las múltiples aristas de DIME (Diplomacia—Información—Milicia—Economía) nos adelantan que tenemos en nuestras manos un compendio de anécdotas...
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El neoliberalismo no está funcionando. A lo largo de las últimas décadas, las políticas económicas neoliberales han arrastrado a millones de personas a la pobreza y a otras muchas a trabajos precarios y mal pagados. Entretanto, la izquierda se mantiene atrapada en una serie de prácticas que rara vez ofrecen un respiro y menos aún una solución a la crisis. Este libro propone, finalmente, una alternativa. "Inventar el futuro" es un audaz manifiesto...
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¿Es posible promover un modelo de desarrollo económico exitoso? Este libro intenta aproximarse a esta interrogante para buscar un modelo que resuelva los problemas concretos en cada país, pues no existen fórmulas únicas. La propuesta nacida del Consenso de Washington requiere un análisis que entienda sus características y los mecanismos de exportación del neoliberalismo -programas de ajuste estructural y reformas institucionales- para apreciar...
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This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidinal-the site of unconscious desire-plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive role in global political economy. Consumption, for example, is not simply a way of satisfying a material or biological need but a doomed attempt at soothing our deeply held sense of loss; and capital is not just a means to material growth and...
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We now know the answers to helping long time welfare recipients become self-sufficient, and how to pry loose the dead hand of human service bureaucracies.
"I enjoy coming to work and learning different things...I really like my kids to know I work...This should have happened 10 years ago...I believe many of my friends wouldn't do no drugs if they had a chance for a real job." - Rebecca, a woman from Chicago's notorious housing projects, high school...
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