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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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First published in 1884, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State" is the groundbreaking treatise on the history of the nuclear family unit by Friedrich Engels. Largely based on notes written by Karl Marx found by Engels after his death, the treatise examines the findings in American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan's book "Ancient Society", which posits that human progress may be divided into three stages: savagery, then barbarism,...
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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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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,...
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In the 1990s, the “knowledge economy” was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization – an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing levels of social exclusion and widening regional inequality. The shift to knowledge-driven growth appeared to offer policymakers a way of harnessing technological progress and global economic integration...
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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.
In this timely...
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In the book, the author presents his views against global changes in different spheres of society, concretizing their real influence upon politics and philosophy. In his opinion, there are no enough serious political and philosophic explanations of the developments and prognoses for the nearest future. The humanitarian component of science is far behind the rates of the rapidly changing world for different reasons, including objective ones. Maybe...
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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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Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slide.
America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? The simple answer, that no in charge one wants to publicly acknowledge: because things are still pretty great for the people who run America....
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Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing...
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Dean Baker, co director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country's top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs, homes, and the life savings of tens of millions of people. He quashes dire warnings of looming rampant inflation and spiraling debt with solid...
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Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action.
Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of carbon energy. Edited by William Carroll, this rigorous...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The story of Beacon Island is a tale of two islands. On October 28, 1628, a 160-foot-long spice ship called the Batavia set sail from the Netherlands. The trading vessel was part of a fleet owned by the Dutch East India Company, a corporate empire that dominated global trade.
#2 When the ship broke apart, Cornelisz was one of the few who survived. He eventually made...
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Godfrey Magomani Baloyi is an Author, Public Speaker and Manager and Industrial Leader with a proven track record. His qualifications include a BSc degree and an MBA. His published works include Six and a half churches we must avoid ISBN: 978-0-620-53587-8 published independently in South Africa in 2012. Magomani Baloyi is a factual and realistic philanthropist working together with a number of non- governmental organisations in the fight against...
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A few corrections to these pieces have been made. For the most part I have left them as they were sent out. Some or many of these pieces, it has been suggested to me, have been posted on a bulletin board at the Harvard Law School. Whether or not anyone pays any attention to them, I cannot say. Most have been sent to various members of the Harvard, Yale and other university faculty. There has been little or no direct feedback from these recipients,...
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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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"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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We Are the 99%; The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations- something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. But the movement goes far beyond this critique. This Changes Everything shows how the movement is shifting the way people view themselves and the world, the kind of society they believe is possible, and their own involvement in creating...
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El libro realiza una minuciosa descripción de las bases de la economía política creada por Marx, sus fundamentos filosóficos, sus objetivos, su metodología, y el desenvolvimiento de sus ideas a partir de la teoría del valor-trabajo.
Se analizan el rol que le asigna al capitalismo en el pleno desarrollo de las potencialidades productivas de la sociedad, la eventual decadencia de dicho rol y sus predicciones sobre el desarrollo ulterior de dicha...
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