"Three of the nation's top scholars, known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America, turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there....

"America was once the world's dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer, humanoid robots, radical life extension, and space colonies. (Also, of course, flying cars.) Science fiction would become fact. But as we moved into the late 20th century, we grew cautious,...

Rebound takes the currently unthinkable view that the economy will bounce back faster and stronger from the downturn than most economists expect. Noted Labor economist Stephen J. Rose amasses data on the economic performance of America over the last 30 years to debunk myths about declining middle class incomes, burger-flipping jobs and global competition. He also describes the evolution of the financial crisis and mortgage lending implosion under...

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was professor of economics at Harvard University and served as U.S. ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He wrote more than fifty books, including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State (Princeton). The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of...

El análisis de las políticas económicas desde la organización institucional del país hasta 2019, con especial énfasis en los últimos setenta años, es el propósito de este libro. En los diferentes capítulos se recorre la Argentina integrada a la división internacional del trabajo en la primera parte del siglo XX, el impacto de la crisis de 1930 en las políticas económicas de la época, las políticas de distribución del ingreso del peronismo...

It's a global pandemic and the economy is, in freefall. What do I do now?' Right now, millions of people around the world are either unemployed, underemployed or worried about job security. Whether you have lost your job, are concerned you will, never had one in the first place or are dreaming of more career flexibility and the ability to reach your true potential, this book is for you. You'll learn: • How to survive the pain of job loss and regain...

GLOBAL LGBT+ EQUALITY - SLOVAKIA'S STORY In his groundbreaking book GaYme Changer: How the LGBT+ community and their allies are changing the global community, Jens Schadendorf described a revolution: in less than a decade, gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer people in the West and some other parts of the world broke free from their long history of marginalization, stigmatization, and criminalization to become the ultimate champions of...

"The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless -- and how we can fight back-from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread. Over the past two generations, U.S. leaders deregulated big business on the faith that it would yield a better economy and a freer society. But the opposite happened. Americans lost stable, well-paying jobs, Wall Street dominated...

In The New Golden Age, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to economic prosperity-and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made books like The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism international bestsellers, Batra takes on falling minimum wages, corporate scandals, rocketing oil prices, and many of the other crises facing the world economy. He also offers an expansive, optimistic...

Desde principios del siglo XX, el desarrollo de la economía capitalista acentuó cada vez más las tensiones sociales e impulsó una fuerte expansión de las economías centrales sobre las periféricas y una competencia vertiginosa por acceder a nuevos mercados. La consolidación de estas economías centrales en el marco de una economía mundial occidental ha dado lugar a una estructura de poder que explica la evolución de los conflictos sociales...