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In Profit Over People, Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. By examining the contradictions between the democratic and market principles proclaimed by those in power and those actually practiced, Chomsky critiques the tyranny of the few that restricts the public arena and enacts policies that vastly increase private wealth, often with complete...
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"What is a market? To most people it is a shopping center or an abstract space in which stock prices vary minutely. In reality, a market is something much more fundamental to being human, and it affects not just the price of tomatoes but the boundaries of everything we value. Reading the newspapers these days, you could be forgiven for thinking that markets are getting ever more efficient -- and better. But as Tim Sullivan and Ray Fisman argue in...
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"The 21st century has produced two major financial crises and many smaller ones in between. The fallout created chaos and disruption for people at all levels of the global economy. Nomi Prins examines the consequences of the unstable economy that caused what she calls the state of Permanent Distortion; a wedge between a funhouse financial realm that thrives even in times of social and political disorder, and a struggling economic one that does not...
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"American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on competition. Thomas Philippon blames the unchecked efforts of corporate lobbyists. Instead of earning profits by investing and innovating, powerful firms use political pressure to secure their advantages. The result is less efficient markets, leading to higher prices and lower wages"--
6) Competition overdose: how free market mythology transformed us from citizen kings to market servants
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"Legal experts Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke diagnose the symptoms of competion run amock--how market-based solutions increase inequality, kill entrepreneurship, hurt consumers, and destroy healthy industry ecosystems--and provide remedies that will ensure sustainable growth and progress for all"--
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Murray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this book is his most succinct and powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institution that violates all that we hold as honest and moral, and how it operates under a false cover. He shows how the state wrecks freedom, destroys civilization, and threatens all lives and property and social well-being, all under the veneer...
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En los actuales momentos de globalización económica, una de las principales estrategias que pueden adoptar los países del mundo y en particular los países de América Latina para obtener un crecimiento económico sostenible en el largo plazo, es estimular la creación de empresas de base tecnológica basada en la innovación, con el fin de generar encadenamientos productivos extensos y empleos formales. En este sentido, este libro plantea un análisis...
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Se trata de una descripción y revisión crítica de cómo funcionan las organizaciones de nuestro tiempo.
Los dos primeros capítulos están dedicados a delimitar la sociología de las organizaciones y a precisar el contexto de su emergencia.
Los siguientes se orientan al examen de diferentes modelos de organización, desde el burocrático industrial hasta nuevas formas más flexibles y menos formales.
Tal examen se hace desde la óptica de la...
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Have you ever pictured your life as a secret shopper? Do you share my old attitude of 'that's a job for a bored homemaker's pin money' or 'that's all a scam'? Surprise! It's neither, if you know how to play your cards right.
True Secret Shopper Diaries is a tell all book that paints a picture in words of what a secret shopper actually does; where one has to live; what special tools and skills are required; how to make more than pin money shopping;...
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Summary, Analysis and Review of George Akerlof's and et al Phishing for Phools by Instaread Preview: In Phishing for Phools, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain the economics of fraud by incorporating fraudulent and unfair transactions into free-market economic models. Conventional economic models that presuppose a free market often assume that customers make decisions based on their long-term interests. They posit that the market moves toward...
14) Ways to be Rich
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This little book should be used as a template for those who just have to break out and become their own master.
It is in fact a procedural manual for those starting out with no money, but with the hope and determination that will lead them to a richer, happier life through financial security.
It gives a blow by blow account of how this was done by one couple, and how this can be emulated by others.
It supplies dates and the sums involved to demonstrate...
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With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.
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Pasamos gran parte de nuestra vida en el trabajo y es importante no solo que aprendamos a sentirnos felices en él sino realizados. Debemos sentir que progresamos, que estamos en el sitio correcto, que nos valoran, que aportamos y que, llegado el tiempo, podremos dejar un legado cuando nuestra vida laboral haya concluido.
Pero la realidad, con frecuencia, no se ajusta a estas expectativas. ¿Por qué? Porque, en muchos casos, no sabemos cómo solicitar...
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Also known as "the free market economy" or " free enterprises", capitalism represents and economic system which encompasses factories, production lines, shipping agencies and many other work fields where several people can own their private practices while employing others. Even the world "capital" is interconnected with all the different types of resources, such as human and material resources.
This book will present the reader with a brief history...
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Our nation was, founded on basic principles of capitalism, independence and most importantly, democracy (one person, one vote). But in the last forty years (since President Ronald Reagan), we have gradually seen our democratic form of government erode; replaced by a cabal of huge moneyed corporations, special interest groups, lobbyists and the ultra-wealthy, all of them free to spend whatever it takes to get our elected officials to do their bidding....
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Are the rich bad for society? The author of this book, a successful Canadian entrepreneur who made his fortune and created 3000 jobs, has written a manifesto celebrating the achievements of people who have earned their wealth. He says that many of the critics are overlooking one crucial thing: We need business people to build companies and generate wealth to keep the economy going. That's the only way to generate the wealth that pays for government...
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In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names;...
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