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A leading economist challenges dominant theories on global inequality, discussing why wealth persistently remains in the hands of a few and how technological development threatens to create a scarcity of unskilled jobs that will lead to even greater inequality.
"In his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Pikkety argued that the contemporary phenomenon of rising inequality across the globe is a function of the inheritance of...
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"We are living in a strange world -- Salmon calls it "the New Not Normal." The Phoenix Economy explores the ramifications of the pandemic years, many of which are surprisingly positive. In doing so, Salmon makes sense of one of the most disorienting and devastating events of our lifetimes. He examines the critical aspects of our lives that have been transformed in three parts: Time and Space, Mind and Body, and Business and Pleasure. Salmon's keen...
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Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coauthor, with Jerome Karabel, of the award-winning study The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985.
Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence...
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Paul Osterman is Professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market and Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy. He has cowritten and edited several other books and written numerous articles on topics such as labor market policy, job training programs, economic development, anti-poverty programs, and the organization...
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In early 2002, the investment community is in a state of suspended animation. Share prices plummet as the "technology bubble" bursts, and corporate scandals fill every headline. Equities and debt become toxic with the fall of Enron, Global Crossings, WorldCom, Adelphia, and other high-flying corporate giants. Moving quickly, the Federal Reserve lowers key interest rates. Wary investors sit on cash and seek direction. A small glimmer of opportunity...
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"Winner of the 1992 Best Book Award of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association"
Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient...
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"Una economía que fue aplicada" es una monografía que pretende explicar a través de una aproximación histórica la situación económica española en la que nos encontramos. Se realiza un repaso sobre las fases por las que ha pasado, desde el final de la Guerra Civil hasta la primera etapa de España como miembro de pleno derecho en la Comunidad Europea. Se divide en cuatro partes, la primera abarca desde el final de la Guerra Civil española...
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A vital and varied survey of economic theory in the pre-modern era, this well-chosen collection includes extracts from the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Antonio Serra, David Hume, and twelve other extraordinary thinkers. Their writings in this volume illustrate the ways in which great thinkers of the past sought to argue for and explain the moral, ethical, monetary, and political dimensions of trade and exchange. Translated and annotated by...
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The final work of the great sociologist, economist, and political scientist starts with descriptions and analyses of the agrarian systems, and then explores manorial system, guilds, and early capitalism, organization of industry and mining, development of commerce, technical requisites for transporting goods, banking systems, evolution of capitalism and capitalistic spirit.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Leviathan is back. The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has radically expanded its power - through bailouts, "stimulus" packages, a trillion-dollar health-care plan, "jobs bills," massive expansions of the money supply, and much more. But such interventionism did not suddenly materialize with the recent economic collapse. The dangerous trends of government growth, debt increases, encroachments on individual liberty,...
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Las respuestas de esta moderna ciencia social a las grandes preguntas sobre la actividad económica en la sociedad. Los conceptos básicos y su aplicación práctica, la microeconomía y la macroeconomía, la economía aplicada y la política económica, las escuelas económicas y las relaciones entre la economía y otras ramas del saber.
¿Saber de economía te saca de pobre? ¿Es la economía una ciencia como las demás? ¿Sirve la economía para...
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Where Art Thou, Dwight Eisenhower? In 2012, it's clear that neither America's political left or right knows or cares the first thing about dealing with the nation's challenges and ills, starting with its sick economy. It's hard to imagine even a small room filled with politicians who know how and are determined to do right by their country and planet Earth. Informed and visionary leaders, I'm guessing, can be far more easily found in universities,...
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Money is with us every day, in daily transactions, stores of wealth or measures of debts. It measures the comfort and security in which we live and reflects the level of development of the countries and communities we inhabit. Out of control, money engenders inflation, while hoarding causes prices to collapse, taking with them businesses and jobs. But more than this, it possesses the power to make nations and fuel wars. Money is the subject of diplomacy...
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El libro se ocupa de la génesis de la llamada oligarquía peruana durante el siglo XX y descubre que los viejos estereotipos que la consideraban como una simple continuación histórica de la aristocracia mercantil de la Colonia o de la plutocracia costeña de la época del guano carecen de sustento. A partir de una vasta y nueva evidencia documental proveniente del Archivo de Sucesiones de Lima, se muestra que, en el período de la reconstrucción...
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Siguiendo a Santo Tomás de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestión 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teología en un contexto doctrinal específico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia. El hurto y la rapiña, que atentan contra ella, presuponen la legítima propiedad de algo por parte de alguien que es su dueño o dominum. Vitoria procede a revitalizar la importante cuestión del dominio con motivo de los indios recenter inventis,...
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"Thomas J. Sargent, Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2003 for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Business Management & Accounting, Association of American Publishers" Thomas J. Sargent is Donald Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. A pioneer of the rational expectations school of macroeconomics, he is the author of The Conquest of American Inflation (Princeton),...
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"Winner of the 2000 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies" William M. Tsutsui is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation.
Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices. Yet, as William Tsutsui argues, the origins and implications of "Japanese-style...
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