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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist. Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge-fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does. Enter Financial Times columnist and bestselling author...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
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Description
"While many dictionaries of economics are available for purchase, this title is unique because of its greater depth of treatment. It offers histories and backgrounds on a significant number of economic topics, not only for the United States but also for other countries and geographic regions. Entries cover such topics as economic concepts; markets and industries; economic development in various countries; biographical essays on key people in economics...
Author
Publisher
LID Editorial Empresarial
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1a ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
Español
Description
Estos últimos años han estado marcados por la corrección política antiliberal. El resultado de ello ha sido reforzar la idea de que nuestros males son culpa de la libertad y que debemos ser cada vez menos libres. Y siempre hay políticos dispuestos a que lo seamos. Carlos Rodríguez Braun refuta este pensamiento único en Panfletos liberales III: «la crisis no ha sido producida por la libertad sino por el intervencionismo. No es verdad...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink...
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Language
English
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Description
The history of the United States is the history of capitalism. The colonies began when property and trade were still new concepts in Europe and the country relied on the exploitation of human labor--first of Indigenous and enslaved peoples, and then of all workers--to grow the economy. Each era of exploitation was met with a violent response, until the political infrastructure turned to the divide-and-conquer plan that defines our modern era. Levy...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than four billion people--some 60 percent of humanity--live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with climate, geography, and culture. It tells us all we have to do is give aid to help poor countries up the development ladder. If poor countries would only adopt the right institutions and economic policies, they could join the ranks of the rich world....
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Offering a road map for business success in the increasingly competitive; chaotic global markets; this book explains what is happening; why it is happening--and how you can prevent it from happening to you. --
19) Complete proceedings of the Mid-Appalachia White House Conference on Domestic and Economic Affairs
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
266 columns ; 30 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 558 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen.
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