Economic Conditions
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate]

So social mobility is lower and geographical segregation greater in more unequal societies. It is as if greater inequality makes the social structure of society more rigid and movement up ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Nichols [Nichols, John and McChesney, Robert W.]

ELECTION COVERAGE IN RECENT TIMES If we begin with the idea that the election coverage in the partisan era tended to be rich and engaging because the broader political journalism ...
( Category: Elections March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Daniel Stedman Jones [Jones, Daniel Stedman]

To avoid misunderstanding, let me emphasize that by using the term “natural” rate of unemployment, I do not mean to suggest that it is immutable and unchangeable. On the contrary, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Michael Lewis [Lewis, Michael]

Chapter Six Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn’t like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

The Right’s alternative Europe’s crisis is not an accident, but it’s not caused by excessive long-term debts and deficits or by the “welfare” state. It’s caused by excessive austerity—cutbacks in ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Eduardo Galeano [Galeano, Eduardo]

THE BLACK CURSE OF PETROLEUM Along with natural gas, petroleum is today the chief fuel that keeps our world in motion; it is a raw material of rising importance for ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-13 | Author:Luis Alberto Urrea [Urrea, Luis Alberto]

The cutters know many things about a person by the nature of his tracks. They learned something about Mendez and his pollos in the days to come. Mendez always walked ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Even better for Arison and his family was yet another provision in the SEC public offering document that said: “The company intends to distribute dividends to all shareholders in at ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Dan Senor; Saul Singer

CHAPTER 9 The Buffett Test For our customers around the world, there was no war. —EITAN WERTHEIMER WE’RE NOT HERE TO STEAL WORKERS FROM MICROSOFT,” said Google’s Yoelle Maarek. “But,” ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |ru | 2012-03-25 | Author:Paul Krugman

CHAPTER EIGHT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEFICIT? There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines. So we’re taking a ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Marrs, Jim [Marrs, Jim]

OBAMA’S SCHOOL TALK When kindergartners in B. Bernice Young School sang a medley of two short songs praising the president in February 2009, alarm bells went off among many who ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Robert Guest

As apartheid rules became progressively harder to enforce, black incomes began to catch up with white ones. Between 1975 and 1990, average real black earnings in manufacturing rose by almost ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Paul Krugman

Argentina isn’t an Asian country. (Duh.) But Argentina had an Asian-style crisis in 2002, one that offered a painfully clear demonstration of how widely praised economic policies can lead a ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )