Economics
epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:Robert J. Shiller [Shiller, Robert J.]

The idea that the world would now belong to the technicians who designed and ran the machinery was naturally frightening to those who did not deem themselves capable of becoming ...
( Category: Macroeconomics October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Andrew McAfee

The State of Nature Let’s first consider our impact on our planet and start with one of humanity’s greatest harms: causing other species to go extinct. In addition to the ...
( Category: Environmental Economics October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Rand Paul

Chapter 28 The Cure for Failed Socialism Is Always More Socialism Pol Pot is now infamous as a mass murderer: the architect and executioner of the killing fields of Cambodia. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism October 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aso, Michitake;

New Directions in Plantation Labor In July 1958, Ngô Đình Diệm, then president of South Vietnam, went on an inspection tour of the plantations of the SPTR, Lai Khê (a ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry October 17,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:Aaron Glantz

COMMUNITY GROUPS TRIED to talk to OneWest about the foreclosures and lack of community investment, but their concerns were brushed aside. Senior leaders at the bank would say, “Hey, we’re ...
( Category: Banks & Banking October 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Emmanuel Saez

WHY HAVE COUNTRIES FAILED SO FAR TO COORDINATE? To see how we could escape our current predicament, we must start by understanding why we have failed, so far, to address ...
( Category: Economic Policy October 15,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Beckworth

TWO INDICATIONS OF MONETARY POLICY QUALITY How can we decide whether there are additional gains that would accrue to the US economy via monetary policy makers more explicitly adopting a ...
( Category: Macroeconomics October 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Duggan, Lisa [Duggan, Lisa]

All the betrayals, all the dirty crawling, scheming malice, all the lust and lechery in “The Fountainhead” give it an atmosphere so luridly evil and conspiratorial that Cesare Borgia, the ...
( Category: Politics October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-08 | Author:David F. Swensen

Source: TIAA-CREF. Note: Unrebalanced portfolio allocations and rebalanced portfolio allocations reflect the author’s calculations. Rebalancing activity mitigates the portfolio swings caused by fluctuations in the equity markets. As equities appreciate ...
( Category: Retirement Planning October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-12 | Author:Marjorie Kelly

The innovative ownership design of EA Engineering is a promising emerging model. It has much to teach us about changing the DNA of larger corporations like Ciba- Geigy. But what’s ...
( Category: Democracy October 13,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Fraser;

Following the bloody debacle at Homestead, which helped reelect the Democrat Cleveland in 1892, Andrew Carnegie, a nominal Republican, confided his true feelings about the outcome to Henry Clay Frick: ...
( Category: Economic Conditions October 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-12 | Author:Ben G. Price

Anti-Dillon: It Didn’t Have to Be This Way To the continued chagrin of the friends of democracy, the legal establishment, at the same time that it embraced John Forrest Dillon’s ...
( Category: Economic Conditions October 13,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Erik Olin Wright

The social and solidarity economy The social and solidarity economy is an umbrella term covering a range of economic activities and organizations that are anchored in communities, embody egalitarian and ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism October 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-11 | Author:David Boyle

JOSEPH SCHUMPETER (1883–1950) Joseph Schumpeter was briefly Austrian finance minister in 1919, but is famous primarily as an economist at Harvard University, where he spent the rest of his career—and ...
( Category: Economics October 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-07 | Author:Charles Schwab

* * * — ONE IMPORTANT RISK EVERY brokerage was watching intensely was margin balances. Borrowing on margin is a tool used by sophisticated investors to increase their buying power ...
( Category: Retirement Planning October 10,2019 )