Economics
epub |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:Aven, Petr; Kokh, Alfred;

KOKH: Do you know the difference between today’s one-party system and the Soviet one? Back then the party reacted to criticism. The modern party does not. Back to my question. ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 20,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-16 | Author:Qian, Yingyi [Qian, Yingyi]

III Government and Reform: Federalism, Chinese Style 7 Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China 1. Introduction The remarkable success of China’s economic reforms—fostering economic growth ...
( Category: International August 20,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-10-20 | Author:Frank, Thomas [Frank, Thomas]

chapter eight CARNIVAL AND COLA: HIP VERSUS SQUARE IN THE COLA WARS Pepsi and other such companies have been more interested in the term segment as a verb than as ...
( Category: Americas August 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

Living with Foreign Men: Fantasies Versus Realities Because migrating to Europe is a relatively new phenomenon, not many former sex workers—Nanci is an exception—have returned to Sosúa to dispel the ...
( Category: Women & Business August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:Richard Heinberg [Heinberg, Richard]

10 THE ANTHROPOCENE: IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT US TIME TO CELEBRATE! WOO-HOO! IT’S OFFICIAL: WE HUMANS have started a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:John de Graaf & David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor

HYPERCOMMERCIALISM Our hypercommercial era is one in which images are everywhere, and “image,” as tennis star Andre Agassi says in the sunglasses commercial, “is everything.” The daily bombardment of advertising ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Ellen Gustafson

A medium order of McDonald’s french fries has 380 calories, 19 grams of fat, and 270 milligrams of sodium. When we add 3 tablespoons of Heinz regular bottled ketchup to ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-29 | Author:David Holmgren

Brown Tech: Top-Down Constriction Slow energy-decline rates, severe climate-change symptoms The brown-tech world is one in which the production of oil declines after its peak between 2005 and 2010 at ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Kessler

CHAPTER 11 UBER FOR POLITICS Politicians noticed the gig economy and its promise to shape the future of work sometime around 2015. That September, I met Mark Warner, the senior ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Ghemawat, Pankaj. [drucker]

Developing Concerns Free trade enjoys stronger public support in poorer countries than in rich ones, yet that hasn't stopped intellectuals on the left from arguing that “neoliberal” free-trade agreements pursued ...
( Category: International August 15,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Morris Berman [Berman, Morris]

An Israeli officer pumped the body of a thirteen-year-old girl full of bullets, then announced that he would have done the same thing if she had been three years old; ...
( Category: Americas August 14,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robert W. McChesney [J. Miner, Barbara]

A Military-Digital Complex? In his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ominously warned about the military-industrial complex that had emerged as a cornerstone of the American political economy ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure August 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Marx, Karl [Marx, Karl]

5. THE SO-CALLED LABOUR FUND It has been shown in the course of this inquiry that capital is not a fixed magnitude, but a part of social wealth which is ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Todd A. Knoop

The “old” town of Suzhou, China. For me, food is of utmost importance, and I tend to think of the costs and benefits of globalization primarily through food. When I ...
( Category: International August 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Amy Chua [Chua, Amy]

In Siam . . . there exists a situation analogous to the Jewish question in countries of the West. This is “The Yellow Peril.” The danger arises solely from the ...
( Category: Economics August 12,2018 )