Economics
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Eric Barthalon

• For Z < 1, i < χ, economic agents discount the future at a lower rate than they forget the past: they have a long memory, they are patient, ...
( Category: Investing July 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Luc Boltanski,Eve Chiapello & Ève Chiapello

Overview of proposals for reducing connexionist exploitation The mechanisms – or rather, proposed mechanisms – that we are going to examine do not counterpose domestic, civic or industrial forms of ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 15,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Amy Finkelstein [Finkelstein, Amy]

The second question that came up was on preventive care and future health care spending. We did look at this in Oregon, and the results from the first year show ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 15,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robert Paarlberg

Uncertain Support from Philanthropic Foundations Independently endowed philanthropic foundations—such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations—played an essential role in launching Asia’s Green Revolution almost half a century ago. Times have ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences July 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Richards

_____ Most leaders of elected governments are nowhere near as powerful as they appear to be. Quite a lot of them struggle to stay in power for very long or ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 15,2018 )
epub | | | Author:Sasha Abramsky [Abramsky, Sasha]

INEQUALITY’S A GOOD THING . . . UNLESS YOU’RE POOR The low-wage-low-benefit vortex generally affects not just individuals but whole communities. Bereft of opportunity, such locales prove unattractive to those ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Tomorrow [Tomorrow]

Chapter Thirteen Entering Quantinium’s atmosphere was always a risky proposition and it made Cerise sick to her stomach. The constantly raging ice storms created extremely hazardous conditions and ships had ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:Paul Le Blanc

* * * * This repression was carried out with the full support of conservative and bureaucratic elements in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Breaking the left-wing influence facilitated the ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 13,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-11 | Author:Jeremy Brecher

Mounted police clashing with strikers outside an electrical plant in Philadelphia, 1946. U.S. postal worker on strike, 1970. Chapter 7 The Unknown Labor Dimension of the Vietnam War Era Revolt ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Tye, Larry [Tye, Larry]

5 Behind the Mask IT WAS THE only baseball they had. And now it was gone. It was their only ball because in Freeport, Maine, of 1918, where boys gathered ...
( Category: Economics July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anil Sethi

Incorporating additional technology options in the spin-off agreement also ensures that the technology co-founders have less motivation to walk away when the going gets tough. Remember, the technology guys are ...
( Category: Management & Leadership July 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Lester R. Brown

7 Grain Yields Starting to Plateau From the beginning of agriculture until the mid-twentieth century, growth in the world grain harvest came almost entirely from expanding the cultivated area. Rises ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-09 | Author:Annie Lowrey

* * * The problem with the welfare state, the libertarian Charles Murray told me, is twofold: that the United States manages to leave millions of people in poverty, and ...
( Category: Sociology July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Howard Kunstler [Kunstler, James Howard]

Six RUNNING ON FUMES: The Hallucinated Economy The most significant characteristic of modem civilization is the sacrifice of the future for the present, and all the power of science has ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 9,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Lee Wengraf [Wengraf, Lee]

Chapter Six Resource Curse or Resource Wars? The much-vaunted rise [of Africa] seems to have stalled. —John Ashbourne, Capital Economics1 Commodity Crash and Crisis By late 2014, storm clouds began ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 9,2018 )