Economics
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke

( Category: Economics October 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-17 | Author:William S. Burroughs [BURROUGHS JR., WILLIAM S.]

3 By the way, who am I? Somebody out there must be interested in the answer to that question by now. So permit me to digress for a few minutes ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Leslie T. Chang

CHUNMING SELDOM SPOKE of her early days in the factory. I don’t think she was ashamed of it, exactly—it was more that the girl who had worked on the toy ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:John Michael Greer

FIVE Tools for the Transition It makes a great deal of difference how we come to view the challenge of the next century. On the one hand, it could be ...
( Category: Sociology October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Barry Ritholtz

We now know the answers to Lowenstein’s rhetorical question: Yes, they most certainly were counting on the Fed. And, we know precisely what that next problem child was—the many mortgage-backed ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 15,2017 )
epub | | 2009-03-26 | Author:Unknown

34 All around the world scientists are growing skin. They’re using skin removed during cosmetic surgery, harvesting the cells and feeding them in a petri dish with agarose, glutamine, hydrocortisone ...
( Category: Drawing October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-02-20 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver [Kingsolver, Barbara]

Clifton and Morenci strike supporters assembled in the American Legion Hall to hear visiting representatives of their national unions. Front row, from left: Fina Roman (in striped shirt), Beverly Cole, ...
( Category: Americas October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:Colin Crouch

The Priority of Speed A major advantage of the market over most other complex decision systems is speed. If all relevant knowledge is conveyed in the price, market actors can ...
( Category: Anthropology October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brooke Harrington

The role of wealth management As part of this neglect, questions of agency have remained almost totally unexamined. For example, Piketty’s observation about the sharp increase in the impact of ...
( Category: Economics October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-14 | Author:Benjamin R. Barber

6 Totalizing Society: The End of Diversity The arts and sciences, less despotic though perhaps more powerful than government, fling garlands of flowers over the chains which weigh [people] down…causing ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Guy Standing [Standing, Guy]

NOTES 1 ‘The never-ending story’, The Economist, 20 November 2015, p. 13. 2 C. Reinhart and K. Rogoff, ‘Growth in a Time of Debt’, NBER Working Paper No. 15639 (Cambridge, ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-01 | Author:Nomi Prins [Prins, Nomi]

While reading through Enron’s original and impressively twisted SEC filings (many of which the SEC disregarded), there’s really no way to avoid a massive headache. Enron ultimately issued an explanatory ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Bhu Srinivasan

Twenty-three BOOTLEGGING Just as government influence set the trajectory for the development of the radio, federal action set into motion another defining element of 1920s America: Prohibition. It was one ...
( Category: Economics October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Alan W. Watts [Watts, Alan]

1“Until the middle of the 17th century Chinese and European scientific theories were about on a par, and only thereafter did European thought begin to move ahead so rapidly. But ...
( Category: Economics October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:James Howard Kunstlers [Kunstlers, James Howard]

Environmental Destruction The damage to global ecologies by human activity accelerated rapidly with the onset of industrialism. The twentieth century, with its oil-nurtured bloom of human population, was especially harsh. ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 13,2017 )