Economics
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Ian Angus

Cheap and Abundant Oil Although no one yet knew how big it was, production was about to start in what turned out to be the largest conventional petroleum deposit in ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Gareth Dale,Manu V. Mathai,Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira

CHAPTER 8 Green jobs to promote sustainable development: creating a value chain of solid waste recycling in Brazil Anne Posthuma and Paulo Sergio Muçouçah* Introduction The concept of ‘green growth’ ...
( Category: Environmental Policy September 23,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-11 | Author:Deirdre N. McCloskey [McCloskey, Deirdre N.]

Clark is a fine economic and historical scientist and in his book produces much numerical evidence about various assertions with which other economic and historical scientists agree. Yet it is ...
( Category: Economics September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donna T. Haverty-Stacke

“Unnecessary Victimizations”: Trotskyists under Fire from “Tobin’s Men” and the FBI Although the Trotskyists found supporters among unionized workers around the country, they remained estranged from many of their brothers ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations September 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-20 | Author:Daryl Collins & Jonathan Morduch & Stuart Rutherford & Orlanda Ruthven

Chapter Five THE PRICE OF MONEY IN THE SPRING of 2007, the Mexican microfinance bank Banco Compartamos completed a highly successful public offering of its stock. Inspired by Grameen Bank, ...
( Category: Poverty September 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:McGowan, Todd;

FAKING THE LIMIT Other attempts to erect barriers to the expansion of capitalism inevitably run into the same problem that besets environmentalism. The barriers do not deter but rather inspire ...
( Category: Political September 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Bylund, Per L.

Disaster A disaster, whether it is devastation due to natural forces such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and hurricanes or man-made destruction from wars or rent control,[3] can, economically speaking, ...
( Category: Theory September 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ken Plummer [Ken Plummer]

6 Develop an Awareness of History and Time: How Can We Connect the Pasts, Presents and Futures of Human Social Life in the Flow of Time? The social always has ...
( Category: Social Theory September 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Paolo Sironi

4.5 Conclusions Robo-technology and Goal Based Investing have been gaining momentum due to a concomitance of factors (i.e., mega trends) ranging from innovation in technology, demographical shifts, higher fiduciary standards, ...
( Category: Banks & Banking September 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:James D. Gwartney & Richard L. Stroup & Dwight R. Lee & Tawni Hunt Ferrarini [Gwartney, James D.]

Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1982, Table 5; and U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Poverty Tables—Families, www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov4.xls. No doubt, the proponents of the ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 16,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lawrence B. Lindsey

* * * CHAPTER 11 * * * The Threat of the Second Amendment to the Ruling Class If you listen carefully to speeches given by leaders of the Ruling ...
( Category: Economic Policy & Development September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Gareth Dale

KARL’S CHOICE, ILONA’S TRIAL Polanyi had written The Great Transformation in the United States, and the prospect of developing his research program in that country was enticing. A particularly appropriate ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

PROMOTING EQUALITY Markets, on their own, often produce excessively high levels of inequality—levels that are, or should be, socially unacceptable, and actually undermine economic performance. Sometimes this is because governments ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:Gabriel Zucman [Zucman, Gabriel]

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Fortunately, at the time the OECD went for on-demand information exchange, the United States started exploring an alternative, more meaningful strategy. In 2010 Congress passed ...
( Category: Economics August 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Deirdre N. McCloskey [McCloskey, Deirdre N.]

42 Political Ideas Mattered for Equal Liberty and Dignity “One history of Western politics,” writes the political philosopher Mika LaVaque-Manty, citing Charles Taylor and Peter Berger (he could have cited ...
( Category: History & Theory August 23,2016 )