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Politics as a Peculiar Business by Richard E. Wagner
epub |eng | 2016-01-29 | Author:Richard E. Wagner [Wagner, Richard E.]

2. MARKETS, POLITICS, AND SELECTION THROUGH COMPETITION: SOME GENERICS To denote markets and polities as offering the relevant environments for exploring the qualitative features of selection through competition for a ...
( Category: Democracy January 8,2017 )
Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas L. Friedman

The Holocene of Geopolitics It is easy to forget today just how much the global order that settled on our planet after World War II and lasted through the post–Cold ...
( Category: Democracy November 25,2016 )
How Change Happens by Duncan Green
epub |eng | 2016-10-26 | Author:Duncan Green [Green, Duncan]

7 How the International System Shapes Change ‘Shame!’ roared the bearded activist, pointing an accusing finger as, uncomfortably besuited, I wended my way through the police lines. Attending an international ...
( Category: Economic Conditions November 10,2016 )
Rich People Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms by Caroline Freund
epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Caroline Freund [Freund, Caroline]

Emerging-Market Firms Displace Advanced-Country Firms Emerging-market companies are growing rapidly, overtaking advanced-country firms at the top of the Forbes Global 2000 list. As recently as 2009, all 10 of the ...
( Category: Economics November 10,2016 )
The Upside of Inequality by Edward Conard
epub |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Edward Conard

Visit bit.ly/2bmbbTx for a larger version of this image. It is hard to see how growing income inequality, and not competition for a smaller number of admission slots, is the ...
( Category: Political Economy November 7,2016 )
Unmade in China by Jeremy R. Haft
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Jeremy R. Haft

Shipbuilding A vivid example happened recently, when Shell Oil was seeking to purchase an offshore drilling rig from China's newest, most advanced shipyard, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard (SWS), the jewel of ...
( Category: Manufacturing September 30,2016 )
Portfolios of the Poor by Daryl Collins & Jonathan Morduch & Stuart Rutherford & Orlanda Ruthven
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 )
The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized by Bylund Per L
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 )
The New Trail of Tears by Naomi Schaefer Riley
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Naomi Schaefer Riley

But why don’t more parents take advantage of math camp the way Gibbs is doing? Many of the kids at camp have siblings who don’t come, for example. When I ...
( Category: Native American Studies August 21,2016 )
Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream by Andy Stern
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Andy Stern [Stern, Andy]

Chapter 7 EN ROUTE TO A NEW AMERICAN DREAM EARLIER, ANDY GROVE’S insights on the strategic inflection point helped galvanize my thinking about the impact technology was having on jobs, ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 25,2016 )
What Is Global History? by Conrad Sebastian;
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Conrad, Sebastian;

CHAPTER 8 Positionality and centered approaches What is the location of the world? Where do historians stand when they write its history? Can global historians rise above the parochialism of ...
( Category: Economic Conditions July 18,2016 )
Makers and Takers by Foroohar Rana
epub |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Foroohar, Rana

FOXES IN THE HENHOUSE Many of the biggest institutional investors who are now in the market for oil and other commodities have gotten there via banks like Goldman Sachs and ...
( Category: Book Notes June 28,2016 )
Brazillionaires by Cuadros Alex;
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cuadros, Alex; [Cuadros, Alex;]

CHAPTER 8 THE PROFIT MOTIVE A NEW RICHEST MAN, MERITOCRACY, AND THE VALUE OF MONEY “Money in and of itself isn’t what fascinates me.” —JORGE PAULO LEMANN ($20 BILLION) “Jorge ...
( Category: Globalization June 28,2016 )
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Rana Foroohar [Foroohar, Rana]

“I’m sure that Goldman used the information they had about aluminum to influence the market between 2010 and 2013,” says Cornell law professor Saule Omarova. (Her paper on the problems ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 9,2016 )
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Nikiforuk Andrew
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Nikiforuk, Andrew [Nikiforuk, Andrew]

9. Peak Science “[The blame for the future plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social ...
( Category: Economic Conditions May 27,2016 )

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