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Fields, Factories and Workshops by Pëtr Kropotkin & Pëtr Kropotkin
epub |eng | 1912-03-05 | Author:Pëtr Kropotkin & Pëtr Kropotkin

Petty Trades in France Small industries are met with in France in a very great variety, and they represent a most important feature of national economy. it is estimated, in ...
( Category: Anarchism March 6,2020 )
Ladies of the Ticker by George Robb
epub |eng | | Author:George Robb

Figure 9. “Female Brokers Securing a Customer,” Matthew Hale Smith, Bulls and Bears of New York (Hartford, CT: J. B. Burr, 1875): 273. (Courtesy of the New York Historical Society) ...
( Category: Women in History March 6,2020 )
The Velvet Rope Economy by Nelson D. Schwartz
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Nelson D. Schwartz

* * * — In many ways, the erosion of public sector firefighting and the rise of private services for those who can afford them is a return to what ...
( Category: Democracy March 5,2020 )
Supermarket USA by Shane Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Shane Hamilton

Figure 12 A 1958 USDA publication visually presents the contract production of poultry as a chain, with the farmer beholden to an all-seeing suited figure at a desk. (U.S. Department ...
( Category: Economic History March 5,2020 )
The Winding Road to the Welfare State by Boyer George R
epub |eng | | Author:Boyer, George R.

THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE POOR LAWS AND THE DEBATE OVER UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF The downturn of 1904–5 led Balfour’s Conservative government to address the problem of unemployment and examine the ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 5,2020 )
The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Skousen [Mark Skousen]

Veblen was famous for his extremely shy and taciturn personality. Colleagues, students, and visitors were put off by his apparent inability to carry on a conversation. He would be invited ...
( Category: Economic History March 5,2020 )
James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy by Richard E. Wagner
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Richard E. Wagner

Attenuated Property Rights and Strategic Interaction Buchanan (1950) was concerned with interaction among units of government within a federal system, and the ability of that interaction to undermine the promise ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 5,2020 )
Silver, Butter, Cloth by Jane Kershaw & Gareth Williams & Søren Sindbæk & James Graham-Campbell
epub |eng | 2018-11-27 | Author:Jane Kershaw & Gareth Williams & Søren Sindbæk & James Graham-Campbell

Tree Decoration Pendants Three pendants (Fig. 8.2 nos. 3–5) depict a plant ornament, the so-called world-tree, one of which is placed on a pendant upside down as if hanging from ...
( Category: Economic History March 5,2020 )
The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide by Richard N. Bolles
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Richard N. Bolles [Bolles, Richard N.]

Payoff for Using This Method: Well, there are three, actually: 1. You can more accurately define to yourself just exactly what you’re looking for, beneath the shifting shape of job-titles. ...
( Category: Job Hunting March 4,2020 )
States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by David Stasavage
epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:David Stasavage [Stasavage, David]

THE CAROLINGIAN PARTITION HYPOTHESIS While Rokkan’s and Tilly’s analyses are very plausible, in focusing on initial economic conditions, both ignore the possibility that prior patterns of state development and collapse ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 4,2020 )
Capitalism and Modernity by Jack Goody
epub | | 2011-04-27 | Author:Jack Goody

5 The Challenge of China The most effective critique of Eurocentric history has come not so much from the ‘monetary’ historians of the West whom I have discussed but from ...
( Category: History & Theory March 3,2020 )
A Blueprint for War by Susan Dunn
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Dunn

CHAPTER EIGHT Joint Talks ON JANUARY 9, 1941, Prime Minister Churchill and the members of his Cabinet gathered in London for a farewell luncheon. The aloof, aristocratic, strikingly tall fifty-nine-year ...
( Category: Economic History March 3,2020 )
Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Davis

Origins of the NATO State System It was only within a framework of bourgeois stability and inter-imperialist pacifism, guaranteed by American nuclear supremacy, that the old Wilsonian project of the ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 3,2020 )
The Road to Global Prosperity by Michael Mandelbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Mandelbaum

Brazil: The Perils of Populism “Brazil is the country of the future,” goes an old saying, “and always will be.” In the twentieth century the country had a reputation for ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 2,2020 )
First Entrepreneur by Edward G. Lengel
epub |eng | 2015-12-12 | Author:Edward G. Lengel

MOUNT VERNON’S MOST WELCOME VISITOR wasn’t human. His name was Royal Gift, a magnificent Spanish jackass sent by King Charles III of Spain. Washington accepted him ecstatically. For many years ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )

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