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Creating the Twentieth Century by Vaclav Smil
azw3 |eng | 2005-07-27 | Author:Vaclav Smil

FIGURE 4.11. Illustrations of aluminum reduction process in Hall’s two U.S. patents (400,664 on the left, 400,766 on the right) granted on April 2, 1889. In both images, A is ...
( Category: Economic History October 7,2019 )
The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Mehrsa Baradaran

The Free Market Confronts Black Poverty No sooner had the complicated, overdue, and incomplete racial turmoil of the civil rights era subsided than a rewriting of its history began. The ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 7,2019 )
Transaction Man by Nicholas Lemann
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Lemann

* * * In the 1980s it was becoming clear that the steady upward economic progress of the American middle class—which began with the New Deal and continued for almost ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 15,2019 )
Why Not Default? by Jerome Roos
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Jerome Roos

“¡QUE SE VAYAN TODOS!” On December 19, after weeks of simmering tensions, the popular anger that had been building up all throughout the crisis finally came to a head when ...
( Category: Public Finance September 10,2019 )
A History of Money by Alan Pauls
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Alan Pauls [Pauls, Alan]

A Note on the Text The fictional events in this novel unravel over decades of real tragedy in Argentina. It is widely known outside of the country that a military ...
( Category: Economic History September 5,2019 )
A Brief History of Doom by Richard Vague
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Richard Vague [Vague, Richard]

CHAPTER 5 The Railroad Crises Era 1847–1907 Perhaps no other invention has transformed the world as dramatically as the railroad, accompanied by its indispensable adjunct, the telegraph. Together, they collapsed ...
( Category: Economic History September 5,2019 )
The Law of Civilization and Decay by Brooks Adams
azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-12-05 | Author:Brooks Adams

"There are still two English gentlemen detained on her account, and it is suspected that there will be many more, because the king has said he believed that more than ...
( Category: Economic History September 4,2019 )
Babel Inc by Kerry Bolton
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-30 | Author:Kerry Bolton

The American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, and American Jewish Congress have supported simultaneously both ‘cultural pluralism’ for the United States (designed to militate against the emergence of an ‘American Nationalism’), ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 4,2019 )
The Economists' Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Binyamin Appelbaum

“Growth with Equity” For most of Latin America, the 1982 debt crisis was the beginning of a “lost generation.” Not until 1998 did the income of the average Mexican recover.64 ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 4,2019 )
The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Bina Venkataraman

* * * — It might not be possible to create short-term rewards, or glitter bombs on long roads, for everything that an organization needs to do over time. But ...
( Category: Planning & Forecasting August 30,2019 )
Clear Bright Future by Paul Mason
epub |eng | 2019-03-20 | Author:Paul Mason

From there, said Fromm, it is just a short journey to the slogan of the Spanish falangists in 1936: ‘Long Live Death!’ Turn to the post-humanist ethics brigade and the ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 26,2019 )
Russia's Crony Capitalism by Anders Aslund;
epub |eng | | Author:Anders Aslund;

Year Global Financial Integrity: Licit and illicit IMF: Capital flight 1994 20 16.7 1995 0 4 1996 20.3 25 1997 0.9 22.3 1998 57.2 26.8 1999 21.4 22 2000 15.6 ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union August 24,2019 )
Predator's Ball by Connie Bruck
epub |eng | | Author:Connie Bruck

IN THE junk-bond-takeover war, which began in earnest in early 1985 with Icahn’s raid on Phillips, Revlon was the crucial campaign. That was where the most impassioned corporate defenders were ...
( Category: Economic History August 15,2019 )
Kochland by Christopher Leonard
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Christopher Leonard

* * * For the first time since World War II, the economies of Japan, Europe, and the United States entered into a recession simultaneously. The impact on global oil ...
( Category: Economic History August 13,2019 )
Stocks for the Long Run 5E: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies by Jeremy J. Siegel
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Jeremy J. Siegel [Siegel, Jeremy J.]

STOCKS AS HEDGES AGAINST INFLATION Although the central bank has the power to moderate (but not eliminate) the business cycle, its policy has the greatest influence on inflation. As noted ...
( Category: Training August 6,2019 )

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