epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Wolff, Richard D. & Barsamian, David [Wolff, Richard D.]

When somebody goes to have a cup of coffee and a sandwich for lunch, they can’t use that expenditure as a tax write-off. But when a CEO or some bankers ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Shambaugh, David [Shambaugh, David]

China’s Discourse on International Image, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy The concept of soft power, usually translated in Chinese as ruan shili ,17 has percolated in Chinese academic discourse for ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Harvey, David [Harvey, David]

Over the last thirty years inequality has grown dramatically in many countries. In the US the share of national income going to the top 1% has doubled since 1980 from ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Charles H. Ferguson [Ferguson, Charles H.]

In the Service of Rogue States and Drug Lords TAX EVASION IS not the only motive for bank secrecy, money laundering, and asset concealment.17 Kleptocratic political leaders, organized criminals, drug ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Abramsky, Sasha [Abramsky, Sasha]

INEQUALITY’S A GOOD THING . . . UNLESS YOU’RE POOR The low-wage-low-benefit vortex generally affects not just individuals but whole communities. Bereft of opportunity, such locales prove unattractive to those ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-03-06 | Author:Blyth, Mark [Blyth, Mark]

Part Two: Austerity’s Enablers Crowding out Keynes Globally: Monetarism, Public Choice, and the Dangers of Democracy Despite their finding German homes and American pied-à-terres, appreciating why these decidedly local ideas ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Michael Grunwald [Grunwald, Michael]

“A Very Narrow Party of Angry People” Mount Redoubt did feel like a hint from the universe that the Republican Party was blowing itself up.281 Minority parties often look inept ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Sykes, Charles J. [Sykes, Charles J.]

Bipartisan Madness While greed undoubtedly drove much of the mortgage mess, politics constantly provided the spur. History will record that the mortgage madness and subsequent bailouts occurred under both Democratic ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Nouriel Roubini

Chapter 8 First Steps It’s a truism that crises go hand in hand with regulation and reform of the financial system. The near-death experience of a financial crisis pushes many ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

The Machine’s Place Not many people, from their standpoint as observers or as consumers of culture, want man and machine to converge. It seems that even when the machines are ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Robert Kuttner [Kuttner, Robert]

PART THREE Chapter 7 The Moral Economy of Debt BY NOW, SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS SHOULD be evident. Reckless indebtedness leads to crisis. More often than not, the culprit is debt that ...

epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Collier, Paul

Aid and the Natural Resource Trap The second trap was the natural resource trap. Here, frankly, aid is fairly impotent. Evidently, the resource-rich countries have money coming into the government. ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Thomas Piketty [Piketty, Thomas]

Some Partial Explanations: Time, Taxes, and Growth In the end, then, it is hardly surprising that the concentration of wealth decreased sharply everywhere between 1910 and 1950. In other words, ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:David Harvey [Harvey, David]

CHAPTER 13: CO-OPERATION The three chapters that follow deal with the various ways in which capitalists can procure relative surplus-value of the individual sort. The overall focus is on whatever ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

The Right’s alternative Europe’s crisis is not an accident, but it’s not caused by excessive long-term debts and deficits or by the “welfare” state. It’s caused by excessive austerity—cutbacks in ...