epub |eng | 2020-02-21 | Author:Felipe Larraín B. [Larraín B., Felipe]

8 Productive Investment This chapter analyzes the main characteristics of investment (which can be thought of as the accumulation of capital) and the factors that determine it. Investment decisions deserve ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-23 | Author:Matt Alt [Alt, Matt]

* * * — THE YEAR 1995 was the roughest yet. In January, an earthquake leveled large parts of the city of Kobe. The government so thoroughly dithered its response, ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-22 | Author:Matt Alt

* * * — THE YEAR 1995 was the roughest yet. In January, an earthquake leveled large parts of the city of Kobe. The government so thoroughly dithered its response, ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Kyle Hegarty

Chapter 7 Survival Kit: When Confucius Skypes Socrates “The oldest, shortest words—yes and no—are those which require the most thought.” —Pythagoras Five thousand years of cultural differences discussed over a ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Christian Brose [Brose, Christian]

There are no ideal solutions when it comes to warfare. The use of violence inherently involves deep levels of uncertainty, risk, and unappealing trade-offs—something that both the opponents of and ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Augustine Sedgewick [Sedgewick, Augustine]

* * * — THE WORLD DEPRESSION did what Herbert Hoover had not—cut the legs out from under the Brazilian defense of coffee. From 1929 to early 1933, the four ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Robert Bryce

California Electricity Prices Compared to US Average, 2011 to 2017 Source: Environmental Progress. In addition, the lawsuit argues that California’s climate regulations are a regressive tax that is hitting poor ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Robert Bryce

California Electricity Prices Compared to US Average, 2011 to 2017 Source: Environmental Progress. In addition, the lawsuit argues that California’s climate regulations are a regressive tax that is hitting poor ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Fred P. Hochberg

The state of the art in 1976. If you would, take a minute to consider your phone … not to stare at the screen, but to marvel at all that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kimberly Clausing

So What’s the Problem? Concerns about Immigrants When immigrants join the domestic economy, there are many positive economic consequences. There is more output and economic growth. There are more gains ...

epub |eng | | Author:Satoko Watanabe

Inward- and Outward-Oriented Social Capital Several studies have shown that social capital and the trust on which it is built can have a positive effect on economic results. 16 Studies ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-11 | Author:Braudel, Fernand; Reynolds, Siân;

Eyes or Ears? Lucien Febvre was perhaps the first to ask whether, at different periods of history, men and their civilizations have accorded more importance respectively to the eyes or ...

epub |eng | | Author:Steve McGinnes

As a Westerner, your inclination may be to promote yourself and pursue actions that help you to stand out, to raise yourself out from the crowd, to push yourself forward. ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-09 | Author:Charles Dumas

Sources: OECD, TS Lombard, author Conventional economic logic says that a cut in a country’s real exchange rate, by making it more cost-competitive, should lead to gains in market share ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Guy Snodgrass [Snodgrass, Guy]

FOURTEEN GREAT POWERS The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country ...