Economic Conditions
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robin Hahnel & Erik Olin Wright

3. Associational Democracy Associational democracy is a term that covers a wide range of institutional devices through which collective associations in civil society directly participate in various kinds of governance ...
( Category: Economic Conditions May 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

It was not simply the physical setting that was different. So was the way of life in those early housing projects: Doors were kept unlocked as kids bounced from one ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Chase

Taxi regulations are full of outdated rules; hence the success of Uber and Lyft. Washington, D.C.’s Taxicab Commission chairman, Ron Linton, said that “Uber’s service is illegal because its drivers ...
( Category: Economic Conditions May 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-04-29 | Author:Paul Krugman

PRESCRIPTION FOR FAILURE July 26, 2000 In denouncing President Clinton’s plan to extend Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and in touting their own counterproposal, Republicans have rolled out the usual ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Kaushik Basu [Basu, Kaushik]

Food Security for the Vulnerable I have not yet addressed the subject of the government’s special responsibility to the poor and vulnerable households, that is, objective (2), mentioned earlier in ...
( Category: Asian April 26,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Roger Thurow [Thurow, Roger]

FRANCIS WANJALA MAMATI was lost amid the towering maize stalks on his shamba. “Over here,” he shouted to his wife, Mary, who was coming to join him for a day ...
( Category: Kenya April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Tamara Draut

Work: Still Separate and Unequal The largest number of jobs that will be added to our economy in the future are going to be working-class jobs, requiring little education, if ...
( Category: Minority Studies April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Reich, Robert B. [Reich, Robert B.]

3 Why Can’t We Be Content with Less? Historically, America’s cultural obsession to consume has been tempered by the “higher virtues” of thrift and self-sufficiency. “Be industrious and frugal, and ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Roger Burbach

7 Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff attend a campaign rally in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, on the eve of the first ...
( Category: Economic Conditions April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 1991-04-14 | Author:Michael Lewis

29 January: On a Dock in Barbados The photo session with Rukeyser was scheduled for 9 P.M., and it was nearing 8 P.M. when I sat down on the dock, ...
( Category: Business April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chow, Gregory C.; Perkins, Dwight H.;

4 The effect of property rights reform on performance Changes in incentives due to the HRS reforms unleashed increases in both agricultural production and productivity. In one of the first ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Jianying Zha

6. After our dinner, Zhang Weiying e-mailed me a number of his articles on university reform. Unlike the author of the cool, technical, official Beida documents, Zhang in these articles ...
( Category: China April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Davidson, James Dale [Davidson, James Dale]

Chapter 7 “Rome” Falls, Again Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy The menacing specter of state bankruptcy drew ever nearer. The old remedy was prescribed: ...
( Category: Development & Growth April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Max Weber [Weber, Max]

We now come to the problem of whether there was in the classical period a ‘capitalist invasion’ of the countryside in Attica and in other Greek states outside of Sparta ...
( Category: Economic History April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Wessel, David [Wessel, David]

Why such a declining share? In part, because Congress has offered corporations all sorts of tax breaks. And, in part, because businesses have exploited loopholes or shifted profits overseas or ...
( Category: Economic Conditions April 8,2016 )