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The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Niall Ferguson [Ferguson, Niall]

This brings us back to where we began, with the notion that there is greater ‘flexibility of judicial decision-making under common law’, because ‘common law courts [can] use broad standards ...
( Category: History & Theory October 12,2015 )
Confronting Capitalism by Philip Kotler
epub |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Philip Kotler

THE CASE FOR INDIVIDUALISM AND SELF-RELIANCE The extreme exponent of the individualism view was novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. She wrote two famous books about her philosophy, which she calls ...
( Category: Economic Policy October 3,2015 )
The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000 by Ferguson Niall
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Ferguson, Niall [Ferguson, Niall]

FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC CORRUPTION Politicians have an interest in trying to limit the costs of electioneering. The public has an interest in limiting the influence of rich donors over ...
( Category: History & Theory September 19,2015 )
Fault lines by Rajan Raghuram G
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Rajan, Raghuram G. [Rajan, Raghuram G.]

Assigning Blame The private financial sector bears an enormous responsibility for what happened. But did the brokers act immorally? Clearly, misleading retirees about their payments was wrong and bordered on ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 13,2015 )
Other People's Money by Charles V. Bagli
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Charles V. Bagli

• • • For MetLife, the results of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village transaction could not have been better. The sale sent the company’s share price to a fifty-two-week high ...
( Category: State & Local September 9,2015 )
The Globalization Paradox by Dani Rodrik
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Dani Rodrik

8 Trade Fundamentalism in the Tropics In March 1960, James Meade, a Cambridge don and future Nobel Prize winner for his research in international economics, traveled to the British colony ...
( Category: Democracy August 16,2015 )
Black Horse Ride by Ivan Fallon
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Ivan Fallon [Ivan Fallon]

It meant that over the next seven months, when he found himself at the epicentre of the biggest crisis in Lloyds’s – and Britain’s – financial history, Tookey was still ...
( Category: Banks & Banking August 15,2015 )
The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Thomas Piketty [Piketty, Thomas]

Wage Inequality and Globalization Human capital theory has also been used to explain rising wage inequality resulting from globalization. The rise of North-South trade has allegedly put less-skilled workers in ...
( Category: Economic Policy August 14,2015 )
Inside the FDIC: Thirty Years of Bank Failures, Bailouts, and Regulatory Battles by John F. Bovenzi
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John F. Bovenzi [Bovenzi, John F.]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for defending the federal government, hence taxpayers, against lawsuits. The staff at DOJ strongly believed that government officials couldn't bind future sessions of ...
( Category: Banks & Banking August 5,2015 )
American Colossus by H. W. Brands
epub |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

Riis’s tour led along another alley. “Be a little careful, please! The hall is dark and you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there. Not that it would ...
( Category: Economic History July 20,2015 )
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by Landes David S
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-05-16 | Author:Landes, David S. [Landes, David S.]

First came those tasks ordinary to government: a postal service, a new time standard,* public education (for boys and then for girls as well),† universal military service.** The last two ...
( Category: Theory July 14,2015 )
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Ober Josiah
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Ober, Josiah

PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO 416 BCE Thucydides’ account leads us to believe that Pericles and the Spartans had done the same math and had come to similar conclusions: Pericles realized that ...
( Category: Economic History July 9,2015 )
Merchant Kings by Stephen R. Bown
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Stephen R. Bown

2 RUSSIAN TRADERS AND PRIVATE EXPLORERS HAD BEEN sailing the Pacific east to the distant shores of North America for about fifty years, ever since the epic voyage of Vitus ...
( Category: Economic History July 3,2015 )
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Naim Moises
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Naim, Moises [Naim, Moises]

FROM AMBASSADORS TO GONGOS: THE NEW EMISSARIES “American ambassadors—an obsolete species?” The question was posed as early as 1984 by Elmer Plischke, a distinguished practitioner of that now-fading field, diplomatic ...
( Category: International & World Politics June 21,2015 )
The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . an by Dunbar Nicholas
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Dunbar, Nicholas [Dunbar, Nicholas]

Fed Up with the Fed The Federal Reserve may have been at the top of the U.S. regulatory pecking order, but within the Fed itself, the New York branch was ...
( Category: United States June 16,2015 )

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