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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate]

So social mobility is lower and geographical segregation greater in more unequal societies. It is as if greater inequality makes the social structure of society more rigid and movement up ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
A Nation of Moochers by Sykes Charles J
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 ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Klein Naomi
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-09-17 | Author:Klein, Naomi [Klein, Naomi]

A Corporate New Deal Public pronouncements and photo ops aside, Bush and his inner circle had no intention of converting to Keynesianism. Far from shaking their determination to weaken the ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini
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 ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
Dollarocracy by John Nichols
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Nichols [Nichols, John and McChesney, Robert W.]

ELECTION COVERAGE IN RECENT TIMES If we begin with the idea that the election coverage in the partisan era tended to be rich and engaging because the broader political journalism ...
( Category: Elections March 26,2014 )
Cannibal Capitalism by Michael C. Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-08 | Author:Michael C. Hill

Chapter Six Your Own Opinion or Own Facts? Selective Morality When Johnny Carson left late night television, a three-way ratings battle ensued. Jay Leno and David Letterman continued a much ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics by Daniel Stedman Jones
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Daniel Stedman Jones [Jones, Daniel Stedman]

To avoid misunderstanding, let me emphasize that by using the term “natural” rate of unemployment, I do not mean to suggest that it is immutable and unchangeable. On the contrary, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour by Les Leopold
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Les Leopold

A blogging colleague who works in the financial industry has come up with his own one-word description of the ultra-competitive world of hedge funds: “Sociopathic.” Do’s and Don’ts Don’t ever ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Bill Clinton [Clinton, Bill]

Click here to view a larger image. (Illustration credit 5.3) On food insecurity, measuring the percentage of people who didn’t have enough money at some time in the last year ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 26,2014 )
Average Is Over by Tyler Cowen
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 ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner
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 ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
Why Growth Matters by Jagdish Bhagwati
epub |eng | | Author:Jagdish Bhagwati

Air Transport Regarding air transport, progress has been notable in the construction of modern airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and even some smaller towns, such as Jaipur. ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 26,2014 )
The Dragon’s Gift by Deborah Brautigam
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Deborah Brautigam

Cars, Calf, and Cows The Friendship textile mill is the struggling face of China’s earlier aid system, a relic of 1969, still on life support from the Chinese government forty ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
The Bottom Billion by Collier Paul
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. ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
Basic Economics 4th Ed by Thomas Sowell
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

Statistical Trends One of the problems with comparisons of national output over some span of time is the arbitrary choice of the year to use as the beginning of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )

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