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Why America Must Not Follow Europe by Hannan Daniel
mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Hannan, Daniel [Hannan, Daniel]

EUROPE IS DYING The state has assumed control over functions that were once discharged within families: health, education, day care, provision for the elderly. So it is perhaps no surprise ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
Vultures' Picnic by Palast Greg
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Palast, Greg [Palast, Greg]

Now, Schwartz stands. Giffen’s mouthpiece is about to earn his $600 an hour. At a dark-wood lectern, tall and dramatic, the attorney says that his client had merely “failed to ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
The Economics of Enough by Coyle Diane
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Coyle, Diane [Coyle, Diane]

CONCLUSION High trust is essential to the kind of economy we have now, but at the same time fragile. Building social capital needs more careful attention; future prosperity will depend ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Robert Skidelsky

5 Limits to Growth: Natural or Moral? Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. – Oscar Wilde As well as failing ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
End the Fed by Paul Ron
mobi, epub, azw |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Paul, Ron [Paul, Ron]

We very badly need to have more Representatives in the House who understand in a principled way the importance of property rights and religious freedom for the preservation and extension ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Minxin Pei

Crime and Punishment The breakdown of the monitoring system is accompanied by an increasingly dysfunctional system of punishing corrupt officials—despite the frequent use of the death penalty against high-profile offenders. ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
World on the Edge by Brown Lester R
mobi |eng | | Author:Brown, Lester R. [Brown, Lester R.]

* * * Data, endnotes, and additional resources can be found on Earth Policy’s Web site, at www.earth-policy.org. * * * 9 Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy As fossil ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Philip Dray

Some of the women [were] especially vociferous in their demands to know the meaning of the raid. The harsh command to “Shut up, there, you, if you know what’s good ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 25,2014 )
The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Bob Woodward

25 Obama’s exchange with Cantor at the previous day’s meeting sent an angry Harry Reid to the Senate floor on the morning of Thursday, July 14. “With so much at ...
( Category: Political Parties March 25,2014 )
The Box by Marc Levinson
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Marc Levinson

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 25,2014 )
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Henry M. Paulson

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Monday, September 15, had been grim. But on Tuesday, all hell broke loose. Normally I left home by 5:45 a.m., went to my gym, and ran ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Sarah Rose

Behind the gentlemanly façade of the East India Company there were often hidden rivalries and simmering tensions, and within the Indian network of company gardeners this friction often centered on ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Bad Samaritans by Chang Ha-Joon
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Chang, Ha-Joon [Chang, Ha-Joon]

Sir Isaac Newton once famously said, ‘if I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’.42 He was referring to the fact that ideas ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
Griftopia by Matt Taibbi
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Matt Taibbi

This was never supposed to happen. All the way back in 1936, after gamblers disguised as Wall Street brokers destroyed the American economy, the government of Franklin D. Roosevelt passed ...
( Category: Americas March 25,2014 )
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David Stockman
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:David Stockman

CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT DEFORMATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS How Wall Street Got Huge THE COLLAPSE OF THREE SEPARATE $5 TRILLION FINANCIAL BUBBLES in less than a decade attested to the ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )

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