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Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Japan by Kerr
mobi |eng | 2001-03-28 | Author:Kerr

Zoning – the political and social science of making the most efficient use of different types of land – is a crucial skill that Japan's bureaucrats have failed to master. ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Ron Suskind

12 Nowhere Man When Obama selected his B-team, he left in his wake a slew of jilted economists. The group was characterized largely by progressive, Keynesian thinkers, who soon enough ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 25,2014 )
Back to Work by Bill Clinton
mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Bill Clinton

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 25,2014 )
After America by Mark Steyn
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Mark Steyn

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD The ruling class divides its subjects into Representation and Taxation categories. Favored groups are those that will expand the dependent class and, therefore, the dependent-administration class. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity by Luigi Zingales
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Luigi Zingales

THE WRONG FIXES One natural political response to this state of affairs is protectionism. Given the economic fundamentals, there has been surprisingly little pressure for that so far. One possible ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

FIGURE 39. World Energy Use and GDP. Sources: US Energy Information Administration, International Monetary Fund. Another often-ignored factor skewing the energy-GDP relationship is outsourcing of production. In the 1950s, the ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization From Trunk to Tail by Peter Marber
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Peter Marber

Immigration and Security The 9/11 attacks and subsequent 2005 London subway bombings have made immigrants appear as the number one terrorist enemy of the Western world. There has been legislation ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )
Alternatives to Economic Globalization by Cavanagh John & Mander Jerry
mobi |eng | 2004-09-08 | Author:Cavanagh, John & Mander, Jerry [Cavanagh, John]

196 CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING SCALE Changes in energy, transportation, and agriculture systems will make them more compatible with local economies and eliminate the wasteful resource uses that go with long-distance ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Henry Hazlitt

1The cotton program has been, however, an especially instructive one. As of August 1, 1956, the cotton carryover mounted to the record figure of 14,529,000 bales, more than a full ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
A Dictionary of Business by Unknown
mobi | | | Author:Unknown

Back - New Search insurance broker A person who is registered with the Insurance Brokers Registration Council to offer advice on all insurance matters and arrange cover, on behalf of ...
( Category: Architecture March 25,2014 )
Free Lunch by David Cay Johnston
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-27 | Author:David Cay Johnston

Chapter 15 SELLING THE FURNITURE THE STUDENT-LOAN BUSINESS IS JUST ONE ASPECT OF A GREAT transformation in the balance sheet of America. When students graduate and start paying off their ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure March 25,2014 )
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Peter Maass

Big Oil is getting the reward it deserves: after more than a century of power and indecency, it is shrinking. Until the 1970s, Western companies controlled most of the world’s ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 25,2014 )
No Logo by Naomi Klein
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Naomi Klein

During the late 1990s, the process of turning the service sector into a low-wage ghetto advanced rapidly in Germany. The German unemployment rate reached 12.6 percent in 1998, primarily because ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Scahill Jeremy
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

The story became even more complicated in July 2006, when the Secretary of the Army, Francis Harvey, wrote a letter to Republican Congressman Christopher Shays of the House Committee on ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )

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