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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 )
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 )
Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup by Andrew Zimbalist
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Andrew Zimbalist [Zimbalist, Andrew]

London The 2012 London Olympic Games distinguished themselves in several ways. Most significant, the legacy planning was more detailed and more ambitious than in any previous Olympics. The central legacy ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 17,2015 )
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them by Joseph E. Stiglitz
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

GLOBALIZATION ISN’T JUST ABOUT PROFITS. IT’S ABOUT TAXES TOO.* THE WORLD LOOKED ON AGOG AS TIM COOK, THE HEAD OF Apple, said his company had paid all the taxes owed—seeming ...
( Category: Social Policy June 16,2015 )
The Payoff by Jeff Connaughton
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Connaughton [Connaughton, Jeff]

10: THE BLOB A KING HAS HIS RETINUE, a celebrity his entourage, and Pig-Pen his cloud of dirt. Washington has The Blob. The Blob (it’s really called that) refers to ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 14,2015 )
Screwed the Undeclared War Against the Middle Class by Thom Hartmann
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-05-21 | Author:Thom Hartmann [Hartmann, Thom]

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 12,2015 )
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper) by Shiller Robert J. & Akerlof George A
mobi |eng | 2010-02-20 | Author:Shiller, Robert J. & Akerlof, George A. [Shiller, Robert J.]

Going North We need only go north to Canada to see a case in which Samuelson’s fears came true. Canada provides an instance in which denial of a tradeoff between ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 27,2015 )
The Happiness Industry by William Davies
epub |eng | | Author:William Davies

The science of deflation The ability of individuals to ‘strive’ and ‘grow’ came under a somewhat different scientific spotlight between 1957 and 1958, due to accidental and coincidental discoveries made ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 25,2015 )
The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin
epub | | 1997-12-31 | Author:Daniel Yergin

Dependencia Rules The traditional statist approach in Latin America was greatly influenced by what was known as dependencia, or dependency theory. It rationalized state dominance—high import barriers, a closed economy, ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 30,2015 )
The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
epub |eng | | Author:Nicole Aschoff

It’s a Cold World Out There Oprah’s popularity stems in part from her message of empathy, support, and love in an increasingly stressful, alienating society. Three decades of companies restructuring ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 27,2015 )
The True Gold Standard - A Monetary Reform Plan without Official Reserve Currencies (Second Edition - Newly Revised and Enlarged) by Lehrman Lewis E
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Lehrman, Lewis E. [Lehrman, Lewis E.]

From 1792 until 1971, the dollar was defined in law as a specific weight unit of gold (and/or silver). As required by Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 3,2015 )
Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse by Thomas E. Woods
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Thomas E. Woods

Out with the phony conservatives, the Tea Party movement says. We want the real thing. But the real thing, far from endorsing global military intervention, recoils from it. The conservative ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 3,2015 )
Enviro-Capitalists by Terry L. Anderson
epub |eng | 2007-12-28 | Author:Terry L. Anderson [Anderson, Terry L.]

The Skyline pilot effort, negotiated between a willing seller and buyer, can demonstrate the energy, environmental, and economic benefits associated with transfers from out-of-stream to instream flows in the Columbia ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 3,2015 )
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Rubin Robert & Weisberg Jacob
mobi |eng | 2003-11-17 | Author:Rubin, Robert & Weisberg, Jacob [Rubin, Robert]

( Category: Economic Policy February 12,2015 )
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Klein Naomi
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Klein, Naomi [Klein, Naomi]

* The retreat took place under the Chatham House Rule, which allows those attending to report on what was said in sessions, but not on who said what. (Any interviews ...
( Category: Environmental Policy January 8,2015 )

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