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In this classic discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, and how good intentions often produce deplorable results when government is the middleman. The Friedmans also provide remedies for these ills--they tell us what to do in order to expand...
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Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019
From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen,...
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"In Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism, John Patrick Leary chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. From Silicon Valley to the White House, from primary school to higher education, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators and entrepreneurs, to be curators of an ever-expanding roster of competencies. In a series of short essays on terms like 'entrepreneur,' 'sustainability,'...
5) Animal spirits: how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism
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"George A. Akerlof, Co-Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2009 International Book Award, getAbstract" "Co-Winner of the 2010 Silver Medal Book Award in Entrepreneurship, Axiom Business" "Co-Winner of the 2010 Robert Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology, American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2009 Paul A. Samuelson Award for...
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In SAVING CAPITALISM, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy in which the one percent get ever richer and the rest-middle and working class alike-lose ever more economic agency, making for the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity since World War II. In brilliantly provocative detail, he shows how our misguided veneration of the "free market" has...
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In his illuminating new book, Douglas McWilliams argues that inequality is largely driven not by a conspiracy of the rich, as Thomas Piketty suggests, but by technology and globalization tat have led to the paradox of rising inequality even as worldwide poverty drops. But what are the implications of this seeming contradiction, and what ultimately drives the global distribution of wealth? What can societies do to reshape capitalism for the 21st...
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Profiles the business philosophies of such market leaders as Whole Foods, Costco, and Wegmans, revealing how their examples reflect fundamental principles and practices that business managers can adapt to enable conscious leadership and a caring businessculture.
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"The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes...
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The Editor in Chief of The Economist, illuminates what global issues mattered in the last century-and how the ways in which we deal with them will shape our lives in the next.
The attacks on September 11th, 2001, shook the rich West out of its complacency; suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before that time, prosperity was endangered, as campaigns mounted against the purported evils of capitalist globalization, such as inequality, pollution,...
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This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It brings together an international team of leading economic historians and economists to provide an overview of global developments in the theory and reality of inequality and its salience in the modern world order.
The contributors take stock of the...
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Si nous voulons ébranler, voire abolir, les structures capitalistes qui menacent aujourd'hui toute vie sur la planète, Noam Chomsky et Marv Waterstone affirment avec force qu'il faut commencer par réévaluer les outils que nous utilisons pour interpréter le monde. C'est ce qu'ils démontrent dans ce livre tiré d'un cours qu'ils ont donné ensemble à l'université de l'Arizona, en faisant ressortir les liens souvent imperceptibles entre la fabrique...
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Modern Tribal Politics points out that the American capitalistic society is superior to European tribal socialism and is the ultimate in social organization. American capitalism sublimates the inherent tribal aggressive instincts of conquer, kill, and plunder by moving them to organizations, businesses, and companies. American capitalism provides a controlled nonviolent civil environment where companies and organizations can aggressively compete with...
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Drawing on over four decades of research and writing on the political economy of the UK and United States, David Coates offers a masterly account of the Anglo-American condition and the social and economic crisis besetting both countries.
Charting the rise and fall of the social settlements that have shaped and defined the postwar years, Coates traces the history of the two economies through first their New Deal and then their Reaganite periods—ones...
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Frente a las catástrofes en curso es urgente formular interpretaciones que permitan entender el presente convulso que vivimos. En esta obra presentamos 8 reflexiones sobre el futuro del capitalismo formuladas a partir de dos preguntas comunes: cómo se sostiene el sistema y cuáles son las vías de su superación. Las y los autores coinciden en dos cuestiones fundamentales: el carácter terminal del capitalismo como resultado de la crisis contemporánea...
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Our Founding Fathers had a revolutionary idea that the government should serve the people and not the other way around. But, how does a group of men without blueprints build something from nothing? The answers laid in their Judeo-Christian faith, the Bible, and a collective understanding that laws, not people, should rule a nation. When done, our framers created the finest governing document known to civilization, the United States Constitution.
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Marx and Engels were right when they observed in the Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generations combined. A century and a half later, all the evidence shows that capitalism has lifted millions and millions from hunger and poverty.
Today's story about global capitalism, shared by right-wing and left-wing populists, but also by large sections...
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In our rapidly changing world, the future of our economic system-capitalism-seems more unpredictable than ever. Digitalization is already having a significant impact on the labor market. Intensive globalization has led to the emergence of new forms of capitalism that are very different from the Western free market economies. And contemporary critiques of capitalism present another challenge to our economic system.
This volume looks at capitalism's...
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Estos son los hombres que han robado al mundo entero
Hace tiempo, si un funcionario robaba, podía comprarse un coche o construirse una casa nueva, pero eso era todo. Si continuaba robando, el dinero se acumulaba hasta que no quedaba espacio donde ocultarlo o se lo comían los ratones.
Pero, entonces, a un reducido grupo de banqueros londinenses se le ocurrió una gran idea: los paraísos fiscales, lugares imaginarios donde el dinero podía moverse...
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