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The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done little to assuage economic anxieties. Conditions like these seem designed to produce a generation-defining intervention to balance the economic scales and enhance opportunities for those at the middle and...
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This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidinal-the site of unconscious desire-plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive role in global political economy. Consumption, for example, is not simply a way of satisfying a material or biological need but a doomed attempt at soothing our deeply held sense of loss; and capital is not just a means to material growth and...
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Drive through a low-income neighborhood and you're likely to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in "alternative financial services" directed at the poor and those with credit problems. Howard Karger describes this world as an economic Wild West, where just about any financial scheme that's not patently illegal is tolerated.
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License to Loot is a full of fire and fury look at America's problems and how we begin to solve them. It unapologetically examines illegal immigration, opioid misuse, controversial vaccinations, and ethnic prejudice.
This book is about helping low-waged employed folks do their best to get off government handouts, and encouraging able-bodied job refusers to stop viewing Uncle Sam as their piggy banks, not caring or not aware of their nation's...
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When Bush came to office in 2001, the 10-year budget balance was officially projected to be at a surplus of $5.6 trillion. But, after three big tax cuts, the bursting of the stock-market bubble, and the devastating effects of 9/11on the economy, the surplus has evaporated, and the deficit is expected to grow to $ 5-trillion over the next decade. The domestic deficit is only the half of it. Given our $500 billion trade deficit and our anemic savings...
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We now know the answers to helping long time welfare recipients become self-sufficient, and how to pry loose the dead hand of human service bureaucracies.
"I enjoy coming to work and learning different things...I really like my kids to know I work...This should have happened 10 years ago...I believe many of my friends wouldn't do no drugs if they had a chance for a real job." - Rebecca, a woman from Chicago's notorious housing projects, high school...
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Americans have, since our founding, participated in a variety of alternative institutions-self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business to change society. From the town meetings that still serve as our ideal of self-governance, to the sustainable food movement that is changing the way we think about farming the land and feeding our families, these secondary structures have given rise to many of our...
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El libro tiene un marcado carácter económico y social abarcando un amplio período entre los siglos XV y XIX. Está centrado en Cogeces del Monte, aunque en ocasiones se incluyen a poblaciones del entorno: Aldealvar, Bahabón, Campaspero, Santibáñez, Torrescárcela, Montemayor, Quintanilla de Abajo, Langayo, Cuéllar, y otras de la comunidad de villa y tierra de Cuéllar.
Los contenidos que se abordan tratan fundamentalmente de: la demografía,...
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La presente obra, con un formato de manual básico, tiene como objetivo fundamental ser un elemento activo del acompañamiento de todo alumno en las asignaturas en las que se aplique la metodología active learning, en cualquiera de sus variantes, siempre en el marco de la dirección y administración de empresas.
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Woher kommt das Geld? Wieso ist es meist knapp und in Krisen auf einmal schier unbegrenzt verfügbar? Weshalb gibt es die erbitterten Kämpfe zwischen den beiden großen Lagern der Keynesianer und der Neoklassiker? Woher nimmt die Bundesregierung in Zeiten von Corona auf einmal Hunderte Milliarden von Euro? Anschaulich und für ein breites Publikum erklärt Monika Stemmer die Formen der Geldschöpfung, die Rolle des Staates mit seinem Währungsmonopol...
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Die unbekannte Supermacht - ein neuer Partner für den Westen?
An Indien scheiden sich die Geister. Obwohl oder gerade weil kaum jemand im Westen dieses widersprüchliche Land versteht. Zwischen Slums und Prunk, zwischen Yoga und Hightech, zwischen Bollywoodkultur und Kastenwesen ist uns das Land, dessen Bedeutung für die Weltgemeinschaft immer größer wird, ein Rätsel geblieben. Oliver Schulz liefert einen tiefen Einblick in die verschiedenen...
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Et si la crise de 2008 n'avait été que l'annonce de chocs sociétaux titanesques ? Le capitalisme anglo-saxon contribue-t-il à créer une société illibérale dans un monde désordonné ? Comment rendre à l'État son autorité sans qu'il devienne autoritaire ou liberticide ? Quel monde nous prépare la numérisation ? Dans nos sociétés de consommation, reste-t-il une place pour l'idéal et le sens du bien commun ?Voici quelques-unes des questions...
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A treatise by a White House insider on the root causes and inherent dangers of late twentieth-century American despotism written by a White House insider, with a new introduction by Chris Hedges In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a nice-guy mask, a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent corporate...
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Im Mittelpunkt des Werks "Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie" stehen der Wert der Waren in seiner doppelten Darstellungsform von Gebrauchswert und Tauschwert, die konkrete und die abstrakte Arbeit, die Arbeitszeit als quantitatives Maß der Arbeit, das Geld, die Zirkulation, Akkumulation, Produktions- und Handelskrisen. Marx beschreibt dabei auch die verkehrte Auffassung der ökonomischen Verhältnisse innerhalb der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft und...
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We have experienced a shift in American character: we've become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts on Wall Street to the alarming increases in personal default and dependency, from questionable tax exemptions to enormous pension, healthcare, and other entitlement costs, the new moocher culture cuts across lines of class, race, and private and...
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Demostrates that a true liberal capitalism still has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.
Capitalism has lost its glamor. In just three decades since it "defeated" a totalitarian Soviet Union, capitalism is today blamed for slowing growth, a dangerously changing climate, inequality, social misery, and a rise in nationalist populism. How did capitalism fall...
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In this timely book, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham debunks the myths that warp our current debate over energy, and offers new solutions to the real problems we face in America.
Drawing on the very latest thinking from experts in industry and academia, and his own experiences running America's Energy Department, he proposes a fresh approach to meeting our daunting energy threats. This book effectively answers how America and the world...
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Following on F. A. Hayek's previous work “Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics” (1967), “New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas” collects some of Hayek's most notable essays and lectures dealing with problems of philosophy, politics and economics, with many of the essays falling into more than one of these categories. Expanding upon the previous volume the present work also includes a fourth part...
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Contents:
The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Theory of Business Enterprise
The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts
Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution
An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation
The Higher Learning in America
The Vested Interests and the Common Man
The Engineers and the Price System
The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation
The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View
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Lohn, Preis und Profit ist die Bezeichnung eines Vortragsmanuskripts von Karl Marx aus dem Jahre 1865. Es beinhaltet die marxsche Mehrwerttheorie in groben Zügen, wie sie im Kapital von 1867 ausführlich dargestellt ist. Marx stellt in der Rede den Zusammenhang von Warenpreis und Lohnzahlungen infrage. Warenpreise würden sich nach dem Gesetz von Angebot und Nachfrage verhalten; Lohnzahlungen seien auf die Verhandlungen zwischen Arbeitern und Kapitalisten...
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