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A pioneer of modern economics
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the life and works of Adam Smith.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Recognize and understand the main ideas behind the works of Adam Smith on philosophy and economics
• Identify the impact his contributions had on future neoclassical economists and how The Wealth of Nations laid the foundations for modern economics
• Understand the limits and...
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This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the life and works of Joseph Stiglitz.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Recognize and understand the main ideas behind the contributions of Joseph Stiglitz and his New Keynesian approach
• Identify the impact his work had on both economics and politics, and the new concepts and tools that he conceptualized
• Understand the limits of his contributions and the criticisms held...
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Revolutionary thinking and the fight against capitalism
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the life and works of Karl Marx.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Recognize and understand the main ideas behind the works of Karl Marx on economic thought
• Identify the impact his contributions had on economics, perceptions of capitalism and political revolutions
• Understand the limits of his contributions...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist and free market advocate
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the life and works of Milton Friedman.
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• Recognize and understand the main ideas behind the works of Milton Friedman and his reasons for writing them
• Identify the impact Milton Friedman had on other economists and political figures, including Ronald Raegan and Margaret Thatcher
• Evaluate...
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Achieving macroeconomic equilibrium
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the Mundell-Fleming model, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
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• Learn about the IS-LM model that the Mundell-Fleming is based on and how each of the three curves of the model graph are formed, as well as how to interpret them
• Analyze different exchange rate regimes and the effect...
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Avoid scam investments
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding Ponzi schemes, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Learn about the inspiration behind the scheme, Charles Ponzi, and how he fraudulently pocketed profits on postage stamps while deceiving his investors
• Follow our advice on how to avoid Ponzi schemes and make the right investment
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Leading the way to development
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the role and mission of the United Nations Development Programme, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
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• Understand the foundations of the organization and why it was created in 1965
• Identify the global missions initially set by the organization, its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
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Understand Black Monday in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this major financial crisis with this practical and accessible guide.
On 19 October 1987, a number of factors came together to cause an unexpected drop in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange, with the Dow Jones ultimately losing 22.6% of its value in the course of a single day. This was the largest drop in the index's long history, but fortunately the real economy...
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Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark...
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Understand the workings of the OECD in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this important global organization with this practical and accessible guide.
When the Second World War came to an end in 1945, the European economy was in ruins. It was decided that a plan of economic revival was necessary — the Marshall Plan — which would be implemented by an organization that included many of the most important players on the world stage....
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Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a café wall. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes, make quiet lives in Midwestern monasteries. Some command armies of fabricators while others patiently teach schoolchildren how to finger-knit. All of these artists might well be shown in the same exhibition, the quality of work...
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Understand the Great Recession in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this key moment in contemporary economic history with this practical and accessible guide.
The burst of the property bubble in the USA in 2008 saw millions of families evicted from their homes and soon led to a major worldwide economic crisis. The spread of the crisis and the presence of toxic assets in banks around the world laid bare the complex mechanisms used...
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Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free-it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives-our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation.
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The U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case study, Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings. For some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status.
Drawing on archival and ethnographic...
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In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a critical tool for enjoying material comforts as well as challenging racism.
New York City has the largest population of black Americans out of any metropolitan area in the United States. It is home to a steadily rising number of socio-economically privileged blacks. In Black Privilege Cassi Pittman Claytor...
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Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China, Kenya, and Sweden. In Reimagining Money, Sibel Kusimba describes the rise of M-Pesa, and offers a rich portrait of how this technology changes the economic and social landscape, allowing users to create webs of relationships as they exchange, pool, borrow, lend, and share...
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When people encounter consumer goods-sugar, clothes, phones-they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain obscured. In this book, Tad Skotnicki argues that this encounter is an endemic feature of capitalist societies, and one with which consumers have struggled for centuries in the form of activist movements...
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A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America.
Open the brochure for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and you'll see logos for corporations like American Express. Visit the website for the Apollo Theater, and you'll notice acknowledgments to corporations like Coca Cola and Citibank. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, owe their...
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Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of death for women worldwide. With advances in molecular engineering in the 1980s, hopes began to rise that a non-toxic and non-invasive treatment for breast cancer could be developed. These hopes were stoked by the researchers, biotech companies, and analysts who worked to make sense of the uncertainties during product development. In Making Sense Sophie Mützel traces...
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What should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world? In “Supercorporate”, anthropologist Michael M. Prentice examines a central tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's twenty-first century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal participation?
As South Korea distances itself from images and figures of a hierarchical past, Prentice argues that the drive to redefine the meaning of corporate...
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