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381) Poverty Traps
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Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. Steven N. Durlauf is Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Karla Hoff is a Senior Research Economist at the World Bank.
Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape....
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The must-read summary of John Naisbitt's book: "Global Paradox: The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players".
This complete summary of the ideas from John Naisbitt's book "Global Paradox" answers a fundamental question: what is the global paradox? In his book, the author explains that as the world economy expands, the smallest elements (right down to the individual) will become ever more significant. The global paradox is...
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None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now.
Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent brings up-to-the-minute research and reporting to bear on the major economic question of our time: can the modern world manage technological changes every...
384) Trading Studio 2.0
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Trading Studio 2.0-Operación comercial que consiste en comprar un bien cuyo precio se espera que suba a corto plazo, con el único fin de venderlo en el momento oportuno y obtener un beneficio"Ahora sí, sin reservas de ninguna índole, te llevaremos a ser un excelente trader, "especulando" sobre la base de los conceptos que te permitirán aprovechar la coyuntura actual del auge de este mecanismo de operar en el mercado de activos financieros sin...
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The founder of the elite business network YTexas interviews eighteen CEOs and other business leaders on the growth benefits of the Lone Star State.
In recent years, hundreds of companies have relocated to the Lone Star State. But they don't just move-they stay, grow, expand, and tell others to join them. Ed Curtis reveals why in this volume of insightful interviews with Texas-based Fortune 500 CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders, and business icons.
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Today's financial crisis has led to a widespread lack of confidence in the laissez faire style of economic policy. In The Keynes Solution author Paul Davidson provides insights into how we got into the crisis-but more importantly how to use Keynes economic philosophy to get out of this mess. John Maynard Keynes was committed to making the market economy work-but our current system has been a dismal failure. Keynes advocated for an interventionalist...
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The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to student mobilizations around the world. Weaving together a global network of stories and analyses, editor Deric Shannon creates an outline of what real and effective opposition to the forces that are destroying...
388) Rising Together
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In today's world, many communities face the daunting challenges of poverty and inflation, which often leave individuals struggling to meet their basic needs. "Rising Together" offers a beacon of hope amidst these challenges, providing practical strategies and inspiring insights to empower communities in their journey towards resilience and prosperity.This comprehensive ebook delves into the heart of poverty and inflation, unraveling the complex factors...
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Daryl Collins is senior associate at Bankable Frontier Associates in Boston. Jonathan Morduch is professor of public policy and economics at New York University and coauthor of The Economics of Microfinance. Stuart Rutherford is the founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh. Orlanda Ruthven recently completed a doctoral degree in international development at the University of Oxford, and currently lives in Delhi.
Nearly forty...
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The Pacific is expected to recover with moderate growth of 1.4% in 2021 and 3.8% in 2022, with tourism and widespread vaccination playing key roles. This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor provides insights on experiences and lessons of Pacific island countries in striking a delicate balance between health and economic concerns. It also outlines ADB's new development strategy to help the region address the impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)....
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Sometimes I hear some disappointments, especially from younger people, that they have very few achievements, if any, in their lives. Often, they blame it on themselves, thinking that they are not smart enough, or took this particular job, or choose this profession, instead of a different one.
I always reason with them – otherwise. Do not put total blame on yourself. To reinforce my challenge I cite to them this particular story-Ability Is Nothing...
392) Spare parts: four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream
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Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture. In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo...
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"One of The Independent's Best Economics Books of the Year" "Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of the Year" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf" "One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in Economy" "Financial Times Best Economics Books of of the Year" "One of The Independent's Best Economics Books 2015" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2015, chosen by Vítor Constâncio"...
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Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
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2020.
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"In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life and death for whites and blacks in the United States. Yet...
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Crown
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[2021]
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"A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy. Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: Tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. But when Brown sat down to prepare...
396) Three Guineas
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Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war and a statement of feminine purpose.
Annotated and introduced by feminist literary scholar Jane Marcus, this is an ideal edition for the college classroom and beyond.
In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research...
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If you want to know why American Indians, have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are, two and a half times more, likely to be raped than the national average and why gang, violence affects American Indian youth more, than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt, that white settlers, devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th...
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Liveright Publishing Corporations, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
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[2023]
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"An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant...
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WGBH Educational Foundation
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c2009
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"All of the federal government's efforts to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this debt will constrain and challenge the new Obama administration, and on the growing chorus on both sides of the aisle that without fiscal reform, the United States government may face a debt crisis of its own, which makes the current...
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"Winner of the 2014 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by chosen by Bjorn Wahlroos" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013" "A "Best Business Book of the Year for 2013" selected on LinkedIn by Matthew Bishop, Economics Editor of The Economist"
Edmund Phelps was the 2006 Nobel Laureate in economics....
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