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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870-2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression,...
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New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
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xv, 367 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Politicians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted myths and demonstrates that we are in fact navigating the end of the era of economic growth, and that the only sustainable alternative is the development of a steady state economy. Starting with a refreshingly...
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English
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itś the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itś the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money,...
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes...
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English
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Why are some nations rich and others poor? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of the right policies? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Based on fifteen years of original research, Acemoglu and Robinson marshal historical evidence from the Roman...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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439 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Tells the story of the conservative economists espousing free market and deregulatory policies during the four decades betweeen 1969 and 2008. Leading figures such as Milton Friedman, Arthur Laffer, Walter Oi, Alfred Kahn, and Thomas Schelling believed that government should stop trying to manage the economy, and that markets would deliver steady growth and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits. But, Applelbaum argues, these policies failed...
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Global Research
Pub. Date
2010
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xxii, 391 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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In all major regions of the world, the economic recession is deep-seated, resulting in mass unemployment, the collapse of state social programs and the impoverishment of millions of people. The meltdown of financial markets was the result of institutionalized fraud and financial manipulation. The economic crisis is accompanied by a worldwide process of militarization, a war without borders led by the U.S. and its NATO allies. This book takes the reader...
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Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
2021.
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327 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Este libro es un testimonio de lo alcanzado hasta ahora, de los desafios pendientes y de como imagino que estara el pais en 2024. [...] Desde antes de asumir por mandato popular la Presidencia de la Republica, fuimos elaborando un plan de desarrollo que surgio de muchos anos de brega, recorriendo a ras de tierra el territorio nacional, valorando las potencialidades y los vastos recursos naturales, reflexionando sobre los obstaculos para el desarrollo...
12) Griftopia: a story of bankers, politicians, and the most audiacious power grab in American history
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class — made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
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xxiii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materials reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard of changes in the social and industrial order. A century after the outbreak of...
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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557 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those in recent memory.
A few years ago, Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before: huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies. Here Dalio brings readers along for his study of...
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Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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511 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset's Terrifying Next Phase, New York Times bestselling authors Glenn Beck and Justin Haskins reveal the most important technologies and social and cultural changes that will soon cause an unprecedented level of disruption in the United States, as well as in countless other nations. They also outline the dangers and opportunities associated with these disruptions and provide a plan to protect individuals and...
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