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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and...
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In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia's first globalised...
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"This book will describe, the dismantling of the New Deal profoundly affected the way in which the private corporate sector treated the future as well. Deregulation dramatically shortened the time horizons of American business. Time is money. Banks and investment houses were once again free to use the nation's capital to chase short-term speculative profits. The idea that had been emerging after World War II that corporations were social institutions...
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"Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming- both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality- to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature,...
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"YOU are struggling to survive during the Great Depression. As a migrant worker, you travel from place to place hoping to earn enough money to get by. How will you find a way to feed and clothe yourself and your family? Step back in time to face the challenges that real people were met with during this difficult time in history"--
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""[Miller] offers a vision of what the military-industrial complex looks like once it's transported, jobs and all, to the US-Mexican border and turned into a consumer mall for the post-9/11 era. [it's] a striking and original picture."--Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch "What Jeremy Scahill was to Blackwater, Todd Miller is to the U.S. Border Patrol!"--Tom Miller, author, On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier Armed authorities watch...
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The #1 New York Times bestseller about putting America back in the lead and building a better future from former US Presidential Candidate and 2018 Utah Senate Candidate.
In No Apology, Mitt Romney asserts that American strength is essential-not just for our own well-being, but for the world's. Nations such as China and a resurgent Russia threaten to overtake us on many fronts, and violent Islamism continues its dangerous rise. In the face of such...
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Diagnóstico del mercado agrícola y agroindustrial en Colombia. Una estrategia para la reactivación de la agricultura, pretende ser un aporte en estrategias actualizadas y prácticas para incentivar el mercadeo, que estudios de diagnóstico sobre el tema. Entrega una visión global y ordenada de la evolución de la comercialización de productos agrícolas, especialmente de los perecederos que se distribuyen en estado natural o procesados, como...
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What is a "green job" anyway? Few can adequately define one. Even the government isn't sure, you will learn in these pages. Still, President Obama and environmentalist coalitions such as the BlueGreen Alliance claim the creation of green jobs can save America's economy, and are worth taxpayers' investment. But in Regulating to Disaster, Diana Furchtgott-Roth debunks that myth. Instead, energy prices rise dramatically and America's economic growth...
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In 1920, Ludwig von Mises proclaimed that all attempts to establish socialism would come to grief, for reasons of informational efficiency. At first, socialists and economists took Mises's argument seriously, but by the end of the Second World War, a consensus prevailed that Mises had been discredited. More recently, that consensus has been rapidly reversed: it is now widely agreed that 'Mises was right'. Yet the momentous implications of the Mises...
16) Cruel World
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What kind of world have we created? Increasing numbers of us live in fear of losing our homes and jobs, many forced to rely on the charity of food banks to feed ourselves and our children. Many of us live on the streets in utter destitution, often with mental health problems, and no-one seems to care. Many more of us live in poor countries where for want of clean water and basic sanitation we must watch helplessly as our children and infants die...
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Cet ouvrage aborde à la fois les notions d'équité en emploi et d'équité salariale dans les régimes juridiques applicables aux entreprises de compétence québécoise et canadienne. Parmi chacun de ces régimes, il faut encore distinguer un régime général applicable à tous et des régimes particuliers qui s'appliquent à certains employeurs et à certains travailleurs.
Dans cette 2e édition, on retrouve des descriptions statistiques mises...
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Rebound takes the currently unthinkable view that the economy will bounce back faster and stronger from the downturn than most economists expect. Noted Labor economist Stephen J. Rose amasses data on the economic performance of America over the last 30 years to debunk myths about declining middle class incomes, burger-flipping jobs and global competition. He also describes the evolution of the financial crisis and mortgage lending implosion under...
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A highly paradigm shift manifesto that is a call to action to most Zimbabwean citizens with regards to their role in the economics of the country. The citizens are exposed to the priorities they need to be focusing on if the economics of the nation should improve. And part of the advise goes beyond just political revolutions and protests.
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Claude Manzagol (1938-2008) est le pilier de la géographie économique dans le milieu de la recherche francophone. Comprenant un texte inédit de Manzagol lui-même, ce livre dévoile les différents aspects du renouvellement de la géographie économique que cet homme a amorcé et qui doit se poursuivre afin d'apporter des réponses aux principaux problèmes sociaux provoqués par les restructurations économiques en cours.
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