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Pub. Date
2021.
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xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Professor Klaus Schwab is Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. He is one of the most recognizable thought leaders in economics in the world, with the Forum as his platform. The Forum is simple and effective: it brings together the most relevant leaders from all sectors of global society and identifies the best ways to address the world's most significant challenges....
2) Why liberalism works: how true liberal values produce a freer, more equal, prosperous world for all
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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xiii, 384 pages ; 25 cm.
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An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world. The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by eighteenth-century philosophers like Locke, Smith,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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209 pages ; 20 cm
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Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important―and difficult―audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (312 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 program booklet (22 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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Filmed over two years in 22 countries, interviewing 21 of the world's leading economists, historians, sociologists and political scientist, it is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at the ideas and social forces that have shaped the capitalist world.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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356 pages ; 25 cm
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The capitalist era is passing -- not quickly, but inevitably. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Ironically, capitalism's demise is not coming at the hands of hostile external forces. Rather, The Zero Marginal Cost Society argues, capitalism is a victim of its own success. Intense competition across sectors of the economy is forcing the introduction of ever newer technologies....
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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247 pages ; 24 cm.
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"From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the many failures of the greatest economic system in history, and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Western society, once thriving, is being torn apart by deep new rifts in its social and economic fabric. It's now populous cities versus rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less educated; wealthy versus developing countries. As these breaks have...
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Pub. Date
2007
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558 p. ; 25 cm.
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Journalist Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka after the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed remarkably similar events: people still reeling were hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to corporate makeovers. This book retells the story of Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution. In contrast to the myth of...
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Pub. Date
2021
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xv, 320 pages ; 20 cm
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Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH. Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all. This is our chance to change course, but we must act now.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists and policymakers tend to ignore the political and social dimensions of capitalism, some of the great economists of the past - Adam Smith, Friedrich List, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi and Albert Hirschman - did not make the same mistake....
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Pub. Date
2022.
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452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity-cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits-as a means to regain solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they've had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains:...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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xxvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world's leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here. In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn't always popular-in the ancient world, usury was generally viewed as exploitative, a potential...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (iv, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm)
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"All of the tradeoffs in competing economic systems--capitalism, socialism, and communism--are controversial. These systems and ideologies have undeniably shaped the way people view both the world today and modern history. But where does capitalism begin and socialism end? In short, it's about choice and compromise. Understanding and endeavoring to solve these perpetual dilemmas is the job of comparative economics. By looking at the many economies...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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xv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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What did schools teach us about money? Not much. Most of what they taught is outdated, obsolete, and just doesn't work. Without real financial education, teachers are not aware they are teaching Marxist ideas. How can we counter communism taught in our schools? By teaching capitalism in our homes. Kiyosaki is dedicated to seeking out the truth behind the National Education Association, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank. Here...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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viii, 326 pages ; 25 cm
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"After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so spectacularly. In 1990, the G7 Countries enjoyed 70 percent of world GDP. In the face of the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was supposed to be a story of the success of free markets. However, in the...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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viii, 407 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"In Arguing With Socialists, New York Times bestselling author Glenn Beck arms readers to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have once again become popular, and proves that the free market is the only way to go"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
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viii, 193 pages ; 23 cm
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"The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of essays, Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that "returning to normal" no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism....
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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xvii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Reich has written a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it. He reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the free market is, and how it has masked the power of moneyed...
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