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Author : Henry George
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Progress and poverty written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Findlay
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831881
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Power and Plenty written by Ronald Findlay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium. Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke examine the successive waves of globalization and "deglobalization" that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking closely at the technological and political causes behind these long-term trends. They show how the expansion and contraction of the world economy has been directly tied to the two-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very long run. The story they tell is sweeping in scope, one that links the emergence of the Western economies with economic and political developments throughout Eurasia centuries ago. Drawing extensively upon empirical evidence and informing their systematic analysis with insights from contemporary economic theory, Findlay and O'Rourke demonstrate the close interrelationships of trade and warfare, the mutual interdependence of the world's different regions, and the crucial role these factors have played in explaining modern economic growth. Power and Plenty is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the origins of today's international economy, the forces that continue to shape it, and the economic and political challenges confronting policymakers in the twenty-first century.
Author : Patricia Preciado Martin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816519460
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Days of Plenty, Days of Want written by Patricia Preciado Martin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Patricia Preciado Martin, the past is every bit as real as the present. In Days of Plenty, Days of Want , past and present meet in a collection of strikingly crafted short stories. Martin combines a strong sense of the poetic and a familiarity with her community in fiction that is as authentic as history. Transcending the legends and folklore that are an integral part of the stories, she shows us a heritage being irreverently pushed aside by "progress" yet passed along from person to person, century to century. In the pages of this book are people so real you'll swear you've met them, situations so familiar you'll nod in recognition. In "Earth to Earth" we see the remains of a woman's entire lifetime being purchased and destroyed by land developers. "María de las Trenzas" offers a moving account of a young woman who fantasizes adventures to escape the tedium of her life. And "The Ruins" emphasizes the importance of preserving a heritage so that a people's history and culture will not be forgotten by future generations. Two of these stories have won prizes in Chicano literary contests; all will win the hearts of readers. Through these stories, Patricia Preciado Martin reminds us that freedom and self-expression are important in fulfilling our potential—and, more important, that a large part of this process requires acknowledging our heritage as a priceless gift whose relevance in our lives cannot be ignored.
Author : William J. Bernstein
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071760806
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)
Download or read book The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern Work was Created written by William J. Bernstein and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Compact and immensely readable . . . a tour de force. Prepare to be amazed.” John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group Bernstein is widely respected as author of the bestseller, The Intelligent Asset Allocator Identifies and explains the four conditions necessary for human progress
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Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970419
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Red Plenty written by Francis Spufford and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
Author : Roger Thurow
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458767337
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Enough written by Roger Thurow and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the ''Green Revolution'' succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year - most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.
Author : Raymond A. Rogers
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771124385
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Rough and Plenty written by Raymond A. Rogers and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who “departed this life” in 1881. Rogers wondered if there might be a connection between the necessity of his own departure, and McDonald’s lonely presence on the nearby Atlantic shore, linking them as members of local communities that were displaced in the name of “economic progress.” In Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book aims to memorialize local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production, as well as to convey the experience of dislocation using first-hand narratives, recent and historical. The author makes the case that in a world where capital abhors all communities but itself, remembering becomes a form of advocacy that can challenge dominant structures.
Author : Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
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Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Report of Progress 1874-1889,A-Z. written by Geological Survey of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Proffessor John Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136090843
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Plenty and Want written by Proffessor John Burnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.
Author : Teresa Amabile
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422142736
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Progress Principle written by Teresa Amabile and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly. As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain in The Progress Principle, seemingly mundane workday events can make or break employees’ inner work lives. But it’s forward momentum in meaningful work—progress—that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees in 7 companies, the authors explain how managers can foster progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: (1) catalysts—events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy—and (2) nourishers—interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality. Brimming with honest examples from the companies studied, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their people’s performance.
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Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Report of Progress 1874-1889, A-Z. written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1094 pages
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Download or read book Typographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne B. Ryan
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184694239X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Enough is Plenty written by Anne B. Ryan and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enough is an ancient 'master concept', which today finds renewed expression in a variety of proposals for a transition to a better world. Each one of us has an innate sense of enough; everybody can play a part in the movement of enough and at the same time improve daily well being. The book is a unique blend of ideas, practice and resources, integrating philosophy, morality, ecology, spirituality, self-help, citizenship, leadership, economics and politics.
Author : Edward Amherst Ott
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Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personality Development and Choice of Vocation written by Edward Amherst Ott and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827000
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Good and Plenty written by Tyler Cowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts who is also a libertarian economist to bridge such a gap. Enter Tyler Cowen. In this book he argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better. Few would deny that America produces and consumes art of a quantity and quality comparable to that of any country. But is this despite or because of America's meager direct funding of the arts relative to European countries? Overturning the conventional wisdom of this question, Cowen argues that American art thrives through an ingenious combination of small direct subsidies and immense indirect subsidies such as copyright law and tax policies that encourage nonprofits and charitable giving. This decentralized and even somewhat accidental--but decidedly not laissez-faire--system results in arts that are arguably more creative, diverse, abundant, and politically unencumbered than that of Europe. Bringing serious attention to the neglected issue of the American way of funding the arts, Good and Plenty is essential reading for anyone concerned about the arts or their funding.
Author : Ernest Boys
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Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Christian progress, ed. by E. Boys written by Ernest Boys and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
