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Author : Emily Gerard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Beggar My Neighbor written by Emily Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207505
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Beggar Thy Neighbor written by Charles R. Geisst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.
Author : Patrick R. Mullen
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199746699
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Poor Bugger's Tool written by Patrick R. Mullen and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country. Taking its title from a veiled reference to Roger Casement-the humanitarian and Irish patriot hanged for treason-in James Joyce's Ulysses, The Poor Bugger's Tool demonstrates how the affective labor of Irish queer culture might contribute to a progressive new national image for the Republic and Northern Ireland.Looking back to the first wave of Irish modernism in the works of Wilde, Synge, Casement, and Joyce, Patrick Mullen reveals how these authors deployed queer aesthetics to shape inclusive forms of national affiliation as well as to sharpen anti-imperialist critiques. In its second half, the monograph turns its attention to Ireland's postmodernist boom in the works of Patrick McCabe, Neil Jordan, and Jamie O'Neill. With readings of The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, and At Swim Two Boys, Mullen shows that queer sensibilities and style remain key cultural resources for negotiating the political and economic realities of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century.Buttressed by writings of theorists like Marx, Foucault, and Antonio Negri, The Poor Bugger's Tool brings Irish literature into a fruitful dialog with queer theory, postcolonial studies, the history of sexuality, and modernist aesthetics.
Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412966701
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 The Encyclopedia of Play: A Social History explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreation activities of children as well as adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman empire to video games today. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of several curricular disciplines, from sociology to child psychology, from lifestyle history to social epidemiology. This two-volume set will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students in education and human development, health and sports psychology, leisure and recreation studies and kinesiology, history, and other social sciences to understand the importance of play as it has developed globally throughout history and to appreciate the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination.
Author : Joseph Hanlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780852553077
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Beggar Your Neighbours written by Joseph Hanlon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". comprehensive in its coverage, exacting in its standards of description and interpretation, and almost faultless in its use of source material and existing literature... " -- Anti-Apartheid News ..". an excellent compendium of information on the military and economic power that South Africa applies in dealing with its neighbors." -- Foreign Service Journal ..". important for the shaping of Western policy toward South Africa." -- The Book Exchange ..". impressive... indispensable." -- Third World Book Review "This is a very important book." -- Social Dynamics Hanlon pieces together the details of South Africa's military attacks on its neighbors and relates them to the control the South African state exercises through its economic power.
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Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book ...The Crown Encyclopedia and Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 2736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Glavey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190202653
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Wallflower Avant-garde written by Brian Glavey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wallflower Avant-Garde argues for the importance of a strain of modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of the visual arts. Often associated with a conservative aesthetic of wholeness, permanence, and autonomy, ekphrastic writing also involves excess, failure, and mimesis, conjuring an aesthetic sense of closure and unity out of impossible imitations. This choreography of imitation and autonomy resonates with many of the foundational insights of queer theory: the way it situates identity as an effect of performativity, artifice, and mimesis. Unlike many queer theorists, however, this book insists that we value both the imitations and the aspirations that guide them, underlining not only the illusoriness of identity but also its allure. This more capacious formalism allows aspects of modernists aesthetic that have seemed regressive or repressive to be read as generative forms of stasis, quiet, reserve, shyness, and so on.
Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262297744
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Trade Policy Disaster written by Douglas A. Irwin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extreme protectionism that contributed to a collapse of world trade in the 1930s is examined in light of the recent economic crisis. The recent economic crisis—with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment—has been reminiscent of the Great Depression. The Depression of the 1930s was marked by the spread of protectionist trade policies, which contributed to a collapse in world trade. Although policymakers today claim that they will resist the protectionist temptation, recessions are breeding grounds for economic nationalism, and countries may yet consider imposing higher trade barriers. In Trade Policy Disaster, Douglas Irwin examines what we know about trade policy during the traumatic decade of the 1930s and considers what we can learn from the policy missteps of the time. Irwin argues that the extreme protectionism of the 1930s emerged as a consequence of policymakers' reluctance to abandon the gold standard and allow their currencies to depreciate. By ruling out exchange rate changes as an adjustment mechanism, policymakers turned instead to higher tariffs and other means of restricting imports. He offers a clear and concise exposition of such topics as the effect of higher trade barriers on the implosion of world trade; the impact of the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930; the reasons some countries adopted draconian trade restrictions (including exchange controls and import quotas) but others did not; the effect of preferential trade arrangements and bilateral clearing agreements on the multilateral system of world trade; and lessons for avoiding future trade wars.
Author : David James Gill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300268602
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Long Shadow of Default written by David James Gill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the causes and consequences of Britain’s default on its First World War debts to the United States of America The Long Shadow of Default focuses on an important but neglected example of sovereign default between two of the wealthiest and most powerful democracies in modern history. The United Kingdom accrued considerable financial debts to the United States during and immediately after the First World War. In 1934, the British government unilaterally suspended payment on these debts. This book examines why the United Kingdom was one of the last major powers to default on its war debts to the United States and how these outstanding obligations affected political and economic relations between both governments. The British government’s unpaid debts cast a surprisingly long shadow over policymaking on both sides of the Atlantic. Memories of British default would limit transatlantic cooperation before and after the Second World War, inform Congressional debates about the economic difficulties of the 1970s, and generate legal challenges for both governments up until the 1990s. More than a century later, the United Kingdom’s war debts to the United States remain unpaid and outstanding. David James Gill provides one of the most detailed historical analyses of any sovereign default. He brings attention to an often-neglected episode in international history to inform, refine, and sometimes challenge the wider study of sovereign default.
Author : Josiah Flynt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Powers that Prey written by Josiah Flynt and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Financial Support Fund written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann R. Hawkins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438485565
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America written by Ann R. Hawkins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.
Author : William Safire
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307800598
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Coming to Terms written by William Safire and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William Safire delineates the difference between misinformation and disinformation or “distances himself” from clichés, people sit up and take notice. Which is not to say that Safire’s readers always take the punning pundit at his word: they don’t, and he’s got the letters to prove it. Among the entries in Coming to Terms, this all-new collection of Safire’s “On Language” columns, you’ll read the repartee of Lexicographic Irregulars great and small. John Haim of New York sets in concrete what properly to call a cement truck, while Charlton Heston challenges an interpretation of Hamlet’s “to take arms against a sea of troubles” and Gene Shalit passes along his favorite Yogi Berra-ism. Bringing them all together are dozens of Safire’s most illuminating and witty columns, from “Right Stuffing” to “Getting Whom.” When William Safire comes to terms, there’s never a dull moment.
Author : Christine Ammer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029014808
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Business and Economics written by Christine Ammer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines and explains terms related to management, banking, finance, insurance, real estate, investment, data processing, marketing, and economic theory.
Author : Khwaja Masoom
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
ISBN 13 : 148289582X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Entrepreneur's Dictionary of Business and Financial Terms written by Khwaja Masoom and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to succeed in business, you need to know the language. Fortunately, this reference volume presents all the necessary words are in one place. The Entrepreneur's Dictionary of Business and Financial Terms includes terms from academic and business environments and is ideal for - students focusing on economics, business, finance, and management; - professionals in management, administration, finance, project management, and related fields; - researchers and instructors in business-related fields; and - movers and shakers, bankers, brokers, and investors. This dictionary is compiled from a vast range of modern sources and includes more than nine thousand definitions from the fields of business, finance, accounting, and associated fields. The explanations provide complete and thorough insights into some of the most complex business terms you'll ever encounter. Whether you're seeking to establish a career in business, to improve your upward mobility or role, or just to broaden your horizons, you'll find a wealth of knowledge in this business dictionary.
