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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 685 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns and shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities. He argues, however, that the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth will generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take examines how people can champion new ideas--and how leaders can encourage originality in their organizations. With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation's most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 566 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Klein argues that climate change isn't just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It's an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein ... builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 353 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Plunder is a startling investigation into the poorly understood, powerful force of private equity that is reshaping the American economy: raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, increasing inequality, and shifting resources from productive partsof the economy to unproductive ones. Already transformative, private equity is poised to reshape the American economy in this decade the way that big tech did in the last decade, and subprime lenders...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
405 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"While offering grass-roots practical advice on how to shop, garden, run a household, preserve and cook food, and more, Fasenfest also discusses the philosophy of housedholding. In A Householder's Guide to the Universe, which is organized according to season and presented in monthly installments, Fasenfest invites the reader into her home, garden, and kitchen to consider concrete tools for change."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xx, 260 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm
Description
This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends - it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. "Whatever the future holds", the authors argue, "it will be nothing like the past". Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the worlds available labour supply,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
v, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"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. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 1093 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas thathave sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (491 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch George whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only sane family member is Lindsay's twin brother Michael,...
18) The common good
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices, Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous, inclusive understanding of the American project, centering on the moral obligations of citizenship. Rooting his argument in everyday reality and common sense, Reich demonstrates the existence of a common good, and argues that it is this that defines a society or a nation. Societies and nations undergo virtuous cycles...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
199 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Author, illustrator and comic book artist Yumi Sakugawa shares a wide range of useful and unexpected tips for looking and feeling better, streamlining and improving your home life, and creating fun and artsy DIY projects that can brighten your living space. Inspired by her popular "Secret Yumiverse" tips originally posted on WonderHowTo.com, The Little Book of Life Hacks offers a wide range of practical advice and fun tips for everything from how...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at home, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more...
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