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Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007
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558 p. ; 25 cm.
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An introduction to the concept of "disaster capitalism" offers an expose? of how the global "free market" has exploited crises, violence, and shock over the past three decades to promote radical privatization that benefits large corporations and powerful interest groups.
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Threshold Editions, Mercury Radio Arts
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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Murray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this book is his most succinct and powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institution that violates all that we hold as honest and moral, and how it operates under a false cover. He shows how the state wrecks freedom, destroys civilization, and threatens all lives and property and social well-being, all under the veneer...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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ix, 565 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
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In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names;...
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Summary, Analysis and Review of George Akerlof's and et al Phishing for Phools by Instaread Preview: In Phishing for Phools, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain the economics of fraud by incorporating fraudulent and unfair transactions into free-market economic models. Conventional economic models that presuppose a free market often assume that customers make decisions based on their long-term interests. They posit that the market moves toward...
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Pasamos gran parte de nuestra vida en el trabajo y es importante no solo que aprendamos a sentirnos felices en él sino realizados. Debemos sentir que progresamos, que estamos en el sitio correcto, que nos valoran, que aportamos y que, llegado el tiempo, podremos dejar un legado cuando nuestra vida laboral haya concluido.
Pero la realidad, con frecuencia, no se ajusta a estas expectativas. ¿Por qué? Porque, en muchos casos, no sabemos cómo solicitar...
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With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.
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En los actuales momentos de globalización económica, una de las principales estrategias que pueden adoptar los países del mundo y en particular los países de América Latina para obtener un crecimiento económico sostenible en el largo plazo, es estimular la creación de empresas de base tecnológica basada en la innovación, con el fin de generar encadenamientos productivos extensos y empleos formales. En este sentido, este libro plantea un análisis...
11) Ways to be Rich
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This little book should be used as a template for those who just have to break out and become their own master.
It is in fact a procedural manual for those starting out with no money, but with the hope and determination that will lead them to a richer, happier life through financial security.
It gives a blow by blow account of how this was done by one couple, and how this can be emulated by others.
It supplies dates and the sums involved to demonstrate...
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Se trata de una descripción y revisión crítica de cómo funcionan las organizaciones de nuestro tiempo.
Los dos primeros capítulos están dedicados a delimitar la sociología de las organizaciones y a precisar el contexto de su emergencia.
Los siguientes se orientan al examen de diferentes modelos de organización, desde el burocrático industrial hasta nuevas formas más flexibles y menos formales.
Tal examen se hace desde la óptica de la...
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Also known as "the free market economy" or " free enterprises", capitalism represents and economic system which encompasses factories, production lines, shipping agencies and many other work fields where several people can own their private practices while employing others. Even the world "capital" is interconnected with all the different types of resources, such as human and material resources.
This book will present the reader with a brief history...
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Have you ever pictured your life as a secret shopper? Do you share my old attitude of 'that's a job for a bored homemaker's pin money' or 'that's all a scam'? Surprise! It's neither, if you know how to play your cards right.
True Secret Shopper Diaries is a tell all book that paints a picture in words of what a secret shopper actually does; where one has to live; what special tools and skills are required; how to make more than pin money shopping;...
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Our nation was, founded on basic principles of capitalism, independence and most importantly, democracy (one person, one vote). But in the last forty years (since President Ronald Reagan), we have gradually seen our democratic form of government erode; replaced by a cabal of huge moneyed corporations, special interest groups, lobbyists and the ultra-wealthy, all of them free to spend whatever it takes to get our elected officials to do their bidding....
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Are the rich bad for society? The author of this book, a successful Canadian entrepreneur who made his fortune and created 3000 jobs, has written a manifesto celebrating the achievements of people who have earned their wealth. He says that many of the critics are overlooking one crucial thing: We need business people to build companies and generate wealth to keep the economy going. That's the only way to generate the wealth that pays for government...
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'When I had to give up my university studies 35 years ago I was so angry that I wanted to leave South Africa, get military training and an AK47 and come back to kill evil white people ... I'm just as angry now as I feel my economic freedom is under threat, but I'm staying to fight for what I believe in.'When Nelson Mandela became South Africa's president in 1994, Herman Mashaba thought his struggle for personal and economic freedom was over, the battle...
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There are two types of people on planet earth today.
• Native Analogs: These are Baby Boomers and Gen Xers born anywhere from the 1940s all the way up to the early '80s.
• Native Digitals: These are Millennials and Gen Zers born between the early 1980s to as recently as the 2010s.
The difference?
Native Analogs grew up in a time when technology was an addition, or better yet, a distraction from their real lives. Whereas Native Digitals grew...
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Are You Looking to Start Your Own Business, but Are Still Unsure of What to Do and What Type of Market You Wish to Enter? Let Me Tell You About Freight Brokerage!
With the continual expansion of existing markets, people are finding it difficult to enter, much less manage a successful business.
Are you familiar with freight brokerage?
You have probably seen six-wheelers and eight-wheelers pass the streets or being unloaded at the side of a store.
Those...
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Modern capitalism can get traced back to the 18th century. It is characterized by innovation and love to protect personal wealth. To understand modern capitalism, we will analyse the varieties of capitalism, the family under capitalism, tensions with democracy as seen by Buchanan and Olson, contradictions of post-industrial society, capitalism and nationalism as seen by Ernest Gellner, Herbert Marcuse and the new left critique, and end of communism,...
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