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  • Top Incomes

    A Global Perspective

    A rapidly growing area of economic research investigates the top of the income distribution using data from income tax records. This volume brings together studies of top incomes for twelve countries from around the world, including China, India, Japan, Argentina and Indonesia. Together with the first volume, published in 2007, the studies cover twenty two countries. They have a long time span, ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Personal Distribution of Incomes (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by A. B. Atkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1976, the essays in this volume are concerned with the distribution of income and wealth. The papers were first presented at the Royal Economic Society’s conference in 1974, which examined the evidence concerning the personal distribution of earnings, compared the distributions apparent in different periods and societies, and studied the association between personal attributes ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Top Incomes Over the Twentieth Century

    A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries

    Based on a pioneering research programme on the evolution of top incomes, this volume brings together studies from 10 OECD countries. This rapidly growing field of economic research investigates the top segment of the income distribution by using data from income tax records over the past century. As well as describing the source data and methods employed, the authors also discuss the dramatic ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the ... Read more

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  • Unintended Consequences

    Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong

    by Edward Conard ...
    In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many commonly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down payments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into assuming mortgages they couldn't afford. It blames average Americans for borrowing recklessly and spending too much. And ... Read more

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  • Deer Hunting with Jesus

    Dispatches from America's Class War

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... Read more

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  • Eight pillars of prosperity

    by James Allen ...
    It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realisation of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can ... Read more

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  • Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

    The story of an unlikely decades-long friendship between Lady Nancy Astor and her spirited Yorkshire maidIn 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, entertained royalty, and traveled the world. "She's not a lady as you would understand a lady" ... Read more

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  • Greedy Bastards

    How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry

    by Dylan Ratigan ...
    The host of the eponymous MSNBC show, Dylan Ratigan offers a bold and original post-partisan program to resuscitate the American Dream.At a time of deep concern with the state of America’s economy and government, it seems that all the media can give us is talking (or screaming) heads who revel in partisan brinkmanship. Then there’s Dylan Ratigan—an award-winning journalist respected and admired ... Read more

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  • Understanding and Paying Less Property Tax For Dummies, UK Edition

    by Steve Sims ...
    This comprehensive guide to understanding and paying less property tax for dummies is the best-value beginners book on the market. Covering everything from commercial buy-to-let and jet-to-let to property development and investing through a company, it explains a notoriously confusing subject in straightforward and easy to follow language. Packed full of tax saving tips and strategies, ... Read more

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  • How to Make Money: Get Off Your Ass & Make Some Cash

    by Dawn Xhudo ...
    Tired of being broke? Don't have a job? Want to make some money? Well get off your ass and make some cash. Find out some interested ways to make some extra cash. Some of them may even lead to long term self employment. You have to have the initiative because it is not going to come knocking on your door. The sooner you learn this the better off you will be and the more cash you will have in your ... Read more

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  • The Melody

    A Novel

    by Jim Crace ...
    Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard—bitten and scratched. He insists his assailant was neither man nor animal.Soon, Busi’s account of what happened is being embellished ... Read more

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