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  • Combating Inequality

    The Global North and South

    Edited by Alexander Gallas, Hansjörg Herr, Frank Hoffer, Christoph Scherrer ...
    Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention. However, two important aspects of inequality have not been discussed systematically: its multidimensional nature and the question of what can be done to reverse it. This book offers insights from scholars representing the Global Labour University, which operates in Brazil, Germany, India, South Africa and the US. They analyse ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • The Global Deal

    Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    In October 2006, Nicholas Stern, one of the greatest economists and public intellectuals of our day, made headlines around the world with his report, which reviewed the costs and benefits of dealing with global warming. The world's community has learned that it must act to mitigate global climate change, but until the Stern Review, no one knew how much it would cost, and how to do it.Now, Stern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Class Matters

    by The New York Times ...
    The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our lives.We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and even the poorest among us feel that they can become rich through education, hard work, or sheer gumption. And yet social class remains a powerful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Captured Economy

    How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

    by Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles ...
    For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. They document the proliferation of regressive regulations that ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Climatopolis

    How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future

    by Matthew E Kahn ...
    "Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" -- NatureWe have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn argues ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Selling America Short

    The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity

    by Richard C. Sauer ...
    An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial system and the agencies who attempt to control itDuring his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer opened and supervised some of its most notable financial cases-investigations that took him to a dozen countries and returned hundreds of millions of dollars to American investors. While a partner at a major law firm and, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Theory of Social Revolutions

    by Brooks Adams ...
    American historian Brooks Adams critised capitalism and sort to explain the development of commercialism, he theorised a predictable rise and fall in commercial activities with the formation of commercial centres based on a need for such activities to be more easily practised. He also expounded upon the desire to increase individual wealth which leads to the discarding of spiritual values and an ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inflation-Conscious Investments

    Avoid the most common investment pitfalls

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series Management & Marketing
    Understand inflation in no time! Find out everything you need to know about making informed investment choices with this practical and accessible guide.Inflation is an important consideration for anyone looking to make a smart investment, as it will affect the real value of the money involved and can also have a direct effect on interest rates. However, many investors fail to take it into account, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Industrial Sunset

    The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984

    by Steven High ...
    Series series Heritage
    Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Happiness for All?

    Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream

    by Carol Graham ...
    How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America today? How about elsewhere in the world? Carol Graham draws on cutting-edge research linking income ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great American Outpost

    Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier

    by Maya Rao ...
    A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism.As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pacific Economic Monitor July 2017

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Pacific Economic Monitor
    To help overcome remoteness, Pacific economies are looking to improve economic integration not only through ICT and transport network investments, but also by promoting greater competition and private investment. Enhancing connectivity is crucial to the Pacific and its people, who constantly contend with the challenges of geographic isolation and remoteness. Physical connectivity through air and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus