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  • Leisure and Labor

    Essays on the Liberal Arts in Catholic Higher Education

    by Anthony P. Coleman, Robert Royal, Michael A. Scaperlanda, Teresa Stanton Collett, Brett Bertucio, Daniel Guernsey, Patrick Powers, John Macias, Brian Jones, Jason Fugikawa0, Angela Franks1, Rev. James V. Schall2, Wilfred M. McClay3 ...
    Using Josef Pieper's Leisure as a point of departure, the contributors to this volume share a mutual concern for the diminishing role of the liberal arts in Catholic higher education. The overwhelming impression they share is that U.S. Catholic universities, with notable exceptions, have forgotten the very goal of university education, and especially Catholic university education: to aid in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 (Unabridged)

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    by JAMES COOK ...
    Narrated by Annie Collins, Tonya Elkins, John Macias, Ronald Zechman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    Embark on an exhilarating journey across uncharted waters with Captain James Cook in "A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2." As the renowned explorer's second volume unfolds, listeners are transported into the heart of discovery during the 18th century. Join Cook and his intrepid crew as they navigate treacherous seas, encounter fascinating cultures, and unveil the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Global Trends in Job Polarisation and Upgrading

    A Comparison of Developed and Developing Economies

    Edited by Sergio Torrejón Pérez, Enrique Fernández-Macías, John Hurley ...
    This open-access book offers a comparative analysis of changes in employment structures on a global scale, focusing on employment trends during the first decades of the 21st century across 17 developed and developing economies, including countries from Europe, North America, Central and Latin America, and Asia. The authors examine patterns of occupational change in all cases, with job upgrading ... Read more

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  • Public Finance In China: Reform And Growth For A Harmonious Society

    by Jiwei Lou; Shuilin Wang ...
    This book brings together analysis and insights from high-level Chinese policy-makers and prominent international scholars in addressing the key challenges China is facing in maintaining rapid growth and achieving the Government's stated goal of creating a harmonious society. It analyzes such key policy issues as: public finance and the changing role of the state; fiscal reform and revenue and ... Read more

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  • Globalisation and Poverty

    Channels and Policy Responses

    Edited by Maurizio Bussolo, Jeffery I Round ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors.The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This book addresses three core issues: 1) what are the main channels of effect? 2) what are the lessons to be ... Read more

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  • Measuring Poverty around the World

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world’s great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the ... Read more

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  • Top Incomes

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by A. B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty ...
    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

    $38.99 USD

  • Inequality and Fiscal Policy

    by Benedict Mr. Clements, Ruud Mooij, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Michael Mr. Keen ...
    The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda. The challenge for many governments is to address concerns over rising inequality while simultaneously promoting economic efficiency and ... Read more

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  • The International Migration Of Women

    by World Bank; Schiff Maurice; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja ...
    The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants and their importance for the development agenda in countries of origin, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. This volume makes a valuable contribution in this ... Read more

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  • Confronting Inequality

    How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth

    by Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, Andrew Berg ...
    Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Monetary Fund economists show that this increase in inequality has in fact been a political choice—and ... Read more

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  • Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets

    Facing the Liquidity Tsunami

    by Ilias Alami ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets.The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of these myriad forms of state power are explored in light of the positionality of emerging markets within the network of space and power relations that ... Read more

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