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Author
Publisher
Melliodora
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money,and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous! Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art Of Frugal Hedonism has been designed to help you target the most important habits of mind and action needed for living frugally but hedonistically....
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A quick and easy guide to help you learn the basics of accounting. The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete and accurate monitoring of expenses. In today's business climate, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep. This bestselling series is packed with hundreds of entertaining tidbits...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Big Money aims to explain economic principles to middle-grade readers in a way that combines the weird and the meaningful, like Planet Money for kids. The book will be organized in seven chapters, each posing a general question and answering it through real-world examples to help readers explore the consequences of their everyday economic choices by connecting the dots between themselves and the larger economic and social systems around them"--
Author
Publisher
Anthem Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these countries developed, and it soon intervened to destroy these post-independence achievements. The two principal defeats and losses of territory to Israel in 1967...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A biography of the American economist Milton Friedman" Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the 1980s, and his full-throated defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. It's no wonder the last decades of the twentieth century have been called "the Age of Friedman"--or that...
8) Tombstone
Author
Publisher
Llewelyn Pritchard
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Tombstone[The British Government's Cover-Up]Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada [Part 3/3]Series Title: Port Hope Simpson Mysteries [Vol 5c]Copyright 2012 by Llewelyn PritchardSmashwords EditionWhat was really going on behind the scenes?For the first time, declassified official British Government papers shine new light on amongst other things, Government mismanagement as knowledge hidden by an incongruous granite tombstone in Port...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A contributors' "who's who" from the academic and policy communities explain and provide perspectives on John Taylor's revolutionary thinking about monetary policy. They explore some of the literature that Taylor inspired and help us understand how the new ways of thinking that he pioneered have influenced actual policy here and abroad.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government taxing and spending harms the economy, but where is that point? In this accessible book, best-selling authors Jeff Madrick, Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, and Peter Lindert try to answer whether our government can grow any larger and examine...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book examines the reasons for the unprecedented weak recovery following the recent US recession and explores the possibility that government economic policy is the problem. Drawing on empirical research that looks at issues from policy uncertainty to increased regulation, the volume offers a broad-based assessment of how government policies are slowing economic growth and provides a framework for understanding how those policies should change...
12) City Life
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Remember when our cities and inner-cities weren't dominated by high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes that have come with the globalization of the Australian city since the 1970's. It tells the story of the major economic, social, cultural and demographic changes that have come with the opening up of Australia in those years, with a particular focus on the two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne. It also looks at how these changes...
13) Profit Doctrine
Author
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved to be such an abject failure come to dominate the economic landscape? By critically examining the work of the most famous economists of the neoliberal...
14) Falling Behind
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
An Agenda for Economic Reform in Korea looks at Korea's economic problems from the perspective of the American experience with economic reforms and sheds new light on the problems of economic reform facing nations all over the world. The authors examine such issues as corporate governance, social welfare, labor relations, and other pressing challenges--and suggest a new vision for the Korean economy.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher....
16) Flat Tax
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This new and updated edition of The Flat Tax--called "the bible of the flat tax movement" by Forbes--explains what's wrong with our present tax system and offers a practical alternative. Hall and Rabushka set forth what many believe is the most fair, efficient, simple, and workable tax reform plan on the table: tax all income, once only, at a uniform rate of 19 percent.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and whole system thinking. It is a thoroughly hopeful book. The focus is on the possibility of a better world, a more fulfilling way of life, rather than what's wrong or what we have to give up. Could this...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The authors focus on the major environmental constraints that limit U.S. food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher.
20) On the Books
Author
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
On the Books is the firsthand comic strip account of the labor struggle at New York City's legendary Strand bookstore in the summer of 2012. Told by Greg Farrell--an employee of the store who interviewed numerous other staff members--the book examines the motives and actions of those involved, including the management, the staff, the union local, and the people of New York City. Through interstitial comic portraits, Farrell gives voice to his comrades,...
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