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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The debates about the what, who, and how of tax policy are at the core of politics, policy, and economics. The Economics of Tax Policy provides a straightforward overview of recent research in the economics of taxation. Tax policies generate considerable debate among the public, policymakers, and...
Paying for Pollution
Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels causes long-lasting, pervasive damages, costly to those of us alive today and even more to our children and our children's...
Advertising
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from TV commercials, magazine and newspaper print ads, radio commercials, pop-up ads on gaming apps, pre-roll ads on YouTube videos, and native advertising on mobile news apps. These commercial messages are so pervasive...
by Lawrence E. Susskind;Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees boards church groups and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first...
Beyond Talent : Creating a Successful Career in Music
Creating a Successful Career in Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
The first edition of Beyond Talent quickly became a favorite among classical and jazz musicians and has been used in courses at scores of conservatories and universities. This expanded second edition provides updated user-friendly advice inspiring examples and practical tools to advance a career in...
How to Change the World:Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship--in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether delivering solar energy to Brazilian...
Social Entrepreneurship:What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
"What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this...
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all...
Exorbitant Privilege:The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese...
Misunderstanding Financial Crises:Why We Don't See Them Coming
Why We Don't See Them Coming
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there...
The Knowledge-Creating Company
How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1995
How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to...
Falling Short
The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today's workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from...
by R. Taggart Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic upheavals...