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The Audacity of Greed
Free Markets, Corporate Thieves, and the Looting of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Over the past quarter century, we have lived through the greatest looting of wealth in human history. While billions of dollars streamed into the pockets of a few elites in the corporate and economic class, the vast majority of citizens have lived through a period of falling wages, disappearing pensions,...
by M. Beer
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Karl Marx belongs to the ranks of those philosophical and sociological thinkers who throw potent thought-ferment into the world, and set in motion the masses of mankind. They awaken slumbering doubts and contradictions. They proclaim new modes of thought, new social forms. Their systems may sooner...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The Harvard political economist argues that Americans must rethink some important cultural myths and self-definitions if the U.S. is to retain its dominant role within the emerging global economy.
The Language of Conscience
Using Enlightened Conservatism to Build Cooperative Capital and Character
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Description of Enlightened Conservatism as the creation of an environment where conscience predominates over convenience to bring character and ethics. Philosophical analysis of the cultural values and areas of power affected and how nonprofit institutions give advantage to the development of an environment of conscience. A 2003 Finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Philosophy Book of the Year.
La loi de Parkinson
Allier efficacité et gestion du temps
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre la loi de Parkinson et le phénomène de dilatation du temps au travail
Qui mieux que les Anglais, forts de leur humour décapant, pouvait présenter avec autant de légèreté les effets pervers de l'administration ? Fondée sur trois constats...
The Great Deformation
The Corruption of Capitalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A New York Times bestseller
The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state-especially the Federal Reserve-has...
When the Money Runs Out
The End of Western Affluence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns,...
In Defense of Selfishness
Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
From childhood, we're taught one central, non-controversial idea about morality: self-sacrifice is a virtue. It is universally accepted that serving the needs of others, rather than our own, is the essence of morality. To be ethical—it is believed—is to be altruistic. Questioning this belief is...
by P.U. Emporium
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Welcome to EPISODE ONE of “Ask Me Why The Thought of a Donald Trump Presidency Scares the Shit Out of Me.” I started this ebook series not to convince anyone to change their damn vote or to get you to commiserate with me over the shit-show that primary season has been so far. Nope. I’m writing...
Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions
The Tunisian Case of UGTT
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book traces the role of the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labour Union) during Tunisia’s 2011 revolution and the transition period that ensued – Tunisia being the Arab country where trade unionism was the strongest and most influential in shaping the outcomes of the uprising. The UGTT; From...
Alaska Native Tribes,ANCSA Corporations, and Other Organizations
Origins, Purposes, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Learn about Alaska's unique indigenous people who have lived thousands of years in a subsistence economy and unconquered. See how today's Alaska Native people exhibit remarkable resilience and adaptability despite the arrival of foreigners to Alaska in the mid-1700s, who sought natural resources and...
Introduction to U.S. Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Health care reform has dominated public discourse over the past several years, and the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act, rather than quell the rhetoric, has sparked even more debate. Donald A. Barr reviews the current structure of the American health care system, describing the historical and...
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture.
A new vision for America’s future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New...
How to Restore the Greek Economy
Win 10 Million Dollar to Prove It Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This book is specially meant to change the world order by removing poverty, debts of the state by collecting much more revenue than the annual budget without taxes within the shortest period of time of thirty days, reduce inflation, create industrial revolution, reduce the cost of living by at least...