Inequalities of opportunity affect a person's life expectancy and access to basic services and human rights through discrimination, abuse, and lack of access to justice.
Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination.
How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutionsFrom around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era.
El análisis de los problemas regionales que encara México desde la implementación del modelo económico de apertura externa a principios de la década de 1980 hasta la actualidad muestra la imperiosa necesidad de establecer estrategias muy puntualizadas para atender las asimetrías, sin descuidar la realidad particular de cada región o localidad, en el entendimiento que cada una de ellas conlleva un proceso complejo y disímil para su desarrollo, es decir para el mejoramiento de los ingresos y del nivel de vida de su población.
A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything.
From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.
Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors.
This graduate-level text develops a more sophisticated model of household economics that allows for multiple-income earners and shared decision-making.
