Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopedie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to "e;change the way men think"e; about every aspect of the human and natural worlds.
A Treatise on Political Economy by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism.
Para no perder el liderazgo tecnológico frente al avance de China, los Estados Unidos revitalizan su industria y hacen regresar a las empresas que se habían trasladado a otros países.
Many cities have struggled with the decline of key industries, from Philadelphias shipyards to New Yorks textile industry, but Detroitwhich is now in bankruptcyis both a victim of the decline of the Michigan automobile industry and a cause of it.
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and best-selling author Joseph Sitglitz, author of Globalization and Its Discontents, this is the essential, must-read guide to the future of Europe.
America in the 'aughts-hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "e;the soul mate"e;* of Jonathan SwiftBarbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim.
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poorBarbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers.
Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit.
The controversy over inequality has gathered steam with the publication of Thomas Pikettys new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a dense work of economic history that documents the rise of income inequality in recent decades and sets forth an agenda of taxation to deal with it.
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The FairTax Book offers a new look at the fast-growing populist tax reform movement that's poised to become a key campaign issue for 2008In 2005, firebrand radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Georgia congressman John Linder teamed up to create The FairTax Book, the first book devoted to the FairTax movement they had been promoting for years.
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse.
In his first nine months in office Barack Obama has pursued the most aggressive government expansionist agenda since Franklin Roosevelts new deal was launched in 1933.
Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers.
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting.
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse.
This Broadside will look at the changes that can be made to halt the full implementation of the law over the next few years, including repealing parts of the act that are unpopular with members of both parties.
Haiti,the first slavery-emancipated black nation on earth, achieved a political revolution for the dignity of man at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Hardhitting and to the point, Why Obamas Government Takeover of Health-Care Will Be a Disaster takes us inside Obamas high stakes gamble with our health care system and shows us why we should be afraid, very afraid, of the possible outcome.
Spanning the period from the cold war to the 'war on terror', examines the political economy dynamics of security and insecurity on the continent, as well as its implications for political actions.
This is a 17,300 word essay describing significant events leading toward a decline of Americas social and economic viability and some thoughts related to a reformation of basic institutions and ethics.
En este libro Delfina Rossi recorre las grandes acciones del gobierno de Néstor Kirchner y de los dos de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, acompañándolos por los discursos de la propia Cristina en muchas ocasiones y señalando el correlato con los propios discursos de Perón y de Evita.
