The enhanced edition of the fully updated, number-one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour's three founding architects allows unprecedented access to video footage, audio commentary and primary source materials, from Mandelson's own diary entries to spirited exchanges between Labour's most powerful figures.
Selected writings from one of the most important commentators of our generation covering the wreckage of Labour's 10 year love affair with the RightBY THE SUMMER of 2007, Britain was close to crashing.
En 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville viajó a los Estados Unidos para estudiar el sistema penitenciario norteamericano y durante nueve meses observó la sociedad, la política y la economía de ese país.
En 1986, en momentos en que se organizaban las nuevas fuerzas vivas del periodo postoligárquico, la prensa acuñó el término "Doce Apóstoles" cuando los doce mayores empresarios fueron convocados por el presidente Alan García para discutir el rumbo que el país debía tomar.
Este estudio pone al descubierto lo que muchos probablemente hemos sospechado alguna vez y unos pocos economistas llevan sabiendo desde hace tiempo: la teoría económica no sólo es difícil de digerir, sino que además está sencillamente equivocada.
Arguments about taxation are among the most heated- no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America.
El proceso de estratificacion economica dentro de las sociedades rurales durante la Edad Media y el periodo Premoderno es el eje central de este volumen.
La visión de la compleja historia de Colombia, en la que el fantasma de la guerra que evocaba desde su niñez Alberto Lleras está siempre presente, se desenfoca a veces en medio del fragor de las pasiones que marcan nuestro pasado y presente.
Das vielleicht schädlichste Instrument beim Widerstand der Wirtschaftsführer gegen Maßnahmen im öffentlichen Interesse ist der Mythos, dass die Ausgaben der Bundesregierung von den Steuereinnahmen abhängen, die der Staat von ihnen erheben kann.
Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years.
Als Rudolf Hilferding im Jahr 1910 vom "Finanzkapital" sprach, hatte er eine ausgeprägte Machtkonzentration von Bank- und Industriekapital unter Führung des Finanzkapitals vor Augen.
Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform.
Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years.
Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform.
Arguments about taxation are among the most heated- no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America.
Quizá la herramienta más perniciosa que los líderes empresariales han usado contra las políticas en favor del interés público sea el mito de que el gasto del gobierno depende de la recaudación de los impuestos que ellos pagan al estado.
The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing.
Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.
The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing.
