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Development in Asia: Interdisciplinary, Post-neoliberal, and Transnational Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Derrick M. Nault (Editor)"Development" is one of the most ubiquitous yet least understood concepts of our age. It is something all governments claim to be engaged in and is considered desirable by scholars, activists, policymakers, and laypeople alike. Yet it is also a highly contested term. For some, development is simply a matter of economic growth. Others maintain that it must entail improving life expectancy, literacy, education levels, and access to resour...

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Report copyright infringementby Hugo Mnsterberg (Author), Hugo Munsterberg (Author), Edwin B. Holt (Translator)As a psychologist and an innovator of experimental psychology, Hugo Münsterberg was a powerful influence on thinking in both the medical and social arenas at the turn of the 20th century, developing practical applications of psychology to industry, medicine, education, the arts, and criminal investigation. The Americans was written for German readers "to interpret systematically the ...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Calhoun (Author)If you can avoid it, do not loan your name to every needy friend that comes along. Your neighbors question your good judgment every time you have to meet a note which you were coaxed into endorsing. You would have saved yourself by loaning the money outright. -from "Chapter XXIV: Things to Remember" If you're doing business in the year 1910, there's no better source for helpful advice than Business Hints for Men and Women. This handy littl...

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Joanna Lamb (Author)Wall Street is more than just the crossroads of money and power. It is also the location of a long and interesting history of revolutionary decisions, political events, and financial growth. Historian Martha Lamb looks at Wall Street "in all its primitive, picturesque, political, social, and monetary aspects." She begins with the development of the site by Manhattan settlers, a site she describes as a "tangle of underbrush, wild grape...

Elements of Economics of Industry: Being the First Volume of Elements of Economics

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Marshall (Author)British economist ALFRED MARSHALL (1842-1924) was one of the most prominent thinkers of his age on the philosophy of finance, and his groundbreaking Principles of Economics (1890) was for years the standard text on the subject. Here, in Elements of Economics of Industry, he adapts his classic text for students. First published in 1892, it still serves as an excellent primer on such topics as: . economics as part of the study of humanity ...

An Alternative History of Cleveland - Paperback

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by Jon Wlasiuk (Author), Libby Geboy (Illustrator)Dive into Cleveland's deep past and return with a new vision for how we should think about the region today.The land we call "northeast Ohio" was originally forged through eons of glacial pressure, geologic shifts, and the relentless movement of the Cuyahoga River. Since the last Ice Age, however, it has also been transformed countless times by the many people who have called it home.In An Alternative History of Cleveland, Jon Wlasiuk uncovers...

This Is Texas, Y'All!: The Lone Star State from A to Z - Hardcover

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by Misha Blaise (Author)This is Texas, Y'All! written and illustrated by Misha Blaise A charming gift for proud Texans of all ages Take a rollicking ride through Texas culture and history with this quirky illustrated guide to all things Texan. Beyond celebration of classic cowboy culture, you will discover: -the only Czech word known to all Texas -what city outlawed dancing for 52 years -the Texas history that underlies the Oscars -what automotive culture is called "hip hop on wheels" -and wh...

The American Home Front: Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II

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Report copyright infringementby James L. Abrahamson (Author), John S. Pustay (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.44 x 5.32 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 20, 2001

An Early History of the Economic Institutions of Europe

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick L. Nussbaum (Author)A detailed history of the development and influence of European culture and its economic society. Number of Pages: 488 Dimensions: 1.19 x 9.06 x 6.12 IN Publication Date: January 04, 2002

Popes and Bankers: A Cultural History of Credit and Debt, from Aristotle to Aig

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Cashill (Author) AMIDST THE WRECKAGE OF FINANCIAL RUIN, PEOPLE ARE LEFT PUZZLING ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENED. WHERE DID ALL THE PROBLEMS BEGIN?For the answer, Jack Cashill, a journalist as shrewd as he is seasoned, looks past the headlines and deep into pages of history and comes back with the goods. From Plato to payday loans, from Aristotle to AIG, from Shakespeare to the Salomon Brothers, from the Medici to Bernie Madoff--in Popes and Bankers Jack Cashill unf...

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Report copyright infringementby Isaacs Mark (Author)In 1904-1905 Max Weber published the sociological classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". In this book Weber argues that religion, specifically "ascetic Protestantism" provided the essential social and cultural infrastructure that led to modern capitalism. Weber's suggests that Protestantism has "an affinity for capitalism." Indeed, something within Protestantism-by accident or design-creates the necessary preconditions ...

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers - Hardcover

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by Jean Strouse (Author)Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career--and at the intersections of all these lives with the sparkle and strife of the Edwardian age. In commissioning this grand series of paintings, ...

Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination

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Report copyright infringementby William II Shughart (Author)Taxing behavior deemed "politically incorrect" has long been a convenient way for politicians to fund programs benefiting special interest groups, to the public's disadvantage. Government policy toward various goods - drugs, tobacco and alcohol, for example - has been locked into a regulatory cycle of tax and taboo. Support for legalizing other substances is buttressed by the revenue-generating power of so-called "sin" taxesi And the...

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Report copyright infringementby Sterling Heights Public Library (Author), Historical Commission (Author) Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: December 11, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Shane E. Stephenson (Author)By 1832, when Buffalo was incorporated as a city, the East Side represented a vast forested area and farmland cut with the beginnings of the major arterials of Genesee, Sycamore, Broadway, William, Clinton, and Seneca. These streets were laid out in 1826 and represented the seeds of the East Side s explosive growth. Along these radial thoroughfares, the development of railroads and the Buffalo Belt Line, constructed in 1883, created ...

Wholesale Prices in Philadelphia, 1784-1861: Part II: Series of Relative Monthly Prices

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Bezanson (Author), Robert D. Gray (Author), Miriam Hussey (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. ...

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by Jim O'Connor (Author), Who Hq (Author), John O'Brien (Illustrator)A marvel of engineering that proclaimed the might of the Emperor of Ancient Rome. The Emperor Titus opened the enormous Colosseum in AD 80 to host 100 days of games, and it will astound readers to learn what the ancient Romans found entertaining. Over 50,000 screaming fans watched gladiators battling each other to the death, men fighting exotic wild beasts, and even mock sea battles with warships floating on an arena floor f...

Wholesale Prices in Philadelphia, 1784-1861

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Bezanson (Author), Robert D. Gray (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Number of Pages: 472 ...

The United States of America, Volume 2: A Syllabus of American Studies--History and Social Sciences

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur P. Dudden (Author)The two-volume syllabus of American studies was prepared to help both students and teachers obtain a broader and deeper understanding of North American literature, language, arts, history, and social sciences. Identifying and directing attention to the most significant aspects of these fields and pointing out profitable lines for additional inquiry, it is written in terms broad enough to challenge anyone interested in life and culture i...

The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas K. Park (Author), James B. Greenberg (Author)The Roots of Western Finance takes an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. The authors reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.Author BiographyThomas K. Park is associate professor of anthropology at t...

A Vexing Gadfly: The Late Kierkegaard on Economic Matters

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Report copyright infringementby Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez (Author), Enrique Dussel (Foreword by)This essay on Soren Kierkegaard and economic matters from a theological perspective is well grounded in the Dane's journals. In these writings, the late nineteenth-century thinker shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the population) and urbanite menial workers. Topics include the option for the poor; the ideology of impotence; the denouncing of a competitive society; the correlation ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Bezanson (Author), Robert Gray (Author), Hussey Miriam (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Nu...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Norton Cook (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Number of Pages: 344 Dimension...

New York in the Confederation: An Economic Study

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas C. Cochran (Author)An attempt to coordinate the internal economic history of New York with the crucial events in national life during the period. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 29, 1932

Other Peoples Money and How the Bankers Use It (1914)

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Report copyright infringementby Louis Dembitz Brandeis (Author)This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition. Number of Pages: 238 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: August 07, 2014

Speculative Bubbles and Monetary Policy: A Theory Based on Japanese Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Masayuki Otaki (Author)This book works at the intersection of economic theory history. It presents a Keynesian theory with a rigorous dynamic microeconomic foundation that entirely differs from new Keynesian theory and applies it to the Japanese economic history from the 1980s to 2010s.Author BiographyMasayuki Otaki (1957-2018) was professor of economics at the University of Tokyo. He completed this book shortly before passing. Number of Pages: 140...

The Theory of the Leisure Class (Essential Economics Series: Celebrated Economists)

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Report copyright infringementby Thorstein Veblen (Author)The Theory of the Leisure Class' was first published in 1899. It's author, Thorstein Veblen, was the son of Norwegian American immigrants. He grew up to become a prominent economist and sociologist, producing many books and articles, and is often remembered for his use evolutionary theory to develop a 20th century theory of economics. This particular work is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption as...

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Report copyright infringementby William Peter Hamilton (Author)This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition. A Study Of Its Forecast Value Based On Charles H. Dow's Theory Of The Price Movement, With An Analysis Of The Market And Its History Since 1897. Number of Pages: 370 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2014

One Hundred Years of Fire Insurance - Being a History of the Aetna Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut 1819-1919

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Report copyright infringementby Henry R. Gall (Author), William George Jordan (Author)First published in 1919, this fascinating volume provides an overview of the history of the Aetna Insurance Company, beginning with their very first president and policy. A history of the Aetna Insurance Company is arguably a history of modern insurance itself, making this volume a must-read for those with an interest in the topic. Contents include: "Thomas K. Brace, First and Third President", "Section of O...

The History of the Thrift Movement in America

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Report copyright infringementby S. W. Straus (Author), Rollin Kirby (Illustrator)This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition. Number of Pages: 266 Dimensions: 0.56 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2014

Land Nationalisation its Necessity and its Aims Being a Comparison of the System of Landlord and Tenant with that of Occupying Ownership in their Infl

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Russel Wallace (Author)This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1892 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Land Nationalisation its Necessity and its Aims Being a Comparison of the System of Landlord and Tenant with that of Occupying Ownership in their Influence on the Well-being of the People' is an essay on social policy and its effects on the general population. Alfred Russel Wallace was b...

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Report copyright infringementby William Peter Hamilton (Author)The Stock Market Barometer by William Peter Hamilton is a comprehensive guidebook to understanding the stock market and its fluctuations. Originally published in 1922, this book has stood the test of time and is still relevant today. The author, Hamilton, was a respected financial journalist and editor of The Wall Street Journal, and his insights and analysis are still considered valuable by investors and traders alike.The book co...