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Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth

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Report copyright infringementby Giovanni Andrea Cornia (Editor), Richard Jolly (Editor), Frances Stewart (Editor)Following three decades of progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups worldwide began to falter in the mid-1970s. World recession, and in particular the debt crisis in Latin America and African famine, have seriously affected economic development programs in less developed countries. At the same time, however, large-scale health programs have had ...

1971: How All of America's Problems Can Be Traced to a Singular Day in History

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Stone (Author), Dave Erickson (Author), Roger Stone (Introduction by) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 18, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Doni Glover (Author)Black Blueprint: Baltimore to Burkina FasoFrom the political streets of Baltimore to the global platforms of the United Nations, Blueprint 25 is a compelling journey through the intersections of Black media, business, activism, and faith. Doni Glover - publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and unapologetic truth-teller - pulls back the curtain on 25 years of lessons, triumphs, and battles in the pursuit of Black empowerment.Through deeply per...

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Report copyright infringementby Josiah Warren (Author)"Equitable Commerce" by Josiah Warren presents a radical vision for societal organization, proposing principles as substitutes for traditional laws and governments. This book delves into the harmonious adjustment and regulation of pecuniary, intellectual, and moral interactions among individuals, offering a framework for a new society built on equity and mutual exchange. Warren's work explores alternative economic models and social structu...

Bilderberg Exposed: The Shadow Architects of Global Power

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Rodriguez (Author)What if the most important decisions shaping your world are made not in parliaments or congress halls, but in secret hotel meetings you've never heard of?For over 70 years, the Bilderberg Group has gathered the global elite behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny and democratic oversight. Presidents, prime ministers, central bankers, tech billionaires, and media moguls meet annually to coordinate policies that affect billions of...

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made - Paperback

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by Ben Rhodes (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening 'after the fall' of the global system created by the United States" (New York Journal of Books), from the former White House aide, close confidant to President Barack Obama, and author of The World as It Is At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited ...

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy - Paperback

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by Henry Kissinger (Author)The New York Times bestseller Henry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy"An extraordinary book." -The Wall Street Journal "A must read...His books - including this one - will hopefully be read well into the future. Indeed our present and future leaders would benefit from reading all of Kissinger's books. They are timeless." -The Ne...

International Economic Integration: Selected International Organizations and the European Union

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Report copyright infringementby Wolfgang Eibner (Author)Das in englischer Sprache verfasste Lehrbuch gibt dem interessierten Leser auf hohem wissenschaftlichem Niveau einen profunden Überblick über die wichtigsten Organisationen und Institutionen im weiten Bereich internationaler wirtschaftlicher Kooperation und Integration - zum Beispiel: die WTO, den internationalen Währungsfonds, die Weltbank sowie die OECD und die Europäische Union. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende der Wirtschaftswiss...

Moving Lives - Cultivating with Climate Change in Vanuatu

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Report copyright infringementby Desirée Hetzel (Author)Horticulture in Oceania has been under increasing scrutiny due to climate change and related policies. In Vanuatu, cultivators navigate crop growth and community life within the context of shifting environments, storm events, and innovations in climate projects. Desirée Hetzel offers new insights into the encounters and dynamics of climate change in this unique island nation by showing the routes around and roads towards gardening as both...

China: Quo Vadis?: Economic Transformation and Future Challenges

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Report copyright infringementby Helmut Wagner (Author)Back JacketSince 1980, China has undergone an extraordinary economic transformation, rising from a relatively minor geopolitical player to a global economic superpower. However, in recent years, this meteoric growth has slowed, and the nation now faces a range of complex and pressing challenges. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of China's remarkable ascent, exploring the pivotal reforms that fueled its rise and their far-reachin...

Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Beuret (Author)The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Nicholas Beuret's incisive critique and actionable strategies empower us to fight for a truly sustainable and equitable future. Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standards...

Evanston Wyoming Volume 2: Boom-Bust-Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis J. Ottley (Author)Evanston Wyoming: Boom--Bust--Politics, is a story about an old Union Pacific railroad tent city, once called "Hell on Wheels," that eventually grew to become an amazing community in southwestern Wyoming, and about one man's experience as a city official. Evanston survived and thrived through many boom and bust cycles by having a good strong base of loving, committed citizens.Told through the eyes of a city official who served Evanston ...

Assault on Labor: The 1986 TWA Strike and the Decline of Workers' Rights in America

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra L. Albrecht (Author)The Assault on Labor details the 1986 strike against Trans World Airlines (TWA) by the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA), a predominantly female labor force of over 6000 members who garnered respect throughout the labor movement for their solidarity and determination in a three year struggle to return its workers to the line.Author BiographySandra L. Albrecht is associate professor of sociology at the University of Ka...

21st-Century Africa: Governance and Growth

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Report copyright infringementby Chorching Goh (Editor)Will the 21st century witness Africa's major push toward catching up with other world regions? Or will the continent continue to underperform its peers? A flagship report published by the World Bank in 2000 asked, Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? It provided a blueprint for Africa to navigate in the uncertain future. A quarter century later, Africa's progress reveals some advancements, yet efforts to overcome pivotal challenges identifie...

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Thea Riofrancos (Author)Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at a cost. Mining lithium is environmentally destructive. We therefore confront a dilemma: Is it possible to save the world by harming it in the process?Having spent over a decade researching mining and oil sectors in Latin America, Thea Riofrancos is a leading voice on resource extr...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Lanoszka (Author)International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.Author BiographyAnna Lanoszka is Professor of International Economic Relations at the University of Windsor, Canada, specializing in trade and development. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Dalhousie University and a combined underg...

Holding Government to Account: Democracy and the National Audit Office

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Report copyright infringementby Henry C. Midgley (Author), Laurence Ferry (Author), Aileen D. Murphie (Author)This new book, more than just a history of the UK's supreme audit institution, the National Audit Office, examines the very definition of accountability through both an historic and academic lens, critically exploring questions about the role of audit in a democracy and how well it is working. Author BiographyHenry C Midgley is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Department at Du...

Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich

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Report copyright infringementby John L. Campbell (Author)Since the Reagan era, conservatives in the United States have championed cutting taxes, especially for wealthy individuals and corporations, as the best way to achieve economic prosperity. In his new book, Pay Up!, John L. Campbell shows that while these claims are highly influential, they are also wrong. Using historical and cross-national evidence, the book challenges and refutes every justification conservatives have made for tax cut...

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Report copyright infringementby Petr Alekseevich Kniaz Kropotkin (Author)Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread" remains a seminal work in anarchist and socialist thought, exploring the potential for a society organized around principles of mutual aid and voluntary cooperation. Challenging traditional economic models, Kropotkin envisions a future beyond capitalism and wage labor. This foundational text delves into the possibilities of a communist society where resources are freely available...

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Report copyright infringementby Gifford Pinchot (Author)Gifford Pinchot's "The Fight For Conservation" remains a vital and relevant text for understanding the historical roots of environmental policy and natural resource management in the United States. Originally published during a period of significant industrial expansion, this book offers a firsthand account of the burgeoning conservation movement and its struggle to balance economic growth with the preservation of America's natural herit...

Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragón

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Report copyright infringementby George Cheney (Author)Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-oriented work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy. George Cheney revisits the famous Mondragón worker-owned-and-governed cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain to examine how that collection of innovative and democratic businesses i...

Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria E. Bonnell (Author)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983. Number of Pages: 596 ...

Globalization and the Politics of Resistance

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Report copyright infringementby B. Gills (Editor)The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance. This book establishes the centrality of 'the political' in our understanding of globalization and explores the new 'strategies of resistance' emerging on local, national, regional and global scales. Its impressively wide-ranging set of contributors engage in re-thinking what practices now constitute viable political strategies in the world economy,...

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Report copyright infringementby Pascal Bridel (Author)The primary aim of the book is to provide a critical evaluation of the origin and development of the Cambridge saving-investment analysis. This work disentangles painstakingly from a maze of sometimes contradictory, obscure and often neglected contributions, the line which leads from Marshall's interest theory to Keynes's income adjustment process. In particular, it charts, for the first time, the various steps taken by this line of inquir...

The Elusive Promise of NGOs in Africa: Lessons from Uganda

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Report copyright infringementby S. Dicklitch (Author)Dicklitch challenges the dominant discourse of neo-liberalism which places NGOs and civil society at the forefront of democratization and development in Africa. Based on nine months of field research in Uganda, the study draws on evidence from the 'successfully' liberalizing country and shows how NGO potential for democratization and development has been subverted by state directives, structural and historical conditions, as well as the int...

Economic Transition in Hungary and East Germany: Gradualism, Shock Therapy and Catch-Up Development

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Report copyright infringementby J. Stephan (Author)What factors determine the success of economic transition, development and growth? Examining the contrast between East German shock-therapy and Hungary's gradualism, the book generates a set of generalisable conditions for economic development which imply some degree of state intervention and strategy. A stability-oriented incomes policy and a carefully managed integration strategy can enable sustainable export surpluses, a competitive curren...

Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

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Report copyright infringementby Robert G. Kaiser (Author)A Washington Post Notable BookAn eye-opening account of how Congress today really works--and how it doesn't-- Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman Barney Frank, and careful, insightful senator Christopher Dodd, both of whom met regularly with Robert G. Kaiser during the eighteen months they worked o...

Never Enough: Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Gilbert (Author)It is said that greed fuels capitalism and socialism feeds on envy. But what happens in a stable society when a successful economy generates material progress for one population sector, while simultaneously creating income inequality and poverty for another sector? While this has long been a classic debate for economists, Neil Gilbert, a social welfare theorist, offers a new take. In this landmark work, Gilbert addresses the long-standing t...

Africa in World Politics: Into the 1990s

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph I. Onwuka (Editor), Timothy M. Shaw (Author)Africa's international relations are in a state of transition as the continent enters the last decade of the twentieth century. Old assumptions about development, security, diplomacy and dependence are being challenged by new realities of debt, drought, devaluation and destabilisation. Collective self-reliance remains elusive despite the demise of nationalism. This collection identifies the major issues in Afric...

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Report copyright infringementby Philippe Askenazy (Editor), Lutz Bellmann (Editor), Alex Bryson (Editor)The 2008 financial crisis put an end to an era of sustained economic growth in Europe. The size of the shock differed across European countries and affected economies in different ways. Yet despite this heterogeneity, most European countries suffered a prolonged period of economic slowdown which raised concerns about the risk of a secular stagnation in Europe. This book focuses on labour pr...

Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Hakim (Author)This important study presents the results of the first analysis of labor market data from Britain's new SARs, drawing comparisons with research results for the USA and for Western European countries. The author fully examines several relevant phenomena, such as: a new and distinctive category of integrated occupations, employing men and women equally in highly qualified work; the diversification of part-time work; the emergence of a new ...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Lake (Author)How should goods be distributed in our society? Some say equally, others say according to what people are responsible for. Both ideas seem plausible but neither tell the whole story. The author examines what draws us to these two ideas and looks at recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring them together in a single distributive ideal. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Pub...