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Public-Private Partnership Monitor: India

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This report assesses trends and developments in India's public-private partnerships (PPP) landscape as the fast-growing economy seeks to build an estimated $1.4 trillion in infrastructure to support sustainable economic growth.This key ADB publication examines the evolution of India's PPP sector, analyzing the national landscape, local government policies, and key sectors, including transport, energy, and communication. With India...

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Report copyright infringementby Hlumelo Biko (Author)"Only a dramatic, imaginatively crafted intervention - a massive redistribution programme managed by the private sector, far-reaching policy changes in schooling, housing and health, and better, disciplined governance - will deliver the genuine liberation South Africa's still-poor millions expected from the 1994 settlement. Without it, without the real promise of a free, meritocratic society, South Africa will flounder and fail as corruptio...

Enforcement of Actions in Corporate Law by Non-Shareholder Constituencies: Lessons for the Common Law World from South Africa

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Report copyright infringementby Tshepo Herbert Mongalo (Author)This book argues that corporate law ought to empower non-shareholder interests and that non-shareholder constituencies must be protected by a complementary enforcement framework.Author BiographyTshepo Herbert Mongalo is professor of corporate law at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Law. Number of Pages: 292 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication D...

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - Vol. I-Part I: The Process of Capitalist Production

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Marx (Author), Friedrich Engels (Editor)First published in 1867, Capital, or Das Kapital, is the infamous treatise on economics and capitalism by Prussian revolutionary KARL MARX (1818-1883), who changed history with his 1848 book The Communist Manifesto. In this work, edited by Marx's friend, German philosopher FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1820-1895), Marx systematically analyzes the way the capitalist machine functions. In this academic work written for students an...

The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Toussaint (Author)This compelling, provocative, and accessible volume offers a rejoinder to the prevailing wisdom that views debt as holy writ.Author BiographyÉric Toussaint, Senior Lecturer at the University of Liège, is president of Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts, Belgium. He is the author of "Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank, Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.". Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Appelquist (Author)In Wisdom Is Not Enough: Reflections on Leadership and Teams, award-winning author Jeff Appelquist draws on his twenty-five years of real-world experience as a military officer, lawyer, corporate executive, and entrepreneur to share his hard-won and compelling insights into what makes great leaders and their teams tick. The book's forty chapters represent a compilation of articles that Jeff wrote as a columnist for his local business new...

Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job

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Report copyright infringementby William Quigley (Author)In cities and counties across the country Americans are asserting their right to a job at a living wage. This campaign has been built around the idea that those who work full time are entitled to live above the real poverty line. Professor and public interest lawyer William Quigley, who helped lead the fight to give the workers of New Orleans a raise, presents the moral case for doing so, and argues that Americans should codify the right...

Socialist Economic Systems: 21st Century Pathways

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Rosefielde (Author)Bernie Sanders' socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China's economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism's promises and performance during 1820-2022, identifies a feasible path forward and provides a rigorous analytic framework for the comparison of economic system...

The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald N. Johnson (Author), Gary D. Libecap (Author)The call to "reinvent government"-to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States-resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a...

The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers

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Report copyright infringementby Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Author)"Kaya mo ba?" Can you take it? An instructor asks this of a group of migrant workers in the Philippines, as they prepare for domestic work in wealthier countries. Can you take the grueling work? "Kaya," the women say. "We can."The phrase "human trafficking" often conjures nightmarish images of sexual exploitation, but Rhacel Salazar Parreñas reveals that the vast majority of trafficking victims are domestic workers who suffer abu...

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Austin Frerick (Author), Eric Schlosser (Foreword by)Now with a new chapter on the Distribution Barons! Best Books of 2024: "Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes. This is no alarmist screed but rather a careful, systematic, and utterly damning demolition job--an exquisitely informed exposé... A genuinely revelatory look at mass food production in the United States" --...

Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Papst (Author)Baltimore City Public Schools is one of America's largest and most funded school systems. Yet, historically, it is among the lowest performing. In 2024, despite a $1.7 billion budget, just 10% of students tested proficient in math. Investigative journalist Chris Papst follows the money to uncover why students continue to fail within a school system that's failing Baltimore. Failure Factory shines a critical light on America's public educatio...

A Framework for Military Decision Making Under Risks

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Report copyright infringementby US Air Force (Created by), James V. Schultz (Author)This is a study of the applicability of prospect theory to military decision making. Prospect theory posits that the decision maker's reference point determines the domain in which he makes a decision. If the domain is one of losses, the decision maker will tend to be risk seeking, if gains, then he will be risk averse. The author proposes that if prospect theory's propositions are correct, then it may be poss...

The Ideology of Ideologies: How countries strengthened their economies, reasons for successes and failures, and the inevitability of Trump's rebellion

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Report copyright infringementby Ernst Zahrava (Author)Why is the U.S. leadership role now under threat?Was it possible to avoid this situation?Why, despite narrowing the gap, was the USSR unable to surpass the United States?Why is China now catching up with the U.S.?How did the global economic system, currently led by the U.S., come into being?What caused previous global leaders to lose their positions and be replaced by new ones?What are the prospects for the U.S. to maintain or lose its lea...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Gladstein (Author)Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom. In Check Your Financial Privilege, he says it, starting with the fact that anyone born into a reserve currency like the euro, yen, or pound has financial privilege over the 89% of the world population born into weaker systems.In Nigeria, human rights activists depend on Bitcoin for donations after crackdowns by authoritarian regimes. In...

Fringe to Famous: Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Moore (Author), Mark Gibson (Author), Chris McAuliffe (Author)Fringe to Famousexamines exchange between small scenes of cultural production and mainstream institutions and markets. Drawing on Australian examples in music, streetwear, comedy, screen and digital games, it argues that there has been much greater crossover between the two than is generally recognized. The book resists a tendency to represent fringe and mainstream as abstract opposites, bringin...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Rosefielde (Author)Asian Economic Systems provides readers with a crisp analytic framework, concepts and narrative highlighting contemporary Asia's systemic diversity. The framework facilitates insightful comparison with the western neoclassical ideal. This method allows students to easily appreciate the special virtues of various Asian economic systems, and compare them with those offered in the west. This objective is buttressed with background materia...

The Tyranny of Nations: How the Last 500 Years Shaped Today's Global Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Palak Patel (Author)The Tyranny of Nations places the ground-shaking political and economic events of modern times in context. Palak Patel draws on his experience investing in government bond markets to demonstrate how the present fits a specific historical pattern that has defined the past 500 years. Modern-day trade liberalization and financial expansion all share distinct parallels with similar events in the 1600s and 1800s. Likewise, China's economic trajec...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Connor (Author), Annie Delaney (Author), Fiona Haines (Author)In the quest for human rights justice for communities and workers whose rights are breached by transnational businesses, non-judicial mechanisms (NJMs) are often deployed, but how effective are they? This book creates a blueprint for reforming transnational human rights NJMs and for helping communities and workers to use them. Through 587 interviews with 1100 individuals over five years of resear...

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Report copyright infringementby Werner Sombart (Author), M. Epstein (Translator)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original wo...

Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Laleh Khalili (Author)An exposé of the extractive industries powering globalization --and a primer on fighting back Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives record-breaking profits. Piercing, wry, and constantly revealing, Extractive Capitalism brings vividly to light the dark truths behind the world's most...

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler - Paperback

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by Lynne Olson (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island "Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to be called a hero."--The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST In 1941 a thi...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Papst (Author) Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 26, 2025

Woodside vs the Planet: How a Company Captured a Country; Quarterly Essay 99

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Report copyright infringementby Marian Wilkinson (Author) Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9.21 x 6.57 IN Publication Date: September 01, 2025

Carbon Capital: Climate Change and the Ethics of Oil Investing

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Field (Author)Surprising insights into the worldviews of oil and gas financiers It is no secret that the fossil fuel industry, whose products power modern America both physically and financially, inflicts immense destruction to our environment. The past, present, and future of US energy have been determined not just by engineers, but by financiers, an under-studied group of energy investors. Drawing on four years of ethnographic work in Houston, Texas, the...

Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work

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Report copyright infringementby Alicia Grandey (Editor), James Diefendorff (Editor), Deborah E. Rupp (Editor)This book reviews, integrates, and synthesizes research on emotional labor and emotion regulation conducted over the past 30 years.Author BiographyGrandey, Alicia; Diefendorff, James; Rupp, Deborah E. Number of Pages: 344 Dimensions: 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 24, 2017

Municipal Police Officers' Retirement System Actuarial Valuation as OfJuly 1

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Report copyright infringementby Miller &. Associates Hendrickson (Author)This actuarial valuation report, titled "Municipal Police Officers' Retirement System Actuarial Valuation as Of July 1, 1992," provides a detailed assessment of the financial status of the retirement system. Prepared by Hendrickson, Miller & Associates, the report offers insights into the system's liabilities and assets as they stood at the time of valuation. This historical document is essential for understandin...

Crystallizing Public Opinion: The Classic Work That Shaped the Modern Field of Public Relations and Propaganda

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Report copyright infringementby Edward L. Bernays (Author) Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 03, 2025

The Great American Healthcare Heist: Why We're Paying More and Getting Less

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Deacon (Author) Number of Pages: 312 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 25, 2025

The State of China's State Capitalism: Evidence of Its Successes and Pitfalls

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Report copyright infringementby Juann H. Hung (Editor), Yang Chen (Editor)This book comprises a collection of well-researched essays on selected contemporary economic and finance issues in China, making a timely contribution to the intellectual intercourse regarding the implications of China's rise. These essays analyze issues related to the state of China's ecology, real estate market, inbound and outbound FDI, income inequality, etc., and offer analysis on the policy and institutional cause...

Applied Economics in Globalised Economies: Problems and Policies

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Report copyright infringementby James Foreman-Peck (Author), Peng Zhou (Author)Globalisation, the increasing integration of markets and ideas across borders throughout the world, has redefined how economies function, how societies interact, and how nations confront shared challenges. Recognising these profound transformations, this book attempts to bridge the divide between economics and economies as well as the gap between theories and policies. Complete with case studies, lecture slides, te...

Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe. Beyond White-Settler Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Moyo (Editor), Walter Chambati (Editor)The Fast Track Land Reform Programme implemented during the 2000s in Zimbabwe represents the only instance of radical redistributive land reforms since the end of the Cold War. It reversed the racially-skewed agrarian structure and discriminatory land tenures inherited from colonial rule. The land reform also radicalised the state towards a nationalist, introverted accumulation strategy, against a broad array of unilat...