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The costliest hurricanes in U.S. history have all occurred in the past two decades--but who bears the financial brunt of these monster storms? It is no accident that five of the most destructive hurricanes in the last hundred years have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($161 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($71 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). And with more property than ever in harm's way, the seas rising, and the planet...
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Rodrik takes globalization's cheerleaders to task, not for emphasizing economics over other values, but for practicing bad economics and ignoring the discipline's own nuances that should have called for caution. He makes a case for a pluralist world economy where nation-states retain sufficient autonomy to fashion their own social contracts and develop economic strategies tailored to their needs. Rather than calling for closed borders or defending...
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¿Estamos condenados al éxito? No, pero tampoco a las recurrentes crisis que dejan a cada vez más personas a la intemperie. ¿Y si algunas claves para romper la lógica del péndulo de la economía argentina estuvieran en el peronismo?
¿En el peronismo? ¿El mismo movimiento cuyos dirigentes gobernaron buena parte de las últimas décadas? En un logrado ejercicio de análisis histórico y económico que no elude la autocrítica, Matías Kulfas...
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in this new and revised collection of essays. Cooperation Jackson, founded in 2014 in Mississippi's capital to develop an economically uplifting democratic "solidarity economy," is anchored by a network...
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Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, but left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again-this time with a unique model for governance and economic development under the leadership of its strong and decisive president, Paul Kagame. Here, Patricia Crisafulli & Andrea Redmond...
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The must-read summary of Brian S. Wesbury's book: "It's Not as Bad as You Think: Why Capitalism Trumps Fear and the Economy Will Thrive".
This complete summary of "It's Not as Bad as You Think" by Brian S. Wesbury, a renowned American economist, outlines his argument that the financial future may be hard to predict, but it will in the end be profitable as entrepreneurs don't give up, He illustrates how everyone will be able to benefit from great...
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An approach to the challenges of globalism that rejects simplistic solutions, from "one of the most acute observers of the international economy" (Francis Fukuyama, New York Times-bestselling author of Identity).
Deploying a novel mix of scientific evaluation and personal observation, Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy, begins Truth, Errors, and Lies with a brief discussion of misinformation...
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La economía actual se basa principalmente en el análisis de un único flujo económico: el producto interno bruto que, como indicador, durante mucho tiempo ha sido el paradigma hegemónico. Como alternativa, este libro presenta una economía dinámica y más democrática que involucra un complejo de circulaciones. En un diagrama fundamental, se articulan dos grandes circuitos de la producción, con sus cruces e intercambios, a través de un centro...
10) Neoliberal Resilience: Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe
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"Honorable Mention for the Alice Amsden Book Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics" "Honorable Mention for the IPE Best Book Award, International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association" Aldo Madariaga is an assistant professor at the Center for Economics and Social Policy (CEAS), Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile, where he is also an adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies...
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Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced and reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics but rather the larger failure of a democratically bankrupt political system. The solution he offers: discover democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.
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Since the Global Financial Crisis, we have been approaching a crossroad in modern human history. The top 1 percent of people own more than half of the world's wealth, while hundreds of millions suffer in extreme poverty. Governments quarrel over the politics of environmental policy, even as climate change poses an existential threat to life on the planet. And communities "hollowed out" by the forces of globalization still struggle to stand on their...
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Hilton L. Root is a Freeman Fellow and Professor of Economics at Pitzer College and a Senior Fellow at Claremont Graduate University and the Milken Institute. He is the author of six books, including The Key to the East Asian Miracle: Making Shared Growth Credible (with J. Edgardo Campos) and The Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England.
Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing...
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The Atlantic Council Freedom and Prosperity Center has assembled this collection of essays exploring the relationship between freedom and prosperity. Thirty scholars and political leaders from twelve countries have contributed seventeen essays, together making the case that durable prosperity is achieved in countries with economic, political, and legal freedom. The Freedom and Prosperity Center aims to increase the well-being of people everywhere...
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"Winner of the William H. Riker Book Award, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the Best Book Award, International Collaboration Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, Yale University" "Winner of the Lepgold Prize, Mortara Center at Georgetown University" Didac Queralt is assistant professor of political science at Yale University....
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This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars. The first is to understand agriculture as complex physical-biological-human systems. Second is the economic perspective of understanding tradeoffs and synergies among the economic, environmental and social dimensions of these systems at farm, regional and global scales. Third...
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Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited brings together leading experts on the political economies of southern Europe-specifically Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal-to closely analyze and explain the primary socioeconomic and institutional features that define "Mediterranean capitalism" within the wider European context. These economies share a number of features, most notably their difficulties to provide viable answers to the challenge of globalization.
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"Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented economic headwinds--from aging populations to scarce resources to unsustainable debt burdens. Hobbled by short-term thinking and ideological dogma, democracies risk falling prey to nationalism and...
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Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization's impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, democratic groups that existed in symbiotic relationship with their environments. Increasing complexity led to the emergence of oligarchy, in which societies became captive to the logic of domination, exploitation, and ecological destruction. The challenge facing...
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A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement.
As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming...
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