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A war on global poverty

the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit

A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why ...

Rebellion, rascals, and revenue

tax follies and wisdom through the ages

Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very ...

Patient capital

the challenges and promises of long-term investing

There has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world’s most difficult problems, such as climate change, human health, and decaying infrastructure. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill this gap ...

The profit paradox

how thriving firms threaten the future of work

In an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world’s working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so that everything from a bottle of beer to a ...

Micronesia

fractales sobre literatura (1997-2021)

Micronesia. Fractales sobre la literatura (1997-2021) es una reflexión reticular sobre diversos temas y asuntos literarios, a partir de un conjunto heterogéneo de textos. El micro ensayo, el apunte breve, el fragmento digresivo, el aforismo, la anotación de dietario, la reseña y las glosas textuales ...

Economics in two lessons

why markets work so well and why they can fail so badly

Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets ...

Credit nation

property laws and legal institutions in early America

Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of ...

Super courses

the future of teaching and learning

Decades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed—and it’s not through technology or even the best of lectures. In Super Courses, education expert and bestselling author Ken Bain tells the fascinating story of enterprising college ...

In the shadow of justice

postwar liberalism and the remaking of political philosophy

In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism—a set ...

The great divergence

China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy

The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East ...

Minds wide shut

how the new fundamentalisms divide us

Polarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a rise in styles of thought, across a range of fields, that literary scholar Gary Saul Morson and economist ...

Why the New Deal matters

The greatest peaceable expression of common purpose in U.S. history, the New Deal altered Americans' relationship with politics, economics, and one another in ways that continue to resonate today. No matter where you look in America, there is likely a building or bridge built ...

Guía para la realización de las auditorías internas de los sistemas de gestión

Escrito por profesionales con amplia experiencia en la realización de auditorías, este libro pretende ayudar al lector a saber cómo abordar el proceso de auditoría con fiabilidad, tomando como referencia la Norma ISO 19011. Se trata de una guía muy práctica que incluye ejemplos, preguntas ...

Más Bobbio y menos Schmitt, más despacio, pero juntos

la encrucijada de la democracia liberal frente al populismo

Hoy más personas habitan en países con regímenes democráticos en el mundo que hace cincuenta años, pero desde la segunda década del 2000 estamos asistiendo a una nueva fase de recesión de la democracia liberal a nivel global. Las democracias liberales están más acosadas por ...

Casos prácticos de la gestión de la Administración del Estado

¿Cómo prepararse para aprobar el último examen de ala oposición de Gestión de Administración del Estado? Es la pregunta clave que todos se hacen para poder cumplir con su objetivo final: ser funcionario de carrera. Con una perspectiva de trescientos sesenta grados, se explica todo ...

Islamic Law

a very short introduction

Islamic law is one of the major legal systems in the world today, yet it is often misunderstood, particularly in the West. It is applicable in different forms as part of state law in countries across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, and also has ...

Marketing

a very short introduction

Marketing is pivotal in today's world. Used for determining and satisfying the needs of the customer, it stands at the interface between an organisation and its environment. Marketing provides customer and competitor information to the organisation, as well as creating awareness of the company ...

Prosperity

better business makes the greater good

What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business around the world but it is fundamentally wrong, Colin Mayer argues. It has had disastrous ...

Multinational enterprises and the law

Multinational Enterprises and the Law is the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional, and multilateral levels. In addition, it considers the effects of corporate self-regulation, and the impact of civil society and ...

Democratic design

Democracy faces stern tests around the world in the twenty-first century. Democratic Design argues that to respond effectively and creatively, democrats need to work with a versatile new toolkit of concepts and institutions. The book assembles this toolkit — the democratic design framework — through an original ...