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We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better? Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times: how the very forces and technologies that were...
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PM video volume 15
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In a lecture and an interview, Naomi Klein discusses the principles and practice of unrestrained free enterprise, its effects on the world's populations, and what people can do to countervail it.
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"Deirdre McCloskey is one of our best-known economic historians and an advocate for free market capitalism and the power of ideas in shaping our economy. Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich collects the provocative arguments put forward by McCloskey in a trilogy published by the Press that mounts a vigorous defense of capitalism as told through the story of the rise of the bourgeois. Co-authored with Art Carden, Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You...
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Ideas in context volume 83
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In this groundbreaking study, David Weinstein argues that nineteenth-century English New Liberalism was considerably more indebted to classical English utilitarianism than the received view holds. T.H. Green, L.T. Hobhouse, D.G. Ritchie and J.A. Hobson were liberal consequentialists who followed J.S. Mill in trying to accommodate robust, liberal moral rights with the normative goal of promoting self-realization. Through careful interpretation of each,...
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Assesses fourteen major vulnerabilities in the American economic system, and offers solutions for buttressing shortcomings and returning to a more sustainable capitalism.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism shapes the market economies of all the wealthiest and fastest-growing nations. But trouble is cracking its shiny veneer. In the U.S., Europe, and Japan, economic growth has slowed down. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few; natural...
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Presents an introduction to microeconomics, covering the market system, market structures, market failures, and government responses to market failures. Explores the concepts of production capacity, price floor, price ceiling, perfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition, and oligopoly.
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Saga two the iron chaos volume Book 4
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"Asher's sure this will be the best Freedom Day ever -- even though he's running low on funds. After all, Asher can just tweak the market and make everything he wants cheaper. It's a plan that can't fail -- right? Join Asher as he learns that a free market is better for both buyers and sellers. Then explore this topic with your family through the activities in the BRAVE challenge at the end of the book." --
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Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised "freedoms" to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and government must ask permission from them. Sadly, today's increasingly bureaucratic society is beginning to turn back the clock and to transform America into a nation where...
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Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. Korten identifies the deeper sources: Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of creating "wealth" without producing anything of real value: phantom wealth. Our hope lies not with Wall Street, Korten argues, but with Main Street, which creates...
78) The battle: how the fight between free enterprise and big government will shape America's future
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American Enterprise Institute's president Arthur C. Brooks reveals in "The Battle" how the forces for social democracy have returned with a vengeance, expanding the power of the state to a breathtaking degree. He offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise.
80) How markets work
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Examines how markets work, discusses local and global markets, and describes how the system is imperfect.