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"In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion."--Jacket flap.
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"In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reaped benefits from its independence. While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by the common man, the establishment of a stable and independent...
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In business there are both winners and losers. According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start business fail within the first 18 months. Why do a whopping 80% of them crash and burn?
After 30 years of serving local business, Jane Moughon understands the challenges of business. In this easy-to-read, easy-to-understand book, she identifies issues that may be lurking in your business, which if ignored, can cripple or kill your business....
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They captured the essence of the times, in their massively influential book Megatrends, so will Global Game Change, where it offers analysis and an indispensable road map of the transforming of the global landscape, enabling entrepreneurs, corporations and governments to reposition themselves to new global conditions.
Our purpose, wrote John and Doris Naisbitt, in this book is to paint a picture of the transition we see evolving in the first half...
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The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2020, the 51st edition of this series, includes the latest available economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 49 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. It presents the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience, including policy makers, development practitioners, government officials, researchers, students,...
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El sexto libro de Lucio A. Muñoz, La cuarta revolución industrial en España. ¿Cómo reducir el paro estructural que está provocando este fenómeno?, está dividido en dos partes totalmente diferenciadas.
En la primera parte, que consta de veintitrés capítulos, Lucio A. Muñoz analiza los efectos que la cuarta revolución industrial está provocando en las empresas. Del mismo modo, el autor expone, en esta primera parte, las claves para reducir...
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The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book. The authors offer documentary evidence to support their conclusion that under capitalism the workers, despite long hours and other hardships of factory life, were better off financially, had more opportunities, and led a...
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An experience of five years with Mr. Mill's treatise in the class-room not only convinced me of the great usefulness of what still remains one of the most lucid and systematic books yet published which cover the whole range of the study, but I have also been convinced of the need of such additions as should give the results of later thinking, without militating against the general tenor of Mr. Mill's system, of such illustrations as should fit it...
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Aunque hace algún tiempo que se encuentra agotada la primera edición de este ensayo, parece que aún se le solicita. Me he valido, por tanto, de la resolución del editor de reimprimirlo para hacer algunos cambios y mejoras que aconseja la experiencia habida desde su primera versión.
Al corregir la obra no me ha sido preciso modificar en forma importante su tesis general. Las críticas han tendido a centrarse sobre mi afirmación en el capítulo...
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In Becoming China's Bitch, Peter D. Kiernan presents an unflinching manifesto in which he explores five factors that keep us frozen. He then uncovers the ten challenges that pose the greatest threat to our future. Presented from a fresh yet informative perspective, these ten impending catastrophes include our semiconscious dependency on China, our lack of a coordinated intelligence effort, our downward-spiraling health-care and education systems,...
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Do you run a company that needs credit?
Are you in the right position to show potential lenders you are a reliable borrower?
How could you improve your business credit score to attract finance?
Every business needs credit to survive, grow and prosper. Your credit score for your business depends on several factors and you will be awarded yours by your business credit agency, which is dependent on these. You will obviously want to ensure that...
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As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come.
Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat out. Levy, who pioneered many of the innovations and...
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La mayor parte de start up creadas por innovadores identifican los sectores de futuro en los que se concentran los nuevos negocios. También generan otros perfiles profesionales. Se trata de oportunidades de trabajo diferentes para aquellos que entienden que en la búsqueda de un puesto ya no valen las soluciones de siempre, ni el recurso a las empresas clásicas.
El mercado laboral de nuestros días demanda perfiles que puedan innovar y que conviertan...
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This publication provides estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditures for 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific. These are summary regional results from the 2017 cycle of the International Comparison Program (ICP), a global statistical initiative carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. The report provides estimates of PPPs, real expenditures for total and per capita gross domestic product...
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Los innovadores que desarrollan nuevos proyectos son capaces de prever, diseñar, planificar, gestionar y ejecutar con un sello característico. En ocasiones, esa visión especial y esa predisposición diferente para ejecutar sus ideas innovadoras puede confundirse o asociarse con ciertas rarezas o con una imposibilidad para trabajar en compañías y empleos tradicionales.
En este libro te presentamos 20 recetas para iniciar tu actividad emprendedora....
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De la amnistía al acoso a las cuentas opacas. El pasado 30 de noviembre acabó el plazo para regularizar cuentas y bienes opacos en la amnistía fiscal. Durante los últimos días se produjo la avalancha de regularizaciones que vaticinó Hacienda, la gran mayoría, según refrendan los asesores fiscales, de dinero negro. Finalizó así una de las medidas más polémicas del Gobierno de Rajoy, que Hacienda lanzó con los Presupuestos de 2012 el pasado...
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This publication provides a comprehensive account of the 2017 International Comparison Program (ICP) cycle for 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific. It provides in-depth analyses of estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs), total and per capita real (PPP-converted) gross domestic product and its component expenditures, and price level indexes showing relative costs of living. The PPPs enable comparison in real terms across economies by removing...
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The People's Republic of China (PRC) is currently undergoing a number of structural and cyclical changes, which have wide-ranging implications for economic activity in the PRC, the rest of developing Asia, and the world. This report assesses the effects of these changes on the rest of the region and the world, looking closely at various channels of transmission including commodity prices, trade, and production. The continued moderation of growth in...
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The era of modern economics emerged with the publication of Carl Mengers seminal work, Principles of Economics, in 1871. In this slim book, Menger set forth the correct approach to theoretical research in economics and elaborated some of its immediate implications. In particular, Menger sought to identify the causal laws determining the prices that he observed being paid daily in actual markets.4 His stated goal was to formulate a realistic price...
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was professor of economics at Harvard University and served as U.S. ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He wrote more than fifty books, including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State (Princeton).
The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of...