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  by aniketjadhav

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Type: business

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Status: favorite

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Author: http

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Tags: books history war philosophy political culture music educational literature economics sociology on

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Description: Algora publishing is an online provider of wide variety in economics books.

2008-09-22

  by gib101

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Type: fiction

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Status: on hold

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Author: Varda Burstyn

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Tags: fiction philosophy capitalism economics contemporary northern @finished2008 poltics

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Description: An interesting book, it describes the takeover of much of the Quebec water system by AmericanAn interesting book, it describes the takeover of much of the Quebec water system by American business tychoons who see only money in water and do not understand the effects to the ecosystem....

2007-09-01

  by katie

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Type: documentary

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Tyler Cowen

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Tags: globalization culture economics

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Description: Interesting exploration by an economist of the different meanings of cultural diversity --Interesting exploration by an economist of the different meanings of cultural diversity -- within vs. across societies -- and how cultural heterogeneity and homogeneity go hand in hand (not in opposition) -- and how cultural exchange both disrupts and encourages cultures. His examples of African music and of Navajo textiles were very interesting -- and detailed....

2007-08-02

  by gib101 & 1 users

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Type: educational

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Status: now reading

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Authors: Don Tapscott Anthony D. Williams

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Tags: economics evolution geography globalism peer

2007-06-28

  by hampus & 1 users

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Milton Friedman

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Tags: politics capitalism economics freedom liberalism

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Description: How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individualHow can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on....

2007-01-21

  by feanoro & 2 users

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Type: scientific

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Status: to read

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Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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Tags: economics poverty

2006-12-22

  by aggieben

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Type: scientific

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Status: to read

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Author: Adam Smith

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Tags: classics economics

2006-10-18

  by fmellish & 3 users

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Type: business

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Status: to read

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Author: Thomas Frank

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Tags: economics

2006-08-11

  by fmellish & 1 users

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Type: documentary

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Status: to read

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Author: Dean Baker

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Tags: economics citizenship

2006-08-11

  by whitekl

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Type: technical

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Status: liked

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Author: Jeroen van der Veer

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Tags: globalization economics connections political_futures

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Description: I used this book for a graduate course in globalism and corporate responsibility. Shell producesI used this book for a graduate course in globalism and corporate responsibility. Shell produces these scenarios as ways of anticipating the global business future - petroleum is their lense but the ideas are perfectly valid without. It is not an easy read by any means but the pictures are pretty and the concepts important....

2006-08-04