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Bob Woodward called his biography of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan Maestro for two reasons. First, Greenspan is a musician. He started out as a Julliard-trained jazz sax man. “He wasn’t a good improviser,” Woodward reports. And while the other guys got stoned all night, Greenspan “read [...]
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This edited volume has taken us a step forward in advancing our understanding of global cities and their immediate functional and spatial regions in contemporary globalization. I would recommend it to both geographers and urban theorists and, as a course text, for those who are interested [...]
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This edited volume has taken us a step forward in advancing our understanding of global cities and their immediate functional and spatial regions in contemporary globalization. I would recommend it to both geographers and urban theorists and, as a course text, for those who are interested [...]
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“The best book on international affairs so far this year.”–Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times “This slip of a book is set to become a classic of the ‘how to help the world’s poorest’ genre. Crammed with statistical nuggets and common sense, his book should be [...]
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“…Chancellor Geoffrey Howe…has endorsed a new tome by Adam Smith Institute boss Eamonn Butler on the power of free markets.” (The Evening Standard, Monday 31st March 2008)
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The free market makes the world go around. Maybe it’s time [...]
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Overpopulation has long been a global concern. But between modern medicine and reduced fertility, world population may in fact be shrinking–and is almost certain to do so by the time today’s children retire. The troubling implications for our economy and culture include:* The possibility of [...]
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“…Chancellor Geoffrey Howe…has endorsed a new tome by Adam Smith Institute boss Eamonn Butler on the power of free markets.” (The Evening Standard, Monday 31st March 2008)
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The free market makes the world go around. Maybe it’s time [...]
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Overpopulation has long been a global concern. But between modern medicine and reduced fertility, world population may in fact be shrinking–and is almost certain to do so by the time today’s children retire. The troubling implications for our economy and culture include:* The possibility of [...]
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When Sen, an Indian-born Cambridge economist, won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, he was praised by the Nobel Committee for bringing an “ethical dimension” to a field recently dominated by technical specialists. Sen here argues that open dialogue, civil freedoms and political [...]
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“The predominant form of business enterprise in developed economies is the corporation, characterized by limited liability (for the shareholders as owners) and unlimited life (”personhood” for the corporate form). Proponents of the anticorporate movement (ACM) agree that “corporations … have become so powerful that they must [...]
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