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A Brief History of Doom "Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises"
Vague, Richard
University Of Pennsylvania (2019)
- EAN: 9780812251777
- Páginas: 227
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economies-and they are extraordinarily damaging. Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard ...
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Are Markets Moral?
Kautz, Steven J. Melzer, Arthur M.
University Of Pennsylvania (2018)
- EAN: 9780812250527
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Despite the remarkable achievements of free markets-their rapid spread around the world and success at generating economic growth-they tend to elicit anxiety. Creative destruction and destabilizing change provoke feelings of powerlessness in the face of ...
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Beggar Thy Neighbor "A History of Usury and Debt"
Geisst, Charles
University Of Pennsylvania (2018)
- EAN: 9780812224269
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also ...
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Market Rules "Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession"
Rose, Mark H.
University Of Pennsylvania (2018)
- EAN: 9780812251029
- Páginas: 260
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken ...
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Slavery's Capitalism " A New History of American Economic Development "
Beckert, S. Rockman, Seth
University Of Pennsylvania (2018)
- EAN: 9780812224177
- Páginas: 410
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was ...
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Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, C. 300-600 C.E
Fernández, Damián
University Of Pennsylvania (2017)
- EAN: 9780812249460
- Páginas: 0
- Fecha de edición: 2017
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In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents with their ...
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After Europe "Updated Edition"
Krastev, Ivan
University Of Pennsylvania (2020)
- EAN: 9780812252422
- Páginas: 136
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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A impassioned defense of the European Union and a concise analysis of its present challenges and future
In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union-and ... -
Green Capitalism? "Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century"
Berghoff, Hartmut Rome, Adam
University Of Pennsylvania (2017)
- EAN: 9780812249019
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2017
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At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise ...
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Medieval Iberia Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources
Constable, Olivia Remie
University Of Pennsylvania (2011)
- EAN: 9780812221688
- Páginas: 640
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political, religious, and economic ...
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Human Rights or Global Capitalism "The Limits of Privatization"
Nowak, Manfred
University Of Pennsylvania (2016)
- EAN: 9780812248753
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2016
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The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. ...
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Slavery's Capitalism "A New History of American Economic Development"
Beckert, S.
University Of Pennsylvania (2016)
- EAN: 9780812248418
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha de edición: 2016
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During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was ...
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Capitalism by Gaslight "Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America"
Luskey, Brian P. Woloson, Wendy A.
University Of Pennsylvania (2015)
- EAN: 9780812246896
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the ...
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Globalization "A Crucial Phase"
Spooner, Brian
University Of Pennsylvania (2015)
- EAN: 9781934536780
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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Throughout human history, the rate of world population growth overall has been outpaced by the rate of urban population growth. Right now, more the half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion will ...
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Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines "Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia"
Barton, Simon
University Of Pennsylvania (2015)
- EAN: 9780812246759
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Islamic conquest in the early eighth century to the ...
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The Next Economic Disaster "Why it's Coming and How to Avoid it"
Vague, Richard
University Of Pennsylvania (2014)
- EAN: 9780812247046
- Páginas: 104
- Fecha de edición: 2014
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Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private ...
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The Last Crusade in The West "Castile and the Conquest of Granada"
O'Callaghan, Joseph F.
University Of Pennsylvania (2014)
- EAN: 9780812245875
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha de edición: 2014
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By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the ...
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China and Africa "A Century of Engagement"
Shinn, David
University Of Pennsylvania (2012)
- EAN: 9780812244199
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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The People's Republic of China once limited its involvement in African affairs to building an occasional railroad or port, supporting African liberation movements, and loudly proclaiming socialist solidarity with the downtrodden of the continent. Now ...
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Public Capitalism "The Political Authority of Corporate Executives"
Mcmahon, Christopher
University Of Pennsylvania (2012)
- EAN: 9780812244441
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate. Corporate executives issue directives to employees, who ...
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The Queen's Hand "Power and Authority in the Reign of Berenguela of Castile"
Bianchini, Janna
University Of Pennsylvania (2012)
- EAN: 9780812244335
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Her name is undoubtedly less familiar than that of her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, or that of her famous conqueror son, Fernando III, yet during her lifetime, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) was one of the ...
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Virtuosity in Business "Invisible Law Guiding the Invisible Hand"
Jackson, Kevin T.
University Of Pennsylvania (2011)
- EAN: 9780812243765
- Páginas: 376
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.67,60 €
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The recent global financial crisis raises pressing issues that are not exclusively economic. The health of the economy, Kevin T. Jackson contends, reflects the moral health of the wider culture: ethics must be considered along ...
