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2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 74 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Gloria is one of the 700,000 Spanish people who have left Spain since the economic crisis started. The film portraits the experience of intra-European exiles tackled by Spain’s highest-profile female director, Icíar Bollaín (Even the Rain, Take My Eyes). Gloria is a 32 year old native of Almería Spain. A teacher without a posting, and a shop assistant in an Edinburgh store for the past two years. Gloria has set up a collective with the motto...
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Beginning in 1977, Andrew Kolker and Louis Alvarez produced a series of half-hour documentaries about New Orleans' challenges called Being poor in New Orleans. The programs were broadcast on WGNO-TV (Channel 26) and produced under the auspices of NOVAC, the New Orleans Video Access Center. Presenting some of the first independent TV documentaries made in New Orleans, the series was a pathbreaking look at New Orleans' problems and raised a number of...
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Works volume 2
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Adam Smith's groundbreaking work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, delves into the principles that underpin economic prosperity and the functioning of free markets. Written during the Scottish Enlightenment, this influential text offers a thorough examination of political economy at the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
Smith explores key concepts such as the division of labor, the pursuit of self-interest, and...
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Everyday learning volume 3
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This easy-to-understand and fully illustrated handbook teaches essential economic concepts so you can confidently apply economic reasoning in daily situations and discussions.
Economics may seem inaccessible and complicated, but in reality, we live in an economy all the time and use economic principles every day. Economic insight and knowledge can easily and quickly solve a curiosity or problem, avoid a minor catastrophe, or even help provide support...
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Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard rules of economic engagement, creating systems that differ markedly from those predicted by the theory of general market competition. This analysis is grounded in established principles, but also assumes that individual utility seeking may be culturally determined, that political goals may take precedence over...
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This volume includes five essays on the subject of political and sociological philosophy, including 'Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations', 'On the Influence of Consumption upon Production', 'Of the Words Productive and Unproductive', 'Of Profits and Interest' and 'Of the Definition of Political Economy; and of the Method of Investigation Proper to It'. This version has been carefully formatted for today's e-readers by Andrews UK, and includes...
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This landmark treatise formulated the guiding principles behind the market economy. Author Ricardo, with Adam Smith, founded the classical system of political economy, a school of thought that dominated economic policies throughout the 19th century and figured prominently in the theories of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx.-Print ed.
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This introduction to one of the key areas of behavioural economics – social preferences – explains in clear, nontechnical language how particular groups of experiments have been used by behavioural economists to shed light on the processes of economic decision making. These include bargaining games, trust games and public good games. The significance of determinants such as punishment, sanctioning, emotion, cooperation, reciprocity, leadership,...
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Mom's Got Money is a mother's guide-an instruction manual to help them use the skills they already possess to become extraordinarily confident managers of their money.
Alford won't pretend mothers don't have a lot on their plate. She already knows they're pressed for time. The weight of their daily decisions takes a toll. Sometimes, it feels like they manage everything, whether they have a supportive spouse or not. She knows this because it's...
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"An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while...
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Health economics has become an established field of enquiry over recent years and is now an important contributor to normative health policy, and decisions concerning the allocation of resources and the quality of healthcare provision across the world.
Medical Economics, written by two physicians who are also qualified economists, introduces readers to the core economic considerations in healthcare provision and management. Addressing concerns that...
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"Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Economics for Everyone, now published in second edition, is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wages are explored, and their importance...
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Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both its historical and interdisciplinary context.
From the culmination of 40 years of teaching, research and policy advice on political economy, Ben...
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"Economics has always been partly a vehicle for the ruling ideology of each period as well as partly a method of scientific investigation. It limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans. Here our task is to sort out as best we may this mixture of ideology and science." With these provocative words, Joan Robinson introduces this lively and iconoclastic book. "In what follows," she says, "this theme is illustrated...
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A powerful framework for going beyond the corporate buzzwords to generate real business results
In The Performance Culture, leadership expert Khalil Smith and veteran storyteller Chris Weller deliver an authoritative and practical instruction manual for every leader who wants to create healthy, high-performing cultures. The authors explain how to get your employees aligned, engaged, and collaborating with each other using compelling stories and...
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Two leading economists present a new model for sustainable capitalism based on the economics of mutuality.
For decades, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. While books like Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed the shortcomings of financial...
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A group history of the Austrian School of Economics, from the coffeehouses of imperial Vienna to the modern-day Tea Party. The Austrian School of Economics-a movement that has had a vast impact on economics, politics, and society, especially among the American right-is poorly understood by supporters and detractors alike. Defining themselves in opposition to the mainstream, economists such as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Joseph Schumpeter...
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"In an age when business and finance are dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett presents a radically different strategy for success: businesses and investors can revolutionize their understanding of behavior by studying consumers, markets, and organizations through an anthropological lens"--Jacket.
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George Buckley & Sumeet Desai: What You Need To Know About Economics
Economics Matters. But with confusing things like GDP and interest rates, it's often hard to get you head around.
So What do you really need to know about economics? Find out:
• What economic growth is and why it matters
• How inflation happens
• How jobs are created and lost
• How the property market works
• What central banks do and how it affects the rest of us
• The...
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"Newport explains how to systematically train the mind to focus and reorganize work lives so that deep work is at the core. He argues why this shift is crucial to stay ahead in a complex information economy. Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions people can make in an increasingly distracted world.





