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by Mary Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.
“If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we...
Between a Church and a Hard Place
One Faith-Free Dad's Struggle to Understand What It Means to Be Religious (or No t)
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Read Andrew Park's post on the Penguin Blog.
At age thirty-five, Andrew Park hit a parenting snag. Teaching his children about ethics, good manners, and how to shoot a free throw posed no problem. When they started asking about religion, he came up empty-handed. Raised in a faith- free family...
Spiritual Envy Paperback
An Agnostic's Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
As the host of one of National Public Radios most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing lifes most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive...
The Anatomy of Inequality
Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality, at a level that surpasses what could be expected from normal differences in individuals’ capabilities alone.”
So begins this new approach to the greatest social ill of our time, and nearly every other era. From a country with one...
by Thomas Piketty
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
The 5 Big Lies About American Business
Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS?
Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? In this passionately argued, eye-opening book, talk-radio star and bestselling author Michael Medved...
Dream Hoarders
How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
America is becoming a class-based society.
It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent-especially the top 0.01 percent-and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential,...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
One of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
The Fourth Revolution
The Global Race to Reinvent the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state
Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that...
After Piketty
The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right.
50 Economics Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Explore the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in economics. Gain the insights and research of contemporary economists and commentators.
WINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018
Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time...
by Malene Rydahl
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.
For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and...
Summary of Misbehaving
by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler’s role in developing and popularizing the field.
The traditional...
by Robert Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This eBook defines the Seven Estates (Domains) and their relationship to Commodity Production in society. It analyses the various forms of creating money over the ages. Gold and PM are discussed right up to an analysis of creation of Bitcoins and the revolutionary impact they are bound to have on...