Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enhance their lives? Poverty, Disadvantage and the Promise of Enterprise: A Capabilities Perspective argue that "it depends". To understand the poverty and entrepreneurship interface, we must first ......
An examination of the economic achievements and failures in a number of former communist-bloc countries, focusing on the common issues and the available options. The book also puts forward policy recommendations for the future.
In Money Shackles, Dutch Mendenhall takes readers on a transformative journey to address the financial vulnerabilities plaguing Americans. Drawing from his own poignant epiphany on a frosty New Years night, Mendenhall challenges the predefined societal notions of the American Dream. This book delves deep into the core of financial ......
This 6-page laminated guide consists of basic macroeconomics concepts and principles, which can be used in school, home or in work place. Topics covered include: supply & demand, market equilibrium & measuring, output/income & price level, inflation & unemployment, consumption & savings, fiscal policies and much more.
Why do so many advocates remain silent on key issues they care about and how does that silence contribute to narrowly defined policies? What can individuals and organizations do to amplify their privately expressed concerns for policy change? This title addresses these questions through the lens of state-level health care advocacy for the poor.
Highlights the Economic Performance Insurance (EPI) plan to tackle the New Deal's unsolved problems. This book explains that the indignity and physical suffering of the jobless themselves do not have to continue, job discrimination can be combated, and our national income will rise as "non-production" declines.
A Review of the Trinidad and Tobago Model and Analysis of Future Chall
This book chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book will be useful as a source document to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in developments in the energy sector in a small developing state.
A Review of the Trinidad and Tobago Model and Analysis of Future Chall
This book chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book will be useful as a source document to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in developments in the energy sector in a small developing state.
In recent years, the Republic of Guinea has shed its reputation as one of the most tightly controlled state economies in Africa, leaving behind a cloistered era marked by an extraordinarily closed economic and political system. This title presents an overview of the Guinean economy, and its evolution.
Outlines the structure of the Tanzanian economy, considering the impact of previous policies, as well as current stabilisation and adjustment measures, on the Tanzanian population. The text rejects official statistics as failing to give an accurate picture of Tanzanian economic development.
The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume explore how the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy can help us to understand culture, sociality and morality.
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The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and ......
The debate over Universal Basic Income (UBI) has spanned political ideologies and policy issues. What arguments for and against UBI are important to different progressive political ideologies? This book answers this question from an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating insights from policy analysis, political theory, and philosophy.