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Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, 'neoliberalism' has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the developing
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Has the time come to throw out capitalism and replace it with socialism? Will socialism bring about equality and remove greed? Aren't the Nordic countries successful examples of socialism?
In this book, you will learn:
-What the pillars of any economic system are and what the Bible has to say about the pillars of capitalism and socialism.
-The connections among socialism, communism, and fascism.
-What a fair reading of the evidence has to say about...
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Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced and reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics but rather the larger failure of a democratically bankrupt political system. The solution he offers: discover democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.
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""Of All the Economic Bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of the Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place?" "In How the Economy Works, one of our leading economists provides a jargon-free exploration...
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"Even though economic downturns are still followed by upturns, fewer people benefit from them. As a result, economic crisis is an everyday reality that permanently affects all levels of our lives. The logic of downturn, developed in this book, helps make sense of what is going on, as the economy shapes us more deeply than we had ever realized, not only our finances and our work, but also our relationships, our thinking, and even our hopes and desires....
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The way that businesses take on, train, and ensure that staff are able to effectively function in a new work environment is known as onboarding. However, in recent years, onboarding has undergone tremendous changes. The most significant of these changes is the increased digitization of onboarding processes, which has taken form in a process known as virtual onboarding. This new form of onboarding presents many opportunities and challenges for business...
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Practice interpreting or transliterating high school lectures about free enterprise and the history behind government regulation in business. After you have had a chance to inerpret/transliterate the lecture (voice to sign) watch three model interpreters as they provide unrehearsed interpretations/transliterations.
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With the global economy recovering from a steep recession, and with that recovery challenging our long-held ideas about what careers and the market can be, learning the basics of economics has never been more essential. Principles such as gains from trade, the role of profit and loss, and the secondary effects of government spending, taxes, and borrowing risk continue to be critically important to the way America's economy functions, and critically...
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