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The changing world order : why nations succeed and fail / by Dalio, Ray,1949-author.;
From Ray Dalio, author of 'Principles' and a legendary investor who has spent half a century studying global markets, comes 'The Changing World Order', examining history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we've experienced in our lifetimes. Please Note: The following title was included in a previous Bestseller list; libraries may need to re-order.
Subjects: Balance of power; Economic development; Economic history.; Economic policy;
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The wolf at the door : the menace of economic insecurity and how to fight it / by Graetz, Michael J.,author.; Shapiro, Ian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Americans face real economic hardship but respond with fantastical solutions, from tax-cut magic to the end of capitalism. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro focus on what truly worries people: their own insecurity. The authors propose concrete reforms affecting taxes, health care, and wages and share organizing strategies to achieve changes people need"--
Subjects: Economic security;
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Capitalism in America : a history / by Greenspan, Alan,1926-author.; Wooldridge, Adrian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs, enlightenment ideals as well as terrible moral failings. Every crucial debate is here -- from the role of slavery in the antebellum Southern economy to the real impact of FDR's New Deal to America's violent mood swings in its openness to global trade and its impact. But to read Capitalism in America is above all to be stirred deeply by the extraordinary productive energies unleashed by millions of ordinary Americans that have driven this country to unprecedented heights of power and prosperity. At heart, the authors argue, America's genius has been its unique tolerance for the effects of creative destruction, the ceaseless churn of the old giving way to the new, driven by new people and new ideas. Often messy and painful, creative destruction has also lifted almost all Americans to standards of living unimaginable to even the wealthiest citizens of the world a few generations past. A sense of justice and human decency demands that those who bear the brunt of the pain of change be protected, but America has always accepted more pain for more gain, and its vaunted rise cannot otherwise be understood, or its challenges faced, without recognizing this legacy. For now, in our time, productivity growth has stalled again, stirring up the populist furies. There's no better moment to apply the lessons of history to the most pressing question we face"--
Subjects: Capitalism; Economic history.;
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Business attraction strategy & competitive analysis : Town of Innisfil, Town of New Tecumseth, Township of Adjala-Tosorontio, Township of Essa final report : August 2004 /
Subjects: Business planning; Simcoe (Ontario : County);
© c2004., UrbanMetrics Inc.,
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Canada after Harper : his ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can resist and create the country we want / by Finn, Ed,1926-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This book is a collection of essays by 16 contributors, including David Suzuki, Ralph Nader, Kevin Page, Maude Barlow, and Linda McQuaig. These and other experts in their fields document key changes put in place by the Harper government in the areas of trade deals, the environment, youth activism, indigenous rights, economic growth, taxes, and wealth and poverty."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Harper, Stephen, 1959-;
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The trouble with billionaires / by McQuaig, Linda,1951-; Brooks, Neil.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Income distribution.; Rich people; Rich people;
© c2010., Viking Canada,
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False alarm : how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet / by Lomborg, Bjørn,1965-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 'False Alarm', "skeptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good. In this book, Lomborg will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong, and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all. Lomborg was named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world and "one of the 50 people who could save the planet" by the Guardian.
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global warming; Economic development;
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It's OK to be angry about capitalism / by Sanders, Bernard,author.; Nichols, John,1959-contributor.;
The U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and presents a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.
Subjects: Capitalism; Income distribution;
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Innovation in real places : strategies for prosperity in an unforgiving world / by Breznitz, Dan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. We have lived with this system for decades, and the result is clear: a small number of regions and cities at the top of the high-tech industry but many more fighting a losing battle to retain economic dynamism. But, as this books details, there are other models for innovation-based growth that don't rely on a flourishing high-tech industry. It argues that the purveyors of the dominant ideas on innovation have a feeble understanding of the big picture on global production and innovation. They conflate innovation with invention and suffer from techno-fetishism. In their devotion to start-ups, they refuse to admit that the real obstacle to growth for most cities is the overwhelming power of the real hubs, which siphon up vast amounts of talent and money. Communities waste time, money, and energy pursuing this road to nowhere. Instead Breznitz proposes that communities focus on where they fit within the four stages in the global production process. Success lies in understanding the changed structure of the global system of production and then using those insights to enable communities to recognize their own advantages, which in turn allows to them to foster surprising forms of specialized innovation. All localities have certain advantages relative to at least one stage of the global production process, and the trick is in recognizing it"--
Subjects: Community development.; Economic development.; Globalization.; Industrial capacity; Industrial policy.; Technological innovations; Technological innovations;
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The carbon bubble / by Rubin, Jeff,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Climatic changes; Energy policy; Industrial priorities; Petroleum industry and trade;
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