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Author: C.M. Simpson
Publisher: C.M. Simpson Publishing
Published: 2024-04-10
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fantasy short story containing: A place by the fire in exchange for a story, the tale of a blind bard and a dragon, a knight and his squire. Sharing stories for a place at a fire. It’s a highlight of the road—but the tale of a blind bard and a dragon, and how things used to be? Maybe it wasn’t my best choice.
Author: Richard Donley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995-03-10
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0671895591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ultimate armchair shopper's price guide--a compendium of strange, lavish, and ordinary items, from mannequins to roller coasters, confessional booths to customized Cadillacs, a new nose to a secondhand Academy Award.
Author: Samuel Bowles
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-05-28
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0300221088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShould the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy, or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good. Using historical and recent case studies as well as behavioral experiments, Bowles shows how well-designed incentives can crowd in the civic motives on which good governance depends.
Author: Russell Roberts
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-09-13
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0691143358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStanford University student Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby megastore hikes its prices the night after an earthquake. But he crosses paths with provost and economics professor Ruth Lieber when he plans a campus protest against the price-gouging retailer - which also happens to be a major university donor.
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1429942584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Author: Gerry Alanguilan
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9789719348245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mariana Mazzucato
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2018-04-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0241188822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. We misidentify takers as makers, and have lost sight of what value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought, this concept of value - what it is, why it matters to us - is simply no longer discussed. Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and passionate new book, if we are to reform capitalism - to radically transform an increasingly sick system rather than continue feeding it - we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from. Who is creating it, who is extracting it, and who is destroying it? Answers to these questions are key if we want to replace the current parasitic system with a type of capitalism that is more sustainable, more symbiotic: that works for us all. The Value of Everything will reignite a long-needed debate about the kind of world we really want to live in.
Author: Dominik Meier
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2019-08-31
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 3839444977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPower is the essence of politics. Whoever seeks to understand and master it must understand its logic. Drawing on two decades of international experience in political consulting, Dominik Meier and Christian Blum give profound and honest insights into the inner workings of power. Introducing their Power Leadership Approach, the authors provide a conceptual analysis of power and present the tools to successfully exercise it in the political domain. "Power and its Logic" is a guidebook for politicians, business leaders, civil society pioneers, public affairs consultants and for every citizen who wants to understand the unwritten rules of politics.
Author: Roy Paul Shields
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1480959901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeace Has a Price By: Roy Paul Shields Paul and Kim had found peace and solitude in Freedom Village, a picturesque safe haven from the world’s turmoil. But nothing could keep Paul from the realities of the world, including the danger of North Korea and the real possibility of World War III. The threat of North Korea wasn’t just America’s problem — it was the world’s problem. Finding a solution to this growing threat was on the front of Paul’s and other members of America’s military and political elite’s minds. A request by Sharon Powers to accompany her to Switzerland, where the world’s leaders would decide how to handle North Korea and protect the world from devastation, left Paul feeling hesitant and skeptical of the outcome. Nevertheless, Paul accepted the invitation, and after a world summit, a full-scale military mission was swiftly underway. But soon it became clear that chaos throughout the world was ensuing, and North Korea was just one small player in what would turn out to be a world on fire. Can the world’s leaders come together and create the peaceful world that seems so out of reach?
Author: Frank Ackerman
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1459604253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs clinical as it sounds to express the value of human lives, health, or the environment in cold dollars and cents, cost-benefit analysis requires it. More disturbingly, this approach is being embraced by a growing number of politicians and conservative pundits as the most reasonable way to make many policy decisions regarding public health and the environment. By systematically refuting the economic algorithms and illogical assumptions that cost-benefit analysts flaunt as fact, Priceless tells a ''gripping story about how solid science has been shoved to the backburner by bean counters with ideological blinders'' (In These Times). Ackerman and Heinzerling argue that decisions about health and safety should be made ''to reflect not economists' numbers, but democratic values, chosen on moral grounds. This is a vividly written book, punctuated by striking analogies, a good deal of outrage, and a nice dose of humor'' (Cass Sunstein, The New Republic). Essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of human health and environmental protection, Priceless ''shines a bright light on obstacles that stand in the way of good government decisions''.
