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Gray Rabbit Publishing The New Freedom
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Strategic Book Publishing The Impasse of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Economic Growth vs. Governance in Angola
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Single Currency and European Citizenship: Unveiling the Other Side of The Coin
Book SynopsisEstablished in 2002, the Euro is now the currency of 17 countries used by over 335 million people daily. Although the single currency is much discussed in terms of macroeconomics and global finances, policymakers rarely address its impact on European citizenship in social, cultural, political, and everyday life economics terms. This hidden side of the single currency is the focus of the essays, which use various approaches, from economic history and political sociology to citizenship and legitimacy, to reveal the connections between the Euro and European citizenship. This timely contribution by renowned experts provides a greater understanding of the Euro at a time when it is not clear whether it should be celebrated or commemorated, and looks into aspects of the single currency that are the base of the social trust that supports it and that is at stake in the present crisis. It will be an essential tool to anyone studying the political, social, and economic development of the E.U.Trade ReviewGiovanni Moro's innovative volume examines the crucial but neglected relationship between currency space and political identities in Europe. Its contributors explore very effectively how the project to create "one money" in Europe was linked to the emergence of not just "one market" but also "one people". The eurozone crisis has only reinforced the importance of their message that the study of money must never be left just to economists. -- Eric Helleiner, Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy , Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, UKThis timely book intends to probe the connection between the single currency and the predicament of European citizenship by asking from various perspectives an intricate question: when the Euro talks, does it tell a story? Whenever citizenship is at stake, as it obvious is in the European constitution-building process, it is always vested in narratives of identity deployed and redeployed at the level of individual and collective memories and expectations. Cogently selected and proficiently introduced by Giovanni Moro, these fourteen essays constitute a relevant resource for those, scholars and policymakers alike, concerned by the prospects of both the Euro zone and the European Union. -- Daniel Barbu, Professor of Political Science, University of Bucharest, RomaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction Giovanni Moro Part I. The Multiple Links between the Single Currency and European Citizenship 1. Building Citizenship in the Post-Modern Era Giovanni Moro, Lucia Mazzuca and Roberto Ranucci 2. Imaginary Europe: the Euro as Symbol and Practice Kathleen McNamara 3. The Only Wealth are Human Beings: Currency Between Economy and Citizenship Thierry Vissol 4. Trust in Euro: The Single Currency as Social Construction of an Institutional Fact Matthias Kaelberer 5. The Unintended "Litmus Test": The Euro as factor of Center-Formation, Trust Enhancement, Identity Building Daniela Piana 6. The Euro in Scientific and Policy Literature Lucia Mazzuca, Roberto Ranucci Part II. The Single Currency and the Construction of European Identity 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Euro and Europeanization of Collective Identities Thomas Risse 8. Why Money Can't Buy Democracy: On the Detachment of the Euro from Citizenship Eva Heidbreder 9. Representations of Identity: Euro and Dollar as Identity Builder Arianna Montanari Part III. European Citizenship in the Euro Turmoil 10. In the Light and Shadow of the Single Currency: European Identity and Citizenship, Political and Social Vivien Schmidt 11. One Currency, Two Faces, Many Problems: The Euro, European Citizenship and Cultural Politics of EMU Cris Shore 12. Between Natural and Moral Order of Things: The Euro and the Problem of Agency Victor Pérez-Diàz 13. Between Illusion and Disillusion: Public Opinion Facing the Euro Crisis Nando Pagnoncelli 14. Back to the Future? The Euro and the Silent Constitution Building Dario Castiglione Conclusion: The Way Forward Giovanni Moro
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Echo Point Books & Media Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Palmetto Publishing On The Front Lines of Americas Foreign Assistance
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Murphy & Moore Publishing Currency Economics: Exchange Rate Policy
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Chump Change An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations: Complete Five Unabridged Books
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EHGBooks Strategies for Peace and Prosperity
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Bloomsbury Academic Kenyan Foreign and Security Policies
Book SynopsisKipyego Cheluget is former Assistant Secretary-General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, former Deputy Secretary-General of East African Community, and former Ambassador of Kenya.Stephen Wright is Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University, USA.
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Independently Published The Educated Fed: Your Guide to Understanding & Maximizing Your Federal Benefits
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12th Media Services The Wealth Of Nations
Book SynopsisAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets. (source: Wikipedia)
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Washington's New Cold War: A Socialist
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition
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Independently Published The Cruces of Post 1991 Ethiopian Politics: Revolutionary Democracy, Democratic Developmentalism and the Late Meles Zenawi
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Green Writers Press Fragments of Memory: A Nepali National's Reminiscences
Book SynopsisIn 1949, the author left his remote village in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, traveling by ox-cart, to pursue an education in newly-independent India. This book is the unlikely story of his life from his birth in Nepal, to his days as an activist academic in the Netherlands, and later as a global traveler and official of the United Nations. Few have experienced the equivalent of two centuries of transformation in one lifetime: from a feudal society to the digital age. Ultimately, his life and journey have been guided by a love for learning and a quest for a purposeful life.
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Nimbus Publishing (CN) Indigenous Business in Canada: Principles and Practices
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Must Have Books Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
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Engage Books The Science of Getting Rich (Deluxe Library Edition)
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Must Have Books The Case for Gold
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Must Have Books The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Book SynopsisThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is Keynes'' masterpiece published right after the Great Depression. It sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the "Keynesian Revolution", in the way economists thought - especially challenging the proposition that a market economy tends naturally to restore itself to full employment on its own. Regarded widely as the cornerstone of Keynesian thought, this book challenged the established classical economics and introduced new concepts. It remains a relevant topic of debate to this day, perhaps more than ever. Given the economic turmoil of recent years, this debate is more heated than ever, between the Keynesian model of economics of Bush and Obama which favors bailouts and other government intervention to try to stabilize the market, and the Austrian school of economics which sees government intervention as detrimental and favors letting the market sort itself out on its own with minimal government interference. You decide.
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Must Have Books The Rise and Fall of Society: An Essay on the Economic Forces That Underlie Social Institutions
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Wits University Press Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996
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Bookside Press Derecognition
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The New Extractivism: A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?
Book SynopsisIn a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social and environmental costs, not to mention mass resistance from the people negatively affected by it. With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development in a region where the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities. It calls for us to understand the new extractivism not as a viable development model for the post-neoliberal world, but as the dangerous emergence of a new form of imperialism.Trade ReviewThe authors of this book skilfully expose the contradictions and limitations of both neoliberal and progressive extractivism. They masterfully expose the pillage of the continent's natural resources and highlight the struggles of resistance and contestation by indigenous communities against today's imperialist plundering. This book is a worthy and brilliant introduction to contemporary Latin America. * Cristóbal Kay, International Institute of Social Studies *The New Extractivism is a ground breaking study of the latest stage in the plundering of natural resources from Latin America and the Global South by imperialist Western companies. The authors detail the ways in which Latin America is once again being used as a supplier of primary products to the industrialized centre, and shows how even Pink Tide countries like Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia are developing a post-neoliberal economic model that frequently sides against indigenous communities. This is a very important volume that all students of Latin America must read. * Harry E. Vanden *The New Extractivism cuts to the core of one of the most important components of the new imperialism in Latin America - the accelerating extraction of mining minerals and resources under the impetus of multinational capital. This is a crucial book for scholars and activists hoping both to understand and dismantle the latest, devastating dynamics of the region's long history of capitalist development. * Jeffery R. Webber, author of Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia *This brilliantly argued and convincingly documented critique of ''the new developmentalism'' in Latin America definitively shows that relying on wealth generated by minerals and commodities cannot build equitable and sustainable economies. Veltmeyer and Petras have rightly identified that only a labor-oriented reinvention of socialism, in response to a vigorous social movement, can hope to achieve humane, responsible, and sustainable development patterns in the 21st century. * Richard Falk, Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A new model or extractive imperialism? 2. Argentina: Extractivist dynamics of soya production and open-pit mining - Norma Giarracca and Miguel Teubal 3. Bolivia: Between voluntarist developmentalism and pragmatic extractivism - Henry Veltmeyer 4. Colombia: The mining boom: a catalyst of development or resistance? - Kyla Sankey 5. Ecuador: Extractivist dynamics, politics and discourse - Pablo Dávalos and Verónica Albuja 6. Mexico: The political ecology of mining - Darcy Victor Tetreault 7. Peru: Mining capital and social resistance - Jan Lust 8. Theses on extractive imperialism and the post-neoliberal state
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Benediction Classics The Means to Prosperity, The Great Slump of 1930, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation
Book SynopsisFor the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Globally praised as an African success story and heavily backed by international financial institutions, development agencies and bilateral donors, the country has become an exemplar of economic and political reform for those who espouse a neoliberal model of development. The neoliberal policies and the resulting restructuring of the country have been accompanied by narratives of progress, prosperity, and modernisation and justified in the name of development. But this self-celebratory narrative, which is critiqued by many in Uganda, masks the disruptive social impact of these reforms and silences the complex and persistent crises resulting from neoliberal transformation. Bringing together a range of leading scholars on the country, this collection represents a timely contribution to the debate around the New Uganda, one which confronts the often sanitised and largely depoliticised accounts of the Museveni government and its proponents. Harnessing a wealth of empirical materials, the contributors offer a critical, multi-disciplinary analysis of the unprecedented political, socio-economic, cultural and ecological transformations brought about by neoliberal capitalist restructuring since the 1980s. The result is the most comprehensive collective study to date of a neoliberal market society in contemporary Africa, offering crucial insights for other countries in the Global South.Trade ReviewThis collection of essays is a commendable effort in achieving its objective of determining by whom, why, how and to what effect Uganda was transformed since 1986. * The Elephant *A timely and provocative book. This book fills a huge gap. It is an extremely timely intervention in the debate about the history, trajectory, explanations of the state in which Uganda is at the moment. * A Review of African Political Economy *Bringing together an exceptionally strong group of contributors, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the political economy of development in a critically important African country. Indispensable. * Alfredo Saad-Filho, SOAS University of London *A long-overdue and timely study of neoliberalism in Uganda and the resulting political, economic and social order under Museveni. Theories and statistics rub against lived reality to reveal a country at a crossroads. * Daniel Kalinaki, Nation Media Group *Provides an insight into how a country can grow "at the top" while the citizens at the bottom continue to experience abject poverty. It is a great lesson on how neoliberal reforms can fail to resolve core socioeconomic problems. * Fred K. Muhumuza, Makerere University *A definitive contribution both to our understanding of Uganda’s contemporary development and the mapping of actually existing neoliberalism. It is within the subject matter of this book that Uganda’s future prospects will be contested. * Graham Harrison, University of Sheffield *The essays in this book pierce the veil of the “neo-liberal success story” that is contemporary Uganda under Museveni. Activist scholars are encouraged to read these essays closely. * Issa Shivji, Director, Nyerere Resource Centre, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology *Convincingly demonstrates that Uganda’s three decades flirtation with neoliberalism has had far-reaching consequences – from the environment, to religion and even the performing arts. A provocative account of a phenomenon that has had a much wider impact than previously assumed. * J. Oloka-Onyango, Makerere University *The contributors to this excellent book highlight the diverse impacts of neoliberalism on the lived experiences of Ugandans since 1986, revealing how it has insinuated itself into every part of society. It’s rare to find such in-depth analyses. * Kean Birch, York University (Canada) *This extensive and well-researched collection examines Uganda as a compelling case study of the scope and effects of the neoliberal economic policies that have come to define global capitalism over the past three decades. * Lydia Boyd, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *The most comprehensive and nuanced critique, so far, of how the neoliberal posture has impacted Uganda over the past three decades. An invaluable and urgently needed addition to the literature on the political economy of Uganda. * Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University *An exemplary collection of essays. It packs an enormous punch of analytical heft in critiquing capitalist political economy in Uganda, and raises the bar as to how critical African studies can and should be assembled. A must read! * Raymond Bush, Leeds University *The New Uganda presents a paradox. On the one hand, it is a tale of success and liberal modernization; on the other, one of an increasingly repressive and violent regime. In disentangling this paradox, not much escapes this volume’s piercing analysis. * Sverker Finnström, Uppsala University *This scholarly and well researched book is a must read for all Ugandans and Africans. It exposes the fraud behind the neoliberal ideology that has confused policy making in Uganda. * Yash Tandon, author of Trade is War: The West's War against the World *More broadly, the work will be an invaluable source for those seeking to engage with Uganda for the first time or seeking to understand how specific social, economic and political processes play out in different contexts in Uganda. The concise chapters would also provide excellent reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in development studies. * Progress in Development Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Interpreting Change in Neoliberal Uganda - Jörg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco Part I: The State, Donors and Development Aid 1. Donor-Driven State Formation: Friction in the World Bank–Uganda Partnership - Jon Harald Sande Lie 2. Our Friends at the Bank? The Adverse Effects of Neoliberalism in Acholi - Ronald R. Atkinson 3. Neoliberal Discipline and Violence in Northern Uganda - Adam Branch and Adrian Yen 4. ‘Movement Legacy’ and Neoliberalism as Political Settlement in Uganda’s Political Economy - Joshua B. Rubongoya 5. More is Less? Decentralisation and Regime Control in Neoliberal Uganda - Kristof Titeca 6. Neoliberal Neverland: The Millennium Villages Project in Uganda - Japhy Wilson Part II: Economic Restructuring and Social Services 7. The Impact of Neoliberal Reforms on Uganda’s Socio-Economic Landscape - Godfrey B. Asiimwe 8. Social Service Provision and Social Security in Uganda: Entrenched Inequality under a Neoliberal regime - Malin J. Nystrand and Gordon Tamm 9. Neoliberal Health Reforms and Citizenship in Uganda - Sarah N. Ssali Part III: Extractivism and Enclosures 10. Neoliberalism as Ugandan Forestry Discourse - Adrian Nel 11. Plantation Forestry and Carbon Violence in Neoliberal Uganda - Kristen Lyons 12. Neoliberal Oil Development in Uganda: Centralisation, Accumulation and Exclusion - Laura Smith and James Van Alstine 13. Water Grabbing or Sustainable Development? Effects of Aquaculture Growth in Neoliberal Uganda - Karin Wedig 14. The Politics of Land Law Reforms in Neoliberal Uganda - Rose Nakayi Part IV: Race, Culture and Commoditisation 15. African Asians and South Asians in Neoliberal Uganda: Culture, History and Political Economy - Anneeth Kaur Hundle 16. Religious Economies: Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches and the Framing of a New Moral Order in Neoliberal Uganda - Barbara Bompani 17. Youth as ‘Identity Entrepreneurs’: Emerging Neoliberal Subjectivities in Uganda - Julia Vorhölter 18. Neoliberal Times: Leisure and Work Among Young Men in Rural Eastern Uganda - Ben Jones 19. The Transformation of National Performance Arts in Neoliberal Uganda - David G. Pier Conclusion: Neoliberalism Institutionalized – Jörg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco
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Lexington Books Forecasting Government Budgets
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Politics of the New International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberal Domination in the Global South
Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed a veritable epidemic of financial crises - from Mexico, through South East Asia, Russia, Brazil and now Argentina. The rich industrial countries, led by the United States, have had to respond. This book examines the G7‘s attempts over the past decade to re-establish rules and a degree of order in the world financial system through the creation of the Financial Stability Forum and the G20, which they are calling the New International Financial Architecture. Susanne Soederberg asks: · Why has the New International Financial Architecture emerged? · At whose initiative? · What does it involve? · What are the underlying power relations? · Who is benefiting? · Will it really work? The author argues, however, that this tinkering with the capitalist system will not achieve either sustained economic growth or stability in financial markets, let alone enhance the capability of developing countries to tackle the problems of mass poverty and social injustice.Trade Review'Full of facts and persuasive arguments, Susanne Soederberg's book deconstructs the 'commonsense' understanding of the new international financial architecture that the United States has imposed on the world over the last twenty years.'Giovanni Arrighi, author of The Long Twentieth Century ' I highly recommend the analysis of this book to all those who are struggling for another pattern of globalization based on social and international justice.'Samir Amin 'This book is an invaluable resource to international activists who are struggling to be architects of a better future for humanity, and who know that the world must change profoundly if it is to change at all.'Molly Kane, Inter ParesTable of Contents 1. Transcending the 'Common Sense' of the New International Financial Architecture 2. The Mexican Peso Crisis and the Foundations of the New International Financial Architecture 3. The New International Financial Architecture: A New Procrustean Bed for the South? 4. Unravelling Washington's Judgement Calls: The Cases of the Chilean and Malaysian Capital Controls 5. Deconstructing the New International Standard of Corporate Governance: An Emerging Disciplinary Strategy for the South? 6. Linkages between the New International Financial Architecture and the Emerging Development Architecture: The Case of the Monterrey Consensus
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Benediction Classics The Means To Prosperity, The Great Slump Of 1930, The Economic Consequences Of The Peace
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Social Movements Confront Globalization
Book SynopsisA new movement of 'anti-globalists', in Time Magazine's words (24 April 2000), now 'oppose corporate dominion over the planet's poor and disfranchised'. Naming the Enemy is the first systematic documentation of this international resistance to transnational corporations and globalization which has so recently burst into the public gaze with the street protests in Seattle, Washington, London and Prague. A wide and heterogeneous range of social movements now oppose the very fundamentals of market capitalism. Their challenge is beginning, Amory Starr shows, to amount to a sweeping critique of its purposes and practice. She explains how these movements understand their enemies and what sort of future they envision. There are, she suggests, three basic types: Movements trying to constrain corporate power through democratic institutions and direct action; Movements attempting a completely different kind of 'globalization from below' in which corporations will be reshaped in the service of new international democratic structures that will be populist, participatory and just; Movements seeking to delink their localities and communities from the global economy and rebuild instead small-scale socieites in which large corporations have no role at all. This new phenomenon has received scant media or scholarly attention. But it is likely to become much more important politically as the globalized economy dominated by giant corporations and institutions like the World Bank and IMF fails to deliver on jobs, social justice, Third World development and the environment. The course of this new kind of political struggle will have huge implications for human welfare and civil liberties. This unique and important book is relevant to activists as well as students and scholars of globalization, new social movements and political economy.Trade Review'A bold, encyclopaedic survey and analysis of international anti-corporate movements... Written succinctly and with flair.' Gordon Laxer, University of AlbertaTable of Contents Introduction 1. Structure and Anti-Structure in the Face of Globalization 2. Contestation and Reform 3. Globalization from Below 4. Delinking, Relocalization and Sovereignty 5. PopCulture versus AgriCulture & Other Reflections on the Anti-Corporate Movement A Partial List of Organizations Sources Index
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Bridger House Publishers Inc Chaos in America Surviving the Depression
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Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd A Tale of Two Africas: Nigeria and South Africa As Contrasting Visions
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Black House Publishing The Hidden Tyranny Of Our Money: What Most Economists Don't Know And Few Wish To Tell
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Aziloth Books Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy
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Le Retour Aux Sources Manifeste pour briser les chaînes de l'usure: Nouvelle édition
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John Affleck Money Laundering and Tax Avoidance for Beginners
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Vivid Publishing Banking on a Promise
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Nsemia Inc. Vyama: Institutions of Hope - Ordinary People's Market Coordination & Society Organization Alternatives
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Jorge Pinto Books Conversations with Great Economists: Friedrich A. Hayek, John Hicks, Nicholas Kaldor, Leonid V.Kantorovich, Joan Robinson, Paul A.Samuelson, Jan Tinbergen
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New Year Publishing Grand Theft Auto
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Armin Lear Press Ending Redlining through a CommunityCentered Reform of the Community Reinvestment Act
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Kyle Group Hardball Advocacy
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Auctorem House LLC STARTUP Universal Basic Income
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Creative Nudge Press Debt by Dysfunction
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NY Book Publishers The Economic Prescription for Developing Countries
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NY Book Publishers The Economic Prescription for Developing Countries
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