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A comienzos del siglo xx, la ciudad de Cali era una pequeña población que crecía lentamente en términos económicos y demográficos. Una ciudad en donde sus habitantes vivían del trabajo agropecuario, artesanal y algunos comerciantes se beneficiaban de la extracción forestal, la exportación de oro en polvo, la compraventa de productos agropecuarios y la importación de artículos europeos y norteamericanos. Pero, años más tarde, entrado el...
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The Book, divided into two parts, the Policy Environment and the Recommendations, reviews the South African Government's blueprint for the restructuring of its State-Owned enterprises, the Accelerated Agenda For The Restructuring of State-Owned Enterprises. The document was published in 2000, but a lot has happened, both politically, socially and politically since then. The need for it to be reviewed to be in line with the current conditions is urgent....
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Este libro analiza las consecuencias del estilo de crecimiento peruano desde la década de 1990 y sus diferencias con lo que ocurrió entre 1950 y 1980.
En primer lugar, las reformas y políticas del periodo neoliberal, 1990-2020, consolidaron una estructura productiva primario-exportadora y ocasionaron una desindustrialización prematura. La industria manufacturera perdió capacidad de generación de empleo y redujo su participación en la generación...
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Why do republics rise then fall? What is it about Mankind that makes us seemingly unable to rule ourselves? What can be done about it? What are the pluses and minuses of the Fourth Branch solution? This book explores and answers all these questions and more.We look into the factors that have given rise to great societies and the sociological inevitability that eroded their greatness. The same acid dissolves the core of every great nation, commonwealth...
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China ist ein bemerkenswerter Sonderfall. Ausgerechnet eine kommunistisch regierte Bauernnation des Ostens macht praktisch wahr, was der Westen seinen in die Freiheit entlassenen Kolonien als Chance einer Teilnahme an der Staatenkonkurrenz des kapitalistischen Weltmarkts verkaufen wollte: China schafft eine wahrhaft nachholende"Entwicklung", schließt zu den etablierten Nationen auf, wird kapitalistische Weltmacht. Anhänger einer früher antikapitalistisch...
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A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume
In this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek's three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek's writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essential...
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A deft selection of unpublished and little-known works by F. A. Hayek that will serve to enlighten and enliven debates around the ever-changing face of Western liberalism
Across seventeen volumes to date, the University of Chicago Press's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series has anthologized the diverse and prolific writings of the Austrian economist synonymous with classical liberalism. Essays on Liberalism and the Economy traces the author's...
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This book examines how the expanded use of new startup and innovation models and techniques is dramatically transforming government. Those models and techniques include: agile innovation, rapid experimentation, crowdsourcing, and gamification. The book examines current and potential uses of AI and the metaverse in government. It also discusses the implications of such new developments as No Labels' independent Presidential ballot line in the US....
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"The Wealth of Nations" is the famous work by Adam Smith. In addition to theoretical analysis of the functioning of so-called commercial societies, the advantages and problems associated with the division of labor, value, income distribution, and capital accumulation, the book brings historical considerations and abundant empirical material, being considered a turning point in the development of the history of economic thought. Published in the same...
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Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death.
With Marx's Dream, Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed alternative view, distinguishing rigorously between Marx and Marxism. Rockmore breaks with the Marxist view of Marx in three key ways. First, he shows that the concern with the relation of theory to practice-reflected...
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For years Mark Monmonier, "a prose stylist of no mean ability or charm" according to the Washington Post, has delighted readers with his insightful understanding of cartography as an art and technology that is both deceptive and revealing. Now he turns his focus to the story of political cartography and the redrawing of congressional districts. His title Bushmanders and Bullwinkles combines gerrymander with the surname of the president who actively...
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The political process focuses on the ways that people come together to engage in collective decision making in a variety of contexts. The central elements of the political process include: the formation of rules, the subsequent interactions that take place within those rules, and the evolution of rules over time.
Scholars working in the area of Virginia political economy-e.g., James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock-emphasize the importance of applying...
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Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Corona-Weltrezession und zeigt erstmals auf, wie stark verändert die Weltwirtschaft durch die Corona-Schocks sein wird. Die Europäische Union muss – wie die USA und China – mit dem Corona-Schock mehrere Stress-Tests bestehen: medizinisch, ökonomisch, wirtschaftspolitisch. Gründe für die Sterbequoten werden identifiziert. Die Corona-Schocks bringen politische Enttäuschung über die Seuchenpolitik,...
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A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think.
Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result, decisions that affect public outcomes and people's diverse interests are often dependent on the preferences and judgments of the rich. Political theorist Emma Saunders-Hastings...
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Smuggling is typically thought of as furtive and hidden, taking place under the radar and beyond the reach of the state. But in many cases, governments tacitly permit illicit cross-border commerce, or even devise informal arrangements to regulate it. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the borderlands of Tunisia and Morocco, Max Gallien explains why states have long tolerated illegal trade across their borders and develops new ways to understand the...
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From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government. Enter Nobel Prize–winning economist and political theorist F. A. Hayek, whose passionate warning against empowering states with greater economic control, The Road to Serfdom, became...
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Scarcity has been the driving force of decision makers throughout the ages.
The necessity of choosing between competing wants and needs has always underpinned outcomes. However, we are now in an age of abundance – abundance in goods and services, information, in wealth, and abundance in ways to fairly distribute the rich bounty the world provides.
The problem is we don't! The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. People across...
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Pablo Peyrolón gibt eine kurze Einführung in die Institutionsökonomie. Die Institutionen sind die Spielregeln der Gesellschaft, der Wirtschaft und der Politik, deren Dynamik der Autor hier darlegt. Das Verständnis der institutionellen Evolution ermöglicht auch eine Analyse der Formung der Wirtschaftspolitik und des ökonomischen Wandels sowie des Zusammenhangs mit dem digitalen Wandel.
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Digitalisierung ist für Bürgerinnen und Bürger, Politik und Verwaltung auf vielfältige Weise höchst relevant. Aus strategischer Perspektive sind für gesellschaftliche Akteure mehr Transparenz sowie Analyse- und Steuerungsmöglichkeiten verfügbar. Es ist wichtig, sich individuell mit möglichen Auswirkungen auf das eigene Leben auseinanderzusetzen; dies auch vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmenden Verknüpfung von Digitalisierung mit nachhaltiger...
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