The Economy of Friends
Author | : Koenraad Verboven |
Publisher | : Peeters |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Koenraad Verboven |
Publisher | : Peeters |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George J. Borjas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1990-04-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Borjas (economics, U. of California, Santa Barbara) provides a pinched, crabby, misanthropic and xenophobic account of immigration that will likely please political conservatives, social troglodytes, and greedy entrepreneurs. Basically, he bemoans the low quality of recent immigrant labor, and, implicitly at least, the low quality of the immigrants themselves. Where did his family come from? Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Todd May |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2012-06-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739175823 |
We live in an age of economics. We are encouraged not only to think of our work but also of our lives in economic terms. In many of our practices, we are told that we are consumers and entrepreneurs. What has come to be called neoliberalism is not only a theory of market relations; it is a theory of human relations. Friendship in an Age of Economics both describes and confronts this new reality. It confronts it on some familiar terrain: that of friendship. Friendship, particularly close or deep friendship, resists categorization into economic terms. In a sustained investigation of friendship, this book shows how friendship offers an alternative to neoliberal relationships and can help lay the groundwork for resistance to it.
Author | : Amit Desai |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1845458508 |
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.
Author | : American Friends Service Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2024-02-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you! Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie’s principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age. Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.
Author | : Michael Lewis |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393354776 |
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason.” —William Easterly, Wall Street Journal Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky’s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Author | : Rana Foroohar |
Publisher | : Currency |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0553447254 |
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial system propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the system, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.
Author | : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674044647 |
In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
Author | : Julian Lincoln Simon |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780472086160 |
Argues convincingly that immigration continues to benefit U.S. natives as well as most developed countries