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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China's vast labor market, Ingleson shows how not just Chinese reform but also US deindustrialization fueled a dramatic, unanticipated shift in global capitalism"--
Author
Publisher
Primeira Pessoa
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira erected in just over four decades, the greatest empire in the history of Brazilian capitalism and won an unprecedented salience in the global scenario. Over the past five years they bought no less than three well-known American brands globally: Budweiser, Burger King and Heinz. All this in the most absolute discretion, struggling to stay out of the limelight. The management formula that developed,...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Episode one: explains how, for the last half of the 20th century, the world moved toward more governmental control of markets -- from the centrally planned economies of the communist world to the "mixed economies" of Europe and the developing world to the United States' regulated capitalism -- and then began to move away from governmental control in the 1980s and 1990s. Discuss two important economists of this era: John Maynard Keynes, who advocated...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism Bestselling "overeducated cartoonist" Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and hilarious accounts of everything from the history of the universe to the story of calculus. Now Gonick teams up with psychologist and scholar Tim Kasser, an expert on how happiness and values relate to our materialist...
Author
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism...
Author
Publisher
Rebellion
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive collection of the highly-political comic book classic of global capitalism, rebellion and exploitation from legends Pat Mills (Marshal Law) and the late, great Carlos Ezquerra (Judge Dredd)! Eve is unemployed after leaving university and is immediately conscripted as a soldier working for a corporation and discovers just how South American countries are being exploited to create food needed to feed the increasing population for their...
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Robert Tressell's groundbreaking socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty all around them. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system, and support for a socialist society in which work is...
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