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Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American CapitalismAt the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other...
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Green Capitalism?: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth CenturyAt a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to green capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes...
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Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of PrivatizationThe fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more...
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Principles of Housing Finance ReformIn the fall of 2008, the world watched in horror as the U.S. housing finance system shattered, triggering a global financial panic and ultimately the Great Recession. Now, nearly a decade later, the long and slow housing recovery has reached a critical moment. Though...
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic DevelopmentDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality...
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The Next Economic Disaster: Why It's Coming and How to Avoid ItCurrent debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks...
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Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and DebtThe practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive...
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Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War IIDuring World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the arsenal of...
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Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American LiberalismTaxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why...
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Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art MarketModern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes or peasants. These generic subjects and their representational conventions, however, have their own origins and early histories. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, painting and the emerging...
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A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early AmericaIn the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption, one that centered on chairs and clocks as well as family portraits and books. How did that new world of goods, represented by Victorian parlors filled with overstuffed...
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Local Flavor: Restaurants That Shaped Chicago's NeighborhoodsThe neighborhoods that make up Chicago's rich cultural landscape have been defined by the restaurants that anchor them. In Local Flavor, the popular food writer Jean Iversen chronicles eight beloved local eateries, from Chinatown on the South Side to Rogers Park in the far...
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How to Grow a Backbone: 10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at WorkTo succeed in business today, an individual must be smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. In short, he or she needs a good, old-fashioned backbone. In How to Grow a Backbone, Susan Marshall, a top business consultant and former executive, outlines skills that readers...
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Lessons from the Sandbox: Using the 13 Gifts of Childhood to Rediscover the Keys to Business SuccessShows how insights gained from children can help companies grow, innovate, improve the bottom line, and make magic with customers, employees, and shareholders.Author: Alan S. GregermanPublisher: McGraw-HillPublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 270Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 5.00h x 7.90w x 0.80dISBN: 9780809224388Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/24/2000 pg. 73This...
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But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the WorldAn environmental economist argues for market-based incentives and initiatives to guide our response to the growing climate change crisisYou are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally--eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius--the planet doesn't...
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Clash of ExtremesClash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary...
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As China Goes, So Goes the WorldIn this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly...
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Case Studies in Forensic Accounting and Fraud AuditingThe Forensic and Investigative Accounting Casebook is a collection of Problem-Based Learning cases designed to reinforce principles taught in forensic accounting/auditing courses throughout the United States. Each case: (1) lays out the basic principles and parameters of analysis to be applied in uncovering and...
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Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth CenturySupermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that Americans feed themselves. In her examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that...
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The Rise of Modern Business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, and ChinaThe Rise of Modern Business compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in several countries from the preindustrial era to the present. Paying close attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes, Blackford addresses both manufacturing and...
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