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The bestselling author on how money and finance enslaved the world. The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook money - a lubricant of society and human well-being - for an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality.

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Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs.

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This book examines the history of design and innovation at Abraham Moon and Sons of Guiseley. It is an exciting story of two families, the Moons and the Walshes, who created one of Yorkshire's longest-living woollen mills that today serves global brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, and Burberry. -- .

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The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion. -- .

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In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America. In so doing, he provides not only a skillful introduction to American social thought since the 1950s but also

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Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.

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Challenges historical opinion of Terence Powderly and his movement to contribute to our greater understanding of labor relations during the Gilded Age.

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From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into todays financial mess.

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The Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years through a socio-economic study of American financial conflict during the years 1865 to 1879. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to aga

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Japanese Business contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, Japanese businesses, politics, and econ...

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"How did the West--Europe, Canada, and the United States--escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being when other societies remained trapped in an endless cycle o"

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This book gives a historical explanation of how market women with little or no formal education engaged in political actions for societal development. It analyzes their experiences in the adaptation and transformation in the socio-political and economic spheres of Ibadan of the twentieth century.

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Presents a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry - even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe's most restrictive gold laws.

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Eric Schiff analyzes two countries, widely known for their sophisticated industrial development, that are unique in having had no national patent protection for appreciable periods in their recent history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-o

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Radical institutionalisma processual paradigm focused on changing the direction of cultural evolution and the function of social provisioning in order to promote the full participation of alldefines inequality as evolving from class exploitation, gender domination, race discrimination, and national predation.

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