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Book Capitalism s Hidden Worlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Lipartito
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-12-06
  • ISBN : 0812296699
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Capitalism s Hidden Worlds written by Kenneth Lipartito and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Observers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics. These most visible economic features, however, obscure a range of other less evident, often unmeasured activities that occur on the margins and in the concealed corners of the formal economy. The range of practices in this large and diverse hidden realm encompasses traders in recycled materials and the architects of junk bonds and shadow banking. It includes the black and semi-licit markets that allow wealthy elites to avoid taxes and the unmeasured domestic and emotional labor of homemakers and home care workers. By some estimates, the unmeasured economic activity that occurs within the household, informal market, and underground economy amounts to a substantial portion of all economic activity in the world, as much as 30 percent in some countries. Capitalism's Hidden Worlds sheds new light on this shadowy economic landscape by reexamining how we think about the market. In particular, it scrutinizes the missed connections between the official, visible realm of exchange and the uncounted and invisible sectors that border it. While some hidden markets emerged in opposition to the formal economy, much of the obscured economy described in this volume operates as the other side of the legitimate, state-sanctioned marketplace. A variety of historical actors—from fortune tellers and forgers to tax lawyers and black market consumers—have constructed this unseen world in tandem with the observable public world of transactions. Others, such as feminist development economists and government regulators, have worked to bring the darkened corners of the economy to light. The essays in Capitalism's Hidden Worlds explore how the capitalist marketplace sustains itself, how it acquires legitimacy and even prestige, and how the marginalized and the dispossessed find ways to make ends meet. Contributors: Bruce Baker, Eileen Boris, Eli Cook, Hannah Frydman, James Hollis, Owen Hyman, Anna Kushkova, Christopher McKenna, Kenneth Mouré, Philip Scranton, Bryan Turo.

Book OECD Studies on Tourism Tourism and the Creative Economy

Download or read book OECD Studies on Tourism Tourism and the Creative Economy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the growing relationship between tourism and the creative industries in a variety of contexts in order to guide the development of effective policies to develop added value from the emerging relationship and ensure coherency across governments.

Book Santa Fe Public Transportation Study

Download or read book Santa Fe Public Transportation Study written by New Mexico. State Highway Department and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism written by Nancy Duxbury and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts combine to give shape to the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and pragmatic issues.

Book Our common wealth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas M. Hanna
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-10
  • ISBN : 1526133806
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Our common wealth written by Thomas M. Hanna and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public ownership is more widespread and popular in the United States than is commonly understood. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the scope and scale of U.S. public ownership, debunking frequent misconceptions about the alleged inefficiency and underperformance of public ownership and arguing that it offers powerful, flexible solutions to current problems of inequality, instability, and unsustainability— explaining why after decades of privatization it is making a comeback, including in the agenda of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Britain. Hanna offers a vision of deploying new forms of democratized public ownership broadly, across multiple sectors, as a key ingredient of any next system beyond corporate capitalism. This book is a valuable, extensively researched resource that sets out the past record and future possibilities of public ownership at a time when ever more people are searching for answers.

Book Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board

Download or read book Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Board and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature review and bibliography

Download or read book Literature review and bibliography written by Real Estate Research Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Amenity Migrants

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  • Author : Laurence A. G. Moss
  • Publisher : CABI
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1845930363
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book The Amenity Migrants written by Laurence A. G. Moss and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places with perceived high environmental quality and distinctive culture are globally attracting amenity migrants. Today this societal driving force is particularly manifest in mountain areas, and while beneficial for both the newcomers and locals, is also threatening highland ecologies and their human communities.

Book A Measure of Fairness

Download or read book A Measure of Fairness written by Robert Pollin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly 70 percent of the total U.S. population, maintain minimum wage standards above those set by the federal minimum wage.In A Measure of Fairness, Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce assess how well living wage and minimum wage regulations in the United States serve the workers they are intended to help. Opponents of such measures assert that when faced with mandated increases in labor costs, businesses will either lay off workers, hire fewer low-wage employees in the future, replace low-credentialed workers with those having better qualifications or, finally, even relocate to avoid facing the increased costs being imposed on them.The authors give an overview of living wage and minimum wage implementation in Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to show how these policies play out in the paychecks of workers, in the halls of legislature, and in business ledgers. Based on a decade of research, this volume concludes that living wage laws and minimum wage increases have been effective policy interventions capable of bringing significant, if modest, benefits to the people they were intended to help.

Book The Costs of Sprawl

Download or read book The Costs of Sprawl written by Real Estate Research Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Statement of Significance  Study of Alternatives

Download or read book Statement of Significance Study of Alternatives written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic Survey of Sante Fe  New Mexico  1950 59

Download or read book Economic Survey of Sante Fe New Mexico 1950 59 written by Paul W. Zickefoose and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pursuit of Economic Development

Download or read book The Pursuit of Economic Development written by Todd M. Gabe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers. It examines the impacts of a wide range of state and local characteristics—such as low taxes, high-skilled workforce, reliance on manufacturing, and even nice weather—on the economic development of U.S. regions. The author provides a detailed account for each factor’s impact on the growth of good jobs. The research focuses on U.S. metropolitan areas and states, tracking employment and income change in these regions from 1990 to the near present. While providing numerous best principles for state and regional policy, the author uncovers the keys to supporting high-paying U.S. jobs in an important book that will prove invaluable to elected officials, economic development practitioners, and students interested in the pursuit of economic development.

Book Resilient Downtowns

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  • Author : Michael A. Burayidi
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-07-18
  • ISBN : 1134071264
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Resilient Downtowns written by Michael A. Burayidi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for cities seeking to rejuvenate their downtowns for decades there is disquiet among downtown managers and civic leaders about the versatility of the program. Resilient Downtowns provides communities with the "en-RICHED" approach, a four-step process for downtown development, which focuses on residential development, immigration strategies, civic functionality, heritage tourism, and good design practice. Examples from fourteen small cities across the US show how this process can revitalize downtowns in any city.

Book Santa Fe River and Arroyo Mascaras at and in the Vicinity of Santa Fe  New Mexico

Download or read book Santa Fe River and Arroyo Mascaras at and in the Vicinity of Santa Fe New Mexico written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Santa Fe National Forest  N F    Santa Fe Ski Area Master Development Plan

Download or read book Santa Fe National Forest N F Santa Fe Ski Area Master Development Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: