In a hidden corner of Brooklyn, change is anything but straightforward...Chronicling the changing fortunes of Red Hook, Brooklyn, A Hole in a Fence is a documentary that explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing one of New York City’s most unique neighborhoods. It’s the story of a vanished homeless community and the young architect who documented it; of an urban farm run by local kids amidst a landscape of industrial...

It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast...

The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book. The authors offer documentary evidence to support their conclusion that under capitalism the workers, despite long hours and other hardships of factory life, were better off financially, had more opportunities, and led a...

In Becoming China's Bitch, Peter D. Kiernan presents an unflinching manifesto in which he explores five factors that keep us frozen. He then uncovers the ten challenges that pose the greatest threat to our future. Presented from a fresh yet informative perspective, these ten impending catastrophes include our semiconscious dependency on China, our lack of a coordinated intelligence effort, our downward-spiraling health-care and education systems,...

El sexto libro de Lucio A. Muñoz, La cuarta revolución industrial en España. ¿Cómo reducir el paro estructural que está provocando este fenómeno?, está dividido en dos partes totalmente diferenciadas. En la primera parte, que consta de veintitrés capítulos, Lucio A. Muñoz analiza los efectos que la cuarta revolución industrial está provocando en las empresas. Del mismo modo, el autor expone, en esta primera parte, las claves para reducir...

The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2020, the 51st edition of this series, includes the latest available economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 49 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. It presents the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience, including policy makers, development practitioners, government officials, researchers, students,...

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was professor of economics at Harvard University and served as U.S. ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He wrote more than fifty books, including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State (Princeton). The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of...

De la amnistía al acoso a las cuentas opacas. El pasado 30 de noviembre acabó el plazo para regularizar cuentas y bienes opacos en la amnistía fiscal. Durante los últimos días se produjo la avalancha de regularizaciones que vaticinó Hacienda, la gran mayoría, según refrendan los asesores fiscales, de dinero negro. Finalizó así una de las medidas más polémicas del Gobierno de Rajoy, que Hacienda lanzó con los Presupuestos de 2012 el pasado...

The era of modern economics emerged with the publication of Carl Mengers seminal work, Principles of Economics, in 1871. In this slim book, Menger set forth the correct approach to theoretical research in economics and elaborated some of its immediate implications. In particular, Menger sought to identify the causal laws determining the prices that he observed being paid daily in actual markets.4 His stated goal was to formulate a realistic price...

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is currently undergoing a number of structural and cyclical changes, which have wide-ranging implications for economic activity in the PRC, the rest of developing Asia, and the world. This report assesses the effects of these changes on the rest of the region and the world, looking closely at various channels of transmission including commodity prices, trade, and production. The continued moderation of growth in...