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Altruism and economy : a study in non-selfish economics
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ISBN: 0855202432 9780855202439 Year: 1978 Publisher: Oxford Robertson


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Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming.
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ISBN: 9781596916104 1596916109 9781408824832 9781408824665 1408824833 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury Press

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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on public health, environmental science, and other issues affecting the quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. &#13;&#13;In their new book, *Merchants of Doubt*, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explain how a looseknit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. In seven compelling chapters addressing tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and DDT, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how the ideology of free market fundamentalism, aided by a too-compliant media, has skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.&#13;&#13;


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Capital without Borders. : Wealth Managers and the One Percent.
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ISBN: 9780674743809 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Harvard University Press

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Capital without Borders will offer the first in-depth, cross-national examination of the wealth management profession: an extremely powerful professional group about which little is known, except that it controls large flows of capital around the world and has a significant impact on growing wealth inequality. With Oxfam estimating that 1 percent of the global population will own more than half the world's assets by 2016, and policymakers voicing increasingly urgent concerns about the political impact of inequality, this book offers a timely look at the evolution and activities of this central group of players. To understand the workings of their profession, and its complex legal and financial innovations, the author spent two years training to become a wealth manager herself. This experience gave her unique access to practitioners and their methods, and the opportunity to conduct over 60 interviews with wealth managers in 17 countries, from Switzerland to the British Virgin Islands, and from Singapore to South Africa. The findings shed light on the dynamics of growing world wealth inequality, and how they are fueled by political and economic forces. The research will inform ongoing debates about globalization and financialization, in part by making abstract issues concrete and easy to understand for a general readership. Capital without Borders explains the use of offshore banks, shell corporations, and trusts to hide billions in private wealth not only from taxation, but from all manner of legal obligations--including to creditors and family members. Such insights will be of interest not only to scholars and policy-makers, but to anyone interested in the world of wealth and high finance.--

Who's afraid of adam smith? how the market got its soul.
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ISBN: 0471184772 Year: 2002 Publisher: Hoboken John Wiley And Sons


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L'économie c'est nous : pour un savoir citoyen
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ISBN: 2749205654 9782749205656 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ramonville Saint-Agne : Erès,

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Ni pamphlet gratuit, ni apologie corporatiste, l'ouvrage propose une critique directe mais équilibrée de la science économique actuelle. Il analyse les rôles qu'elle occupe effectivement dans la société d'aujourd'hui, mais aussi ceux que nous tous, en tant que citoyens d'une société libre et démocratique, nous aimerions lui voir jouer. Une invitation au débat citoyen.

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