Описание: An odd bunch of eclectic characters hunkers down in abandoned boxcars, fed up with digital life. In a triumph of literary fiction, adventure, mystery, suspense and caustic comical digs at contemporary society and U.S. history, the characters create an acerbic satire in search of lost causes
Автор: Kelton, Stephanie Название: The Deficit Myth ISBN: 1541757114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541757110 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 2124.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kelton, Stephanie Название: The Deficit Myth ISBN: 1529352533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529352535 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'The tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. Read it' Naomi Klein
'This book is going to be influential' Financial Times
'A rock star in her field' The Times
'Convincingly overturns conventional wisdom' New York Times
Supporting the economy, paying for healthcare, creating new jobs, preventing the a climate apocalypse - vital challenges which inevitably raise the question: how can we pay for it?
Stephanie Kelton shows how misguided this question really is by using the bold ideas of modern monetary theory (MMT), the radically different approach to using our resources to maximize our potential as a society. Everything that we've been led to believe about deficits and the role of money and government spending in the economy is wrong, especially the fear that deficits will endanger our long-term prosperity.
Rather than asking the self-defeating question of how to pay for the crucial improvements our society needs, Kelton guides us to ask: which deficits actually matter?
What is the best way to balance the risk of inflation against the benefits of a society that is more broadly prosperous, safer, cleaner, and secure?
Kelton is the leading thinker and most visible public advocate of MMT - the most important idea about economics in decades - and delivers a fundamentally different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.
'Game-changing ...
Read it!' Mariana Mazzucato
'Essential for a post-COVID-19 world' Guardian
'The best book on rethinking economics that anyone will find right now' Richard Murphy, Political Economist and author of The Joy of Tax
'A remarkable book both in content and timing. A 'must read' that is sure to influence many aspects of policymaking going forward' Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor at Allianz
Автор: Kelton, Stephanie Название: The Deficit Myth ISBN: 1529352568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529352566 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA radical new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society
Автор: Kelton, Stephanie Название: The Deficit Myth ISBN: 1529352525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529352528 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 3036.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `Game-changing ... Read it!` - Mariana MazzucatoThe leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades - delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.
Epidemics and Enslavement is a groundbreaking examination of the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of Old World diseases in the colonial southeastern United States. Paul Kelton scrupulously traces the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast and concludes that, while indigenous peoples suffered from an array of ailments before contact, Natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts in the sixteenth century. In fact, Kelton places the first region-wide epidemic of smallpox in the 1690s and attributes its spread to the Indian slave trade.
From 1696 to 1700, Native communities from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi Valley suffered catastrophic death tolls because of smallpox. The other diseases that then followed in smallpox’s wake devastated the indigenous societies. Kelton found, however, that such biological catastrophes did not occur simply because the region’s Natives lacked immunity. Over the last half of the seventeenth century, the colonies of Virginia and South Carolina had integrated the Southeast into a larger Atlantic world that carried an unprecedented volume of people, goods, and ultimately germs into indigenous villages. Kelton shows that English commerce in Native slaves in particular facilitated the spread of smallpox and made indigenous peoples especially susceptible to infection and mortality as intense violence forced malnourished refugees to huddle in germ-ridden, compact settlements. By 1715 the Native population had plummeted, causing a collapse in the very trade that had facilitated such massive depopulation.
Описание: A yachting expedition to film a remote Canadian island famed for wild horses and shipwrecks uncovers an Argentine dandy`s hoax and secrets. New Orleans femme fatale Geraldine investigates his claim he was raised by those horses when his father shipwrecked and discovers the raw truth of Sable Island, figuratively a literary fiction of adventure.
Описание: How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that's precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the ""virgin soil thesis,"" or the widely held belief that Natives' lack of immunities and their inept healers were responsible for their downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperbole routinely associated with the impact of smallpox, he firmly shifts the focus to the root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation - colonialism writ large; not disease. Kelton's account begins with the long, false dawn between 1518 and the mid-seventeenth century, when sporadic encounters with Europeans did little to bring Cherokees into the wider circulation of guns, goods, and germs that had begun to transform Native worlds. By the 1690s English-inspired slave raids had triggered a massive smallpox epidemic that struck the Cherokees for the first time. Through the eighteenth century, Cherokees repeatedly responded to real and threatened epidemics - and they did so effectively by drawing on their own medicine. Yet they also faced terribly destructive physical violence from the British during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1759-1761) and from American militias during the Revolutionary War. Having suffered much more from the scourge of war than from smallpox, the Cherokee population rebounded during the nineteenth century and, without abandoning Native medical practices and beliefs, Cherokees took part in the nascent global effort to eradicate Variola by embracing vaccination. A far more complex and nuanced history of Variola among American Indians emerges from these pages, one that privileges the lived experiences of the Cherokees over the story of their supposedly ill-equipped immune systems and counterproductive responses. Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs shows us how Europeans and their American descendants have obscured the past with the stories they left behind, and how these stories have perpetuated a simplistic understanding of colonialism.
Описание: This novel traces brotherly and sisterly ties through a lifetime of misadventures, a journey into absurdity, where Alzheimer`s takes the narrator. He unravels tales from that inner brain, spliced together with imagination, in a humorous delight, a complex litany of literary fiction, adventure, mystery, suspense, myth, romance and desire.
Автор: Stephen Joseph Kelton Название: More Than Meets the Eye: Vision in Verse ISBN: 0992487501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780992487508 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
