Economic development has cyclical dynamics and long-term dynamics – the latter are typically related to demographical changes, innovation and long-term insti- tional changes in open economies. Financial markets – that means mainly capital markets – and labor markets are affected in OECD countries both by innovations and institutional reforms. As regards demographics ageing is a typical challenge on both sides of the Atlantic, and pension reforms in industrialized countries have placed grea...

In the new global economy, more countries have opened up to international competition and rapid capital flows. However, in the triad the process of globalization is rather asymmetric. With a rising role of multinational companies there are favorable prospects for higher global growth and economic catching-up, respectively. Theoretical analysis suggests key ingredients of sustained growth, but there is also a new concept of a long-term equilibrium income gap in which convergence is rather u...

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John GrishamThe once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, ...

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John GrishamThe once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, ...

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The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection assembles a capacious Western canon in which epic, tragedy, drama, poetry, essay, memoir, history, philosophy, scientific writing, political argument, religious meditation, and folktale coexist. Spanning antiquity through the modern era, it places classical dialogues and epics beside Renaissance humanism, Enlightenment inquiry, Romantic imagination, Victorian criticism, and foundational scientific texts. Its celebrated selections make int...

The Harvard Classics Anthology gathers an extraordinary transhistorical conversation, ranging from Greek epic, tragedy, philosophy, and Roman civic prose to Renaissance drama, Enlightenment inquiry, Romantic poetry, Victorian fiction, and modern scientific reflection. Its forms are equally expansive: dialogues, sermons, essays, travel narratives, memoirs, fables, plays, lyric poems, novels, political treatises, and experimental investigations. Landmark selections from Homeric epic, Shakesp...

The Economic Analysis of Unions (1986) thoroughly examines a range of theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of labour unions. It surveys, synthesizes, and critically analyses theoretical and econometric work on the many dimensions of unions in the private and public sectors.

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”- Niccolò Machiavelli.A study of legendary Russian military force The Cossacks, an essay on Thomas Jefferson, a history of The Knights Templar, a biography of Louis XIV ‘The Sun King,’ a short history of Spain and a study of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. It’s all here and more in Strategy Six Pack 10*:*The Cossacks by W...

John T. Addison and Paul J. J. Welfens Because inflation seems moribund in OECD countries, stubborn unemployment became the top policy priority of the 1990s. Unemployment has increased in many countries, reaching critical levels for unskilled and young workers in most continental EU countries. Europe's employment performance has continued to lag that in North America. The U. S. in particular achieved a remarkable combination of low inflation and full employment in the late 1990s, at a time...

Reincarnation never seems to follow any logical pattern!Legend states that King Sil, an early Neolithic ruler, was buried within Silbury Hill, near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, along with a golden treasure that marked his earthly status. Nobody has ever located Sil’s bones and horde or solved the true mystery surrounding Silbury Hill’s purpose.Four thousand years ago, a lifetime feud between Sil and his mortal enemy Uath, culminated in a dual. A subseq...

An Episcopal priest has a fateful encounter with an Amsterdam teenager who may be a prostitute—or something else entirely. An Iowa supermarket patron repurposes Bible verses for a love note to a handsome cashier, with consequences both tragic and transformational. A disgraced seminarian shows up at his lover’s first Mass, determined to be remembered.One way or another, the characters in The Master is Here happen to find themselves in a place larger and mor...