How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model—installed in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened during three decades of left-of-center governments—came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric, a young former student activist, was elected...

How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model—installed in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened during three decades of left-of-center governments—came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric, a young former student activist, was elected...

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the U.S. dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's hist...

For many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies. During the 1970s it received more assistance per capita than any other nation in the world. And yet, the economy performed dismally: growth was negative, exports collapsed, and poverty increased massively. In the mid 1980s, however, the international community changed tacks and developed an approach based on conditionality and 'program ownership'. Since 1996 the country has grown steadily, and social conditions have imp...

In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." More than a story about one Latin American country, The Chile Project is a behind-the-scenes history of the spread and consequences of the free-market thinking that dominated economic policymaking around the world in the second half o...

The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the U.S. dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history.Sebastian Edwards provides a compelling account of the economic and legal drama that embr...

Wie lernen wir die Ordnungen des Schöpferischen erkennen und mitgestalten? Der Garten ist ein begrenzter Ort im Freien, von Menschen gestaltet und gepflegt: ein Ort von Kultur und Natur. Könnte es solche "Orte" der Zeit geben, so wie es in der Natur Gärten als Orte des lieblichen Zusammenwirkens mit dem Menschen gibt? Welchen Sinn können wir den Worten "Im Garten der Zeit" verleihen?

The story of Rose and Milton Friedman’s incredible lives and influential work told in their own words, now with a new foreword by Sebastian Edwards.In Two Lucky People, Rose and Milton Friedman provide a memorable and lively account of their lives, the people they knew, and the work they shared. Their involvement with world leaders and many of this century's most important public policy issues moves their memoir beyond the merely personal and makes fascina...

Cuentos de: Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Amelia Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Eliza Lynn Linton, Edith Nesbit, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Madeline Yale Wynne, Louisa Baldwin, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Gertrude Atherton, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton y May Sinclair.Los fantasmas no se repiten, a pesar de que su repertorio sea limitado.Aquí hemos preferido recorrer un tipo muy especial de fantasmas, evocados desde las máscaras más agitadas e impenetrables de su tiempo. Qui...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital.El TDAH en adultos puede afectar a los hombres de diferentes maneras.El varón puede experimentarlo de diversas formas, y sus síntomas pueden ser más difíciles de detectar. A menudo se pasan por alto a los síntomas del TDAH en los hombres, lo que hace que muchos de los que luchan con sus capacidades se sientan aislados o confundidos acerca de lo que están experimentando. Aunque los mecanismos subyacentes del T...

I wasn’t sure what to expect when arriving in Salem.Forced to marry a man I’ve never met, attend a private university I’d never heard of, and the whispers of a rumored secret society filling the halls.This life would be near unbearable with my insufferable fiancé if it wasn’t for his uncle, his best friend, and his enemy.When none of them are willing to let me go, it sends us down a path I’m not sure any of us will survive.The life I was promised is distorte...

Jonathan Edwards is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost American philosophers. Edwards on God offers a historically informed philosophical analysis of his arguments for the existence and nature of God.The book begins with a characterization of Edwards’s intellectual profile and philosophical theology. It then explicates and evaluates his arguments from the beginning of existence, design, ‘being in general’, virtue as benevolence, and his account of natural and mo...