This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic transition. Based on extensive factory-level fieldwork, it focuses upon changes in ownership, management and labour organisation, unveiling the complex texture of social, communal and gender relations in ...

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such ...

Bitcoin: The Simplified Guide to Understanding Bitcoin Currency, Mining & ExchangeThe author is a free-market advocate, researcher, and writer. There are many Bitcoin books available on the open market, but a good number of these books are heavily focused on the math and binary digital concepts rather than useful information for the layman.This e-book is designed to help the non-technical person understand how Bitcoin digital currency works and how it can f...

Has capitalism failed?Is it fundamentally greedy and immoral, enabling the rich to get richer? Are free markets Darwinian places where the most ruthless crush smaller competitors, where vital products and services are priced beyond the ability of many people to afford them?Capitalism is the world's greatest economic success story. It is the most effective way to provide for the needs of people and foster the democratic and moral values of a free society. Yet ...

From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of How Capitalism Will Save Us—comes a new way of thinking about the role of government and the morality of free markets.Americans today are at a turning point. Are we a country founded on the values of freedom and limited government, as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Or...

In 1984, a conglomeration of singers got together to give the world the song "We are the world". This after a catastrophic famine in Sahel Ethiopia. From then on, then on, the world governments have struggled to create food sufficiency in their countries. During the era of Mao Tsetung in China, after the whole world embargoed against his country, he went a head and create food sufficiency for his people through intensive farming method. China with its number one status in world population ...

The big bad down-turn in the economy means good news to author Iam Farinwell who argues that the shake up will wake up the American people to their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and blaze their own path to wealth and prosperity. 57 small business ideas are presented with a call to focus one's efforts on projects that will make them money, even while they are sleeping.The days when one worked for a company for thirty years and then collected a pension are gon...

The countries of the african continent offer a wide range of opportunities for the entrepeneur. This book outlines those opportunities on a country by country basis and provides an indication of some of the challenges (and their solutions)that may be faced. The book also provides a simple guide to the steps (paperwork) required to establish a business presence in each of the countries covered.Divided according to country groups by geographic location then by individual countries th...

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Longer working hours, later retirement, lousy pensions - hardly the life of leisure we were promised for the 21st century! We also have dirty hospitals, troops without proper equipment and schools that provide an appalling standard of education. So what went wrong and what can we do about it?This book provides an introduction in straightforward English to the Real Economics of real resources and real people's lives.

Big business has been the lever of big change over time in American life, change in economy, society, politics, and the envelope of existence--in work, mores, language, consciousness, and the pace and bite of time. Such is the pattern revealed by this historical mosaic.--From the PrefaceWeaving historical source material with his own incisive analysis, Jack Beatty traces the rise of the American corporation, from its beginnings in the 17th century through today, illustrating...

Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit. Less known is the fact that this theory arose after arguments for the scientific method and freedom of speech had gone mainstream—and that all three share a common basis.Proponents of self-regulation in the realm of free speech have argued that unhindered public expression causes true ideas to gain strengt...