Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The
by Mariana Mazzucato · 25 Apr 2018 · 457pp · 125,329 words
equivalent to nearly £30,000 for each adult in the land - well above average earnings.39 Governments rejoiced when banks offered mortgages to low-paid, marginally employed home buyers on the assumption that their debt could be ‘securitized' and quickly resold to other investors. It seemed less a reckless gamble and more
The-General-Theory-of-Employment-Interest-and-Money
by John Maynard Keynes · 13 Jul 2018
the supply schedule; and the amount of employment is fixed at the point where the utility of the marginal product balances the disutility of the marginal employment. It would follow from this that there are only four possible means of increasing employment: (a) An improvement in organisation or in foresight which diminishes
Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions
by Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl and Joseph R. Perella · 18 May 2009 · 444pp · 86,565 words
Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage
by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders · 1 Jul 2001 · 267pp · 79,905 words
social inclusion means working in jobs based on proper social standards when it comes to wages and hours, not working in low-quality jobs which marginal employers are prepared to create because of government subsidies (such as tax credits schemes). Transitional labour markets provide a policy framework which takes us beyond the
Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City
by Tony Roshan Samara · 12 Jun 2011 · 252pp · 13,581 words
politics of crime and urban 92╇ ·â•‡ Gangsterism and the Policing of the Cape Flats renewal in the city we still find young unemployed or marginally employed black youth. To date, democratic South Africa, while it perhaps has more of an incentive to end the marginalization of these young people, has yet
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
by Jeremy Rifkin · 27 Sep 2011 · 443pp · 112,800 words
conundrum is that if productivity advances brought on by the application of intelligent technologies, robotics, and automation continue to push more and more workers to marginal employment or unemployment around the world, the diminishing purchasing power is likely to stifle further economic growth. In other words, if smart tech replaces more and
A People's History of Poverty in America
by Stephen Pimpare · 11 Nov 2008 · 468pp · 123,823 words
of a welfare check. However inadequate, its presence can be counted upon, creating security not possible if a woman depends solely upon the support of marginally employed men, or upon her own low-wage and often precarious employment. We will examine the oppressive side of relief, in which women trade “a man
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words
are a burden on youth since old agers and migrants are more prepared to labour without them. Labour subsidies, including earned-income tax credits and marginal employment subsidies, are also in reality subsidies to capital, enabling companies to gain more profits and pay lower wages. They have no economic or social equity
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
by Frank Pasquale · 17 Nov 2014 · 320pp · 87,853 words
— and without it, Harry Potter might never have been written. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 is one bright spot for the marginally employed in the United States. Perhaps we’ll find, decades hence, that the biggest impetus to artistic careers (and independent employment of all kinds) was guaranteed
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
by Alex Rosenblat · 22 Oct 2018 · 343pp · 91,080 words
social reasons. My research suggests that they benefit most clearly from Uber’s employment model of independent contract labor, since they gain more opportunities for marginal employment and are less vulnerable to the same business practices (e.g., rate cuts) that prompt strikes and protests by drivers who rely on Uber as
The Meritocracy Myth
by Stephen J. McNamee · 17 Jul 2013 · 440pp · 108,137 words
The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins
by James Angelos · 1 Jun 2015 · 278pp · 93,540 words
The Science of Language
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Feb 2012
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty · 18 Feb 2020 · 331pp · 95,582 words
Shampoo Planet
by Douglas Coupland · 28 Dec 2010