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From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation. Davis traces a genealogy of the penal system, from slavery to the prison industrial complex, offering a trenchant analysis of the relationship between the prison system and capitalism, both in the US and on a global scale. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and lessons from organising both inside and beyond prison walls, Davis addresses the history of abolitionist practice, details the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and offers the radical tools we need for revolutionary change. Powerful and rewarding, filled with insight and provocation, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, is essential reading for anyone seeking to imagine a world without prisons. 'A woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard' New York Times'She has eyes in the back of our head. With her we can survive and resist' John Berger'Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise' June Jordan

Der BRICS-Gipfel fand im August 2023 statt. Die fünf BRICS-Staaten planen weiterhin ¿ so wird gemunkelt ¿ eine eigene goldbasierte Leitwährung. Unterstützt wird dieses Gerücht durch mehrere Ereignisse. Aktuell erfährt die Welt massive strukturelle Veränderungen. Die Nato wird in Europa weiter in Richtung Osten und Norden erweitert. Eine unmittelbare Folge der NATO-Osterweiterung sind die militärischen Auseinandersetzungen in der Ukraine. In Afrika wehren sich zunehmend mehr Länder gegen ihre ehemaligen Kolonialmächte. Militärputsche, wie in Niger und Gabun, stürzen die zivilen Regierungen, die sich mit dem Westen konform zeigen.Darüber hinaus treten anlässlich des oben genannten BRICS-Gipfels weitere Erdöl-fördernde Länder dem BRICS-Verbund bei. Darunter Länder wie Argentinien, Ägypten, Äthiopien, Iran, Saudi-Arabien sowie die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate. Diese Länder planen ihr Erdöl in anderen Währungen als dem Petro-Dollar zu handeln. Was eine weitere Schwächung des US-Dollar nach sich ziehen würde.Es ist also nicht verwunderlich, wenn das Gerücht um eine ¿ möglicherweise Yuan-basierte ¿ neue Leitwährung angeheizt wird. Hinzu kommt der offensichtlich erfolglose Besuch des amerikanischen Außenministers Blinken in China. Unmittelbar darauf sank der Börsenwert des US-Dollars um etliche Punkte. China hält immense Dollarreserven auf Grund seines Exportüberschusses.Danach besuchte der ehemalige US-Außenminister Henry Kissinger China, offiziell privat und ohne jeglichen diplomatischen Auftrag.Der inzwischen 100-jährige Henry Kissinger wird in China sehr respektiert, hauptsächlich aufgrund seiner Rolle bei der Normalisierung der Beziehungen zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und der Volksrepublik China in den 1970er Jahren. Als damaliger US-Außenminister spielte er eine entscheidende Rolle in den geheimen Verhandlungen mit dem chinesischen Führer Zhou Enlai.Mein Buch ¿Der US-Dollar und die BRICS-Herausforderung¿ will den Lesern die Geschichte der Dollar-Vorherrschaft und die aufstrebenden BRICS-Staaten, als mögliches Gegengewicht, näher bringen. Es will als ein Versuch angesehen werden, die aktuellen Vorgänge in der Welt beleuchten und helfen so die gegenwärtigen Umwälzungen und Umstrukturierungen besser zu verstehen. Das Buch beleuchtet die Hintergründe, die zu den Machtkämpfen dieser Zeit geführt haben, und es wirft einen Blick in eine mögliche Zukunft, um die Auswirkungen auf die globale Wirtschaft zu analysieren. Dabei werden die verschiedenen Aspekte der Thematik beleuchtet, angefangen bei den historischen Ereignissen, die zur Entstehung der Dollar-Dominanz führten, bis hin zu den aktuellen Bemühungen der BRICS-Staaten, sich dieser Vorherrschaft zu entziehen und ihre eigene Position zu stärken.Wir werden die Wurzeln der Dollar-Vorherrschaft untersuchen. Von der Bretton-Woods-Konferenz im Jahr 1944 bis zur Aufhebung der Goldbindung im Jahr 1971 werden die entscheidenden Meilensteine auf dem Weg zur weltweiten Akzeptanz des Dollars als Leitwährung behandelt. Dabei wird auch die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten als Supermacht und ihr wirtschaftliches und politisches Interesse an der Aufrechterhaltung der Dollarherrschaft hinterfragt.

A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know? Socialism has killed millions, but it's now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ideology manifests itself in starry-eyed calls for free-spending policies like Medicare-for-all and student loan forgiveness. In The Case Against Socialism, Rand Paul outlines the history of socialism, from Stalin's gulags to the current famine in Venezuela. He tackles common misconceptions about the "utopia" of socialist Europe. As it turns out, Scandinavian countries love capitalism as much as Americans, and have, for decades, been cutting back on the things Bernie loves the most.Socialism's return is only possible because many Americans have forgotten the true dangers of the twentieth-century's deadliest ideology. Paul reveals the devastating truth: for every college student sporting a Che Guevara T-shirt, there's a Venezuelan child dying of starvation. Desperate refugees flee communist Cuba to escape oppressive censorship, rationed food and squalid hospitals, not "free" healthcare. Socialist dictatorships like the People's Republic of China crush freedom of speech and run massive surveillance states while masquerading as enlightened modern nations. Far from providing economic freedom, socialist governments enslave their citizens. They offer illusory promises of safety and equality while restricting personal liberty, tightening state power, sapping human enterprise and making citizens dependent on the dole.If socialism takes hold in America, it will imperil the fate of the world's freest nation, unleashing a plague of oppressive government control. The Case Against Socialism is a timely response to that threat and a call to action against the forces menacing American liberty.

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of 'homo economicus': an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show mutual trust is the only glue that holds societies together; people are giving beings and they can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing personal gain in capitalism is broken. Acknowledging the role of women, nature, and workers in the Global South in transforming society, this book proposes a politics of conviviality, (from the Latin con-vivere: living together) for global and environmental justice as an alternative to the pursuit of profit, growth, and consumption.

The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, these socialist inspired movements have largely disappeared, their ideologies have been disavowed, and their institutions dismantled and replaced by global neoliberal capitalism. This book explores the social, political and economic forces driving these movements in Western Europe and in the USSR, explaining their initial triumphs and how they eventually faltered under the influence of global neoliberalism. David Lane examines the nature and appeal of neoliberal capitalism and analyses current social and political proposals for its reform or replacement, including statist forms of capitalism; social-democratic and ecological globalization reforms; self-sustaining autonomous communities; and globalised forms of social-democracy or socialism. Outlining his own proposal to replace global neoliberal capitalism with political systems based on a combination of market socialism and state planning, Lane provides important insights for ways forward, and a challenge for parties seeking political and economic alternatives.

The source of all wealth is enterprise. Enterprise is the action of the Entrepreneur to start a firm to produce and sell goods and services, and it is intended that the firm would operate under increasing returns to scale. The book is based fundamentally on the concept of increasing returns to scale. Increasing returns to scale is the source of profits. The economic theory of increasing returns to scale is discussed in detail, and this concept explains why enterprise and entrepreneurs operate through increasing returns to scale create wealth.

The Engage Patriots Manifesto-Living These 10 Values Will Save Our Families and Communities Discover the Time Tested Values that are critical to a free society and how you can influence your family and communityas you become an Engaged Patriot! 1. We Shall Protect the Weak and Innocent.2. We Shall Show Compassion to Others.3. We Shall Teach Correct Principles.4. We Shall Strengthen our Families.5. We Shall Serve in Our Communities.6. We Shall Rebuild Our Economies.7. We Shall Fear No Oppressor.8. We Shall Lead With Integrity.9. We Shall Honor God.10. We Shall Leave a Legacy of FREEDOM. The ten declarations in the Engaged Patriot Manifesto are based on common sense and time-tested principles. They are a statement of conservative values and a proposed action plan, that can serve as a guide in our daily lives. My name is Matthew J Cameron. I am not an Author. I am not a Writer. I am not Famous. I am a Son, Brother, Husband, Father, Grandfather, and Patriot. I felt compelled to write this book. It comes from my heart. I wrote it for my children and grandchildren. I was tired of all the woke agenda pushing their corrupt immoral values on us. I was tired of my innocent grandchildren being exposed to their evil ways. I sat idly by as many great patriots stepped up and shared their beliefs and held rallies to encourage Patriots to embrace the cause of Freedom. My conscience worked on me and I knew I needed to do more than watch others carry the yoke. I hope you will find this little book to be a source of encouragement and strength for you. I. hope that you will embrace the declarations in the manifesto and choose to be a more Engaged Patriot. The world needs more good people to step up and increase their personal influence. You are stronger than you think, and your unique influence and leadership is desperately needed today!

Why the market will never solve the Climate Crisis

How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work

"An original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by the philosopher who coined the term "limitarianism" that invites us to a radical reimagining of our world"--

This study explores the relationship among private organizations, public organizations, government, customers, resource competitors and social enterprises. The investigation results will help improve our understanding to the current business model and the leadership modelof social enterprises in industry. The study results will also help us to identify the key sustainable factors of a social enterprise and to find the factors that can facilitate a sustainable business model for a social enterprise and to find the adaptive leadership of a sustainable socialentrepreneur in industry.

Pundits, journalists, and individuals bemoan the state of the economy on a regular basis, but they usually direct their criticism at Wall Street manipulators and big corporations.The real blame should go to the structure of a system that condones and overlooks practices leading to world economic and financial crises that create high unemployment, a huge increase in debt, and a widening gap between the super rich and the poor.All this is leading to the destruction of the middle class and an alarming increase in the cost of living. Various solutions have been proposed, including nationalization of the entire private economy or an increase in private control of big banks and corporations. Others advocate simply taking over Wall Street without any clearly defined objectives.A new system would prevent the economic and financial crises as well as the social upheavals that go along with them, but it's none of those described above. Learn about "Equitocracy" and what you can do to promote its objectives.¿Radu Buzescu earned two master's degrees ---- one from a European university and the other from an American university --- and has conducted extensive on social, economic, and financial structures. He currently lives in New York

Employee ownership creates stronger companies, helps workers build wealth, and fosters a fairer, more stable society. In this book, two leading experts show how it works-and how it can be greatly expanded. Wages don't cover the bills. Wealth inequality is growing. Social trust is eroding. There are endless debates about what to do, but one key factor is inexplicably left out: who owns the companies that drive the economy?Ownership matters. Ownership by a few means benefits for a few. But if you spread ownership around, you spread the benefits of capitalism around. Employee ownership lets workers build real wealth, not just pick up a paycheck. And it's a piece of the puzzle that's in plain sight. As Corey Rosen and John Case point out, there are already thousands of prosperous employee-owned companies. Rosen and Case explain why so many companies end up being owned by Wall Street shareholders or private equity firms-and why that kind of ownership encourages a focus on short-term profits rather than the long-term sustainability needed by employees, communities, and the environment. They show the limits of reform efforts that don't address the essential issue of who owns what. But the heart of the book is a deep dive into how employee ownership originated, how it works now, and what needs to be done to expand it. The book looks at how the idea is growing, both in the United States and around the world-and why all sides of the political spectrum support it. Rosen and Case offer a vivid portrait of a form of ownership that results in more prosperous workers, more responsible companies, and a fairer, more stable society.

From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that governments across the world could not adequately protect their citizens. Millions of people suffered and died in just two years, while administrations around the globe blundered; prize-winning economists overlooked devastating trade-offs from the collapse of trade; and elites escaped to isolated retreats, unaffected by - and worse, even profiting from - the worst healthcare crisis to hit humanity in decades.In this page-turning economic, political and financial history, veteran journalists Bethany McClean and Joseph Nocera analyse the American response to the pandemic as a case study, to offer fresh and provocative answers. With laser-sharp reporting and deep sourcing, they investigate what really happened when governments ran out of PPE due to snarled supply chains; and the shock to the financial system when the world's biggest economies stumbled. They zero in on the effectiveness of wildly polarised approaches across states, and they trace why thousands died in hollowed-out hospital systems and nursing homes run by private equity firms, all in the name of "maximising shareholder value".The Big Fail is an expansive, gripping narrative account on what the pandemic did to one economy, and how it forced us to question the fundamental principles of our society

Konkurrencestaten er et discountsamfund. Det er konklusionen i denne bog om forholdene på arbejdsmarkedet, i velfærden og i uddannelses­systemerne. I konkurrencestaten er det selv­forsørgelsen og overlevelsen, der er det centrale. Ikke den enestående præstation. Velfærdsprofessionelle beskriver arbejdsforhold, der sætter lav pris over høj kvalitet, også selvom det går ud over borgernes velfærd. Og eget helbred. Elever fortæller om en 'frygtkultur' og et karakter­ræs i en skole, hvor det er vigtigere at bestå end at forstå. I discountsamfundet er det vigtigere at passere end at præstere. At præsentere noget, der ser godt ud, snarere end at gøre godt. At makke ret, snarere end at gøre det rigtige. Individet presses derfor til at gå på kompromis med faglige og etiske standarder og til at tilsidesætte både sin egen og den andens menneskelighed. Men, der ydes også modstand - fra alle dem som i hverdagen bliver udsat for discountsamfundets umenneskelige krav om selv­afvikling.

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differently each conceived of inequality, and how the subject, prominent in their times, was eclipsed during the Cold War and has become central once again.

Recessions are generally times of economic hardship when companies cut staff and prices on the stock market fall and stay low. Unfortunately, a recession is something beyond our control, but what we can control is how we respond and prepare for a financial recession. Taking precautionary measures to protect your finances can make a world of difference, make sure you take some of all these steps to recession-proof your finances. The secrets in this guide will show you how to survive and even thrive during a recession! Here is what you get in our massive info-packed "Recession Income Secrets" Premier Training guide: An Overview: Recession Income Secrets.Stuff that Sells the Best During Recession.All About Investment During Recession.Survival Skills.Know the Recession Secrets in Digital Marketing.All About Platforms during Recession.Save Yourself from these Blunder Mistakes.Benefits of Learning the 'Recession Income Secrets'.Best Ways to Prepare Yourself Mentally.Growth During Recession.

In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages. In so doing he sheds light on why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. In tough, muscular, richly varied prose, he tells an absorbing and meaningful story.

This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people.