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23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 14: US Managers Are Over Priced
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 13: Making the Rich People Richer Doesn't Make the Rest of Us Richer
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 12: Government Can Pick Winners
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 11: Africa is Not Destined for Underdevelopment
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 10: The US Does Not Have the Highest Living Standard in the World
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 9: We Do Not Live in a Post-industrial Age
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 8: Capital has a Nationality
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 7: Free-Market Policies Rarely Make Poor Countries Rich
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 6: Greater Macroeconomic Stability Has Not Made the World Economy More Stable
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 5: Assume the worst about people and you get the worst
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 4: The Washing Machine Has Changed the World more than the Internet Has
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 2: Companies Should not Be Run in the Interests of Their Owners
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 1: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market
23 Things they Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Chang Ha-Joon
Thing 3: Most People in Rich Countries Are Paid More Than They Should Be
Economics in One Lesson
By: Henry Hazlitt
Chapter 25 and Chapter 26
Economics in One Lesson
By: Henry Hazlitt
Chapter 21 to Chapter 24
Economics in One Lesson
By: Henry Hazlitt
Chapter 16 to Chapter 20
Economics in One Lesson
By: Henry Hazlitt
Chapter 10 to Chapter 15
Economics in One Lesson
By: Henry Hazlitt
Chapter 6 to Chapter 9
Economics in One Lesson
By: Henry Hazlitt
Chapter 1 to Chapter 5
Economics in One Lesson
By: Henry Hazlitt
The Lesson
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
By: B. R. Myers
A Study of the Offical Myths of North Korea: Foreigners; South Korea; Policy Implications
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
By: B. R. Myers
A Study of the Offical Myths of North Korea: The Land; Kim Il-sung; Kim Jong-il
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
By: B. R. Myers
A History of North Korean Propaganda from the Colonial Era to the Present Crisis
Escape From Freedom
By: Erich Fromm
Freedom -- A Psychological Problem. The goal and thesis of the work.
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
On the Different Rates of Economic Progress in Different Nations and On Natural and Unnatural Economic Progress
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
On the Nature, Accumulation and Use of Stock and On the Saving and Use of Stock
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
On the Nature, Accumulation and Use of Stock and On the Types of Stock
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
The Causes of the Improvement of the Productivity of Labor and On the Rent Rate
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
The Causes of the Improvement of the Productivity of Labor and On the Differences in the Wage Rate and in the Profit Rate
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
The Causes of the Improvement of the Productivity of Labor and On the Causes of the Wage Rate and the Profit Rate
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
The Causes of the Improvement of the Productivity of Labor and On the division of Labor, the Factors of Production and Supply & Demand
The Prince
By: Nicolò Machiavelli
How to be a successful prince. Secondary concerns and the hope for the future.
The Prince
By: Nicolò Machiavelli
How to be a successful prince. How the prince ought to behave.
The Prince
By: Nicolò Machiavelli
How to be a successful prince. Matters of war.
The Prince
By: Nicolò Machiavelli
How to be a successful prince. How to hold the various types of principalities.
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220: Christian Smith I: Moral, Believing Animals
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218: Jonathan Haidt III: Morality Binds and Blinds
217: Jonathan Haidt II: There's More to Morality than Harm and Fairness
216: Jonathan Haidt I: The Righteous Mind, Intuitions 1st Reasoning 2nd
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214: Edward O Wilson VI: The Bottle Neck & On Free Will
213: Edward O Wilson V: Resuming the Enlightenment Quest
212: Edward O Wilson IV: The Biological Diversity Crisis
211: Edward O Wilson III: The Conservation Ethic
210: Edward O Wilson II: Comparative Social Theory
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