[PDF] Wealth And Our Commonwealth eBook

Author : William H. Gates
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807047194

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More than a thousand individuals of high net worth rose up to protest the repeal of the estate tax-Newsweek tagged them the "billionaire backlash." The primary visionaries of that group, Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, argue here that individual wealth is a product not only of hard work and smart choices but of the society that provides the fertile soil for succes. Weaving personal narratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates and Collins make a sound and compelling case for estate tax reform, not repeal.

Author : Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 9781594201271

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Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions based on a new economic paradigm for our crowded planet.

Author : Thomas M. Hanna
Publisher :
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Government ownership
ISBN : 9781526133786

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Public ownership is more widespread and popular in the United States than is commonly understood. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the scope and scale of U.S. public ownership, debunking frequent misconceptions about the alleged inefficiency and underperformance of public ownership and arguing that it offers powerful, flexible solutions to current problems of inequality, instability, and unsustainability- explaining why after decades of privatization it is making a comeback, including in the agenda of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain. Hanna offers a vision of deploying new forms of democratized public ownership broadly, across multiple sectors, as a key ingredient of any next system beyond corporate capitalism. This book is a valuable, extensively researched resource that sets out the past record and future possibilities of public ownership at a time when ever more people are searching for answers.

Author : Lynne Z. Bassett
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781584657453

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The definitive treasury of Massachusetts's historic quilts, and a tribute to the creative spirit of their makers

Author : Michael Hardt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674053966

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When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth. Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for the idea of the “common” to replace the opposition of private and public and the politics predicated on that opposition. Ultimately, they articulate the theoretical bases for what they call “governing the revolution.” Though this book functions as an extension and a completion of a sustained line of Hardt and Negri’s thought, it also stands alone and is entirely accessible to readers who are not familiar with the previous works. It is certain to appeal to, challenge, and enrich the thinking of anyone interested in questions of politics and globalization.

Author : David Bollier
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415944823

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This text exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. It is an attempt to develop a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no bounds.

Author : Lowery Stokes Sims
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780878468157

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The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last four hundred years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, they have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences, such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and confronts questions of identity and community. This generously illustrated volume gathers works by leading figures from the nineteenth century to the present Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall alongside many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Arranged thematically and accompanied by authoritative texts that provide historical and interpretive context, this book invites readers to share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with individual creative responses.