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Virgin Capital

Author : Tami Navarro

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 16,91 MB

Release : 2021-11-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1438486049

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Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands—St. Croix—has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008–2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially "modern" industry of financial services and neoliberal "development" regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning.



The Wrath of Capital

Author : Adrian Parr

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 21,82 MB

Release : 2014-09-02

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0231158297

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Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic conditions of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the worldÕs environmental challenges, and she argues that, until we grasp the implications of neoliberalismÕs interference in climate change talks and policy, humanity is on track to an irreversible crisis. Parr not only exposes the global failure to produce equitable political options for environmental regulation, but she also breaks down the dominant political paradigms hindering the discovery of viable alternatives. She highlights the neoliberalization of nature in the development of green technologies, land use, dietary habits, reproductive practices, consumption patterns, design strategies, and media. She dismisses the notion that the free market can solve debilitating environmental degradation and climate change as nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. Decrying what she perceives as a failure of the human imagination and an impoverishment of political institutions, Parr ruminates on the nature of change and existence in the absence of a future. The sustainability movement, she contends, must engage more aggressively with the logic and cultural manifestations of consumer economics to take hold of a more transformative politics. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new and more promising collective solutions will fail to take root.



Who Needs to Open the Capital Account

Author : Olivier Jeanne

Publisher : Peterson Institute

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 45,41 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0881326488

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Most countries emerged from the Second World War with capital accounts that were closed to the rest of the world. Since then, a process of capital account opening has occurred, with the result that all developed and many emerging-market countries now have capital accounts that are both de facto and de jure open, while many developing countries also have de facto openness. This study examines this in part by considering some of the first lessons from the current global financial crisis. This crisis may change the terms of the debate on capital account liberalization in a deeper and more lasting way than any of the crises of the past two decades because it may mark a reversal in the secular trend of financial liberalization at the core of the international financial system. The current crisis also raises new questions about the appropriate policy responses to boom-bust dynamics in domestic credit and in international credit flows. Intellectual consistency is needed between the domestic and international dimensions of financial regulation and the policies aimed at dealing with boom-bust dynamics in domestic and international credit.



Capital Rules

Author : Rawi Abdelal

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 30,33 MB

Release : 2009-09-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0674034554

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"The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the case. Transactions routinely executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s—trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies—had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier. How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the U.S. Treasury nor Wall Street bankers have preferred or promoted multilateral, liberal rules for global finance. Instead, European policy makers conceived and promoted the liberal rules that compose the international financial architecture. Whereas U.S. policy makers have tended to embrace unilateral, ad hoc globalization, French and European policy makers have promoted a rule-based, “managed” globalization. This contest over the character of globalization continues today."



Virgin Millionaire

Author : Ben Nash

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 311 pages

File Size : 22,47 MB

Release : 2024-10-21

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1394255918

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Do you dream of being the first to reach the millionaire milestone? Do you have big money ambitions? Are you committed to being so successful with investing that you not only set up yourself, but future generations as well? Virgin Millionaire is here to help you create a step-by-step game plan for true money and investing success. The goal? To live your ideal lifestyle WITHOUT sacrificing all your waking hours to work. If you want to become the first millionaire (or multimillionaire) in your family — and guarantee your long-term financial security — this book shares expert advice to get you there. Virgin Millionaire combines the psychology behind wealth and money-habit building with simple strategies and frameworks to give you the why, what and how. You’ll learn about the five Smart Money Stages every person moves through on their journey to financial independence. With the Smart Money Stages, you’ll determine where you’re at now and get clear, actionable strategies for growing your wealth so you can progress through each stage faster. Discover the tactics that will help you focus, optimise and accelerate your money for ultimate impact. Virgin Millionaire will show you how to: Set up the building blocks for serious money success Automate your money management to save time and drive better results Cut your tax bill to get ahead faster Buy your dream home, without a crippling mortgage Do it all without making drastic lifestyle sacrifices today With this book, you’ll see why author Ben Nash is Australia’s most-followed financial adviser — and the founder of Australia’s most-awarded financial advice company. Don’t settle for anything short of achieving your full financial potential. Virgin Millionaire will show you how to realise your inner millionaire. “Jargon-free and straight to the point. This book is a must-read for anyone serious about unlocking their inner millionaire.” — Victoria Devine, founder and author of She’s on the Money



Capital and the Common Good

Author : Georgia Levenson Keohane

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 263 pages

File Size : 26,52 MB

Release : 2016-09-27

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 023154166X

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Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough. Here, innovative finance has shown a way forward: by borrowing techniques from the world of finance, we can raise capital for social investments today. Innovative finance has provided polio vaccines to children in the DRC, crop insurance to farmers in India, pay-as-you-go solar electricity to Kenyans, and affordable housing and transportation to New Yorkers. It has helped governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources meet the needs of the poor and underserved and build a more sustainable and inclusive prosperity. Capital and the Common Good shows how market failure in one context can be solved with market solutions from another: an expert in securitization bundles future development aid into bonds to pay for vaccines today; an entrepreneur turns a mobile phone into an array of financial services for the unbanked; and policy makers adapt pay-for-success models from the world of infrastructure to human services like early childhood education, maternal health, and job training. Revisiting the successes and missteps of these efforts, Georgia Levenson Keohane argues that innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision-making as it is about money. When it works, innovative finance gives us the tools, motivation, and security to invest in our shared future.



Washington and its Environs

Author : Randolph Keim

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 48,60 MB

Release : 2024-01-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3368852973

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.



Washington and Its Environs

Author : De Benneville Randolph Keim

Publisher :

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 41,76 MB

Release : 1879

Category : Washington (D.C.)

ISBN :

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Love and Capital

Author : Mary Gabriel

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 514 pages

File Size : 15,86 MB

Release : 2011-09-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 031619137X

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Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms -- one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she waited for him to finish his masterpiece, Capital. An epic narrative that stretches over decades to recount Karl and Jenny's story against the backdrop of Europe's Nineteenth Century, Love andCapital is a surprising and magisterial account of romance and revolution -- and of one of the great love stories of all time.



Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Thomas Piketty

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 817 pages

File Size : 39,20 MB

Release : 2017-08-14

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0674979850

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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.