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"In the past twenty years, economic policy in Latin America has veered toward neoliberalism, or market friendliness. State interventions in the economy have been cut back in many areas, including reductions in fiscal deficits, privatization of public enterprises, reductions of import quotas and tariffs and export subsidies, removal of barriers to foreign capital flow, and increased faith in the private sector and market processes." "This book offers...

The contributors to this text have related the business history of a selected country to the main trends in its economic development. There is discussion of the influence of dependency theory, foreign business imperialism and collaborating oligarchic elites.

"In the 1960s, a nation that had prided itself on its political stability found its political system no longer equal to meeting the demands for change. A people who had taken for granted a collective commitment to public order was suddenly stunned by the fragility of its institutions and the assaults upon the values they represented. This is the story of how Americans for the first time took to the streets by the thousands, sometimes by the tens of...

"Driving a taxi is a difficult job. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. To protect themselves, taxi drivers must quickly and accurately assess the trustworthiness of complete strangers. In Streetwise, Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person's...

Recounts the history of Castroville, the European colony in Texas that was founded by French empresario Henri Castro in 1842.

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Uses an art-historical approach to examine twenty advertisements and advertising campaigns, named by the author as the most influential of the twentieth century; considering what makes each ad work, the story behind it, and how it changed viewers' perceptions of the advertised item, and other things as well.

How is it that, with all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, the market still goes boom and bust? How come people are so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a collapse is almost sure to follow? In A Short History of Financial Euphoria, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith reviews, with insight and wit, the common features of the great speculative episodes...