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This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed throughout a variety of theoretical approaches and in numerous descriptive contributions. Adding to those studies, this research focuses on three elements of migratory experience that have been relatively neglected thus far: a dynamic...
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"American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on competition. Thomas Philippon blames the unchecked efforts of corporate lobbyists. Instead of earning profits by investing and innovating, powerful firms use political pressure to secure their advantages. The result is less efficient markets, leading to higher prices and lower wages"--
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Travel Europe on the cheap with this updated guide, the ideal companion whether you're on a city break, beach vacation, or road trip. The locally based Rough Guides author team introduces the best places to stop and explore, and provides reliable insider tips on topics such as driving on European roads, how to find the best local shops, or where to find safe hostels. You'll find special coverage of European history, art, architecture, and literature,...
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On this episode of Ethical Markets Hazel Henderson and Marcello Palazzi, president of the Progressio Foundation and founder of B-Lab Europe, discuss benefit corporations. Topics include: shareholder value, b corporations, health care, cooperatives, impact investing, and environmental concerns
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"Anna Latham didn't know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son--and enforcer--of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn't know how dangerous it could be, either... Anna and Charles have just been enlisted to attend a summit to present Bran's controversial proposition: that the wolves should finally reveal themselves to humans. But the most feared Alpha in...
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For centuries, cotton has influenced the relationship between America and Africa. It drove the slave trade, and today it epitomizes the uneven playing field created by farming subsidies. This program examines the lopsided nature of the global cotton industry-in which U.S. and European producers enjoy massive government support while independent African farmers struggle to remain competitive. Going deep inside the agricultural, bureaucratic, and diplomatic...
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Linda Crompton and Hazel Henderson review the urgent need to reform curricula at business schools in North America and Europe. Many are still teaching from obsolete textbooks with faulty assumptions that still permit companies, financiers, and governments to "externalize" social and environmental impacts from their balance sheets and pass on the costs to taxpayers, citizens, and the environment.
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NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell and futurist Hazel Henderson explore the advance of automation as more and more sectors of industrial societies are digitized: from manufacturing to retailing, accounting, healthcare, education, legal services, and even finance. They discuss emerging alternatives such as worker-owned companies; cooperative enterprises; and guaranteed basic incomes now enacted in Brazil, Mexico, and proposed in Switzerland, Europe,...
12) The postcard
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"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
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As the movement begun in the 1970s to decentralize and deregulate continues, economies around the world are being reshaped. In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, and John Kenneth Galbraith explore the dynamic tension between free markets and managed economies with Ben Wattenberg, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The demise of European communist and socialist...
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In this video, Hazel Henderson introduces Marcello Palazzi, President of the Progressio Foundation and Founder of B-Lab Europe. They will discuss how corporations developed into becoming more socially responsible and environmentally conscious. Topics include: the Social Venture Group, The Calvert Group, B-lab corporations, The Global Alliance for Banking on Values, the Green Transition Scoreboard, and future of business.
15) Global Junkfood
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In Europe, food manufacturers have signed up to "responsibility pledges," promising no added sugar, preservatives, artificial colours or flavours and not to target children. So why are they using tactics banned in the West in the developing world? There, they have created ultra low cost products with higher levels of salt, sugar and saturated fats. Filmed in Brazil, India, and France, we investigate the new tactics of brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald's,...
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The typical Valentine's Day bouquet is the product of an elaborate South American growing operation, a complicated airborne distribution network, and sophisticated European trading markets akin to stock exchanges. This program describes the entire process in detail, clearly illustrating the global nature of the floral industry. Shot in Ecuador, Colombia, France, and Holland, the video shows how supply and demand, seasonal dynamics, global competition,...
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Money circulates through a multiplicity of financial markets at a dizzying speed and on a global scale. To make sense of the complicated world of high finance, this lively program profiles some of the people who keep the money moving. Nobel Laureate James Tobin, best-selling author John Murphy, fund managers, scholars, and day traders are captured at MIT Sloan, Yale University, Firebird Management, London's foreign exchange market, the Ecole Polytechnique...
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Come along with travel expert, Rick Steves, to Europe's classiest capital, Vienna. We'll tiptoe through the palace of Maria Theresa and be dazzled by the Hapsburg crown jewels. Then we'll picnic on the Danube, nibble strudel in an old world cafe, blush at slinky Art Nouveau, and waltz to the three-four beat of Johann Strauss.
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With Rembrandts and stately architecture from its Golden Age, hidden churches and holocaust memorials from its troubled times, and Van Goghs and titillating street life from its modern age, Amsterdam stimulates all the senses. Explore this complex city with the host, writer and producer of the popular public television series, Rick Steves' Europe. Then, Rick takes us side-tripping from Europe's capital of tolerance into the countryside (and below...
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European and U.S. competitive weakness demonstrates to newcomers like China that the fast pace of globalization could give rise to unintended consequences, including an interconnected financial system that could lead to its self-destruction if unfettered; a sharp rise in savings and capital imbalances on a global scale; and a worsened income and wealth inequality at home. This 2011 Falling Walls lecture video highlights the need for China to reshape...