The Occupy Handbook
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316220213 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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I wanted to love it. This is not really a book, but a collection of essays and observations on the Occupy Wall Street "movement".I really enjoyed and learned from about a third of the essays contained in this eclectic collection. Another third, however, were boring repetition and less than first rate writing f. Learn Something New Queenie Banking, business, one-percent, ninety-nine percent Are the lines that clearly drawn, is it that cut and dried? I don't think so. As an individual, do I have the time (read energy or desire) to research all the moving parts and come to a clear cut personal opinion? I don't think so. Person. "WHAT’S IN YOUR OCCUPY HANDBOOK?" according to WildersideLtd. The book’s title got me thinking about the possibility of which essays would be in my personal Occupy Handbook. First, would be a selection from the Fellowship of Reconciliation‘s 1958 MLK comic book that was translated into Arabic and used as a nonviolent training tool for the
Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators - from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett, Scott Turow, Bethany McLean, Brandon Adams, and Tyler Cowen to prominent labor leaders and young, cutting-edge economists and financial writers whose work is not yet widely known - capture the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon in all its ragged glory, giving readers an on-the-scene feel for the movement as it unf
Here we see what economics does best, which is to pursue a parsimonious and plausible set of hypotheses unblinkingly to their logical conclusion. Banerjee, MIT, and co-author, with Esther Duflo, of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty"A succinct body of essays by knowledgeable, sympathetic observers on the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street protestors.An educational, highly useful primer on what's broken and how to fix it."Kirkus Reviews"An excellent one-stop shop for analysis of the financial crisis and everything about it."Felix Salmon, Reuters. El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO and au
She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. . She is the author of A Genius for Living: The Life of Frieda Lawrence, a New York Times Notable Book, has served as a researcher for and as a contributor to numerous books, and has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Janet Byrne is an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, and leading pol