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UNINA9910452850503321 |
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Davidson James Dale |
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Brazil is the new America [[electronic resource] ] : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / / James Dale Davidson |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
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1-282-13445-0 |
9786613807038 |
1-118-22175-3 |
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[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Economic development - Brazil |
Economic development - United States |
Economic forecasting - Brazil |
Economic forecasting - United States |
Electronic books. |
Brazil Economic conditions 21st century |
United States Economic conditions 21st century |
Brazil Social conditions 21st century |
United States Social conditions 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Brazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The World in 2050; A Preview of the Future; A Decrease in Productive Capacity; Squandering Prosperity; Chapter 2: The Original America Is the New Brazil; The Country of the Future; The Origins of America; The Mythic Brazil; A Difficult Dream to Realize; Can America's Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil?; Chapter 3: How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World; The Impact of Topography; Yesterday's Limitations as Today's Strengths |
Three Radical ChangesPredatory Government; Growth Imperatives Lead to Fiat Money and Runaway Debt; Energy Surges Alter Spatial Configurations of Economies; Chapter 4: Prosperity and Energy Density: |
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The Hidden Role of BTUs in the Rise and Fall of Economies; Denser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity; Coal and Adam Smith; Going Forward or Backward?; The Phases of Extracting Energy; Phase One: An Abundance of Wood; Phase Two: An Abundance of Coal; Phase Three: The Original Petroleum Industry; The Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I; Peak Oil and Declining Money |
Declining Energy and Systemic CollapseThe Real Symptoms of Peak Oil; The Competition for Prosperity; Expensive Oil Remains; A 665,000 Percent Increase in the Price of a BTU?; The SS Great Britain Sails Again; ""Yes! We Have No Bananas""; Chapter 5: Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age; The Dynamics of Weather; Not Wrong, but Early; Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment; The Next Little Ice Age; ""The Dog That Did Not Bark""; Putting Two and Two Together; A New Maunder Minimum; Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution |
Chapter 6: Deficit Attention Disorder: How the Perverse Logic of Debtism Promotes the Illusion of Democratic Consensus but Devastates the EconomyHow Debtism Changed the World; Debtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You; The U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush; Worse than the Great Depression; The Collapse of the Boom; Chapter 7: ""Rome"" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy; Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency; The Destruction of the Middle Class; Pre-Industrial Growth Rates; Are You Ready for Taxes to Double? |
Welcome to the Second Decline and Fall of ""Rome""The New Berlin Wall; Americans as the New Illegal Emigrants; Chapter 8: The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle: How Brazil's Legacy of Hyperinflation Prepared It to Prosper in a Post-Dollar World; You Are in Steerage on a Sinking Ship; Stopping Runaway Spending; Important Lessons from Hyperinflation; Minimal Bank Capital Ratios: A Crisis Waiting to Happen; U.S. Reserve Requirements: A System Failure; The Political Roots of the Economic Crisis; How Brazilians Became the New Scots; Crash-Proofing the System Brazilian Style |
America's 104 Trillion Problem |
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Look to Brazil for safe, stable investments As the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In Brazil is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World, James D. Davidson shows that the current financial situation in Brazil is a haven for those looking to make money in a world in turmoil. With a population just 62 percent the size of that of the US, Brazil h |
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UNISA996393595603316 |
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Autore |
Atkyns Robert, Sir, <1621-1710.> |
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The Lord Russel's innocency further defended, by way of reply to an ansvver, entituled, The magistracy and government of England vindicated [[electronic resource] /] / by Sir Robert Atkyns . |
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London, : Printed for Timothy Goodwin ..., 1689 |
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Great Britain Politics and government 1642-1649 Sources |
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Copy filmed at reel 2469 bound and filmed following Wing A4139B, A4141 and preceding Wing A4136. |
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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UNINA9910959793103321 |
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Autore |
Lata Leenco |
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The Horn of Africa as common homeland : the state and self-determination in the era of heightened globalization / / Leenco Lata |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004 |
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9786610280759 |
9781280280757 |
1280280751 |
9780889209350 |
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9781417563203 |
1417563206 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Self-determination - Africa, Northeast |
Globalization - Political aspects - Africa, Northeast |
Africa, Northeast Politics and government 1974- |
Africa, Northeast History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-213) and index. |
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Table of Contents; List of Figures and Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Self-Determination in History; Part II: Resonance of Conflicts in the Horn of Africa; References; Index |
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Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata demonstrates that conflicts within and between states tend to connect seamlessly in the region. When these conflicts are seen in the context of pressures on the state in an era of heightened globalization, it becomes obvious that the Horn needs to adopt multidimensional self-determination. In Structuring the Horn of Afr |
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