Difference Between Economic Growth And Economic Development
New DEED head Mark Phillips sees education as top economic development tool | Brad Allen
Courtesy of Gov. Dayton’s office Gov. Dayton appointed Mark Phillips as the Commissioner of the Department of Employment and Economic Development. “Investing in education might be one of the best economic development tools we have,” Minnesota’s new commissioner at the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) told the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Friday in St. Paul. “I’m very …
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Ridiculous Capitalist Propaganda Film! America’s Distribution of Wealth DVD (1955) $4.99 This is an incredible vintage film that features a Harding College economics professor arguing that capitalism doesn’t produce a class divided society – in fact, wealth is equitably distributed! This firmly anti-Communist video uses charts, animation, and powerful rhetoric to hammer down its points in favor of capitalism. There are many antiquated statements that simply could not be made today; fo… |
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. $20.19 The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and th… |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Unabridged Audio Program) $49.95 In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom… |
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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World $8.25 Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution–and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it–occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn’t industrialization make the whole world rich–and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles … |