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"With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life. Today, people worry that they're going to run out of money in their older age. That won't happen if you use a few tricks for squeezing higher payments from your assets--from your Social Security account (find the hidden values there), pension (monthly income or lump sum?), home equity (sell and invest the proceeds or...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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English
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back...
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Island Press
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English
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"Daniel Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of Missing Middle housing types-such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts- to meet today's diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing, explains why more developers should be building them, and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable them to be...
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From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2017.
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English
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"A noted Dutch journalist and economist proposes an outline for a new worldwide Utopia, with central tenets including a shortened work week, a guaranteed basic income for all, wealth redistribution, and open borders everywhere"--
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Unlike most retirement planning and lifestyle books that focus on investing – or at the other end of the spectrum, on how to get the senior discount on a Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny’s – this new book from Jeff Yeager, America’s favorite cheapskate, makes the compelling case that you can have a joyous, worry-free retirement by merely spending smart and focusing on what you truly want and expect out of retirement. ...
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Adams Media
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"Most people don't realize they haven't saved enough for their retirement until their sixties and by then, it's often too late to save enough for a comfortable retirement. The 5 Years Before You Retire has helped thousands of people prepare for retirement-even if they waited until the last minute. In this new and updated edition, you'll find out everything you need to do in the next five years to maximize your current savings and create a realistic...
12) The income tax: a study of the history, theory, and practice of income taxation at home and abroad
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
1911.
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English
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Chelsea Green Publishing
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2020.
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English
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"With a new epilogue about Bill Gates's global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires' war on life Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world's seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet-and all its people-to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the Billionaires Club of Gates,...
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"Imagine the United States scrapped all its income transfer programs--Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare--and gave every American age 21 and older $10,000 a year for life. This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label, first laid out a decade ago by Charles Murray. The updated edition reflects economic developments since then, demonstrates that the Plan is financially feasible, and argues...
19) A feasible basic income scheme for Germany: effects on labor supply, poverty, and income inequality
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Springer
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2016.
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English
20) Basic income tax
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CALI eLangdell Press
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[2013]-
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English
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"This book is the 4th edition of a basic income tax text. It is intended to be a readable text, suitable for a three-hour course for a class comprised of law students with widely different backgrounds. The text integrates several of the CALI drills that Professor James Edward Maule (Villanova University) prepared."--Open Textbook Library.