Social Capital

Trabajo asalariado y capital es crucial para entender las bases del pensamiento marxista sobre la economía y la sociedad. Proporciona una crítica incisiva del capitalismo y sienta las bases de la obra posterior de Karl Marx, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la historia moderna.

How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with 20 of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time. Through vivid interviews amplified by the author's responses and commentary, these attorneys reveal aspects of their internal experience that they have never talked about until now.

La storia di Mafia Capitale non è solo una storia visibile, territorio della politica e dell’amministrazione, né corrisponde soltanto alle vicende torbide di corruzione e malaffare che lentamente e a fatica emergono: le ragioni della sua forza e della sua pericolosità affondano nel terreno dei quartieri e delle periferie, e risalgono a una storia antichissima. Nel suo nuovo audiolibro, che contiene uno stralcio della sentenza della Cassazione del processo Mafia Capitale, Federica Angeli indaga la lunga storia della corruzione e della mafia a Roma.

In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were “colored.” Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country’s first college-educated African-American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindicated her outrage: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. was decided in 1953.

Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity. The Struggle for America's Promise includes such figures as Booker T. Washington, Samuel Gompers, Edward Bellamy, and Emma Goldman, who were more willing to step beyond the boundaries of the discourse about opportunity and question economic competition itself.

When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone - and especially Donald Trump - is quick to point the finger of blame at the state of international trade. But what about unconstrained capital flows? Unfettered capital has resulted in a string of financial and economic crises that have left our political systems strained and dialogue corroded. The once perceived benefits of openness have been cast to the wayside and the cracks in the global order can no longer be ignored.

Non solo pigrizia ma anche tristezza, sconforto, inquietudine, indifferenza, noia, e soprattutto depressione. Se nasce come peccato capitale nella visione religiosa, l'accidia diventa malattia psichiatrica nella visione laica e moderna.

In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.

Indossando di volta in volta i panni dell'avidità, della cupidigia, dell'usura, della concupiscenza, della taccagneria o della grettezza, la struttura camaleontica dell'avarizia è tale che essa può addirittura assumere le sembianze della virtù. È il vizio più "economico" dei sette ed è un economista ad indagare le ragioni per le quali nel corso del tempo, a partire dalla tarda antichità esso sia andato soggetto ad una pluralità di slittamenti semantici, secondo un'alternanza che non trova riscontro in nessuno degli altri vizi capitali.

L'ira è un flusso potente di energia, che può esplodere per un'ingiustizia subita, un amore ferito, una speranza delusa o un senso di vergogna; è una passione forte che può sconvolgere la vita del singolo o il corso della storia, e che spesso si incrocia con l'odio e con la superbia, accompagnandosi al desiderio di vendetta.

Proprio come l'Idra, il mostro mitologico le cui teste, mozzate da Ercole, avevano il potere di rinascere raddoppiandosi, il capitalismo, un tempo solo occidentale oggi planetario, ricompare sulla scena del mondo riproponendo nuove e più sofisticate forme di schiavitù. Ma se è vero che dai grandi conflitti del '900 il capitalismo è uscito vincitore trionfando su ogni rivoluzione, è altrettanto vero che "l'uguaglianza è una necessità che si ripresenta continuamente, come la fame".

Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken with Jet’s two sisters - one of whom has a role in the latest Super-Movie - to their planet’s film capital, Ollywood. Jet and Otis are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Meawhile, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above....

Umberto Galimberti prende le mosse dai vizi capitali: Accidia, Avarizia, Gola, Invidia, Ira, Lussuria, Superbia. Identificati come "abiti del male" da Aristotele, come "opposizione della volontà dell'uomo alla volontà divina" nel Medioevo, come espressione della tipologia umana nell'Età dei lumi, appaiono infine come manifestazione psicopatologica nel Novecento. "E così, fuoriescono dal mondo morale per fare il loro ingresso in quello patologico. Non più vizi, ma malattie dello spirito." Alla luce di questa sequenza storica, Galimberti "ambienta" i vizi nel panorama contemporaneo.

Dr. Franz Hartmann was a notable Freemason and prolific writer of his day, as well as being a member of several esoteric organizations, such as the Theosophical Society and a non-masonic Templar Order. Here, he examines Karma, along with the spiritual ramifications of capital punishment and how it effects the four-fold manifestation of consciousness.

In a public debate held at the Manhattan Opera House, Clarence Darrow argued that not one of the 19 men under sentence of death at Sing Sing Prison would have been convicted if they could have afforded good attorneys. He was opposed by Judge Alfred J. Talley of General Sessions, who argued for the retention of the death penalty for murder. The debate commenced with an address by Lewis Lawes, who was the warden at Sing Sing.

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"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos viven en ciudades, pero no son ciudades como las que uno imagina cuando piensa en Barcelona o en París. Para saber cómo son -cómo es Latinoamérica- decidí volver a hacer eso que siempre me ha gustado hacer: ir, mirar, escuchar, pensar, contarlo." — Martín Caparrós

This short introduction provides the historical background for Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum as well as some detail about the pope himself. It also provides a paragraph-by-paragraph summary of the document to better understand the teaching. This is ideal for students of the document and those studying Catholic social teaching.

We all know the book: it's been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world economy works, or doesn't work, and it's been a colossal bestseller since it first appeared in 2014, with more than 1.5 million copies sold. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes a powerful case that wealth, and accumulated wealth, tends to stay where it lands: and with the passage of time, just gets bigger…and bigger. But how many of us who bought or borrowed the book - or even, perhaps, reviewed it - have read more than a fraction of its 696 pages?

This audiobook examines a common liberal misconception around the idea of economic inequality.