Author: Lee McGeorgePublisher:
ISBN: 9780954695309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Gingerbread Economy
Author: Lee McGeorgePublisher:
ISBN: 9780954695309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In This Economy?
Author: Kyla ScanlonPublisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0593727886
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon.”—Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money An illustrated guide to the mad math and terrible terminology of economics, from one of the internet’s favorite financial educators Is our national debt really a threat? What is a “mild” recession, exactly? If you’re worried about your bank account balance, job security, or mortgage rate, what data should you be keeping tabs on? For anyone trying to make sense of disorienting headlines, there’s no better interpreter than Kyla Scanlon. Through her trademark blend of witty illustrations, creative analogies, and insights from behavioral economics, literature, and philosophy, Scanlon breaks down everything you need to know about how money and markets really work. This indispensable handbook reveals the hidden forces driving key economic outcomes, the most common myths to steer clear of, and the dusty, outdated assumptions that constrain our political imagination, offering a bold new path to building a prosperous society that works for everyone.
Kitchen Economics
Author: Thomas StrychaczPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 081732058X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought Readers of late nineteenth-century female American authors are familiar with plots, characters, and households that make a virtue of economizing. Scholars often interpret these scenarios in terms of a mythos of parsimony, frequently accompanied by a sort of elegiac republicanism whereby self-sufficiency and autonomy are put to the service of the greater good—a counterworld to the actual economic conditions of the period. In Kitchen Economics: Women’s Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy, Thomas Strychacz takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent “the economic” by situating them within traditions of classical political economic thought. Offering case studies of key works by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, this study focuses on three complex cultural fables—the island commonwealth, stadialism (or stage theory), and feeding the body politic—which found formal expression in political economic thought, made their way into endless public debates about the economic turmoil of the late nineteenth century, and informed female authors. These works represent counterparts, not counterworlds, to modernity; and their characteristic stance is captured in the complex trope of feminaeconomica. This approach ultimately leads us to reconsider what we mean by the term “economic,” for the emphasis of contemporary neoclassical economics on economic agents given over to infinite wants and complete self-interest has caused the “sufficiency” and “common good” models of female regionalist authors to be misinterpreted and misvalued. These fictions are nowhere more pertinent to modernity than in their alliance with today’s important alternative economic discourses.
Gingerbread
Author: Helen OyeyemiPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525539085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review "[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Peaces returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhástrana, the far-away (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. The world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval —a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, it is a true feast for the reader.
Commercial Ginger Cultivation and its Socio-Economic Contribution - Empirical Evidences from Lohit and Lower Dibang Valley Districts of Arunachal Pradesh
Author: Dr. Philip ModiPublisher: Archers & Elevators Publishing House
ISBN: 9383241411
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Gingerbread Man
Author: Marsha L. HeynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Curriculum unit that uses an integrated-thematic approach to economic instruction for primary students (late first grade/early second grade). Uses The gingerbread man folktale as a theme. Includes cooperative learning (decision making, being a good sport, respect, sharing); mathematics (money, fractions, measurement symbols, bar graphs); science (parts of a plant, inventions, recycling); reading (inference, prediction, rhyming words, sequencing reference materials, parts of a book, fiction, following directions); economics (opportunity cost, resources, demand, wants, specialization, barter, goods/services); written language (letter writing, spelling, editing, describing, story development). Contains activities for 15 days of instruction, requiring 3-4 hours of classroom time each day.
The New Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382805340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Economy for the single and married; or, the young Wife and Bachelor's Guide to income and expenditure, etc. By one who “makes ends meet.”
Author: The New Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy and Practical Housekeeper
Author: Elizabeth Fries ElletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Practical Housekeeper and Cyclopedia of Domestic Economy
Author: Florence K. StantonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description