In Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Inequality, I show how the freedoms of the English-speaking peoples led to prosperity through the ability of stock exchange founders to design and run their markets as they saw fit, without input or oversight from regulators. Did this result in rigging? Yes, it did. But their rigging created the paradigm that enabled London and New York to lead their countries and, ultimately, the world, toward the first glimmers of self-sufficiency and wealth for all. That paradigm, which I call the "do-it-yourself monopoly," first appeared tentatively around 1690 in London as forerunners of the London Stock Exchange, and then moved around 1790 to New York as forerunners of the New York Stock Exchange, but this time explicitly, as evidenced by such documents as the Buttonwood Agreement. As the D.I.Y. monopoly reached full flower with the robber barons in nineteenth century America, it underwrote a succession of the world's wealthiest men and the world's biggest businesses, as the United States became the world's greatest economic power. Today, the evident economic malaise of the wealthy western countries is traceable to their having abandoned the principles of freedom that made them wealthy, in particular with regard to how they design and run their capital markets. The collapse of the U.S. IPO market's ability to fund new technology companies and industries is examined in detail and seen as the clear consequence of this abandonment. And the rest of the west is following the U.S.'s lead. If markets had been run on the principles of modern regulators when they were forming, markets would not have formed in the first place. And since the exchanges were the essential triggers of the Industrial Revolution, blocking the exchanges would have prevented the Industrial Revolution from emerging, which would have meant that this extraordinary historical event that began lifting the world's people out of seemingly permanent and universal poverty, would not have happened, either. As demonstrated by my reexamination of some authoritative but overlooked historical works, the principles that pertained when the NYSE and LSE were forming are the key to understanding such mysteries as what triggered the Industrial Revolution in the first place, why it was originally only a British phenomenon, and why it eventually left Britain and settled in America. This chain of logic also shows that modern regulation would have prevented the emergence of the British Empire and the United States as dominant economic powers.
About Nature's GodAmerica was founded on freedom, supposedly. So how come government intrudes into every aspect of our lives now? How come tyranny is back? Socialism, the modern term for tyranny, was not yet in use in 1776. But the Founders would have had no difficulty recognizing that the socialist redistribution at the core of American policy today is incompatible with the unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness that they thought they put in our Declaration of Independence and protected in perpetuity with our Constitution. What happened?Nature's God describes how Western governments all became functionally socialist, and how the United States, ironically the most deliberately free country ever, is leading the march to this new tyranny. The origins of redistributive socialism are discovered to be ancient and rooted in the primitive instincts of war. But their modern manifestation began with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Civil War, which created the paradigm of socialist intervention that threatens us today. Surprisingly, it was “the great emancipator” that set us on this trajectory, one that is now less about freedom and more about global conquest, as the War on Terror becomes the chief danger to our economic and physical security. Domestically, redistribution is creating economic decline and unemployment. Abroad, it is creating enemies that want to blow us up. “Redistributionism” has become the functional equivalent of a state religion in spite of the First Amendment, and is now the central moral value underlying an interconnected lattice of government solutions to all problems, foreign and domestic. Occupy Wall Street's concerns over inequality and the 99% are consistent with the concerns of the SEC and the level playing field the Commission's National Market System was supposed to create. Instead, it produced high frequency trading and dysfunctions like the Flash Crash of May 6, 2010, the Facebook IPO and the Knightmare of August 1, 2012. These are the latest flashpoints on the path of decline that redistribution is taking us down. And they are signs that, for all the freedom we Americans still espouse, our legacy is in danger of bearing more resemblance to the horrific socialist tyrannies of the twentieth century, namely Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Soviet Communism.If we are able to avoid this fate, it may be because modern network science will help us rediscover what our Founders were talking about. Network effect theory can show us where we went wrong when, for example, we deliberately destroyed under antitrust the most fundamental and valuable elements of our infrastructure, such as the stock exchanges that create new companies, jobs and wealth. The new science of networks can give meaning again to the freedom our Founders had in mind, and may point the way back to an America living under “The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.” In Nature's God, the reader will discover that there is a practical way back to freedom. It is a way that is very different from what all the politicians talk about. But it is a way that will actually work.
Have you ever been in a spot where you’re wondering to yourself, “Why has God put me here? It doesn’t seem to make any sense”? Being in that situation makes us uncomfortable. Uneasy. Unwilling, sometimes. But God likes us to stretch our wings and push us to fly – because He knows we can, even if we’re not so sure. In Remember the Nails, Steve Schofield asks us to try doing just that – remembering that Jesus endured the ultimate discomfort, all for us. Can you give Him 40 days? This devotional will truly make you stop and think about being too comfortable. You will raise questions to yourself like “What fear do I need to overcome? What self-made obstacles can I push aside? What excuses can I forget?”
A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline interactions. NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they're a new technology for creating digital assets and providing irrefutable proof of ownership. NFTs open up markets that have never before existed, and are already revolutionizing commerce and brand-building at everything from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kominers and Kaczynski have created a framework that explains what NFTs are, why they’re valuable, and how businesses can leverage them to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around their products and brands. Through original research and industry experience, Kominers and Kaczynski describe the possibilities of this new digital frontier with clarity and rigor. The Everything Token is the essential primer on this innovation that has the potential to transform all aspects of business.
The Five Great Laws- The Law of Being- The Law of Unity- The Law of Division- The Law of Balance- The Law of ImbalanceThese are the 5 Laws upon which all is built. By knowing, integrating, and rising above each of these in turn, one comes to master the world.Such is the lesson of the Master, who teaches in simple yet powerful terms how to rise above imbalance: how we find harmony, and use this harmony to create; how we rise above mere creation to creation with great purpose; and finally, how we can achieve the state of being to express the very goal of creation.
Electrical overstress (EOS) and Electrostatic discharge (ESD) pose one of the most dominant threats to integrated circuits (ICs). These reliability concerns are becoming more serious with the downward scaling of device feature sizes. Modeling of Electrical Overstress in Integrated Circuits presents a comprehensive analysis of EOS/ESD-related failures in I/O protection devices in integrated circuits. The design of I/O protection circuits has been done in a hit-or-miss way due to the lack of systematic analysis tools and concrete design guidelines. In general, the development of on-chip protection structures is a lengthy expensive iterative process that involves tester design, fabrication, testing and redesign. When the technology is changed, the same process has to be repeated almost entirely. This can be attributed to the lack of efficient CAD tools capable of simulating the device behavior up to the onset of failure which is a 3-D electrothermal problem. For these reasons, it is important to develop and use an adequate measure of the EOS robustness of integrated circuits in order to address the on-chip EOS protection issue. Fundamental understanding of the physical phenomena leading to device failures under ESD/EOS events is needed for the development of device models and CAD tools that can efficiently describe the device behavior up to the onset of thermal failure. Modeling of Electrical Overstress in Integrated Circuits is for VLSI designers and reliability engineers, particularly those who are working on the development of EOS/ESD analysis tools. CAD engineers working on development of circuit level and device level electrothermal simulators will also benefit from the material covered. This book will also be of interest to researchers and first and second year graduate students working in semiconductor devices and IC reliability fields.
Discover how cutting-edge treatments are helping people of all ages reverse common health issues and live longer, healthier, pain-free lives—and how you can start your new life today. Pain, disease, and complications of aging are universal problems, but “right-away” wellness is far more accessible than most people realize. Restore is a preventative approach to wellness based on a simple principle: therapies that make you feel better in the short term lead to consistent, long-term improvement. You don’t need a cryo chamber to reap the benefits of cryotherapy. This book will teach you how to get the most from these techniques, whether or not you have access to specialized treatments. With clear, supporting science, Restore Hyper Wellness cofounders Jim Donnelly and Steve Welch share the real-life success stories behind paradigm-changing technologies—and how to use the power of those technologies in your everyday life for an immediate, palpable boost. This much-needed guide will change the way you think about your health, arming you with insider knowledge such as: The science and history of cryotherapy, red light therapy, nutrient-infused IV drips, and infrared saunas How restorative practices are used to relieve and even reverse major health issues, including chronic pain, arthritis, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and anxiety Simple adjustments to everyday factors—like sleep, movement, oxygen, light, and connection—that can lead to tangible changes in energy, mood, and overall health How to leverage proven treatments for a lasting healthspan and lifespan No matter who you are, where you live, or how old you are, Restore highlights practices and modalities that can help you treat and prevent health struggles, level up your wellness, and live longer, so you can do more of what you love.
Marketing Research, 5e equips students with the knowledge and skills required to successfully undertake marketing research. Combining a solid theoretical foundation with a practical, step-by-step approach, the marketing research process is explored through a learning model that is constantly reinforced throughout the text. Using local and international examples, data sets and case studies to explain traditional marketing research methods, Marketing Research also examines new theories and techniques. To reflect emerging industry practices, each stage of research reporting is detailed, as well as a range of presentation methodologies. For analysing data, the text covers both SPSS and Excel outputs. This text is indispensable for students studying marketing research in any business or marketing course. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools cengage.com.au/mindtap
In this surreal & dramatic novel set at the dawn of World War I, a German merchant ship wrecks, and its crew of five drift their separate ways. This extraordinary novel, moodily operatic in tone and by turns hallucinatory and brilliantly detailed, follows the trajectories of four sailors and the owner of a German merchant ship, Yellow Sailor, which sets sail from Bremen in 1914. After the ship wrecks in shallow water, the men drift their separate ways, with each man’s journey across a desolate wartime European landscape becoming an exploration of the failure of love, sex, religion, and friendship . . . Julius Bernai, owner of the ship and frankly homosexual, checks into an institute for nervous disorders and falls in love with the doctor’s fiancée. Nicholas Bremml drifts: from the beds of numerous prostitutes to an oil tanker called Erwartung— Expectation—to Prague’s Jewish market, where he sells magic spells. Brothers Karl and Alois are equally rudderless, and Jacek, the electrician, goes to work in the mines, where his love advice to a fourteen-year-old Polish boy precipitates a macabre murder . . . Praise for The Yellow Sailor “The Yellow Sailor has the calamity of Voltaire, the disillusionment and venality of Brecht, Kasinski’s random horror, and Grosz’s population of leering businessmen and hard-bitten prostitutes. . . . It’s bold and unforgettable.” —David Finkle, Trenton Times
This work provides a wide perspective of the oceans by examining their places in the earth sciences, drawing together all the key strands of ocean study and presenting a holistic view of ocean processes, ancient and modern.
In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested concept. More space is given to ideas of 'threat' and 'competition' in conceptualizing ethnicity, as well as to recent issues in migration, especially increased migration to the US from Central and South America. Fenton situates ethnic identities and interest in the changing modern world, and seeks to explain the contemporary conditions of delineation along ethnic and racial lines. Without assuming the centrality of ethnic difference, this book asks: Does it matter? When does it matter? Is it as important as many have assumed? The second edition of Fenton's highly regarded Ethnicity will continue to be an invaluable text for students of sociology, politics and international relations coming to the subject for the first time. Its innovative and challenging approach will also appeal to more advanced scholars of race and ethnicity.
* Includes stories of such greats as Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Allen Steck, and Warren Harding * Captures the raucous, outrageous, innovative spirit of climbing in Yosemie during this period * Portrays the advances in equipment and style that revolutionized big-wall climbing In the 1960's, California's Yosemite Valley was the center of the rock-climbing universe. Young nonconformists -- many of them the finest rock climbers in the world -- channeled their energy toward the largely untouched walls and cracks. Soon climbers from around the globe were coming to Camp 4 -- gathering spot for the creators of the Golden Age of Yosemite climbing -- to see what all the fuss was about. Climber and author Steve Roper spent most of 10 years living in the Yosemite Valley with its intriguing inhabitants. Camp 4 is his take on the era's top climbers and the influences behind their achievements. The text is full of stories both hilarious and revealing about the likes of bolt-disdaining Royal Robbins; fun-loving, big-wall expert Warren Harding; free-climber Frank Sacherer; multi-talented Chuck Pratt; master craftsman Yvon Chouinard; and ill-fated Mark Powell. Roper also tips his hat to the elder statesmen of the 1930s and 1940s who pioneered early, important climbs in the valley. Camp 4 looks at the most significant climbs, and the most riveting controversies of a legendary era. With more than 50 fascinating historical photographs, most never before published, Camp 4 is the definitive history of Yosemite climbing during this period.
Think wind, solar, and batteries can replace the hydrocarbon fuels that power our modern industrialized society? Green Breakdown shows why the Net Zero agenda—a forced transition to renewable energy—is costly, dangerous, and destined for failure. Using science, economics, and in-depth analysis, Steve Goreham exposes the weaknesses in the planned green energy transition and predicts a coming renewable energy failure. Green Breakdown is a complete discussion of all facets of the proposed green energy transition, including hydrocarbon and renewable energy, biofuels, power plants, home appliances, electric vehicles, ships, airlines, heavy industry, carbon capture and storage, and the hydrogen economy. Goreham uses color charts and graphs, and references to numerous studies to support his arguments. At the same time, his large collection of cartoons, colorful images, and quotes grabs the reader's interest. Green Breakdown is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the truth about energy production, energy use, and policies related to climate change.
Very few if any have devoted more years to practicing and teaching others to practice the precepts of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount than Leo Tolstoy. He stands apart in the history of interpretation and has had enormous influence on others and other countries. Yet, Gandhi or others often get the glory. Tolstoy is remembered as a great writer, but his religious and philosophical works are by and large unknown or disparaged, even in scholarly Tolstoyan circles. His contribution is substantially under-appreciated and misunderstood. In Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics, Steve Hickey captures the particulars and dynamics of Tolstoy's interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount from a deliberately sympathetic vantage point. Underlying this project is shared belief with Tolstoy that the Sermon on the Mount is liveable and to be lived. While from the vantage point of traditional orthodoxy Tolstoy got much wrong, there remains a lack of appreciation for what he got right--radical obedience to the teachings of Jesus. A new vocabulary is proposed to more precisely capture Tolstoyan lived theology, namely the political and social expressions of Tolstoyan Christianity, with the hope that these theories and practices will gain a wider consideration, understanding, and following.
This systematic introduction to Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms demonstrates how his approach transforms the project of modernity in accord with the limitations of the modern conception of rationality. At the same time, this book functions as an introduction to Cassirer's thought.
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