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Economic abuse is a common feature of mate crime, which is the act of befriending a vulnerable person with the intent of exploiting them. Examples of economic abuse in mate crime include: [8] Stealing the victim's money; Borrowing money or items from the victim with no intention of repayment or return
Dumping, in economics, is a form of predatory pricing, especially in the context of international trade.It occurs when manufacturers export a product to another country at a price below the normal price with an injuring effect.
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) is a book by the economists Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.Fogel and Engerman argued that slavery was an economically rational institution and that the economic exploitation of slaves was not as catastrophic as presumed, because there were financial incentives for slaveholders to maintain a basic level of material support ...
The book was preceded by a paper entitled Microaggression and Moral Cultures published in the journal Comparative Sociology in 2014. [1] Campbell and Manning argue that accusations of microaggression focus on unintentional slights, unlike the civil rights movement, which focused on concrete injustices. They argue that the purpose of calling ...
A victim impact panel, which usually follows the victim impact statement, is a form of community-based or restorative justice in which the crime victims (or relatives and friends of deceased crime victims) meet with the defendant after conviction to tell the convict about how the criminal activity affected them, in the hope of rehabilitation or ...
The book is a non-fiction economics novel that presents a simple, jargon free economic analysis of numerous historical financial crises across the world. Krugman provides an accessible read to a broad range of audiences, including academics and non-academics, as he compares the economic settings, policies and features that contributed to a ...
Basic Economics is a non-fiction book by American economist Thomas Sowell published by Basic Books in 2000. The original subtitle was A Citizen's Guide to the Economy , but from the third edition in 2007 on it was subtitled A Common Sense Guide to the Economy .
James Stuart (1767) authored the first book in English with 'political economy' in its title, explaining it just as: . Economy in general [is] the art of providing for all the wants of a family, so the science of political economy seeks to secure a certain fund of subsistence for all the inhabitants, to obviate every circumstance which may render it precarious; to provide everything necessary ...