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Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) [1] is a British writer who promotes pseudoscientific [2] [3] ideas about ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands. [4] Hancock proposes that an advanced civilization with spiritual technology existed during the last Ice Age until it was destroyed following comet impacts around 12,900 years ago, at the onset of the Younger Dryas.
Peter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer, FBA (6 November 1915 – 2 May 2002) was a Hungarian-born British development economist.Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the then widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state led development planning supported by foreign aid.
Christopher Leonard (born c. 1975) is an American investigative journalist.He has written three books, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business, [1] the New York Times best-selling Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, [2] and The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy.
Illustration from an 1886 edition of Little Lord Fauntleroy.The book contrasts the genteel poor main character's more refined mannerisms with the true working poor. Genteel poverty is a state of poverty marked by one's connection or affectation towards a higher ("genteel") social class. [1]
Poverty, by America is a 2023 non-fiction book by Matthew Desmond, a sociology professor. Published by Crown Publishing Group , it was released on March 21, 2023. Overview
Social attitudes to poverty began to change after 1815 and overhauls of the system were considered. The Poor Law system was criticized as distorting the free market and in 1816 a parliamentary select committee looked into altering the system [ 58 ] which resulted in the Sturges-Bourne's Act being passed. 1817 also saw the passing of the Public ...
It was work, family, and faith that created wealth out of poverty: "It is this supply-side moral vision that underlies all the economic arguments of Wealth and Poverty." [ 8 ] In 1994, Gilder asserted that America has no poverty problem, the real problem is the "moral decay" of the "so-called poor," and their real need is "Christian teaching ...
Nonetheless, the Lords passed the Parliament Act 1911 when faced with the threat, obtained from a narrowly-convinced new King George V (Edward VII having died on 6 May 1910, seven days after the Budget was passed), that it would be acceptable to flood the House of Lords with hundreds of new Liberal Party peers to give that party a majority or a ...