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The Introducing... series, like the For Beginners series, has its origins in two Spanish-language books, Cuba para principiantes (1960) and Marx para principiantes (1972) by the Mexican political cartoonist and writer Rius, pocket books which put their content over in a humorous comic book way but with a serious underlying purpose.
Organizations that administer time banks, barter networks, or currencies may register for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) as non-profit organizations working to benefit the community. [33] The IRS has recognized some time banks as tax exempt; it is harder to obtain exemptions for a barter network or local currency, as they are harder ...
The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books: 1994 B-76 Stop, Train, Stop! A Thomas the Tank Engine Story: 1995 The Big Red Book of Beginner Books: 1995 B-77 New Tricks I Can Do! 1996 B-78 Anthony the Perfect Monster: 1996 The Big Book of Berenstain Bears Beginner Books: 1996 B-79 4 Pups and a Worm: 1996 B-80 Honey Bunny Funnybunny: 1997 B-81 Come Down ...
The Barter Network is a commercial trading network of companies in the United States founded in 2006 by Bergenske Enterprises, Inc. of which G. Jason Bergenske, President and CEO owns 100% of the corporation's shares. The Barter Network has grown to over 700 companies.
The American economist Thorstein Veblen wrote a seminal tract on the development of the term as discussed in this article [tone]: The Engineers and the Price System. [3] [4] Its chapter VI, A Memorandum on a Practicable Soviet of Technicians discusses the possibility of socialist revolution in the United States comparable to that then occurring in Russia (the Soviets had not yet at that time ...
Marshall Sahlins, an American cultural anthropologist, identified three main types of reciprocity (generalized, balanced and negative) in the book Stone Age Economics (1972). [2] Reciprocity was also the general principle used by Claude Lévi-Strauss to explain the Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), in one of the most influential works on ...
Countertrade also occurs when countries lack sufficient hard currency, or when other types of market trade are impossible.. In 2000, India and Iraq agreed on an "oil for wheat and rice" barter deal, subject to United Nations approval under Article 50 of the UN Persian Gulf War sanctions, that would facilitate 300,000 barrels of oil delivered daily to India at a price of $6.85 a barrel while ...
Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland, owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 350,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one of the largest second-hand bookshops in Europe. [ 1 ]