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How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodied cognitive science, psychology, and cultural studies, the book provides a new way of understanding how music affects listeners. The argument develops from our latest conceptions of what it is to be human, investigating experiences of listening to popular music in everyday life. Through listening, individuals have the potential to redefine themselves, gain resilience, connect with other people, and make a difference in society. Applying a groundbreaking theoretical framework to postmillennial rap and metal, the book uncovers why vast...
With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU, multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a past Empire complicating ethnically-defined notions of "Britishness," the Kingdom seems far from United. As a cultural force that is often discussed as giving voice to the voiceless and empowering marginalized communities, hip-hop has become a space in which to explore and debate these issues-defining global community while celebrating locality. In Brithop, author Justin A. Williams finds new hope in an often-neglected figure: the British rapper. Through themes of nationalism, history, subculture, politics, humor and identity, Brithop explores multip...
In Full Reserve Banking versus the Real Bills Doctrine, Philipp Bagus defends Austrian monetary theory and full reserve banking against the real bills doctrine. Responding to economist Juan Ramón Rallo’s critique of Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit in Una crítica a la teoría monetaria de Mises, Bagus demonstrates that Mises’s supposed errors are not errors at all. He mercilessly dismantles Rallo’s proposed alternative theory of money point by point. Bagus shows that only by abandoning the aberrations of real bills doctrine, fractional reserve banking, and Feketian liquidity theory and adopting Austrian monetary theory will the economic discipline be able to advance in reaching a true understanding of monetary phenomena.
Politicians have long used business cycles to justify greater state intervention in the economy, growing the size of the state at the expense of civilization. One of the most potent weapons in debunking this narrative has been the unique understanding of Austrians that it is previous government intervention, the manipulation of money and credit, that is the cause for the so-called "boom and bust." The Austrian theory of the business cycle, originated by Ludwig von Mises, celebrated by the profession with F.A. Hayek's Nobel Prize, and brilliantly applied in Murray Rothbard's economic history, is one of the great achievements of this tradition. Yet a simple, short book focused singularly on th...
This little book was written to accomplish something big: economic literacy. It is intentionally kept very short to be inviting rather than intimidating. You will gain life-changing understanding of how the economy works in practically no time. Per Bylund will make you excited about what economics has to offer. Economic literacy is mind-opening. Sound economic reasoning is an enormously powerful tool for understanding both the economy and society. Economic literacy uncovers what is going on under the surface and why things work out as they do. There is no magic to it. In fact, economic literacy is necessary to properly understand the world. A simplified Austrian school version of Henry Hazlitt’s great Economics in One Lesson!