Seeds of Wealth

Author: Henry Hobhouse
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447231333
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Henry Hobhouse was the first to recognise plants as a causal factor in history in his Seeds of Wealth. In this new book, he examines four plants: rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape, each of which enormously increased the wealth of those who dealt in them, created great new industries and changed the course of history. Ancient Rome's monopoly on wine production had huge economic and hygienic importance. Without rubber, there would have been no development of cars, buses and trucks, bicycles, waterproof clothing or even tennis balls and condoms. Tobacco has largely been condemned for its effects on health and its true role in history ignored. Tobacco has often been used in place of currency and its growth in Virginia supported a colony that produced much of the talent that made Independence possible. Timber shortages led the British Royal Navy to become dependent on American timber. The dearth of timber drove English coal mines deep, which led to the steam pumps, steam engines, and ultimately the Industrial Revolution. These are fascinating stories the effect of minutiae on the great waves of history. 'You cannot help but admire and enjoy the company of a man who takes such a novel and global view of history' Spectator

Seeds of Wealth

Author: Henry Hobhouse
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593760892
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
Seeds of Wealth is a collection of elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape. These cash crops have had, for the past three centuries, a profound effect on our world. In this intriguing account, Hobhouse illustrates how timber deficiency sparked an industrial revolution, tobacco lead to a wealthy and young nation, the rubber tree created nations, and wine provided the head, heart, and pocketbook with wealth. This book offers proof of how the seemingly irrelevant can have widespread unintended consequences. In presenting global history from his own perspective, Henry Hobhouse offers an overview of how nature has unwittingly contributed to the creation of human wealth and economic growth.

Seeds of Wealth

Author: Justin Ford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891434242
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Seeds of Destruction

Author: Glenn Hubbard
Publisher: FT Press
ISBN: 0132371316
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
If you think the current administration is mismanaging the economy straight towards disaster, you're not alone: so do two top economists from both sides of the political aisle. In Seeds of Destruction, former Bush chief White House economist R. Glenn Hubbard and well-known CNBC commentator Peter Navarro explain why current economic policy is a catastrophic failure. Then, they offer a comprehensive, bipartisan blueprint for reversing the decline of America's currency, manufacturing base, and standard of living - setting the stage for the epic policy debates that will precede the 2010 elections. Hubbard and Navarro begin with a "checklist" of what it takes to be a prosperous, democratic nation - and show why Obama's policies (some of Bush's also) fail on every level. They explain why the activist Federal Reserve and Obama fiscal stimulus policies are doing far more harm than good... why we must restore the U.S. manufacturing base, whatever China says about it... how to transform tax policy into an engine of growth and innovation... how to apply the "tough love" needed to save Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid... why America must resign the job of world policeman... how market-based solutions can finally deliver real energy independence... how to reform our antique financial regulatory system without imposing heavy-handed rules that cause even more trouble.

Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

Author: Bartow J. Elmore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324002050
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm’s blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. Award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore shows how the Roundup story is just one of the troubling threads of Monsanto’s past, many told here and woven together for the first time. A company employee sitting on potentially explosive information who weighs risking everything to tell his story. A town whose residents are urged to avoid their basements because Monsanto’s radioactive waste laces their homes’ foundations. Factory workers who peel off layers of their skin before accepting cash bonuses to continue dirty jobs. An executive wrestling with the ethics of selling a profitable product he knew was toxic. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, Elmore traces Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products—including PCBs and Agent Orange—to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. Skyrocketing sales of Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready system stunned even those in the seed trade, who marveled at the influx of cash and lavish incentives into their sleepy sector. But as new data emerges about the Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore’s urgent history shows how our food future is still very much tethered to the company’s chemical past.

Seeds of Empire

Author: Andrew J. Torget
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469624257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

The Money Garden

Author: Julie Austin
Publisher: Castle Lake Publishing
ISBN: 9780615328997
Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
According to a study by the Small Business Administration, multiple business owners are more likely to be classified as high income and high wealth. The only real security comes from inventing your own future, and that includes a business portfolio. The Money Garden shows you how to use the talents and skills you already have to create a lifetime of income, no matter where you're starting from. You'll learn: * How to create a lifetime of moneymaking ideas * How to develop your own uniqueness and stand out from your competition * Why you should have seasonal & non-seasonal, low, medium and high-end products and services * Why you should "pyramid up" to avoid going into debt * How to cross market for maximum profit

Seed to Seed

Author: Suzanne Ashworth
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 0988474905
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
A complete seed-saving guide of 160 vegetables, including detailed info on each vegetable.

Seeds of Change

Author: Henry Hobhouse
Publisher: Counterpoint
ISBN: 9781593760496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
An account of the historical influences of six commercial plants, including sugar, tea, cotton, potatoes, quinine, and coca, evaluates their role in the Atlantic slave trade, opening up of China, and establishment of multiple colonial empires. Reprint.

Wealth Quotes

Author: John Soforic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
Favorite quotes from The Wealthy Gardener: Lessons between Father and Son Frugality Wealth Freedom Prosperity Debt Profit Income Daily Focus Faith Mental Powers Intuition Accurate Thinking Choices Decision Impact Happiness Sacrifice Priorities Service Prudence Effort Courage Self-Trust Meditation Leverage and more.. Warren Buffett, Eckhart Tolle, Paulo Coelho, Cervantes, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, Shakespeare, Steve Jobs, Jesus, Aesop, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H. Jackson Brown Jr., Montaigne, Brian Tracy, Benjamin Franklin, Peter Drucker, Theodore Roosevelt, George Clason, Hippocrates, Jesus, Phillips Brooks, Ernest Hemingway, Fontaine, Frank Lane, Alan Watts, Lao Tzu, Albert Schweitzer, Earl Nightingale, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Steven Pressfield, Mark Twain, Alistair Cooke, William Ellery Channing, Steve Young, Henry Rollins, Cicero, Buddha, Richard Bach, Samuel Johnson, Virgil, Charlie Munger, Denis Waitley, Abraham Lincoln, Trammell Crow, William James, Phineas Quimby, Pindar, Herodotus, Sydney J. Harris, Grant Cardone, Robert Greene, Richard Nelson Bolles, Charles Schwab, Larry Bird, Rollo May, Marcus Aurelius, Ernest Holmes, Andrew Carnegie, Dean Ornish, Jeff Bezos, Pearl S. Buck, Will Smith, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Albert E.N. Gray, Euripides, Confucius, George Washington, Tony Robbins, Vincent van Gogh, William Osler, Woody Allen, Og Mandino, Angela Duckworth, Seth Godin, Zig Ziglar, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, Jim Rohn, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Swift, Stephen R. Covey, Robin Sharma, Jerry Seinfeld, Max Picard, Russell Simmons, Steve Jobs, Ray Dalio, Deepak Chopra, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Thomas Edison, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Larry Ellison, Pythagoras, Denzel Washington, Jack Canfield, T. Harv Eker, Abraham Maslow, Henry Ford, Malcolm Forbes, Napoleon Hill, Steve Martin, Dave Ramsey, Howard Schultz, Darren Hardy, John C. Maxwell, Nelson Mandela, Les Brown, Robert Kiyosaki, Suze Orman, and many more.