Best Selling Books by Peter Heller

Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era; Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney ”long count”; Rocky Graziano on showbiz; and dozens of others—including Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, José Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore—on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Durán and Alexis Argüello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . ! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.

Em um mundo devastado pela doença, Hig conseguiu escapar à gripe que matou todo mundo que ele conhecia. Sua esposa e seus amigos estão mortos, e ele sobrevive no hangar de um pequeno aeroporto abandonado com seu cachorro, Jasper, e um único vizinho, que odeia a humanidade, ou o que restou dela. Mas Hig não perde as esperanças. Enquanto sobrevoa a cidade em um avião dos anos 1950, ele sonha com a vida que poderia ter vivido não fosse pela fatalidade que dizimou todos que amava. Hig é um guerreiro sonhador. E tem uma imensa vontade de gente, apesar da desilusão que se abateu sobre ele. Por isso é capaz de arriscar todo seu futuro quando, um dia, o rádio de seu avião capta uma mensagem...

Frith a six ans quand sa mère Hayley, professeure et traductrice de poésie chinoise, décide de plaquer sa carrière universitaire pour venir s’installer dans une cabane rustique au pied des montagnes du Vermont et s’inventer une vie libre et belle. Ce retour à la terre est rude, mais toutes deux subsistent grâce à la pommeraie qui flanque leur terrain et au sirop d’érable qu’elles produisent. Scolarisée à domicile, l’intrépide Frith s’imagine reine de leur paradis sauvage, ignorant tout des peines et des regrets qui ont poussé Hayley à se réfugier ici. Saison après saison, mère et fille vivent en autarcie, affrontant “le monde et ses déceptions main dans la main”, jusqu’au jour où Rose, une artiste locale, frappe à leur porte et bouleverse leur existence. Près de trente ans plus tard, Frith se remémore les jours heureux d’avant les tragédies et revisite sa relation fusionnelle avec Hayley à travers les sublimes poèmes qu’elle lui a légués. L’auteur de "La Rivière" signe un roman tout en pudeur et délicatesse, nimbé d’une mélancolie tchékhovienne, sur les pertes de l’enfance, les amitiés indéfectibles et la force inébranlable de l’amour entre mère et fille.

Recent developments in the global economy, notably the accelerating trade war between the US and China and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemia, have fuelled the debate which model of economic development, the Western or the East Asian one, is more competitive in a long term perspective. The intention of this paper is a brief investigation, based on historical and empirical research, into the role of entrepreneurship as a major factor of competitiveness and key driver of economic development in both models. International reports based on data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and the World Economic Forum''s Global Competitiveness Index come to diverging conclusions which model might prevail. The paper outlines why the entrepreneurial dynamics in East Asia, particularly in China and Vietnam cannot be adequately captured by standards and rating systems based on the theoretical framework of liberal capitalism, as the historical, cultural and social factors of the East Asian model lie beyond its reach. However, the Western narrative envisages a determined course of history that economic progress will inevitably drag China and Vietnam on a trajectory towards the Western model. There is sound evidence that this will not happen.

The paper assesses the government expenditure effects from changing demographics in the Asian quot;Tigerquot; economies through 2050. With some exceptions, their limited social insurance commitments initially suggest that aging populations may not adversely affect fiscal balances. Yet for all the Tigers, changing illness patterns and medical modernization may combine with demographics to intensify budgetary pressures. The paper notes the implications of the Tigers` reliance on private sector pension and medical insurance systems; the need for an active public role; and the complications for fiscal analysis when private sector instruments are used, in a mandatory way, as public policy instruments.

This paper argues that there are significant risks, limitations, and complications associated with reliance upon mandatory DC, fully funded schemes as the dominant public pension pillar. Policies to limit risks may result in the government being reinjected into playing an important financial role in the provision of social insurance. For many countries, the principal source of old age support should thus derive from a well-formulated, public DB pillar, with a significant amount of prefunding. A DC/FF pillar can play a useful supplemental role in a multi-pillar system for the accumulation of pension savings.