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Cover: Salvador, Brazil: Johnny Miller/Unequal Scenes, https://tinyco.re/5332457. Unit 1: Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, China, 2005: photo(s): © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toront., https://tinyco.re/7331900. Lina Khan - Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (2021-2025): UPI/Alamy, https://tinyco.re/4882901. Unit 2: This protest in Niagara Falls, Canada was organized to protest cuts to education being proposed by the government of the province: Unsplash, https://tinyco.re/7119871. Michał Kalecki: Album/Alamy Stock Photo, https://tinyco.re/1556437. Announcing the March 2020 response to COVID-19. From right to left: Mette Frederiksen (prime minister), Nikolai Wammen (finance minister), Jacob Holbraad (CEO, Confederation of Danish Employers), Lizette Risgaard (president of the Danish Trade Union Confederation): Ritzau / Alamy Stock Photo, https://tinyco.re/1009922. Unit 3: Under construction, West Brunswick, Melbourne: John Carlin. Unit 4: The response of a London eatery to rapidly rising prices, 2023: Phin Godfrey. Professor Bill Phillips: Flickr/LSE Library, https://tinyco.re/8223900. Professor A.W.H (Bill) Phillips with Phillips Machine c1958-67: Flickr/LSE Library, https://tinyco.re/3774110. Bill Phillips with a crocodile: Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld.: 1866-1939), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://tinyco.re/6600321. Isabella Weber: Isabella Weber. Unit 5: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – a pioneer in inflation-targeting monetary policy: Mark Coote/Bloomberg via Getty Images, https://tinyco.re/4681111. John Maynard Keynes: IMF, https://goo.gl/gxSFGE. Unit 6: An advertisement for SoFi, a fintech personal finance startup, above a busy intersection in New York promotes their mortgage offerings, seen on Sunday, August 27, 2017: Sipa US/Alamy Stock Photo, https://tinyco.re/4977112. Houses being built ‘brick by brick’ in Ghana and Indonesia: Ludhita Dwi A - Shutterstock, https://tinyco.re/3880091. Metal worker on the construction site of a residential building attaches the reinforcing steel: Fotografixx - iStock, https://tinyco.re/4001212. 20 Euro: Angela Morant/European Central Bank - Flickr, https://tinyco.re/4902111. Five pound note: PhotoEdit / Alamy Stock Photo, https://tinyco.re/3881212. One-Dollar-Bill, fron, US-Dollar: Onehundred Percent/Alamy Stock Photo, https://tinyco.re/7465213. Indian 500 currency note rupee Mahatma Gandhi : Prakash Bharti / Alamy Stock Photo, https://tinyco.re/2887122. Even very wealthy people hold very small amounts of banknotes: Cartoonstock.com - Roy Delegado, https://tinyco.re/6001122. Unit 7: The 2009 Zimbabwe $100 trillion banknote: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe - Self-scan by (Marianian) followed by minor Photoshop enhancements to improve appearance and reduce size., https://tinyco.re/2888721. Unit 8: In most of the world black swans were thought to not exist, until 1697 when they were discovered in Australia. The term “black swan” now refers to an unexpected and possibly cataclysmic event: Shutterstock, https://tinyco.re/2007655. The day Sweden shifted from driving on the left to driving on the right: Universal Images Group North America LLC / Alamy Stock Photo, https://tinyco.re/1119870. The National Pass, a man and three women posed on the track 1915: Flickr/Blue Mountains City Library, https://tinyco.re/2886132. Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World Data: Angela Catlin. Unit 9: A general view of the Shanghai’s financial district of Pudong: Carlos Barria/Reuters, https://tinyco.re/6098712. Shanghai skyline with the Bund in the foreground and Pudong in the background,. 1987 and 2013. The Peace Hotel, Customs House, and the HSBC building on the Bund are marked in both images: Carlos Barria/Reuters, https://tinyco.re/7555412. Yuan Yang, Member of Parliament (official portrait 2024): Yuan Yang ©House of Commons, https://tinyco.re/1796512. A DDR spec Trabant 601 S : Halle I./Wikimedia, https://tinyco.re/3002001. 1986 Volkswagen Polo C Formel E 1.3 Front: Vauxford/Wikimedia, https://tinyco.re/8088122. Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi inspects the 2,492-carat diamond discovered in the Karowe Diamond Mine in north-central Botswana, in Gaborone, Botswana, on Aug. 22, 2024: Xinhua / Alamy, https://tinyco.re/8589012. Unit 10: Elections in South Africa: Raymond Preston, Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images, https://tinyco.re/8004431. Kenneth Arrow: Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service, https://tinyco.re/6467222. Albert Hirchman: Herman Landshoff photographer. From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, https://tinyco.re/7878333.

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