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Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means—and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages near new mining sites, agricultural export markets, and tourist attractions, where Peruvian prosperity appears tantalizingly close, yet ju...

City moves to oust tent encampment dwellers from vacant lot

is necessarily to hold it together. >> again, though, with those spanish yields hitting 7% on the ten-year, that it's ras an awful lot of questions. geithner saying 2% growth is not enough to get americans back to work. he says the most helpful thing washington can do is extend middle-class tax cuts and remove the threat of default. we get a report on jobless results at 8:30. let's talk corporate headlines. cell phonemaker nokia cutting 10,000 jobs and warning that a second quarterly loss from its cell phone business will be larger than expected now. the company says it will take r...