Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Craig Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Craig Berry assesses UK economic policy in the wake of the financial crisis through the lens of the austerity agenda, focusing on monetary policy, economic rebalancing, industrial and regional policy, the labour market, welfare reform and budgetary management. He argues that austerity is geared towards...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
The World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update 2010 Volume 2 is the latest edition of the comprehensive twice-yearly review of the region's economies prepared by the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank. Entitled "Robust Recovery Rising Risks" this Update notes that output and trade...
The End of Normal
The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
From one of the most respected economic thinkers and writers of our time, a brilliant argument about the history and future of economic growth.
The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe—and...
Winner-Take-All Politics
How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.
We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades...
by George Soros
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection of his recent writings on the global financial situation, George Soros presents his views and analysis of key economic policy...
Creative Industries and Developing Countries
Voice, Choice and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Pushing the frontiers of the new development paradigm, this book guides debates, clarifies new themes and illustrates how the cultural resources of the developing world can become a new way of integrating into the global economy - helping to raise the voices of developing countries, widening the range...
by Primo Braga Carlos A.; Vincelette Gallina A.
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 governments worldwide undertook massive fiscal interventions to stave off what otherwise would have likely been a system-wide financial and economic meltdown. The policy responses engendered significant shifts in growth trajectories and debt sustainability...
Fictitious Capital
How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
How finance is a mechanism of social and political domination
The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economic Indicators
Manage Your Investments with an Eye on the Key Factors Affecting Today’s Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
An expert helps readers understand what the big economic picture means for their money, and how to respond.
Today's investors must play an active role in the managing of their money. This guide introduces the leading U.S. economic indicators and shows how to use them in make better investment...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
After thirty years of economic reform, China has reached a crossroads in its development process, and faces many challenges in the use of natural resources, the living environment, and the economic, social and political systems. The sustainability of China’s reform and development is even more salient...
Business Clusters
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Clusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley.
Using evidence from high- and low-income economies, as well as detailed case studies that show the special conditions behind successful clusters, this book provides...
Economics, Ethics and the Market
Introduction and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics in the evaluation of the market. The reader will gain insight into:
The ethical and methodological strategy of economics and criticism of the core...
Exploited
Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved. Extra hours are squeezed out of Polish food packers, and trafficked African children are used for forced labour. Low wages are used to drive down prices from the oil industry to...
Economic Democracy (Routledge Revivals)
The Challenge of the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is a discussion of and an argument for alternatives to the present structure of production in the United States—alternatives that would change the control of capital and how it is used. First published 1980, Carnoy and Shearer discuss the economic problems facing the 1980s and argue for...