Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Organizing the 1%
How Corporate Power Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in many ways that greatly constrain democracy.
In...
Planetary Project
From Sustainable Development to Managed Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This monograph discusses current global economic and social issues. It describes the essence of the Planetary Project, based on the critique of the Concept of Sustainable Development. A model is proposed for solving global problems through global human unification aimed at saving the planet Earth...
Models of Capitalism in the European Union
Post-crisis Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book uses comparative economic analysis to provide a common conceptual framework for all current European Union member states. Based on empirical investigation, the author identifies the Nordic, North-western, Mediterranean, and Central and Eastern models of capitalism on the threshold of the...
Contemporary Vietnam
A Guide to Economic and Political Developments
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in Vietnam. It continues the overview of developments up to late 2005 which were covered in the author’s Vietnam: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (also published by Routledge, 2006). Key topics...
by Ranjit Singh Thind
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Governments and businesses exist side by side for the economic benefit of mankind in the present. Their relevance and growth in the economic sector plays a major part in most economies in the world today. As long as their fundamentals remain strong, their growth will be robust. When their fundamentals...
The Levelling
What's Next After Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.
The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The bestselling citizen's guide to economics
Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different...
Beyond the Crash
Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The international financial crisis that has held our global economy in its grip for too long still seems to be in full stride. Former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown believes the crisis can be reversed, but that the world’s leaders must work together if we are...
Third World America
How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world...
The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists
Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his...
The Value of Everything
Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
**Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to ensure a capitalism that works for us all.
Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award**
A scathing indictment of our current global financial system, The Value...
Global Tilt
Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
New York Times bestselling author Ram Charan gives business leaders the guidance they need to succeed in a world in which economic power has shifted.
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The global tilt is nothing less than an irreversible shift of economic power—jobs, wealth, and market opportunities—from a small part of...
Summary of Putin Country
by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Summary of Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis Preview: Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain,...