Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
The Shifts and the Shocks
What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times—a brilliant tour d’horizon of the new global economy
There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2007. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another...
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work...
America's History of Empowering Wealth
Optimizing America Booklets, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Is life getting better? At the accelerating rate of advancing technologies? Food availability, income, and life span are up for the lucky few while disease, child mortality, and violence are barely improving for the rest all across the globe. The world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries...
Zero Hour
Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Harry S. Dent Jr., bestselling author of The Demographic Cliff and The Sale of a Lifetime, predicted the populist wave that has driven the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, and other recent shocks around the world. Now he returns with the definitive guide to protect your investments and prosper...
Pinched
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves...
Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout...
by Robert D. Atkinson, Stephen J. Ezell
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this...
The Coming Economic Collapse
How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
In this incredibly timely book,renowned economist Stephen Leeb shows how surging oilprices will contribute to a huge economic collapse bysoaring to over $100, and perhaps $200, a barrel- andtells how you can avoid the pitfalls of the upcomingcrisis.
Capitalism
Competition, Conflict, Crises
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself....
Summary of The Rise and Fall of American Growth
by Robert J. Gordon | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Summary of The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon | Includes Analysis Preview: The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an analysis of American growth from 1870 to the present. It focuses especially on the unprecedented “special century” of 1870-1970....
Beating the Business Cycle
How to Predict and Profit From Turning Points in the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
How can you make wise decisions about your company and your personal future when you have no idea where the economy is headed?
The answer is, you can’t. But you can learn how to accurately predict turns in the economy so that you can see the road ahead. And BEATING THE BUSINESS CYCLE shows you how.
In...
Capitalising Economic Power in the US
Industrial Strategy in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book examines the American industrial strategy, from the late 70s to the present day, in what is now known as the ‘neoliberal era’. The author illustrates the ways in which the protection and promotion of American companies and industries took place in the context of the international ‘free...
Pity the Billionaire
The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism
Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least it's supposed...
The Next American Economy
Blueprint for a Real Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
At a time when debate is raging about how to create jobs and revive
the American economy, veteran business writer William J. Holstein
argues that the best way for us to recover our economic footing is to do
what Americans do best-innovate and create new industries. Contrary to
the perception that...