Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Robert P. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Most commonly accepted economic "facts" are wrong Here's the unvarnished, politically incorrect truth. The liberal media and propagandists masquerading as educators have filled the world--and deformed public policy--with politically correct errors about capitalism and economics in general. In The...
Break Up the Banks!
A Practical Guide to Stopping the Next Global Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Can we prevent another financial crisis? We can! Break Up the Banks! is a sensible, actionable, and totally accessible call to arms from an acclaimed financial journalist
It’s been eight years since the financial crisis, but has anyone taken real action to prevent the next one? Former Economist...
A Theory of Capitalist Regulation
The US Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency. A major document of the “Regulation School” of heterodox economics, it was received as the boldest book in its field...
Homelessness in Nigeria
Investigating Africa’S Housing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Homelessness in Nigeria: Investigating Africas Housing Crisis, is a daring confrontation of a topic considered taboo in Africa. Equally daring is the nature and depth of information it provides through a holistic exploration of the subject of homelessness as it occurs in Africa and in the majority...
The Production of Money
How to Break the Power of Bankers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?
In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must,...
Monetary Policy Over Fifty Years
Experiences and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This book is based on a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Since the 1950s, there have been fundamental changes in the monetary order and financial systems, in our understanding of the effects of monetary policy, the best goals for central banks and the appropriate...
The global financial crisis and austerity
A basic introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Given the huge impact of the 2008 financial crash and post-crash austerity on so many people’s lives, there is a need for a concise, accessible guide to its causes and its longer-term significance. Written by an expert in political science and straddling finance, economics and political science,...
Wage-Fixing (Routledge Revivals)
Stagflation - Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected contemporary economies across the industrially developped world in the 1970s.
Professor Meade...
The Land of Too Much
American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Monica Prasad’s powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?
Unchecked and Unbalanced
How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated....
Modern Budget Forecasting in the American States
Precision, Uncertainty, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book, by Michael J. Brogan, examines government budgeting through the lens of public budget forecast errors. In examining this aspect of the budgetary process, Brogan helps readers understand levels of political and financial risk that policymakers are willing to accept in estimating the likelihood...
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The New Faces of American Poverty: A Reference Guide to the Great Recession [2 volumes]
A Reference Guide to the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
A timely examination of the effects of the Great Recession on Americans and the resulting federal reforms to healthcare, employment, and housing policies as a means to alleviate poverty.
• Offers a detailed analysis of the impact of the Great Recession on poverty rates across 21 distinct...
by Len Solo
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
If Al Capone were alive today, he'd own a bank, a credit card company or a Wall Street brokerage and make more money than he ever did being a crook. He'd also be admired and respected. The economy was never an even playing field but it is worse than ever. At the same time, big money has corrupted...
by Bob Hart
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
First published in 1987, this Routledge Revival reissues the first systematic and integrated analysis of working time and employment, reaching to the core elements of a vital area of labour economics. It offers both a comprehensive analysis of the impact of workweek reductions on employment and hours...