Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Shift Age is about humanity's new ere. As the Information Age gives way to the Shift Age, we are entering a time of
transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. Originally published in 2007, David Houle
identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that already...
Capitalism 4.0
The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In this controversial book, Anatole Kaletsky puts the upheavals of 2007-2009 in historical and ideological perspective. He shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system-- one that will continue to be led and...
Summary and Analysis of The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the MIddle Class
Based on the Book by Edward Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Summary and Analysis of The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class Based on the Book by Edward Conard
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Upside of Inequality tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Edward Conard’s book.
Crafted...
A Nation of Moochers
America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
We have experienced a shift in American character: we've become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts on Wall Street to the alarming increases in personal default and dependency, from questionable...
by Professor Donald Hirsch, Laura Valadez-Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The "living wage" is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years. The underlying logic of the concept is quite clear: it is a wage that provides workers with enough income to live on at some level considered adequate. However, in practice...
How You Got Screwed
What Big Banks, Big Government, and Big Business Don't Want You to Know—and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
If you’re like most people, you want nothing more than a fair shot in life: a chance to seek out opportunities, work hard, and make your own way in this world. But as author Allen Marshall explains in How You Got Screwed, the game has been rigged, making it almost impossible for you to win.
How...
by John H. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book examines the controlling influences that drive macroeconomic policies in the United States. It addresses the history of the interests, ideas, and practices of monetary and fiscal policies in the United States.
John Maynard Keynes
Free Trader or Protectionist?
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Over the course of his professional life, John Maynard Keynes altered his views from free trade in the classical tradition to restricted foreign trade, and ultimately, at the end of his career, back to his original position. There is no general agreement among economists as to whether Keynes ended...
by Sean M. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Research in Experimental Economics focuses on laboratory experimental economics, but welcomes work from authors of theoretical, empirical, or field economic research if it would be of interest to the broader experimental economics community. The goal of Research in Experimental Economics is to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems. The 19 original essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars from Asia, North America, and Europe, analyze both the strengths and...
A Giant Reborn
Why the US Will Dominate the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
The world is in turmoil. Whether one looks at Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America, uncertainty and upheaval seem to be the order of the day. Nevertheless, there seems to be an odd certainty in the minds of many pundits, writers, and citizens in this highly volatile...
by Howard Ruff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, the groundbreaking guide that sold over two and a half million copies—now fully updated.
Bad years are coming for the unaware… but when you know what’s really happening behind the scenes, you can make them the best years of your financial...
Completing Capitalism
Heal Business to Heal the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
**Proven, Profitable, and Sustainable
For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically...
Business and Sustainability
Between Government Pressure and Self-Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Demands for sustainability policies have set new challenges for business both on the individual firm level and on the level of organized business interests. This edited volume brings together economic, social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of sustainability that comprise different challenges...