Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Money and Banking
The American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1995
Today, interest in monetary history has been revived. Economists are examing the "structure" of money and banking: what is money and what are banks? With new technologies, overwhelming market forces, and changes in law and regulation, the answers that had been taken for granted have been...
"They're Bankrupting Us!"
And 20 Other Myths about Unions
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and...
We Have Never Been Neoliberal
A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
A number of people have claimed that the ongoing financial crisis has revealed the problems with neoliberal thought and neoliberal policies in the 'Atlantic Heartland'. However, if we look at the history of the 'Heartland' economies then it becomes evident that they were never neoliberal in the first...
by Simon Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book provides a broad and comprehensive survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet economic system to the present, and includes the results of substantial new research on the current state of a wide range of Russian enterprises.
Simon Clarke – a...
by Keith Churchouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
You may not believe it right now, but it is true. The recession is over!Sure, there will be a few more monetary 'wobbles and worries' to slow initial recovery, but nevertheless, recovery is on its way. Our return to prosperity will look different to times gone by, but it will happen,...
by Baburam Bhattarai
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2003
The Nepalese society at the beginning of the 21st century is passing through the greatest upheavals in its entire history in the form of the revolutionary Peoples War (PW) of the oppressed classes, regions, nationalities, gender and communities against the outmoded semi-feudal and semi-colonial social...
The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization
An International Economics Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization provides a clear and concise toolkit to understand how trade, finance, and production bind us in a globally connected international system. Presenting both the theory and the evidence needed to understand economic globalization, this book helps readers...
Energy Union
Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization’s ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state. Investigating whether the Energy Union amounts to a fundamental shift towards Europe's new 'Liberal...
Silent Looms
Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatepquez. Revisiting many of the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her earlier hopeful assessment of women's entrepreneurial...
Financial Stability
Fraud, Confidence and the Wealth of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Applying the Lessons of History to Understanding Fraud Today and Tomorrow
Financial Stability provides a roadmap by which the world can anticipate and avoid future financial disruptions. This unique discussion of past and present financial events offers new insights that explain economic, political,...
Canada and the Global Economy
Alternatives to the Corporate Strategy for Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Economic integration is one of the key issues of the 1990s. In this book, Bob Chodos, Rae Murphy, and Eric Hamovitch consider the implications of globalization for Canada. While they believe the move to integration is inevitable, they argue for building alliances that are alternatives to the models...
Looting Africa
The Economics of Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial...
Cooperatives Confront Capitalism
Challenging the Neoliberal Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.
Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This book provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all European welfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-based studies and comparative chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financial crisis, 2) demographic change, and 3) the balance between...