Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy
Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization...
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system.
Much of the interest in the successes and failures of global governance focuses around high...
The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery
Social learning in a post-disaster environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently they also lost their entire neighbourhood and the social systems that under normal circumstances made...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously...
The Econocracy
On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.
This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented...
Catastrophism
The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Amid a global zeitgeist of impending catastrophe, this book explores the culture of fear so prevalent in today's politics, economic climate, and religious extremism. The authors of this collection argue that the lens of catastrophe through which so many of today's issues are examined distorts understanding...
World City Syndrome
Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The literature on ‘world cities’ has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town’s standing in this network of...
Industrial Sunset
The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination...
In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crises
In the ruins of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamored to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state,...
by H. L. Puxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Originally published in 1933 this book discusses the inadequacy of ‘orthodox Gold Standard theory’ in the light of post-war monetary phenomena. In demonstrating that the Gold Standard had broken down the book explains that the Quantity Theory of Money is an inaccurate explanation of what happens...
Our Common Wealth
The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. "The commons" is a term that denotes everything we share as opposed to own privately. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product...
by Prole.info
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This scathing illustrated essay takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing-a house-and looks at the social relations that surround it. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city...
Spaces of Global Capitalism
A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy.
David...
The Tyranny of Experts
Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
"Bracingly iconoclastic." --New York Times Book Review
In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting...