Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Paul Krugman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize–winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the Great Depression—and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.
In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become...
Globalization
The Return of Borders to a Borderless World?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Written by two leading scholars of global politics, Globalization: the return of borders to a borderless world? is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and...
Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans
La Crisis Boricua
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, the island confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Analyzing large datasets such as the American Community Survey...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
First published in 1989. The Pacific Islands are amongst the poorest countries of the developing world. The special problems of their small size, immense distance from major centres and, for many, very poor agricultural possibilities make development extremely difficult. However, recent new advances...
The Tragedy of the European Union
Disintegration or Revival?
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests conflict with...
Changing Jobs
The Fair Go in the New Machine Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
An essential guide to the future of work in Australia.
For many Australians, rapid progress in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation is a growing anxiety. What will it mean for jobs? What will it mean for their kids’ futures? More broadly, what will it mean for equality in this...
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism
A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A historical essay on old regimes and modern states
In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a “modern” state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence...
Three Essays on Productivity (RLE: Business Cycles)
The Impacts of Profitability, Business Cycles and the Capital Stock on Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The behaviour of US productivity since this book was originally publishedin 1994, has added new relevance to the relationship between profits and productivity. In the long run, productivity growth determines the economic standard of living. This book is divided into three parts: the basis of the first...
Behind the News
On a Journalist's Radar
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Overweight, though, in showcasing topical economic issues that excite reader interest in general, Behind the News, On a Journalist’s Radar, spreads out a rich and varied fare the sum and substance of which can’t be defined by a single theme or title.
Tersely presented is a pack of incisive...
Mass Flourishing
How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Peter G. Peterson in his book “Running on Empty, How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in...
by Ram Sharan Mahat
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2005
The post-1990 was a period of transition in many ways. The Peoples Movement brought about a polity based on political plurality and broad freedom. The state-imposed conformity and authoritarianism under the Panchayat gave way to diversity and innovations. The period was accompanied by new paradigms and...
Ireland under austerity
Neoliberal crisis, neoliberal solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Once held up as a 'poster child' for the benefits of untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path. The crash in the world economy had especially grave repercussions for Ireland, as...
Reclaiming Public Ownership
Making Space for Economic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The first comprehensive set of arguments and proposals for public ownership since the 1970s
A major contribution to left and progressive scholarship concerned with constructing an alternative economics
Useful for students across a whole range of social sciences