Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Global Economic Boom and Bust Cycles
The Great Depression and Recovery of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This book represents an extraordinary journey for me, one that extends over a period of 25 years. After observing several economic boom and bust cycles and researching several more, I have reached an understanding and appreciation of the power and massive influence of these events. Even though each...
Political Bubbles
Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and...
The Great Risk Shift
The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of...
The Committee to Destroy the World
Inside the Plot to Unleash a Super Crash on the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
An updated examination of what's weakening the U.S. economy, and how to fix it
The Committee to Destroy the World: Inside the Plot to Unleash a Super Crash on the Global Economy is a passionate and informed analysis of the struggling global economy. In this masterfully conceived and executed...
Global Economic Meltdown
Long-Wave Economic Cycles - Myth or Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
This "Special Report" clarifies some of the issues of an impending world economic collapse and the emergence of the vast implementation phase of the Information Age Revolution. Long-Wave Economic Cycles helps us to understand the great transformation that our world will undergo during the...
Reprogramming Japan
The High Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990s? Marie Anchordoguy's book examines how the performance of these industries and the economy as a whole are affected...
by Baldev Raj Nayar
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
A common critique of globalization is that it causes economic segmentation and even disintegration of the national economy. Quite to the contrary, Baldev Raj Nayar provides a thorough empirical treatment of India’s political economy that challenges this critique by demonstrating that, on balance, both...
Chinese Economic Statecraft
Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows what Chinese economic statecraft is, how it works, and why it is more or less effective. Norris provides...
by V. Kostakis, M. Bauwens
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism.
Industrial Clusters, Institutions and Poverty in Nigeria
The Otigba Information and Communications Technology Cluster
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This book provides a systematic examination of the relationship between industrial clusters and poverty, which is analyzed using a multidimensional framework. It examines the often-neglected concept of social protection as a means of mitigating the risks and vulnerabilities faced by workers and citizens...
Indian Diaspora in the United States
Brain Drain or Gain?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Indian Diaspora in the United States takes a new perspective on the topic of brain drain, departing from the traditional literature to include discussions on brain gain and brain circulation using Indian migration to the United States as a case study. Sahay acknowledges that host country policies...
The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany
Global, Rhineland or Hybrid Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in Germany in illuminating historical and structural contexts.
Showing how economic reform has become the central issue on the German political agenda, raising contentious issues of policy management and posing deeper questions...
by Gregory C Chow
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
This book is unique in covering all important topics of the Chinese economy in depth but written in a language understandable to the layman and yet challenging to the expert. Beginning with entrepreneurship that propels the dynamic economic changes in China today, the book is organized into four broad...
The EU-Russia Borderland
New Contexts for Regional Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia’s "modernisation" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have ‘limits to integration’. Today, much European political...