Comparative Economics category: 246 books
Economic Jihad
Putting the Kibosh on Antiquated Social Axioms Defining Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
"Jo M. Sekimonyo can be best described as a realist, a philosopher of socioeconomic inequality, a humanitarian, and a person that is not afraid to speak his own mind. Through CAST AWAY: FOR THESE REASONS: ECONOMIC JIHAD he challenges mankind to wake up and realize that evil exists and is taking...
by David Satterlee
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
(Note: This material appeared previously in "Chum For Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters" by the same author.)
This historical essay, drawn from the deepest jungles of Uruguay in South America, examines the creation of a flourishing culture and economy that lasted for almost two...
by Jonathan Schlefer
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news—so why are their explanations at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with this contradiction, Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions.
The Asian Economy
Spearheading the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region not only remained unharmed by the global financial crisis initially but also recovered the fastest. In addition, it was also the principal driver of the...
Building Wealth
The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
There is no doubt that we are in the middle of a transition to a knowledge-based economy. Breakthrough technologies in microelectronics, biotechnology, new materials, telecommunications, robotics, and computers are fundamentally changing the game of creating wealth. While these new industries are...
Fast Food/Slow Food
The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production,...
3 Types of Economies. Market, Planning, and Mixed
SHORT STORY # 54. Nonfiction series #1- # 60
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
There are 3 types of economies: market, planning, and mixed. The story gave definitions and introduced advantages and disadvantages of each type of economy.
The author lived under all 3 types of economies: planning (in the former Soviet Union), mixed (in Africa: Rwanda and Tanzania), and...
The Dissolution of the Financial State
A Marxian Examination of the Political Economy of Money Since the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book argues that post-Keynesian theories of endogenous money can be combined with Marxian analysis in order to give insight into the changing power relations between the state, finance sector and real economy since WW2. A key theme is that financial power, derived from the control of money-issue...
An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism
Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China’s economic rise. This perception is spread in no small measure because Xi Jinping has – in the face of patent military inferiority – conducted himself much more boldly...
by Knut Wicksell
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This volume, originally published in 1958, contains a selection of the most important and interesting articles by Knut Wicksell, which had hitherto only been published in Swedish. They cover Wicksell’s views on Economics and monetary theory, his theory of production and distribution, some review...
by Ludwig von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.” – from The Theory of Money and Credit
Originally published in 1912,...
Greek Endgame
From Austerity to Growth or Grexit
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The book explores in depth both the origins of the Greek debt crisis and the conditions under which the economy might be turned around from its current malaise. Greek debt turned explosive after the 2008 global crisis, through a combination of a fiscal spree and domestic policy complacency,...
by Norbert Altmann, Christoph Kohler, Pamela Meil
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
German industry in particular is a central focus for studying technical and organizational changes in industry due to its pivotal position in international markets, its technological sophistication and its well-established training systems.
Originally published in 1992, this study brings together...
by John M. Letiche
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
John M. Letiche is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley