Comparative Economics category: 246 books
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The Sinking of The Palmer Cay
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
“In some respects, Palmer & Cay was too good to be true—a great place to work with snowballing success. Good leadership, talented personnel, personal freedom, and generous compensation contributed to the overall success of The Ship. This is a story not of evil wrongdoing, but of runaway egos,...
The Anatomy of Inequality
Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality, at a level that surpasses what could be expected from normal differences in individuals’ capabilities alone.”
So begins this new approach to the greatest social ill of our time, and nearly every other era. From a country with one...
by Thomas Piketty
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
The 5 Big Lies About American Business
Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS?
Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? In this passionately argued, eye-opening book, talk-radio star and bestselling author Michael Medved...
Dream Hoarders
How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
America is becoming a class-based society.
It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent-especially the top 0.01 percent-and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential,...
The Fourth Revolution
The Global Race to Reinvent the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state
Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that...
by Malene Rydahl
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.
For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and...
by Robert Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This eBook defines the Seven Estates (Domains) and their relationship to Commodity Production in society. It analyses the various forms of creating money over the ages. Gold and PM are discussed right up to an analysis of creation of Bitcoins and the revolutionary impact they are bound to have on...
Chips and Change
How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.
For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors,...
by Kevin Solimon
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
If you're struggling to be wealthy and are wondering how to achieve your goals, then keep reading. This book is your comprehensive guideline to becoming wealthy by identifying and weeding out your poor habits.
As you flip through the pages, you will find fifteen chapters, elucidating on the...
Summary of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Summary of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty | Includes Analysis
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a study of inequity, both historically and in the present. The book describes how the concentration of wealth has changed...
Freedom for Sale
Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Democratic liberalism v. authoritarianism – the ideological divide that defined the twentieth century. But when the cold war ended, “the end of history” was proclaimed. Soon the fire of freedom would burn worldwide, the experts said. And where markets were freed, human rights would inevitably...
by Benjamin M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.
In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M....
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies....