Economic History category: 3271 books
by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Gar Alperovitz believes that we are at a turning point in American history, in which systemic economic and environmental issues will be at the...
Black Monday
A crash that shook the financial world
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Understand Black Monday in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this major financial crisis with this practical and accessible guide.
On 19 October 1987, a number of factors came together to cause an unexpected drop in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange, with the Dow...
Fortune Tellers
The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of...
Information Technology and Socialist Construction
The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The failure of command central planning in the twentieth century has led to a general disillusionment within the socialist movement worldwide. Some alternatives to capitalism have been proposed since the end of the Cold War, but none has offered an alternative form of economic calculation. This book...
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....
American Dream Dying
The Changing Economic Lot of the Least Advantaged
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Using recent polling results, this book identifies the core economic components of the American Dream: standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. The authors document the trend in each of these components over the last thirty years, using figures (trend lines and bar charts) based...
Jacob Viner
Lectures in Economics 301
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book presents, for the first time, a detailed transcription of Jacob Viner's Economics 301 class as taught in 1930. These lecture notes provide insight into the legacy of Jacob Viner, whose seminal contributions to fields such as international economics and the history of economics are well known,...
Objective Economics
How Ayn Rand's Philosophy Changes Everything about Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Every price is set by someone; this is where economics begins. Building on that fundamental idea and on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, Objective Economics transforms economics. The thesis of this book is that Ayn Rand’s concept of “objective” is the indispensible base of valid economic...
Political Transformations and Public Finances
Europe, 1650–1913
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question, Political Transformations and Public Finances by Mark Dincecco examines the evolution of political regimes and public finances in Europe over the long term. The book argues that the emergence of efficient fiscal...
A Search for Solvency
Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Diverted by the dramatic military and political events of July 1944, few Americans realized the significance of an international conference taking place at Bretton Woods, a mountain resort in New Hampshire, far from the battle zones. There United Nations experts were completing plans for a world monetary...
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how financial deregulation and world instability are exposing Australia to economic catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Australia has been the lucky country for a long time. First it rode off the sheep’s back. Then it became a quarry for emerging economies. It deregulated its financial sector, abandoned manufacturing, rode an apparently endless urban-land boom, and has gone more than 25 years without a recession....
The Fall of the Celtic Tiger
Ireland and the Euro Debt Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
By 2000, Ireland had achieved a remarkable macroeconomic performance: 10% economic growth annually, a budget surplus, and a very low debt to GDP ratio. Emigration had disappeared and there was significant immigration from Eastern Europe. Yet, by November 2010, output had collapsed to an extent unprecedented...
San Miguel de Allende
Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on...
Heaven's Door
Immigration Policy and the American Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in Heaven's Door, it's decidedly mixed news for the American economy--and positively bad news...