Economic History category: 3271 books
by Otto Scharmer, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
The American dream is confronted with three “shadows” that threaten its fulfillment: resource depletion, political paralysis, and cultural...
by Peter Barnes, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Peter Barnes avers that we are no longer in the Holocene epoch, but in the Anthropocene epoch, an era in which humans are "a, if not...
Capitalism
The Future of an Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped...
Greenback Planet
How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely—even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollar's hegemony. But...
by Maurizio Franzini, Mario Pianta
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our political processes less democratic. As a result, reducing inequalities is now a major economic, social and political challenge. This book provides a concise...
It Didn't Have to Be This Way
Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary—and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Excellent . . . I highly recommend this book.” —RON PAUL
Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the economic meltdown that began in 2007—or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities?
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Michał Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography
Volume II: By Intellect Alone 1939–1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This volume of intellectual biography records the work of Michał Kalecki’s maturity: his work on monetary economics and the theory of profits; his work on the problems of socialism and developing countries; and the extension of his theory of capitalism to define his work in relation to Keynes and...
Bad Economics
Pestilent Economists, Profligate Governments, Debt, Dependency & Despair
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Bad Economics is a book for everyone who wants to understand why things have gone wrong rather than slavishly accepting the mainstream version of events. It takes on the illusions and delusions which regularly shape economic policy. Absolutely no knowledge of economics is needed; only common sense and...
by Geoff C. Anoke
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This book is designed to give readers an understanding of the interrelationships between leadership ,followership and the access and control of the economic resources of any socio economic cum political system .Here you will learn about the reason for the tensions in our communities and how to deal with them.
Foundations of Managing Sporting Events
Organising the 1966 FIFA World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus activities on the field, this book brings an institutional level approach to organizing the 1966 FIFA World Cup and examines the management process in the buildup and...
Economic Analysis of Institutional Change in Ancient Greece
Politics, Taxation and Rational Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book presents an economic analysis of the causes and consequences of institutional change in ancient Athens. Focusing on the period 800-300 BCE, it looks in particular at the development of political institutions and taxation, including a new look at the activities of individuals like Solon,...
The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith
Introduction, Persuasion, and Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The recent financial crisis has once again seen John Kenneth Galbraith return to the bestseller lists. Yet, despite the continued popular success of his works, Galbraith's contribution to economic theory is rarely recognized by today's economists. This book redresses the balance by providing an introductory...
International Trade (Routledge Revivals)
An Application of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
First published in 1904, this important economic work explores some of the leading principles underlining the development of international trade. Hobson offered a departure from the conventional treatment of international trade in economic theory, simplifying concepts of free trade, exchange and tariffs...
by Gilles Jacoud
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say’s main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work includes chapters from his bookstaking into account the variants between the different editions, articles...