Economic History category: 3271 books

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Russia's Crony Capitalism

The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy

by Anders Aslund
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates...
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Informing Public Policy

Analyzing Contemporary US and International Policy Issues through the Lens of Market Process Economics

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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019

Market process theory illustrates how the market is the most effective institution for overcoming the knowledge problem. Specifically, the institutional characteristics of private property, monetary prices, and the disciplining mechanisms of profit and loss, guide actors to utilize knowledge dispersed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

This comprehensive explanation of the U.S. government's role in economics will be an eye-opener for anyone who wants to understand exactly what the government does—and doesn't do—in this most critical area. • Covers all basic subjects in government economics, addressing the practical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

Volume 37A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium edited by Tiago Mata, celebrating 50 years of the Union of Radical Political Economics. It also includes an essay by Mauro Boianovsky, and is accompanied by a series of reflections from esteemed colleagues,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019

Volume 37B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of Ludwig Lachmann, edited by Giampaolo Garzarelli. Contributors to the symposium include Peter Boettke, Erwin Dekker, Peter Lewin, and several other experts on Lachmann and the Austrian School....
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by Robert A Giacalone, Carole L. Jurkiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

An explanation of how and why the economic downturn of 2007 became the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. It explores the root causes of the cycle of boom and bust of the economy. It describes social equity in terms of its arguments and claims in political, economic, and social circumstances.
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Symptomatic to Systemic

Understanding Postwar Cycles and Financial Debacles

by Steven Ricchiuto
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

In Symptomatic to Systemic, Steven Ricchiuto examines an exhaustive data set of analytics around each postwar business cycle. He identifies the underlying causes precipitating downturns in the economy and finds that financial dislocations and debacles have undergone a distressing evolution. They are...
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Chartist Movement

in its Social and Economic Aspects

by Frank F. Rosenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Professor Rosenblatt’s The Chartist Movement was the first serious study of Chartism, using the techniques of modern scholarship, to appear in English. The book comprises a detailed account of the history of the movement, dealing mainly with the period from 1837 until the Chartist riots at Newport,...
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Dépossession

Une histoire économique du Québec contemporain. 1- Les ressources

by IRIS Institut de recherche et d'informations socio-économiques, Simon Tremblay-Pepin
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2015

À qui profitent les ressources du Québec ? Qui contrôle nos forêts, nos mines et les produits de nos terres agricoles ? Qui choisit la voie qu’empruntera notre développement hydro-électrique ? Qui décide du sort de nos réserves d’eau potable ? Si, depuis la Révolution tranquille, nous...
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by William G. Forgang, Karl W. Einolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

Thoroughly classroom tested, this text is designed specifically for one-semester accelerated and online courses at the upper undergraduate and MBA levels. It is based on the theme that business and personal decisions are made within both micro- and macro-economic environments. By understanding the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018

How can Turkey increase its medium- and long-term growth potential? Despite episodes of fast growth, this has become a vital question for the Turkish economy, in order to avoid being stuck in a middle-income trap. There has been an increase in the number of studies presenting growth in Turkey and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

The Routledge Companion to Business History is a definitive work of reference, and authoritative, international source on business history. Compiled by leading scholars in the field, it offers both researchers and students an introduction and overview of current scholarship in this expanding discipline. Drawing...
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by Stephen Mitford Goodson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019

A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind is Stephen Mitford Goodson’s companion volume to Inside the South African Reserve Bank Its Origins and Secrets Exposed. While the latter volume describes the mechanics of the fraudulent usury banking system, with a focus on Goodson’s...
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by Antony Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Over thirty thousand copies sold worldwide, translated into Japanese, Chinese, Turkish and French. This foreword to this new 2013 eBook edition gives the full background to Wild's inadvertent creation of the kopi luwak industry in 1991, his involvement in the BBC undercover investigation into the trade,...
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