Macroeconomics category: 2722 books
Advice and Dissent
Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies
American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.
The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 by Adam Smith. What set Adam Smith’s work apart was the follows:
1) He believed that self-interest is God's providence
2) If government is away from...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
"What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this...
The Road to Ruin
The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The bestselling author of The Death of Money and Currency Wars reveals the global elites' dark effort to hide a coming catastrophe from investors in The Road to Ruin, now a National Bestseller.
A drumbeat is sounding among the global elites. The signs of a worldwide financial meltdown are unmistakable....
The Only Game in Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • With a new introduction by the author
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by Ha-Joon Chang
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From the internationally bestselling author and prizewinning economist--a highly original guide to the global economy.
In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism,Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics....
The Fastest Billion
The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists,...
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all...
Misunderstanding Financial Crises:Why We Don't See Them Coming
Why We Don't See Them Coming
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there...
The Shifts and the Shocks
What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times—a brilliant tour d’horizon of the new global economy
There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2007. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another...
America's History of Empowering Wealth
Optimizing America Booklets, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Is life getting better? At the accelerating rate of advancing technologies? Food availability, income, and life span are up for the lucky few while disease, child mortality, and violence are barely improving for the rest all across the globe. The world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries...
Economics 101
From Consumer Behavior to Competitive Markets--Everything You Need to Know About Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
A Crash Course in the Study of Production and Consumption!
Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of economics into tedious discourse that would put even Joseph Stiglitz to sleep. Economics 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you...
by Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles:
1. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA VOLUME ONE - ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
2. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA VOLUME TWO - ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
3. DE TOCQUEVILLE ON DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA VOLUME ONE – JOHN...
Animal Spirits
How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this...