Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Political Economy: A Comparative Approach, 3rd Edition
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
As 21st-century political debate becomes polarized across ideological lines, students and citizens need to understand the underlying values on which contending arguments are based. The current political gridlock calls for a deeper appreciation of the competing perspectives in political economy. Now...
Better, Stronger, Faster
The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the United States—have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding America’s economic prospects. Bloated with debt, and outpaced by China and other emerging markets, the United States has...
Industrial Restructuring in Asia
Implications of the Global Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Industrial Restructuring in Asia: Implications of the Global Economic Crisis is an attempt to examine the impact of the global economic crisis of 2008 on the industrial structure in Asia. Although the crisis did not originate in Asia, Asian economies and financial markets felt its impact, which is...
Unleashing the Second American Century
Four Forces for Economic Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis... structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force... the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us?
Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about America's...
Quarterly Essay 54 Dragon's Tail
The Lucky Country After the China Boom
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
In Dragon’s Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia’s future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts. China’s rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger...
by Stephen Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
QUICK WIN ECONOMICS is aimed at practical people who understand that economics is important, because economic models inform the most powerful people in the world, who make decisions based on the advice of economists. Those decisions affect the daily lives of millions of people, for better and for...
The Future of Europe
Reform or Decline
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
A provocative argument that unless Europe takes serious action soon, its economic and political decline is unavoidable, and a clear statement of the steps Europe must take before it's too late.
Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political decline is almost inevitable,...
The Capitalism Papers
Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
An environmentalist and intellectual gadfly foretells the imminent failure of the capitalist experiment.
In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable...
Makers and Takers
How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?
In looking at the forces that brought our current administration to power one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief...
The Servant Economy
Where America's Elite is Sending the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slide
America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue...
Becoming the Arsenal
The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy. The first was the Great Depression and the government's New Deal recovery program. The second was the gradual abandonment of the monetary...
Singapore
Unlikely Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed...
Argentina
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well below its regional neighbours such as Chile. At the same time, despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic...
by Allan H. Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached...