Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Statutory Minimum Wage Controls
A Critical Review of their Effects on Labour Markets, Employment and Incomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Statutory Minimum Wage Controls: A Critical Review of their Effects on Labour Markets, Employment and Incomes
"The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this is a plain violation of this most sacred property.” (Adam...
Has the European Experiment Failed?: The Munk Debate on Europe
The Munk Debate on Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind's most ambitious endeavours. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy valued at over $15 trillion. Modern Europe's stunning achievements aside, its sovereign...
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism
The Collapse of an Economic Order?
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a ‘free’ market ethic. Bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated...
Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics
Regulation for the Rest of Us?
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent.
Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics...
Can the EU Spend Better?
An EU Budget for Crises and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
The main parameters of the EU budget are decided upon every seven years when the MFF (Multi-annual Financial Framework) is negotiated. Before the end of 2016, EU institutions will undertake a mid-term review of the EU’s 2014-2020. This comes in a context of severe turbulences for the EU project:...
Crisis Economics
A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future.
Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified his profession...
JFK and the Reagan Revolution
A Secret History of American Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The fascinating, suppressed history of how JFK pioneered supply-side economics.
John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates across-the-board, becoming one of the earliest supply-siders. Sadly, today’s Democrats have ignored JFK’s tax-cut legacy and have opted...
Income Inequality
Why It Matters and Why Most Economists Didn't Notice
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price bubble. After careful analyses of statistical evidence, however, Matthew Drennan discovered that income inequality was the decisive factor...
Politics in the New Hard Times
The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis...
Conservative Party Economic Policy
From Heath in Opposition to Cameron in Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Covering the period from Ted Heath's assumption of the leadership of the Conservative Party through to the early years of the Coalition, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the Tory Party's Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Policy-Making over the past 50 years providing an historical context for the political and economic events of today.
North America’s Lost Decade?
The Munk Debate on the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
As stock markets gyrate, Europe lurches from crisis to crisis, and recovery in the United States slows, the future of the North American economy is more uncertain than ever. Can individual entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and governments create a new era of sustained economic growth? Or, will...
Peers Inc
How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
When Robin Chase cofounded Zipcar, she not only started a business but established the foundation for one of the most important economic and social ideas of our time: the collaborative economy. With this important book, she broadens our thinking about the ways in which the economy is being transformed...
by . Collection
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
How to help the unemployed? This subject developed by Henry George is more relevant to our time when unemployment becomes a major problem. Henry George, famous for his book titled Progress and Poverty, was American political economist who developed a "tax reform" project and promoted economic...
by Michael M. Atkinson, William D. Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
The late twentieth century has seen profound changes in the character of the international economic order. According to the authors of this study, Canada has failed to come to terms with those changes. Our industrial policy is diffuse, ad hoc, and sectoral. Michael Atkinson and William Coleman argue...