Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
The Choices and Consequences of Our Age
The Disintegrating Economic, Political, and Societal Institutions of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
There are winners and losers in a capitalistic society, but capitalism does not choose who is a winner and who is a loser. The winners are those who have the right idea, sacrifice their time and money, take risks, work hard, and have a little luck and help along the way. The losers are those who rarely...
Economic and financial crisis from 2008 to ...?
Analysis and solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
The first part of the study is dedicated to the US economy from the end of the Second World War to the present time; similarities and differences between the crisis of 1929 and the current one are examined. The second part is dedicated to Italy and Europe and, first of all, to the Euro. Advantages...
by W. Arthur Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a rapid growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, vast emigration...
by Dr. N. Maruti Rao
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Industrialization has altered the composition of the global atmosphere. There has been huge impact on ecological and socio-economic systems. Due to rapid industrialization the entire world is experiencing the heat of global warming, environmental degradation and depletion of scarce resources....
Business Groups and Transnational Capitalism in Central America
Economic and Political Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book investigates Central America's political economy seen through the lens of its powerful business groups. It provides unique insight into their strategies when confronted with a globalized economy, their impact on development of the isthmus, and how they shape the political and economic institutions governing local varieties of capitalism.
The New Brazil
Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In the midst of a rapidly shifting global economy, Brazil has emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage. Against all odds, the Latin American nation managed, in just three years, to repay a 2002 $15.5 billion IMF bailout loan thanks to aggressive economic restructuring and a series...
The New Golden Age
The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
In The New Golden Age, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to economic prosperity--and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made books like The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism international bestsellers, Batra takes...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different...
Double Paradox
Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
According to conventional wisdom, rising corruption reduces economic growth. And yet, between 1978 and 2010, even as officials were looting state coffers, extorting bribes, raking in kickbacks, and scraping off rents at unprecedented rates, the Chinese economy grew at an average annual rate of 9 percent....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate.
Written by some of the world’s leading international...
Constructing European Union Trade Policy
A Global Idea of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with emerging economies. Eschewing the...
by Fang Cai
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book presents empirical observations and theoretical thinking of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economy. It starts with a warning of the arrival of the Lewis Turning Point, which is empirically proven by disappearance of surplus labor force and a rapid increase in wages of unskilled workers....
Inequality, Boom, and Bust
From Billionaire Capitalism to Equality and Full Employment
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the richest 1 percent and all other Americans. While the top 1 percent own 42 percent of all wealth in America, the lower half on the income ladder has only 2 percent of all of the wealth. This book develops a viewpoint contrary to the...
Vietnam
A Guide to Economic and Political Developments
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Winning the Vietnam War proved easier than winning the peace. Since 1975, the reunited country has faced the problem of how a poorer, planned economy in which state ownership and control could successfully absorb a more advanced, capitalist economy. In addition, the collapse of communism and the end...