Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
20 Years of G20
From Global Cooperation to Building Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
The book discusses contemporary issues such as global financial architecture and regulatory practices, trade, investment and the multilateral process, the future of work, the role of technology for adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and financing infrastructure for sustainable development.
With...
Mapping Power
The Political Economy of Electricity in India’s States
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Electricity is critical to enabling India’s economic growth and providing a better future for its citizens. In spite of several decades of reform, the Indian electricity sector is unable to provide high-quality and affordable electricity for all, and grapples with the challenge of poor financial...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
The classic by the renowned economist: “One of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values” (The New York Times).
One of the New York Public Library’s “Books of the Century”
Hailed as a “masterpiece” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), this examination of the “economics...
Raw Deal
How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
"What's going to happen to my job?"
That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves.
The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers...
Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere
The New Global Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most recent events in the wave of revolt and revolution sweeping the planet—riots in Athens, student occupations in the UK, Quebec and Moscow, the emergence of the...
Reckless Endangerment
How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders
In Reckless...
by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.
The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and...
by John A. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the entire financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market?
The answer is NO.
Not only is free market capitalism good for...
by Roger Lowenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
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The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.
The End of...
Street Smarts
Adventures on the Road and in the Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.
Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from...
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King...
Exodus
How Migration is Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy--How to Save Yourself and Your Country by Peter Schiff. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary,...
Down the Up Escalator
How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning...