Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental work
US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and...
After the Fall
The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips’s Bad Money revealed the roots of the financial malignance that led to 2008’s devastating market meltdown, explaining how the financial sector hijacked the...
Every Nation for Itself
What Happens When No One Leads the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
G-Zero — \JEE-ZEER-oh\ —n
A world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. What happens when the G20 doesn’t work and the G7 is history.
If the worst threatened—a rogue nuclear state with a horrible surprise,...
Crisis
One Central Bank Governor & the Global Financial Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An authoritative insider's perspective, this book penned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand chronicles the global financial and economic meltdown. A well-researched and dynamic firsthand account, it captures the drama of the events—from the overheated markets of 2007 through the...
The Comeback
How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
America seems to be on a downward slide. Our government spends too much; our economy creates too little; and we aren't preparing our children to compete in a global marketplace. Yet our politicians - Republican and Democrat alike - just don't get it. While once-great cities fall into decay, Washington...
The Demographic Cliff
How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we’re facing a “great deflation” after five years of desperate stimulus — and what to do about it now
Throughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Studying...
Occupy the Economy
Challenging Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost jobs, homes, and healthcare. Many with jobs watch pensions, benefits, and job security decline. While most live with increasing uncertainty, the system makes the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews...
Recession at Work
HRM in the Irish Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession...
Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes
At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1995
Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective...
It’s Not Over
Learning From the Socialist Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The path to a better world can’t be found without knowledge of history. /It’s Not Over/ analyzes attempts to supplant capitalism in the past in order to draw lessons for emerging and future movements that seek to overcome the political and economic crises of today. This history is presented through...
Reset
How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
“This is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and host...
The Economic Dependency Trap
Breaking Free to Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
2012 gold medal winner in the self-help category of the prestigious Ippy Awards
This book offers effective strategies to help erase poverty. It advocates self-reliance, policy reform, and cultural awareness. Accountability is required from all: the middle class, the trust fund babies, and the underprivileged...
by Alec Nove
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1979, Political Economy and Soviet Socialism is an integrated selection of papers written over the past 12 years of Russian history, which offers a unique insight into some important and controversial issues. Professor Nove discusses the ideas of some of the leaders of the Russian...
Marxism, Religion and Ideology
Themes from David McLellan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
As austerity measures are put into place the world over and global restructuring is acknowledged by all as an attempt to bolster the economic system that lead to the crash, there is a great need to come to grips with the economic, political and philosophical legacy of Marx. Of particular interest...