Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The first Great Depression. The Second Great Depression.
The Great Depression was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in the late 1920s and lasting through most of the 1930s.
The Second Great Depression. 2007- 2017
Most of the logic used to support...
by Ferris Eanfar
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
HUMANITY IS IN TROUBLE. When the 10 largest corporations on Earth have more combined economic power than 92% of all countries on Earth combined, the 50 largest financial corporations control wealth equal to 90% of Earth's GDP, the richest 1% of humans have more wealth than 99% of the world combined,...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order.
The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported...
Leaving Liberty?
Essays on Politics and Free-Market Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Politics can impact the marketplace in a big way.
In Leaving Liberty?, author Martin Mazorra presents a collection of essays that explores the important relationship between politics and economics.
Delivered in a daily devotional format of thirty-one essays, Leaving Liberty? provides...
Transition to a New World Order
What We Leave Behind for the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Transition to a New World Order is addressing current political and economic affairs facing the United States and advancing nations, seeking prosperity and developments in respect to job creation, productivity, and curbing social unrests and upheavals. For any nation to benefit from development programs,...
by Halim Quddus
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
How to take nothing and make something. How to prosper in good and tough times. This book will wake you up to the opportunities that are all around you.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes. The first examines the major recession that took hold of the global economy during the 1980s and assesses its effects on key areas of social structure, including political and economic democracy...
by Anne Trubek
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—Booklist
The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods,...
African Successes, Volume III
Modernization and Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class—not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority—defend their comfortable status at a cost....
A Glance in the Rear View Mirror
Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-expert to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%.
Rebound
Why America Will Emerge Stronger From the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Rebound takes the currently unthinkable view that the economy will bounce back faster and stronger from the downturn than most economists expect. Noted Labor economist Stephen J. Rose amasses data on the economic performance of America over the last 30 years to debunk myths about declining middle...
The People's Money
How Voters Will Balance the Budget and Eliminate the Federal Debt
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
When it comes to the economy, American voters can no longer count on the Political Class. We are the ones who truly want progress, and—despite what politicians would lead us to believe—we are the only ones willing to make the difficult but necessary changes that willrestore our country’s fiscal...
Uncommon Thinking
New Insights for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
When independence arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1960s, everyone was optimistic higher living standards would quickly follow. But after almost half-a-century of intensive policy and institutional reforms, and massive foreign grants and loans, the condition of the majority has hardly improved.
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