Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Zoltan Pogatsa
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
After half a decade of austerity based crisis management by international lenders, Greece is still caught up in a debt trap. Two thirds (!) of its youth is out of work and forty per cent of its population lives below the poverty line. Even the IMF has had to admit that stabilisation of the country has...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This two-volume set explores in-depth the economic origins and repercussions of the Arab Spring revolts.
Volume 1 of The Arab Spring Five Years Later is based on extensive research conducted by scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including many associated with the Japan International Cooperation...
The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen
Economics Books, Business Essays & Political Articles: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Contents: The Theory...
by Giulio Tremonti
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
From Italy’s former minister of economy and finance, a provocative and galvanizing jeremiad on the Euro crisis and the global economic status quo. As Europe’s debt crisis persists and the aftershocks of the 2008 collapse hinder recovery across the globe, Giulio Tremonti underscores the dangers...
Out of Poverty
What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will end poverty. Polak shows that programs...
Curing Affluenza
How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Affluenza has not just changed the world, it has also changed the way we see the world. Short of money? Borrow some. Caught in the rain? Buy an umbrella. Thirsty? Buy a bottle of water and throw the bottle away. Our embrace of “convenience” and our acceptance of our inability to plan ahead is...
The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century?
Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century?
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Given the powerfully negative and ongoing impact of the Great Recession on western economies, the question of whether historically wealthy nations--the US, Western European countries, Japan--can stay wealthy has become an overriding concern for virtually every interested observer. Can their middle...
by Fred Block
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and financial crises? The Power of Market Fundamentalism extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain why these dangerous utopian ideas have become the dominant economic ideology of our time.
Hard Choices
Financial Exclusion, Fringe Banks and Poverty in Urban Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to ‘fringe banks,’ such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions. This predicament of ‘financial exclusion’ – faced by those underserved by conventional financial...
A Dream Foreclosed
Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Told through the eyes of four homeowners-a grandmother in Detroit, an entrepreneur in rural North Carolina, a man in Chattanooga, and a mother in Chicago-A Dream Foreclosed presents a people’s history of the U.S. financial crisis and the rise of a people’s movement for economic justice, dignity,...
by Joseph schumpeter
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dogs and Demons
Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2002
The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expert
Japan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the crisis on a broad scale, from the failure of Japan's banks and...
Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia
Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The number of people in South Asia's cities rose by 130 million between 2000 and 2011--more than the entire population of Japan. This was linked to an improvement in productivity and a reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty. But the region's cities have struggled to cope with the pressure of population...
Afterburn
Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play"...