Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Gavin Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
This book is a textual criticism of modern ideas about the work of Adam Smith that offers a new perspective on many of his famous contributions to economic thought. Adam Smith is often hailed as a leading figure in the development of economic theories, but modern presentations of his works do not...
by Wes Ifan
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
During a season of economic fragility in the United States of America, the country has reached a turning point where the only true option of rebuilding America is to invest within. This country has been a leader of the free world because we dare to dream. As ordinary people we are innovative and committed...
For a New Political Economy
Volume 21
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1998
Bernard Lonergan's economic writings span forty years and represent one of the most important intellectual achievements of the twentieth century. Unfortunately they have been inaccessible outside of the Lonergan research community as the majority of them have not been formally published, and exist...
Bear Markets
When finance turns upside down
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
How does a bear market in equities differ from a bull market? What lessons can be learned from events of the past quarter century in Japan? Have the norms of financial strategy changed?
This provocative new book shows why the massive long-term capital market top spanning fifteen years cannot...
The Politics of Conflict Economies
Miners, merchants and warriors in the African borderland
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Conflict economies cannot be approached in isolation but must instead be contextualised socially and historically. These economies did not emerge in vacuum, but are part and parcel of the history of people and place.
This book explores the informal and illicit extraction and trade of minerals...
The End of the World as We Know It?
Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to student mobilizations around the world. Weaving together...
Businessmen in Arms
How the Military and Other Armed Groups Profit in the MENA Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The Arab Uprisings have brought renewed attention to the role of the military in the MENA region, where they are either the backbone of regime power or a crucial part of patronage networks in political systems. This collection of essays from international experts examines the economic interests of...
Monetary Policy and Unemployment
The US, Euro-area and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti.
One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what potential...
Bioethics in Perspective
Corporate Power, Public Health and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
In Bioethics in Perspective Scott Mann demonstrates the importance of issues of corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes around the world. The text develops a comprehensive ethical and practical critique of the neoliberal economic ideas which have guided policy...
Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation
How Disciplinary Neoliberalism Is Changing Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored...
Strategic Coupling
East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success...
Marriage Markets
How Inequality is Remaking the American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and...
by Alec Nove
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1961, The Soviet Economy is a well informed work which seeks to acquaint students with the structure and problems of the economy of the USSR. In a balanced and perceptive analysis, Alexander Nove describes the organisation of economic life and of the planning system, analysing the...
by Alec Nove
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1973, Efficiency Criteria for Nationalised Industries asks by what criteria we should judge the efficiency of nationalised industries, what we mean by saying they should be run commercially and where the public interest should lie. In this work, Professor Nove believes we answer...