Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
The Next Economic Disaster
Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic calamities...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
The Economics Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas in economics, from the earliest experiences of trade to global economic crises.
Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Economics Book makes...
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Thomas Sowell's indispensable examination of the most popular economic fallacies
In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include...
Business as Usual
The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The recent global economic downturn has affected nearly everyone in every corner of the globe. Its vast reach and lingering effects have made it difficult to pinpoint its exact cause, and while some economists point to the risks inherent in the modern financial system, others blame long-term imbalances...
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
**In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017**
For most of Western history, Sitaraman...
by Lawrence Mishel, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
From reviews of previous editions—
*"*The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy."—Robert B. Reich
"It is the inequality of wealth, argue the...
Cultures Merging
A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes...
Cracking the China Conundrum
Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view...
by Bruce Caldwell, Samuel Hollander, Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories...
by Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, Arno Tausch
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving relationships between the global...
Global Economic Disparity
A Dynamic Force in Geoeconomic Competition of Superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The world is a veritable stage for superpowers. Major historical events are best viewed as the outcomes of games played by superpowers for their own economic interests. The objective of this book is to explore the primary cause of global historical events. A global economic disparity (GED) motivates...
Botswana – A Modern Economic History
An African Diamond in the Rough
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Together with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to its spectacular long-run economic performance and impressive social development, it has been termed both an economic success story and a developmental state. While there is uniqueness...
The Crises of Capitalism
A Different Study of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
For nearly 300 years, capitalism propelled the world's most successful economies to new heights of development. But a spate of global environmental disasters and severe economic crises compels thinkers to question whether the system continues to function. Leveraging historical perspective, extensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Reforms are a necessary part of social and economic regulation. Each year, political pressure for economic reform becomes more prevalent, especially from various international organizations and business associations. Economic Reforms for Global Competitiveness is an essential reference source for the...