Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist delivers “[a] sobering account of the struggle for world economic supremacy” in this New York Times bestseller (Library Journal).
What can we learn from the events of twentieth century? With the effects of the Cold War still evident in the global...
After the Fall
Saving Capitalism from Wall Street-and Washington
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital so that money and credit flows wouldn't stop, precipitating a depression.Washington's actions weren't...
Paper Promises
Debt, Money, and the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Longlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn...
Ship of Fools
How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until...
Hell at the Gates:
The Inside Story of Ireland's Financial Downfall
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
On 28 November 2010, the Irish government infamously agreed to a bailout from the Troika to save Ireland’s failing economy. This decision had huge and long-lasting social implications for Ireland and her people, and led to the annihilation of Fianna Fáil and its allies in the 2011 general election....
Inside the Room
The Untold Story of Ireland’s Crisis Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
March 2011: Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore have just formed a coalition government between Fine Gael and Labour. Ireland’s banks are broken, unemployment is heading for half a million, the public finances are in deficit, international lenders rate Ireland as ‘junk’ and the country is in an IMF...
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Said One Executive:
“Why should my conscience bother me?”
Here are dramatic true stories of executives whose desire for profit leads them into shameful decisions.
Naming actual executive of major American companies, the authors portray corporate irresponsibility in human term. One...
No Ordinary Disruption
The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend lines resemble saw-tooth mountain ridges.
The...
by Clint McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand that was published in 1957. The moral of the story is that Politicians usually over-respond to a crisis. They go 5 times too far in response so that they can show the voters that they did something big. They spawn new government programs, laws and regulations....
States and the Reemergence of Global Finance
From Bretton Woods to the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central...
Power, Money, and Trade
Decisions that Shape Global Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book is an introduction to International Relations that uses examples from International Political Economy (IPE). It presents the theories and paradigms of International Relations in the context of the issues of trade, investment, and monetary relations. Largely it does so by developing historical...
La verità, vi prego, sul neoliberismo
Il poco che c'è, il tanto che manca
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 17, 2019
«Il mondo in cui viviamo si trova in una grave situazione, le idee che chiamiamo neoliberiste rischiano di portarci alla catastrofe, ovunque». Così si esprimeva il regista inglese Ken Loach, con toni apocalittici, ritirando la Palma d’oro vinta a Cannes nel 2016. Anche lui, come altri personaggi...
Red and Blue and Broke All Over
Restoring America's Free Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
New York Times bestselling author of The Dollar Meltdown***.***
In his New York Times bestseller The Dollar Meltdown, Charles Goyette showed how increasing government debt is destroying the dollar and the wealth of the American people. But the problem goes much deeper: the country is heading...
The New Geography
How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines...