Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Robert D. Blackwill, Jennifer M. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Nations carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Yet America often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. Robert Blackwill and Jennifer Harris show that if U.S. policies are left uncorrected, the price in blood and treasure will only grow. Geoeconomic warfare requires a new vision of U.S. statecraft.
by Tony Pua
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The book tells the tale of Malaysia's political economy, on how politics is deeply intertwined with the economy. The author backs his thesis that corruption, cronyism and abuse of power is crippling Malaysia's ability to compete in the global economy with facts and figures. His insights tells of how...
Why States Recover
Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and international aid. Malawi, on the other...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system—so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book. The authors offer documentary evidence to support their conclusion...
Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
• Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.
• Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.
•...
Vanishing Frontiers
The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier,...
Inflation-Conscious Investments
Avoid the most common investment pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Understand inflation in no time! Find out everything you need to know about making informed investment choices with this practical and accessible guide.
Inflation is an important consideration for anyone looking to make a smart investment, as it will affect the real value of the money involved...
by Better Business Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
In Makers and Takers, Rana Foroohar does not take the objective reporters approach, though she is a journalist and business analyst for news agencies like the Time and CNN. In this piece, she throws her weight behind in the belief that capitalism is doing the United States great injustice and if the...
The Great Disruption
How business is coping with turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The Great Disruption is a collection drawn from Adrian Wooldridge's influential Schumpeter columns in The Economist addressing the causes and profound consequences of the unprecedented disruption of business over the past five years.
The Great Disruption has many causes. The internet is spreading...
A Future Perfect
The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture?...
by Nunziante Mastrolia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The free market economic theory as one of the causes that turned a Republic into a despotism.
The Greatest Catastrophe of the 20th Century. Or, How the Soviet Union Disintegrated in 1991.
SHORT STORY # 31. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions."
The USA is sinking...
The Audacity of Greed
Free Markets, Corporate Thieves, and the Looting of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Over the past quarter century, we have lived through the greatest looting of wealth in human history. While billions of dollars streamed into the pockets of a few elites in the corporate and economic class, the vast majority of citizens have lived through a period of falling wages, disappearing pensions,...
Handmaking America
A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
America has survived an economic near-disaster. While the state of employment and housing will one day improve, we will never return to the delusional prosperity that defined the first decade of the 21st century. Progressives should hold the key to quality of life in our coming post-consumerist society,...