Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Unleashing the Second American Century
Four Forces for Economic Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis... structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force... the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us?
Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about America's...
The Nobel Factor
The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world—the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that, seeking...
Who Runs the Economy?
The Role of Power in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Great Recession
An Unbiased Analysis of the Biggest Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The truth behind the causes and effects of America's economic downturn.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Financial Crisis explains the root causes and connects the events and issues with the problems that have confronted Americans over the course of more than a year, giving readers an unvarnished,...
by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Gar Alperovitz believes that we are at a turning point in American history, in which systemic economic and environmental issues will be at the...
by Hazel Henderson, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1989
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Hazel Henderson evaluates the need for a broader definition of economic development, one which measures progress and prosperity by social as...
Oblivion or Utopia
The Prospects for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Oblivion or Utopia: the Prospects for Africa explains that most of the problems on the continent stem from the fact that, although the continent may be politically independent, it is not economically independent. Efforts to reverse the continent's continuing underdevelopment have failed to date, including...
by Ted Rall
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In arguably the most radical book published in decades, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he was always meant to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American capitalist system created...
by Richard L. Bernal
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China’s economic relationship with the countries of the Caribbean has grown significantly. While most of the burgeoning literature on China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, focus primarily on Latin America, Dragon in the Caribbean...
by Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Has capitalism failed?
Is it fundamentally greedy and immoral, enabling the rich to get richer? Are free markets Darwinian places where the most ruthless crush smaller competitors, where vital products and services are priced beyond the ability of many people to afford them?
Capitalism is the world's...
Comeback America
Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.
As comptroller...
by Allan H. Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached...
Dead Men Ruling
How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The news coming out of Washington, D.C., and reverberating around the nation increasingly sounds like a broken record: low or zero growth in employment, inadequate funds to pay future Social Security and Medicare obligations, declining rates of investment, cuts in funding for education and children’s...
Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank
Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Mainstream economists tell us that developing countries will replicate the economic achievements of the rich countries if they implement the correct “free-market”policies. But scholars and activists Toussaint and Millet demonstrate that this is patently false. Drawing on a wealth of detailed evidence,...