Economic Policy category: 3057 books
The Anatomy of Inequality
Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality, at a level that surpasses what could be expected from normal differences in individuals’ capabilities alone.”
So begins this new approach to the greatest social ill of our time, and nearly every other era. From a country with one...
The New New Deal
The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation...
Common Sense Economics
What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
With the global economy recovering from a steep recession, and with that recovery challenging our long-held ideas about what careers and the market can be, learning the basics of economics has never been more essential. Principles such as gains from trade, the role of profit and loss, and the secondary...
The Fix
How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World's Worst Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
We all know the bad news. Our economies are stagnant. Wages are flat and income inequality keeps rising. The Middle East is burning and extremism is spreading. Frightened voters are embracing populist outsiders and angry nationalists. And no wonder: we are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy--How to Save Yourself and Your Country by Peter Schiff. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary,...
Everything for Everyone
The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback.
A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as...
The Escape Artists
How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
FACING THE WORST ECONOMY SINCE THE 1930S, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HIRED A CRACK TEAM OF ESCAPE ARTISTS: financial wizards who had pulled off numerous white-knuckle getaways during the Clinton era and who were ready to do it all over again. Three years later, with the economy still in a rut, it’s...
by Joe Atikian
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
America's embargo against Cuba has obviously had a broad and serious impact on the island's economy, but nobody has said exactly why it is obvious.
We hear that food is rationed and that medicines are scarce, and yet Cuba's life expectancy is just as good as America's. Newspapers report that cars...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A revised and enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's essential examination of differences of wealth and income between nations and within nations
Wealth, Poverty and Politics challenges the assumptions, the definitions, the evidence and the reasoning of most of what is said about differences of...
Networks
Standardization, Infrastructure, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New information and communication technologies unquestionably brought about enormous changes that resulted in an ever-increasing networked society. Indeed, there is no area in the social and economic world which is unaffected by the recent advances. In response to these changes scientists from numerous...
China, Inc.
How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2005
The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman's bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the...
Free the Market!
Why Only Government Can Keep the Marketplace Competitive
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Why we need government intervention in the free market to protect competition and encourage innovation
Starting about thirty years ago, conservatives forced an overhaul of competition policy that has loosened business rules for everything from selling products to buying competitors.
Gary Reback...
The Accumulation of Freedom
Writings on Anarchist Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists...
Myanmar in Transition
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Myanmar, which is emerging from decades of isolation, is poised to accelerate its economic growth on the back of its abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location. But the country faces many development challenges to achieve strong and inclusive growth. To take advantage...