Economics category: 26433 books
Liberating Economics
Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently...
Building Chicago Economics
New Perspectives on the History of America's Most Powerful Economics Program
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Over the past forty years, economists associated with the University of Chicago have won more than one-third of the Nobel prizes awarded in their discipline and have been major influences on American public policy. Building Chicago Economics presents the first collective attempt by social science...
Summary: Applied Economics - Thomas Sowell
Thinking Beyond Stage One
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Thomas Sowell's book: "Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One".This summary of the ideas from Thomas Sowell's book "Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One" examines the decisions made in American politics and the impact they have on the economy. In his book, the author...
Takeover
Foreign Investment and the Australian Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history?
As a matter of fact, yes. Efforts by the reviled US company IT&T to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. And this is just one of the strange twists and turns...
The Fortunes of Liberalism
Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions." The collapse of Eastern Europe dramatically captured in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. F. A. Hayek, "grand old man of capitalism" and founder of the classical liberal, free-market revival which ignited and inspired these world events,...
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...
by John Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
"Keynesian Economics, The Cancer in America". This book is the 4th book written by John Shannon. It is one in a series of books about economics, investing, politics, and political satire. Even though each book has all the above characteristics, each book also has it's dominant theme. "Keynesian...
Economics Made Simple
How money, trade and markets really work
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
How do banks work? What does the City do? Why do prices rise or fall? Is competition wasteful? How can we create more wealth? What causes globalization and how does it affect people? This book answers these and other questions, not in the way that economics textbooks do - with graphs, abstract models,...
Easy Economics
A Visual Guide to What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Let's face it, economics can be boring…but we all need a decent understanding of the basics if we want to survive in these difficult and uncertain times. Let's make it more interesting. Easy Economics isn't packed with reams of text or stacks of numbers, this book is visual and engaging. The book...
The Economics of Transport
A Theoretical and Applied Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book provides an explanation of key underlying economic principles, allowing the reader to come to a better understanding of the critical factors that structure and guide transport markets. This is done through an examination of the interaction between the behaviour of individual users and providers...
by Joseph P. Daniels, David D. VanHoose
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This introduction to all aspects of international economics, business and finance is the clearest guide available to the economics of the world we live in. Written in a highly engaging style, packed full of up-to-the minute, real-world case studies and pitched at introductory level, the book does...
Capital Controversy, Post Keynesian Economics and the History of Economic Thought
Essays in Honour of Geoff Harcourt, Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Harcourt has made substantial and wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post Keynesian economics in particular. In this volume more than forty leading economists pay tribute to and critically evaluate his work. The contributors represent a wide range of schools in economics, and include Nobel Laureates Paul Samuelson and Robert Solow.
Economics in Perspective
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance, he shows that economics is not a timeless, objective...
by Hendrik S. Houthakker, Peter J. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1996
This book puts economics to work on the daily problems faced by investors, traders, speculators and brokers as they wrestle with increasingly complex financial markets. Drawing on data direct from the financial behavior of households, corporations, and governments, through to the prices of individual...