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3 Types of Economies. Market, Planning, and Mixed
SHORT STORY # 54. Nonfiction series #1- # 60
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
There are 3 types of economies: market, planning, and mixed. The story gave definitions and introduced advantages and disadvantages of each type of economy.
The author lived under all 3 types of economies: planning (in the former Soviet Union), mixed (in Africa: Rwanda and Tanzania), and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the impact of the creation of the European Communities on the international system and how the EU is perceived...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Suppose that in response to learning that some sick individuals were denied health insurance, the government mandates that insurance companies must offer insurance to everyone at unregulated rates. (a) Why might this not help reduce the number of uninsured? Explain. (b) An alternative strategy for...
The Dissolution of the Financial State
A Marxian Examination of the Political Economy of Money Since the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book argues that post-Keynesian theories of endogenous money can be combined with Marxian analysis in order to give insight into the changing power relations between the state, finance sector and real economy since WW2. A key theme is that financial power, derived from the control of money-issue...
An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism
Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China’s economic rise. This perception is spread in no small measure because Xi Jinping has – in the face of patent military inferiority – conducted himself much more boldly...
UBER - GOOD OR BAD ECONOMY
"10 Insights into The Biggest Disruption of Our Era"
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
This book answers the following questions:
# How does UBER affect next generations of entrepreneurs? # Why does Uber have surge price? # Regardless of complaints, Uber never removes surge price. Why ? # What surge pricing tells about your region's or city's economy ? # Riders: How to...
by Giacomo Corneo
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Giacomo Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, in the form of a fictional dialogue between a daughter indignant about economic injustice and her father, a professor of economics. They tour hypothetical systems in which production and consumption obey noncapitalistic rules and test the systems’ economic feasibility.
Ending Big Government
The Essential Case for Capitalism and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Statism denotes any system of big government, a government that gains power at the expense of individual freedom, a government that uses its power to redistribute wealth and regulate the economy. Laissez-faire capitalism, by contrast, is the system of limited government, the system of economic and political...
Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, a timely addition to Oxford's acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know...
by Niall Kishtainy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous...
Plastic Money
Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a "credit-card economy" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card?...
by Dwight H. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
In the early 1960s fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China's per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in rural South Korea put it among the world's poorest countries. Today, these are three of the most powerful economies on earth. Dwight Perkinsdraws...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The Doha Development Agenda held the promise of substantial gains for developing countries. However, the realization of these gains is far from obvious: the interests of various groups of countries differ greatly and technical complexities have hampered further progress since the very start of the...
Beyond Western Economics
Remembering Other Economic Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case...