Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Freedom and Economic Order
Capitalism and Socialism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Freedom and Economic Order is the second of three volumes comprising a comprehensive study of freedom and American society. The book explores the economic dimension of freedom as historically conceived within American constitutional order and examines the two major modern economic paradigms, capitalism...
by Lawrence Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Despite South Africa's successful transition to democracy and lauded constitution, political freedom for the majority of South Africans remains elusive. The poor and unemployed majority are poorly represented and lack power and thus freedom. Under these conditions, the freedom of the privileged minority...
by Jurgen Brauer, William G. Gissy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This work addresses new directions in research on the economic theory of conflict, the cost of war, and the benefits of peace. A collection of 17 papers drawing on contributors from all continents, the volume is divided into four sections. The first discusses novel ways to think about the economics...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2019
In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions.
The volume looks across a range of issues. Two papers address the political economy...
Free Lunch
How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé
How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing...
The Great Depression
America 1929-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.
In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative...
Hoodwinked
An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy IMPLODED -- and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as...
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to...
In FED We Trust
Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
“Whatever it takes”
That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched...
The Seven Secrets of Germany
Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent global economy, the German economy has thrived....
Crude Nation
How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately...
Economic Development
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments, development banks, think-tanks, academics, NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obvious reforms never happen? Why are prosperity and...
False Profits
Recovering from the Bubble Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country’s top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions...
Sleeping Giant
The Untapped Economic and Political Power of America's New Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
There was a time when America’s working class was seen as the backbone of the American economy, having considerable political, economic, and moral authority. But the working class we have now—far more female and racially diverse and employed by the fast food, retail, health care, and other service...