Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Beyond Market and Government
Influence of Ethical Factors on Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book explores how moral factors exert influence on economy from an economic and philosophical point of view. The book takes an in-depth look at topics such as efficiency and coordination, fairness and identification, law and self-discipline and the third distribution, which have long been the...
Birth of Hegemony
Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
With American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge—and are able to create conditions for lasting stability—is of utmost importance in international relations. The generally accepted wisdom is that liberal superpowers, with economies...
Dog Days
Australia After the Boom
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A blueprint for the nation after the boom.
Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead?
In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter.
Adam Smith died on July 17, 1790 one year before French Revolution from 1789 to 1799. He as a founder of free market economic system is best known for two classic works The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The...
Political Power and Economic Inequality
A Comparative Policy Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Political Power and Economic Inequality offers a balanced comparative analysis of worldwide income inequality. Charles F. Andrain explores the ways that government institutions, political parties, private corporations, labor unions, and protest movements influence public programs. How do these organizations...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
An analysis of 2014 budget outcomes and 2015 budget plans of Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank is the focus of this issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor. The policy briefs in this issue consider longer-run opportunities and challenges facing Pacific economies from changing external conditions.
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by Daniel Leab
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
A riveting look at the financial cycles in American economic history from colonial times to the present day, with an eye on the similarities and differences between past and present conditions as analyzed by leading economic historians.
• Offers excerpts from more than 65 primary documents...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
It’s time to rewrite the rules—to curb the runaway flow of wealth to the top one percent, to restore security and opportunity for the middle class, and to foster stronger growth rooted in broadly shared prosperity.
Inequality is a choice.
The United States bills itself as the land...
Hall of Mirrors
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac...
Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics (Open Access)
Sovereignty and state power in a multipolar world
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues...
Ideal Islamic Economy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur’an—a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger. The authors argue that the main reason...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination...
Economic Diversification in the Gulf Region, Volume I
The Private Sector as an Engine of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This volume focuses on the role of the private sector in diversifying the economics of Gulf countries in the post-petrodollar era, when fluctuating and declining oil prices are negatively impacting national expenditures. It explores current policies of countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council and...
Rebirth
Political, Economic and Social Development in First Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
During the last twenty years, voices from the First Nations have become louder, expressing their own solutions to problems that have plagued their communities since contact with the Europeans. Their traditional ways of thinking and living have become more visible to those from outside First Nations....