Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Phil Angelides, Bill Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
In the wake of the most significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, the President signed into law on May 20, 2009, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, creating the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The Commission was established to "examine the causes, domestic and...
Capitalism
The Future of an Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped...
Falling Behind
How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them,...
by Fischer Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
An updated look at what Fischer Black's ideas on business cycles and equilibrium mean today
Throughout his career, Fischer Black described a view of business fluctuations based on the idea that a well-developed economy will be continually in equilibrium. In the essays that constitute this book,...
by Richard Burdekin, Farrokh Langdana
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
At the time in which this book was first published in 1992, there was a major concern with the macro-economic implications of fiscal imbalance. As the European economies moved closer to monetary union, and Germany grappled with the fiscal pressures of unification, deficits in the United States exceeded...
Beyond the Profits System
Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with. All have willfully ignored its long-term, systemic causes and are thus unable to chart a way to survival. As explained by Harry Shutt - who was almost alone in...
Nordic-Iberian Cod Value Chains
Explaining salted fish trade patterns
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural, regional and economic factors affecting international food trade. Contributions from expert authors illuminate the importance of food culture prevailing in the market as a basis for decisions about food trading. Central concepts include value...
by Geoff C. Anoke
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This book is designed to give readers an understanding of the interrelationships between leadership ,followership and the access and control of the economic resources of any socio economic cum political system .Here you will learn about the reason for the tensions in our communities and how to deal with them.
Juggernaut
How Emerging Powers Are Reshaping Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Against the long sweep of economic history, the current moment is special. Living standards advanced so rapidly and across so many countries over the last decade that it is difficult to think of parallels-even the deepest recession since the Great Depression did not halt progress.
In Juggernaut,...
Developmental Local Governance
A Critical Discourse in ‘Alternative Development’
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and...
by James King
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Presented with no charts and almost zero math, this essay provides plain language explanations for some of the most relevant economic concepts affecting our world today. For instance, it tells why, despite being a potentially game changing innovation, Bitcoin and other “crypto-currencies” are...
Global America
Understanding Global and Economic Trends and How To Ensure Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
John Manzella, recognized author, speaker and global business consultant, shares his inside perspective on the complex challenges that face America in the domestic and global arena. Get a glimpse of which events cause powerful chain reactions and how they will ultimately impact and shape our future,...
The Economics and Politics of the United States Oil Industry, 1920-1990
Profits, Populism and Petroleum
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book, originally published in 1996, traces the development of US government policy toward the oil industry during the 1920s and 1930s when the domestic syustem of production control was established. It then charts the deveopment and collapse of oil import controls, and the wild scramble for economic...
Slackonomics
Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Generation X grew up in the 1980s, when Alex P. Keaton was going to be a millionaire by the time he was thirty, greed was good, and social activism was deader than disco. Then globalization and the technological revolution came along, changing everything for a generation faced with bridging the analog...