Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This edited collection aims to analytically reconceptualise the Syrian crisis by examining how and why the country has moved from a stable to a war-torn society. It is written by scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, all of whom make no attempt to speculate on the future trajectory...
Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society
Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book deals with one of the most pressing social and environmental issues that we face today. The transition to a post-carbon society, in which the consumption of fossil fuels decreases over time, has become an inevitability due to the need to prevent catastrophic climate change, the increasing...
by Joe Bolger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The study contains analyses and recommendations on the approaches to capacity development that work best and the conditions that have been conducive to their success, the unique challenges faced by Pacific developing member countries in addressing capacity constraints, and the implications for future interventions at both the strategic and operational levels.
Europeanizing Greece
The Effects of Ten Years of EU Structural Funds, 1989-1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
While Greece's debt crisis continues to dominate international headlines, the country has received remarkably little scholarly attention – especially in comparison to other European Union members. Europeanizing Greece explores the developments that resulted from Greece's European integration between...
by Stewart Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Glenn Beck (born February 10, 1964, Mount Vernon, Washington, U.S.) is an American conservative political commentator and television and radio personality, perhaps best known for hosting the talk show Glenn Beck (2009–11) on the Fox News Channel. He is the current host of a talk-radio show, “The...
by Murray N Rothbard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The era of modern economics emerged with the publication of Carl Mengers seminal work, Principles of Economics, in 1871. In this slim book, Menger set forth the correct approach to theoretical research in economics and elaborated some of its immediate implications. In particular, Menger sought to...
Pigs at the Trough
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
“Wonderfully incendiary and right-headed . . .Huffington is mad as hell, and rightly so.” –Esquire
The scathing and insightful New York Times bestseller, now updated to include the current economic crisis
Pigs at the Trough is Arianna Huffington’s eerily prescient exposé of...
When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out
The World's Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse, Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical citizen enjoying a higher...
Systems of Survival
A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life.
In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores...
by David C. Korten
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule
A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It's a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations...
The Wealth of Humans
Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now.
Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent...
White Working Class
Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save America
An Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white...
Our Lot
How Real Estate Came to Own Us
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Our Lot tells how an entire nation got swept up in real estate mania, and it casts the business story--the collapse of the subprime empire and the global impact it had on the economy--as part of a project of social engineering beginning in the 1930s by the U.S. government to make homeownership available...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American Prospect
In this forceful and impassioned...