Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the...
Aftershock
The Next Economy and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.
When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests...
The Complacent Class
The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller
"Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is the first thing I read every morning. And his brilliant new book, The Complacent Class, has been on my nightstand after I devoured it in one sitting. I am at round-the-clock Cowen saturation...
by Gordon G. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon....
Chasing Goldman Sachs
How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down...And Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem?
Suzanne McGee provides...
More Than Good Intentions
Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
A leading economist and researcher report from the front lines of a revolution in solving the world's most persistent problem.
When it comes to global poverty, people are passionate and polarized. At one extreme: We just need to invest more resources. At the other: We've thrown billions down...
Bait and Switch
The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the...
The Lost Bank
The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account...
by Paul Krugman
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
"Everything Mr. Krugman has to say is smart, important and even fun to read . . . he is one of a handful of very bright, relatively young economists who do everything well." — Peter Passell, New York Times Book Review
In this wonderfully cohesive set of sharp and witty essays, Paul...
The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited
Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed.
Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly achieved classic status for its identification of forces then only beginning to reshape our economy, geography, and workplace. Weaving...
The High-Beta Rich
How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent (1%) broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts - models of financial...
Red Ink
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget in this New York Times bestseller.
In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget--a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress...
by Ruchir Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
**International Bestseller
"Quite simply the best guide to the global economy today." —Fareed Zakaria**
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma’s The Rise...
The Real Crash
America's Coming Bankruptcy - How to Save Yourself and Your Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
You might be thinking everything's okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over.
You'd be wrong.
In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will...