Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Entrepreneurship
A New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in entrepreneurship...
The Invention of Capitalism
Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2000
The originators of classical political economy—Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others—created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial...
The Billionaire Raj
A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society
India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly...
Playing Against the House
The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic Nickel and Dimed, a talented young journalist goes undercover as a casino labor-union organizer in this rare inside look at the ongoing struggle of hourly-wage service workers to survive in America.
“Salting” is a simple concept—get hired...
The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy
Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
How America went bankrupt and how we can save ourselves--as a country and as individuals--from economic disaster.
Griftopia
Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America.
The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding—has...
13 Bankers
The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this...
The City
London and the Global Power of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really works
The City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the development of global capital. It is also, as this groundbreaking book reveals, a crucial...
The Plundered Planet
Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's...
Overhaul
An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
A uniquely informed investigative account of one of the biggest financial crises of President Obama’s early administration
During his first year in office, President Obama faced the possibility of more than a million lost jobs as GM and Chrysler headed for financial ruin. He joined forces...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
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Unintended Consequences
Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many commonly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down payments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into assuming mortgages...
In the ghetto
A Nigerian experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In the ghetto is a relational nonfictional work on the lives of the people in the slum and/or ghetto in Nigeria. It is a bland realistic recount of a bona-fide and present ghetto resident with same experiences in a few other ghettos within the country. The book expunges all about the joy, sadness,...
by Judith Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010