Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
The Fox in the Henhouse
How Privatization Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Privatization has been on the right-wing agenda for years, but now it has the power of the Bush administration behind it. Health care, schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons--all are considered fair game. But does privatization really serve the public good? Or is it a payoff...
Gorbachev
On My Country and the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1999
Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place...
Battlers and Billionaires
The Story of Inequality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?
In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best.
From egalitarian...
The Classical Debt
Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
“Greek debt” means one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who prize culture over capital, it means the symbolic debt we owe Greece for democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Johanna Hanink shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the country’s economic hardship and refugee crisis.
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Language: French
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Les deux premières éditions de ce Manuel ont paru anonymes. Je crois de mon devoir de dire pourquoi j’appose ma signature à la troisième.
Lorsqu’en 1853-54, MM. Carnier frères, désirant pour leur librairie une espèce de Vade mecum de la Bourse, me prièrent...
The Great Progression
How Hispanics Will Lead America to a New Era of Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In this prophetic and profoundly hopeful book, Peabody and Emmy(r) Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera details the myriad ways Hispanics will help revitalize our declining economy, energize our distressed troops, and invigorate our national government.
Featuring candid and revealing interviews...
Encyclopedic Liberty
Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D’Alembert
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change the way men think” about every aspect of the human and natural worlds. In his celebrated “Preliminary Discourse” to the compilation,...
From Marx to Mises
Post Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Ecomic Calculation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
In 1920, Ludwig von Mises proclaimed that all attempts to establish socialism would come to grief, for reasons of informational efficiency. At first, socialists and economists took Mises's argument seriously, but by the end of the Second World War, a consensus prevailed that Mises had been discredited....
Negative Capitalism
Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the current economic crisis. Through a ranging series of analyses and perspectives, it argues that cynicism has become culturally embedded in the UK and US as an effect of disempowerment by neoliberal...
From Prosperity to Austerity
A socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial developments have been reflected in writing, film and culture in order to offer a more rounded analysis...
by Ernest Mandel, Ted Richmond, Jim Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
From Socialisme No. 17 issue, translated from the French by Ted Richmond and Jim Peterson
What Adam Smith Knew
Moral Lessons on Capitalism from Its Greatest Champions and Fiercest Opponents
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
What exactly is capitalism, and why do its advocates support it? What are the main objections to capitalism that have been raised by its critics? Are there moral reasons to support capitalism, or to oppose it? In this time of globalization and economic turbulence, these questions could not be more timely...
by Alexander Twist
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A guide to the free revolutionary thinking that can liberate a continent from economic oppresion and inequalities.
The Great Deformation
The Corruption of Capitalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A New York Times bestseller
The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state-especially the Federal Reserve-has...