Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Theodore Sky
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, economic,...
Good Italy, Bad Italy
Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn of...
The Invisible Camorra
Neapolitan Crime Families across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The organized crime group that dominates much of the socioeconomic life of contemporary Naples, the Camorra, is organized by kin and geography, and it is notoriously the most violent, fractious, and disorganized mafia in Italy. The Camorra controls local extortion rackets, the drug and counterfeit...
Distant Neighbors
A Portrait of the Mexicans
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.
Breaking Through Power
It's Easier Than We Think
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The intention of this book is to crystalize Ralph Nader's core message and package it as a Thomas Paine wake up call--passionate, accessible, well-argued, story driven, and rooted in core American principles.
This title is an original work, rather than a collection of articles.
Nader's...
by Morris Berman
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
In Dark Ages America, the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there is no return.
As the corporate-consumerist juggernaut that now defines the nation rolls on, the very factors that once propelled America to greatness—extreme...
Singapore
Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative approach, Trocki demonstrates the links between Singapore’s colonial past and independent present,...
The Dollar Trap
How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008–2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar’s looming displacement as...
Running on Empty
How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
When Bush came to office in 2001, the 10-year budget balance was officially projected to be at a surplus of $5.6 trillion. But after three big tax cuts, the bursting of the stock-market bubble, and the devastating effects of 9/11on the economy, the surplus has evaporated, and the deficit is expected...
by Philippe Girard
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally;...
End of The Good Life
How the Financial Crisis Threatens a New Lost Generation--and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y. This is her generation.
Indeed, Generation Y has suffered the brunt of the financial crisis and great recession. For those in the U.S. born after 1976, the American dream is a...
The Future and Its Enemies
The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is...
by Edgar Morin, Stephane Hessel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
An incisive political tract that calls for a return to humanist values: equality, liberty, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out...
by Daniel Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2006
A provocative argument that that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created by modern media and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.