Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
From Stalinism to Eurocommunism
The Bitter Fruits of 'Socialism in One Country'
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process which has transformed the once embattled detachments...
Democratic by Design
How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Americans have, since our founding, participated in a variety of alternative institutions--self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business to change society. From the town meetings that still serve as our ideal of self-governance, to the sustainable...
by Jeroen Dijsselbloem
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Er is al veel gezegd en geschreven over de eurocrisis: over de oorzaken en het gevolg van de ineenstortende economie, de peperdure redding van banken, de oplopende schulden, het voorspelde einde van de euro, de dreigende exit van Griekenland, de voortdurende zoektocht naar de schuldigen, de onenigheid...
The War on Moms
On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
"A stinging account of how public policy and private businesses have failed to adapt to working mothers."
--Jennifer Ludden, NPR
Why life is harder on American families than it's been in decades—the book that takes the blame away from moms and puts it where it really belongs
Pressed...
The Price of a Bargain
The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
A brilliant investigation into the true cost of our bargain economy — and the end of consumerism as we know it
Ours is the age of discount: we want more, cheaper, better. But the result is low wages, urban blight, environmental damage, labour abuses, a cookie-cutter model of progress, and...
This Changes Everything
Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
We Are the 99% The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations— something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. But the movement goes far beyond this critique. This Changes Everything shows how...
by T. Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece's current political and economic failures. It argues that the sovereign debt crisis only exacerbated the malfunctioning of a democracy long ago contaminated by populist politics while also offering a more general insight into the impact of populism
Energy of Slaves, The
Oil and the New Servitude
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
"A startling critique that should rouse us from our pipe dream of endless plenty." -- Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress
A radical analysis of our master-and-slave relationship to energy and a call for change.
Ancient civilizations routinely relied on shackled...
No Way Out?
Government Intervention and the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In response to the ongoing financial crisis, the U.S. government has significantly expanded its role in economy, resulting in new legislation and both public and private policy overhauls. But these hasty efforts to buoy the economy may ultimately do more harm than good. In No Way Out?, Vincent R....
by Professor Kathryn C. Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
In Money and Banks in the American Political System, debates over financial politics are woven into the political fabric of the state and contemporary conceptions of the American dream. The author argues that the political sources of instability in finance derive from the nexus between market innovation...
People Over Capital
The Co-operative Alternative to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Capitalism is failing and ordinary people are forced to pay the price. With such deep-rooted problems there is real hunger for alternative ways of organizing our economic system. Answering the question, "Is there a co-operative alternative to capitalism?" this book showcases fourteen responses...
Marketcraft
How Governments Make Markets Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all, by governments. Thus "marketcraft" represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft and requires considerable artistry to govern markets effectively....
by Matthew Bishop, The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Economics is all around us, essential to every aspect of our lives.
But just how much does the average person understand about what Economics is for, how it underpins crucial decisions taken every day and how it has, and continues to, evolve?
Step forward The Economist's official guide...
by Stuart Bruchey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1991, Stuart Bruchey’s study is a historical tribute to the financial innovation of the American Stock Exchange. He chronicles the heyday of Wall Street – from events leading to the Great Depression, through the New Deal and World War II, to the electronic era, the crash of’87,...