Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Governance of the European Monetary Union
Recasting Political, Fiscal and Financial Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The crisis in the euro area is a defining moment in the history of European integration. It has revealed major flaws in the architecture of the European Union; it has challenged European institutions to shape an appropriate response; and it has tested the patience of a European public that is eager...
The Eurozone Crisis and the Future of Europe
The Political Economy of Further Integration and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The authors uncover the roots of the eurozone crisis, focusing on how this can be solved against the backdrop of a very deep financial and economic crisis and its strong social impact. Looking at the impact of the financial crisis on the eurozone, they explore the European Union's recent and future developments.
The Bonds of Debt
Borrowing Against the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life
The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this timely book, cultural critic Richard...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Beliefs held by US and European elites about unregulated markets and a currency union without fiscal union led to a transatlantic crisis unmatched in severity since the Great Depression. Leading scholars of elites analyze how elites have responded to the crisis, are altered by it and what this 'hour of elites' means for democracy.
THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Nature, Causes, Utility & Drift of Business Enterprise)
A Political Economy Book
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Nature, Causes, Utility & Drift of Business Enterprise)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Theory of Business Enterprise is a political economy book that looks at the growing...
Ten Years of Currency Revolution
1922-1932
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Originally published in 1935, this book charts the revolution from a banking to an industrial conception of currency which took place between 1922 and 1932. Having failed to stabilise the purchasing power of gold, General Strong stabilised the purchasing power of the dollar, an idea which was revived...
Alternatives to Capitalism
Proposals for a Democratic Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not difficult to list capitalism’s myriad injustices. But is there a preferable and workable alternative?
Alternatives...
by David M. Kotz
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
The collapse that began in 2008 continues to burden the world economy. David Kotz, one of the few academic economists to predict it, argues that the ongoing crisis is not simply the aftermath of financial panic and severe recession but is a structural crisis of neoliberal capitalism whose resolution will require major institutional restructuring.
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…”
The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament....
by David Layfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
How can Marxism help us understand the contemporary environmental situation? How can Marxism help greens respond to this situation? Marxism and Environmental Crises answers these questions by claiming that Marxism offers a uniquely useful means to understand the various environmental crises that affect...
The Future of Social Security Policy
Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen’s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum...
The Political Economy of Progress
John Stuart Mill and Modern Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes today. A rereading of Mill's mature...
The Vested Interests and the Common Man & An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation
From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America & Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Vested Interests and the Common Man & An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Vested Interests and The Nature of Peace are two books by...
by Richard Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Richard Pipes, Harvard scholar and historian of the Russian Revolution, brings his remarkable erudition to an exploration of a wide range of national and political systems to demonstrate persuasively that private ownership has served over the centuries to limit the power of the state and enable democratic...