Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Making the World Safe for Capitalism
How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.Christopher Doran provides a...
The Economy in the 1980s
A Program for Growth Stability
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
In the decade of the 1970s the U.S. economy experienced its worst performance in four decades. Rising U.S. inflation and stagnant productivity growth were responsible for the worst economic performance of any Western country. The institute has published a number of studies on specific economic problems—on...
Inclusive Dualism
Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
W. Arthur Lewis, the founding father of development economics, proposed a dualist model of economic development in which 'surplus' (predominantly under-employed) labour shifted from lower to higher productivity work. In practice, historically, this meant that labour was initially drawn out of subsistence...
Unlimited Potential
A Conversation with Muhammad Yunus
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus advocates in this interview for a model of social business that uses the market system to deliver solutions for social ills. Yunus, renowned for his work developing microcredit and microfinance through Grameen Bank, explains the need for an economic approach focused on human selflessness and offers a new way out of our current economic crises.
by John Neville Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The elder Keynes argues that almost every problem connected with the scope and method of political economy has given rise to conflict of opinion. The resulting controversies have sometimes been bitter. Those readers, who already have any acquaintance with the literature of economic method should be...
by David N. Balaam, Bradford Dillman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
*** ***A complete and accessible overview of how politics and economics collide in a global context
This text surveys the theories, institutions, and relationships that characterize IPE and highlights them in a diverse range of regional and transnational issues. The bestseller in the field,...
by Roxanne Hovland, Joyce M. Wolburg, Eric E. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This collection of classic and contemporary articles provides context for the study of advertising by exploring the historical, economic, and ideological factors that spawned the development of a consumer culture. It begins with articles that take an institutional and historical perspective to provide...
Reconstructing the Commercial Republic
Constitutional Design after Madison
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
James Madison is the thinker most responsible for laying the groundwork of the American commercial republic. But he did not anticipate that the propertied class on which he relied would become extraordinarily politically powerful at the same time as its interests narrowed. This and other flaws, argues...
by Slavoj Žižek
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Non c'è più alcun dubbio: il capitalismo si sta avvicinando ai suoi ultimi giorni. I quattro cavalieri che annunciano la ventura Apocalisse sono secondo Slavoj Žižek: la crisi ecologica globale; i gravi squilibri del sistema economico-finanziario; la rivoluzione biogenetica; le esplosive fratture...
Roma capitale 2.0
La nuova questione romana un riformismo civico per la capitale
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Roma può tornare a essere un modello? Il sindaco Ignazio Marino ha raccolto da un anno la pesante eredità del Campidoglio dopo cinque anni di governo della destra. E tenta di risollevare la Capitale che mai, nella storia unitaria, ha attraversato un momento di così grave distacco dalla coscienza...
by Dominique Mr. Desruelle, Alfred Mr. Schipke
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Give People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be the answer for our age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.
Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your checking account, with...
Keeping At It
The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.
As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed...
by James Rickards
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
**USA Todaybestseller andWall Street Journal business bestseller**
They say**John Maynard Keynes called gold a "barbarous relic."
***They say***there isn’t enough gold to support finance and commerce.
They say the gold supply can’t increase fast enough to support world growth.
They’re...