Economics category: 26433 books
by James Gustave Speth, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
The task of aligning the interests of liberals and environmentalists is not an easy one. There is a fundamental split between them on the question...
The Instant Economist
Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The Only Economics Book You Will Ever Need - A Library Journal 2012 Best Business Book of the Year
Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists-when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries....
by David Morris, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1996
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, David Morris describes the growing tension between the globalization of economies and the...
by Jane Jacobs, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1983
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
According to Jane Jacobs the healthiest economic regions are those which have strong and innovative import-replacing cities of their own. The...
New Ideas from Dead Economists
An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
**"If you read only one economics book this year, read this one.”—Larry Summers, Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama
A must-read for students of economics, New Ideas from Dead Economists offers an entertaining...
by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1994
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance,...
The Dao of Capital
Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
As today's preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, “one gains by losing and loses by gaining.” This is Austrian Investing, an archetypal, counterintuitive, and proven approach, gleaned from the 150-year-old Austrian School of economics,...
The Political Economy of Pipelines
A Century of Comparative Institutional Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies. Central to this supply are the pipelines that transport this energy. And...
by Christopher Houghton Budd, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2005
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Explaining how we as individuals relate to the complex worlds of Money and Capital, Christopher Houghton Budd shows that an understanding of...
Analyzing Strategic Behavior in Business and Economics
A Game Theory Primer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This textbook is an introduction to game theory, which is the systematic analysis of decision-making in interactive settings. Game theory can be of great value to business managers. The ability to correctly anticipate countermove by rival firms in competitive and cooperative settings enables managers...
by David VanHoose
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
This second edition of eCommerce Economics addresses the economic issues associated with using computer-mediated electronic networks, such as the Internet, as mechanisms for transferring ownership of or rights to use goods and services. After studying this book, students will recognize problems that...
Freakonomics Rev Ed
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?
These may not sound like typical...
by Wes Jackson, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1993
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Co-founder of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and pioneer in sustainable agriculture, Wes Jackson is here too a pioneer—for sustainable...
Political Arithmetic
Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand...