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by Michael Shuman, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2002
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Michael Shuman's lecture to the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires points to the shift that is occurring from a global economy...
by Susan Witt, Judy Wicks, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
In these lectures, Susan Witt and Judy Wicks pay tribute to Jane Jacobs, legendary urban activist and visionary. Witt speaks to the warmth...
Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
Benefits, Suspicions, and Risks with Special Attention to FDI from China
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Americans have long been ambivalent toward foreign direct investment in the United States. Foreign multinational corporations may be a source of capital, technology, and jobs. But what are the implications for US workers, firms, communities, and consumers as the United States remains the most popular...
Intellectual Capital
Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
There is arguably no award more recognized in the academic and professional worlds than the Nobel Prize. The public pays attention to the prizes in the fields of economics, literature, and peace because their recipients are identified with particular ideas, concepts, or actions that often resonate...
The Chicago School
How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
When Richard Nixon said We are all Keynesians now” in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, relatively obscure group within the University of Chicago’s business...
Evolution of Economic Ideas
Adam Smith to Amartya Sen and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The history of economic thought can be traced to the Industrial Revolution and the 19th-century Great Divergence until which it remained an integral part of philosophy. This book deals with different thinkers and theories to explore ideas that later became the foundation of modern economics. Through...
Why Save the Bankers?
And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Thomas Piketty’s work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies...
The Great Money Binge
Spending Our Way to Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
According to George Melloan, the erosion of supply-side economic principles began shortly after Ronald Reagan left office, when his successor, George H.W. Bush, caved in to pressures from Congress and reneged on his campaign promise to not raise taxes. Bush, who once called supply-side “voodoo economics,”...
Econobabble
How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Economics is like a tyre lever: it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head …
What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when public figures and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the...
Contra Keynes and Cambridge
Essays, Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
In 1931, when the young F. A. Hayek challenged the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, sixteen years his senior, and one of the world's leading economists, he sparked a spirited debate that would influence economic policy in democratic countries for decades. Their extensive exchange lasted until...
by Can Akdeniz
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
If you are a business man or economics student, this course is a must read for you. In this course, people will learn about International Political Economy.
It is necessary for everyone, who is related to trade, finance, business or economy, to learn about International Political Economy.
In...
by Kevin Bucknall
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This free eBook contains the following chapters
1 An Introduction to Economics in 5,000 Words and a Bit
2 Trying to Make Sense of Economic Policy—What Do Governments Try to Do?
3 Trying to Make Sense of Economic Policy—Why is it Difficult to Get it Right?
4 Business Cycles, Recessions and Economic...
by Adam Smith, John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
The book has an active table of contents to access each chapter of the following titles:
1. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS – ADAM SMITH
2. TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT – JOHN LOCKE
The similarities between Adam Smith and John Locke are both economic liberalists. They both believed...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
The book has an active table of contents to easy access to each chapter of the following titles:
1. The Wealth of Nations
2. The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 by Adam Smith and it is one of the most important economic works in economic...