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Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
The former FDIC chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis.
Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance...
Fundamentos de BPMN
Una guía básica para el diseño de procesos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Muchas metodologías de trabajo se basan en el uso de "procesos", entendidos como una secuencia de acciones predefinida, que genera un resultado predecible. Pero diseñar e implantar procesos claros, comprensibles y aplicables por todo el mundo es una tarea terriblemente compleja en la que,...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce...
by Robert J. Shiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market...
Equal Is Unfair
America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to...
Fed Up
An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A Federal Reserve insider pulls back the curtain on the secretive institution that controls America’s economy
After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst...
by Janet Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators - from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett, Scott...
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration,...
The Good Society
The Human Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
The legendary economist explains how a nation can remain both compassionate and fiscally sound, with “common sense raised to the level of genius” (The New Yorker).
This compact, eloquent book offers a blueprint for a workable national agenda that allows for human weakness without compromising...
When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out
The World's Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse, Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical citizen enjoying a higher...
Neither Snow Nor Rain
A History of the United States Postal Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**“****[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —**USA Today
Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans...
The Age of Oversupply
Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The invisible hand of capitalism is broken. Economic and political forces are preventing markets from correcting themselves, and we're now living in an unprecedented age of oversupply.
Governments and central banks across the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our...
The Next Economic Disaster
Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic calamities...
The Price of Prosperity
Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength—and the foundation of a national renewal.
America...