Macroeconomics category: 2722 books

This isn't the time to Blink. It's time to THINK! -- before it's too late. Outraged by the downward spiral of American intellect and culture, Michael R. LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on...

The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following titles: 1) The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 2) The State and Revolution – V.I. Lenin Marx and Engels presented an analytical approach to the class struggle and the problems...

El 14 de marzo de 2012, más de tres millones de personas leyeron la carta de Greg Smith en The New York Times titulada «Por qué dejo Goldman Sachs». Se extendió por internet, se convirtió en trending topic en Twitter y levantó respuestas apasionadas del antiguo presidente de la Reserva...

The government budget is not like a household budget. This report introduces the financial operations used by a central government with a free-floating currency, and explains how they differ from that of a household or corporation. The focus is on what constraints such a government faces, and explains...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. The Law - Frederic Bastiat 2. Essays on Political Economy - Frederic Bastiat 3. Two Treaties of Government- John Locke John Locke was an economic liberalist and he believed...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. David Ricardo made essential contributions to classical economics and has been called the most influential classical economist along with Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and John Stuart Mill. The letters in the book...

Thomas Sowell's indispensable examination of the most popular economic fallacies In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include...

The scourge of America’s economy isn't the success of the 1 percent—quite the opposite. The real problem is the government’s well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success.   Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences, which...

This pamphlet is adapted from Chapter 1 of Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-89, by the same author. That book is full of history of the evolution of the Fund during 11 years in which the institution truly came of age as a participant in the international financial system.

Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like the Federal Reserve Board. It turns out they were wrong. Their equations...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Thomas Hobbes is a great philosopher and one of the founders of the modern system of political philosophy. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers as Isaac Newton, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Francis Bacon, and Jean...

The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter. The Distribution of Wealth by John Bates Clark, one of the greatest American economists, was widely acclaimed and it was widely used by students of studying economics. John Clark influences on economic theory are in the...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. Democracy in America: Volume 1 - Alexis de Tocqueville 2. Democracy in America: Volume 2 - Alexis de Tocqueville 3. Constitution of the United States of America Alexis...

"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson Lears A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets...