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Why Nations Fail: FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS:
' A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank .' - Guardian ' An important book .' - New York Times Why are some nations more...
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Globalization And Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of
Groundbreaking essays on the new global economy from "an expert observer" ( Forecast ).
The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore
`The thesis presented here will not only change the way in which we understand contemporary Singaporean society and the relationship between the state and its citizens, but will also provoke...
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
A dramatic and powerful call for a new approach to society and government, using the determined co-ordination of the moon landings as a blueprint for change The extraordinary efforts that...
Behind the Myth: Business, Money and Power in South East Asia
Twenty years of headlong economic growth made the free marketeering Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) the world's fastest growing region from the 1960s to the 1980s. However, the...
Great Expectations: Microeconomic Reform and Australia
The 1980s and `90s have been a period of unprecedented microeconomic reform in Australia, in a bid to make the nation s enterprise environment more competitive. With the full implementation...
The Demographic Cliff: How to survive and prosper during the Great
Dent offers prescient advice on retirement planning, health care, real estate, education, investing, and business strategies. He shows that if you take the time to understand demographic data, using it...
When Corporations Rule the World
For multinational corporations and financial institutions, globalization of economic activity has provided massive increases in their profits and power. Rootless and largely unregulated, they have superseded the old institutional structures...
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary
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"The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a...
Grand Theft Pentagon: How War Contractors Rip Off America and Threaten
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"Jeffrey St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of environmental journalism."--Josh Frank From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars , Grand Theft Pentagon...
The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and
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You might be thinking everything's okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over. You'd be wrong. In The Real Crash, New...
On The Brink
Hank Paulson served as US Treasury Secretary between July 2006 and Jan 2009. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from Harvard. In...
The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to
The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before - including during the Great Depression and the Civil War - because the pillars of democracy that once supported a...
The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to
The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before - including during the Great Depression and the Civil War - because the pillars of democracy that once supported a...
One World, Ready or Not
This text explains the dynamics of the third industrial revolution by describing a story of human struggle: of diverse peoples and nations faced with the same dangers imposed by unregulated...
A Defence of Economic Rationalism
This book provides a defence of the economic rationalist vision, bringing together prominent economic rationalists and providing them with an opportunity to defend their world-view over a range of issues.
Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics - revised 2022 edition
The economy has never been so relevant to so many people as it is now. 'There's no such thing as a free lunch' is the one phrase everyone has heard...
The Twilight Before the Storm: From the Fractured 1930s to Today's
THE TWILIGHT BEFORE THE STORM EXAMINES WHAT IS ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING HUMANITY: HOW CAN WE AVOID A WORLD ON FIRE? The next decade promises to be the...
More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics
Steve Landsburg has been leading the pack of economists who are transforming their science from a drab meditation on graphs and charts into a fascinating window on human nature. Now...
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he...
The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do
The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and...
Capitalism Russian-Style
For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important...
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
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"NATIONAL BESTSELLER" A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. The...
The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England
This uniquely comprehensive study explores all aspects of the English business community as it developed between 1590 and 1720. Drawing largely on material in private papers, Richard Grassby describes and...
The Determination of Production: An Introduction to the Study of
Originally published in 1954, this book presents a concise explanation of the way in which production and prices are determined in the Western world. The text was written with two...
The Trouble with Economic Rationalism
The book titled The Trouble with Economic Rationalism by the author Donald ed Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Death of Economics
'Important and ingenious. Ormerod's book is coolly and clearly written, and in English, as opposed to the kind of impenetrable technical esperanto now used by most economists. It ought to...
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
One of the great surprises in modern military history is the collapse of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991-along with the party-state with which it was inextricably intertwined. In this...
The Great Divide
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and
This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and...
The Upside of Down
Shows in lucid and compelling terms how breakdown looms when a society outgrows its capacity to sustain itself. Homer-Dixon argues we are equipped to avert disaster. Armed with hindsight, increasingly...
The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality is Essential for
How are we to regain economic growth? In this seminal new book based on 60 years of data, economist Stewart Lansley shows that economic equality is necessary for economic growth....
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the
The most up-to-date and well-informed book on the global financial crisis. We are living in the most uncertain financial environment in recent history. A quarter-century of reckless lending, asset stripping,...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour....
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our...
The Physics of Finance: Predicting the Unpredictable: Can Science Beat
After the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on 'complex financial instruments' like derivatives, and the physicists and mathematicians who dreamed them up. But a young academic...
It's Your Money: How banking went rogue, where it is now and how to
The essential guide to navigating the financial industry after the banking crisis, by one of Australia's most trusted financial experts, Alan Kohler You don't need to be an expert to...
Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the
Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up...
Triumph Of The Market
The unifying theme of the essays in this volume is the increasing national and global power and reach of the market and its growing impact on all aspects of human...
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. Read it' Naomi Klein 'This book is going to be influential' Financial Times 'A...
Inside the Banking Crisis: The Untold Story
It was one of the gravest challenges faced by any British government in peacetime. The banking system, taken for granted by most of the population to pay for life's essentials,...
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional...
Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century
In all major regions of the world, the economic recession is deep-seated, resulting in mass unemployment, the collapse of state social programs and the impoverishment of millions of people. The...
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice
Revised, Updated Edition Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was...
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities...
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Using a vast swath of data spanning the past six decades, Unequal Democracy debunks many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the...