Economic Conditions

An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century. Published in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The 2008 financial crisis was a seismic event that laid bare how financial institutions' instabilities can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345807229Author Robert B. ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

An analysis of the enduring social costs of the post-2008 economic crisis 2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s...

Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's "The Myth of the Rational Market" is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and...

Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilization deserve to survive? These are the unnerving questions raised by the Great Crash of 2009. This...

'Hodgson's masterful review of orthodoxies and heterodoxies focuses on the absurdity of recommending planning, or scorning it, without answering the empirical question asked in the 1930s by the ''socialist calculation debate.'' How well does planning or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002926Author M.V. Lee BadgettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy...

From solar panels to synthetic biology, an accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging technologies are changing China's relationship with the world, and what it means for governments,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541742390Author Muhammad YunusFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717870Author Greg FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

How do we know where we are in the current stock market cycle? Are we in the midst of a new long term bull market or a market rally within an ongoing bear market? The answers to the above questions are critical to forming an appropriate investment...

Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a...

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious...

Why are the costs of health care and higher education rising so dramatically? How can we keep them affordable for lower- and middle-income American families? The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781337233Author Phil Taylor-GuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966693Author Benjamin AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 595Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 836g

Advances in technology are creating the next economy and enabling us to make things o things/connect with others in smarter, cheaper, faster, more effective ways. But the price of this progress has been a decoupling of the engine of prosperity from jobs...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470928561Author Barry C. LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 390g

Economic historians have made great progress in unraveling the causes of the Great Depression, but not until Scott Sumner came along has anyone explained the multitude of twists and turns the economy took. In The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544947283Author Thomas PikettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Millions of people-nearly 3 percent of the world's population-no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these...

An award-winning reporter chronicles the calamitous story of Washington Mutual, the single-largest bank failure in American history, in this fast-paced, compelling, and gripping saga of greed and excess.During the most dizzying days of the financial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975385Author Charles K RowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 660g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476609Author Simon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307459695Author David WesselFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956466952Author John TyndallFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint The A. K. Chesterton TrustPublisher The A. K. Chesterton Trust

The Church dominated society in the Middle Ages and functioned as a quasi-government, providing public and private goods. This book is the first to examine specific institutions in the Church in the Middle Ages in economic terms. Other books have argued...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119425Author Juliet B. SchorFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 241gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

The difficult economic climate in Europe and the US is set to continue for many years, despite desperate efforts to stimulate growth. The long phase of expansion in western economies that lasted from the 1980s until 2008 was driven by easy money, cheap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981826012Author Michael HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint IsletPublisher IsletWeight(grams) 898g

Historically, the fields of exchange-rate economics and microstructure finance have progressed independently of each other. Recent interaction, however, has given rise to a microstructure approach to exchange rates. This book focuses on the economics of...

Why America no longer leads the world in innovation, why we should be concerned, and what must be done about it This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations...

An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis-drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture-of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy.We are living in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972670Author Anand GiridharadasFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189487676Author V. K. RamachandranFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint TulikaPublisher Tulika Print Communication ServicesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591843696Author Josh KosmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 269g

The relentless increase of inequality in twenty-first century America has confounded analysts from both ends of the political spectrum. While many can point to particular contributing causes, so far none of the policies that have been enacted-not just in...