Economic Conditions

Originally published in 1986, this book compares and evaluates the effects of converting rental housing into owner occupancy in the USA, the UK and Germany. The evaluation examines the pros and cons of such conversions. The conversion controversy is more...

Originally published in 1989, this is an empirical study of the impact of global war on the expansion and shaping of nation-states. Individual chapters examine the effects of such wars, and the preparation for them, on debt financing, expansion, military...

* Offers a holistic, interdisciplinary and internationally comparative overview of the key global crises today, which are relevant to students across many subject areas * International case studies showcase theory and empirical evidence, looking at...

* Offers a holistic, interdisciplinary and internationally comparative overview of the key global crises today, which are relevant to students across many subject areas * International case studies showcase theory and empirical evidence, looking at...

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century. For Polanyi, in The Great...

The characteristic feature of the recent global economic crisis is the speed and extent of the shock transmission. The development of cross-national production networks in recent years has significantly deepened the economic interdependency between...

The 2008-10 financial crisis and the global recession it created is a complex phenomenon that warrants detailed examination. The various essays in this book utilise several alternative paradigms to provide a plausible explanation and a credible cure...

This unique and fascinating book illustrates that the 'credit crunch' and the ensuing financial and economic crisis of 2007-2009 did not only strike hard at the economy in the Western world, but also at its policymakers, at economics as a scientific...

This timely book utilizes the tools of politics, economics and public policy to explore the causes of the recent global financial crisis, which, the author argues, can be explained as the absence of a public interest perspective in policy making. Maurice...

The impact of climate change on seven regions of the United States is studied in this new and accessible collection. The study examines how the different regions of the United States may be affected by climate change. In particular, the study explores...

This timely book rethinks economic theory and policy by addressing the problem of economic instability and the need to secure broadly shared prosperity. It stresses that advancing economics in the wake of the Great Recession requires an evolutionary...

Capitalism is driven by technological revolutions, leading to alternating periods of regulation and deregulation in leading economies. Technologically backward countries face a different situation as they have to catch up with the leaders. Against this...

Artificial intelligence will not necessarily create a super-intelligent "human robot"; however, it is very probable that intelligent robots and intelligent informats will bring about a form of super-globalization, in which money and goods are...

The UK's departure from the EU has profoundly affected the politics and economics of Northern Ireland. Brexit has shattered a political accommodation that was taking shape in the region that involved nationalism and unionism refraining from aggressively...

First published in 1990, this book was intended as a counter to the rising and continued strength of the New Right and an attempt to bolster the perceived weakness of the opposition - providing a critical discussion of New Right ideology and also of the...

Focusing on the struggles of youth in the Arabian Gulf to find their place in their encounters with modernity, Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula explores how global forces are reshaping everyday cultural experiences in authoritarian societies...

This book explores the key ideas and the key people who were responsible for the development of China's economy from 1949 through 2016. It discusses how economic policy evolved, how economic policy was formulated and how the role of economists in...

This book addresses a wide range of migration-related issues in the European context and examines the socioeconomic consequences of migratory flows throughout Europe, focusing on a number of emblematic European countries. The book is divided into three...

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith's theories is considered a central component of economic theory. Having in the twentieth century become one of the key-features of...

THE SERVILE STATE has endured as his most important political work. The effect of socialist doctrine on capitalist society, Belloc wrote, is to produce a third thing different from either -- the servile state, today commonly called the welfare state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978324Author Ludwig von MisesFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 806g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250135087Author Steven HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272837Author P MFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint AutonomediaPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 101g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541703155Author Jonathan TaplinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593331026Author Joe NoceraFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 35mm

At the time in which this book was first published in 1992, there was a major concern with the macro-economic implications of fiscal imbalance. As the European economies moved closer to monetary union, and Germany grappled with the fiscal pressures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814207376Author Deborah A. RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187374008Author Vinod MehtaFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint SanskritiPublisher Sanskriti

Exploring the forceful renewal of the boom-and-bust cycle after several decades of economic stability, this book is a research-based review of the factors that caused the 2008 recession. It offers cutting-edge diagnoses of the recession and prescriptions...

This title was first published in 2000: The noble goals embodied in the Endangered Species Act are colliding with financial and social realities. Citizens increasingly face the costs of current policies, while initiatives which fail to respect liberty...

Policymakers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long tried to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport...

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century.For Polanyi, in The Great Transformation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576753378Author Si KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 371g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633310636Author Gene LudwigFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Disruption BooksPublisher Disruption BooksWeight(grams) 6g

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Contrary to popular belief, economic growth is not the antithesis of environmental quality; rather, the two go hand in hand if the incentives are right. The author shows how, by developing and protecting the institutions of freedom rather than regulating...

The financial crisis of 2008 devastated the American economy and caused U.S. policymakers to rethink their approaches to major financial crises. More than five years have passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but questions still persist about the...

The U.S. economy made impressive gains in the 20th century, but this progress makes it easy to forget a harsh reality: Americans were the victims of disastrous government policies that cost trillions of dollars in wasted resources, created mass...

Primeaux and Stieber clearly articulate that good ethics maximize profits. The authors show that in the long run business must operate within the value systems of a society. Those businesses that choose otherwise are bound to fail. This book is for...

This book examines the role that the traditional understanding of science plays in how we understand the capitalistic system and how it informs business and business school education. Science serves many purposes in business organizations; it is much...