Economic Conditions

The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming tax regime, created the 'Celtic Tiger' of the 1990s...

The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection of his recent writings on the global financial situation, George Soros presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851243122Author John HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541730151Author Rebecca HendersonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm...

A Washington Post BestsellerWinner of the 2017 Axiom Business Book Award in Business TechnologyAmy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for...

This book presents Clare's poetry exactly as he wrote it, and includes selections from his `mad' poems as well as his earlier descriptions of birds, animals and village life.Reviews`This is a good looking book, nicely presented in a clear readable type,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307589941Author John PerkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563204Author Randy Charles EppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Pacific Island countries have considerable potential for development, especially in the areas of tourism, fisheries, forestry, mining and agriculture. However, they also face many challenges in developing their economies and raising living standards,...

Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context and has been updated to cover the rise of populism, Brexit, the USMCA, US-China trade wars, tariffs, refugees and global migration, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722510572Author Garrett B. GundersonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957420304Author Charles RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Renaissance CapitalPublisher Renaissance Capital

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...

The global financial and economic shock of 2007-09 is the third major economic crisis to have buffeted Cambodia in its post-conflict period, coming in the wake of the food crisis of 2007-08 and just a decade after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Association of American Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishing: Economics 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780815702238Author Akio MikuniFormat PaperbackPage...

Explore the inevitable collapse of the fiat monetary system Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition challenges the mainstream consensus on money and monetary policy. While it is today generally believed that the transition from...

Working families in Victorian Lancashire had few choices. Work; starve; or face the workhouse and the break up of their family. Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives recreates everyday life for textile workers, canal boat families, coalminers, metal workers...

This volume offers a multi-author survey and analysis of economic developments in the Russian Federation since the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989—91. It covers the period 1991—98 and in some areas extends to 1999-2000...

Few American cities reflect the challenges and promise of a twenty-first-century economy better than Pittsburgh and its surrounding region. Once a titan of the industrial age, Pittsburgh flourished from the benefits of its waterways, central location,...

The course of economic change in twentieth-century Cambodia was marked by a series of deliberate 'conscious human efforts' that were typically extreme and ideologically driven. While colonisation, protracted war and violent revolution are commonly blamed...

American society is angrier, more fragmented, and more polarized than at any time since the Civil War. We harbor deep insecurities about our economic future, our place in the world, our response to terrorism, and our deeply dysfunctional government. Over...

This book gives an account of the political economy of Tanzania, tracing the historical processes by which the country developed from pre-colonial trade in slaves and ivory, through German and then British colonial rule, to take its place in the...

Lynn was a 'new' port of the late eleventh century, founded on the estates of the Bishop of Norwich. This volume includes transcripts or summaries of most of the documents available in original charters, cartularies, rentals, bede-rolls and the...

Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs explores a number of important themes in modern social and economic history. Its wide range of original studies by distinguished historians throws fresh light on the developing connections between landed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470643921Author Joshua HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 376g

This book provides an overview of Mexico's economic development since Independence identifying its binding constraints in different periods and the ways in which they have been tried to be removed by economic policies. It gives special attention to...

The New Brazil tells the story of South America's largest country as it evolved from a remote Portuguese colony into a regional leader; a respected representative for the developing world; and, increasingly, an important partner for the United States and...

After three decades of privatization and anti-state rhetoric, government ownership and public management are back in vogue. This book explores this rapidly growing trend towards 'corporatization' - public enterprises owned and operated by the state, with...

Throughout the 1990s, numerous financial crises rocked the world financial sector. The Asian bubble burst, for example; Argentina and Brazil suffered currency crises; and the post-Soviet economy bottomed out in Russia. In Financial Crises, a...

The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions. Many households were overleveraged or paid high costs for financial...

The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation's wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is not inevitable. Rather, in recent years well-heeled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583671849Author John Bellamy FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

This book examines "the great contraction" of 2007-2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 percent of Americans, including capitalists and financial...

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...

Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude-the world's largest reserves-an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its...

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China...

The economic growth of South Korea has been a remarkable success story. After the Korean War, the country was one of the poorest economies on the planet; by the twenty-first century, it had become a middle-income country, a member of the Organization of...

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...