Economic Conditions

Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power...

An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalism. In Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessible new way to understand how global, privatising, market-worshipping hyper-capitalism is threatening...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979062Author Armen A AlchianFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 880g

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way in order to create as much...

Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and U.S. entry into World War I and closing with the Great Depression, The Perils of Prosperity traces the transformation of America from an agrarian, moralistic, isolationist nation into a liberal, industrialized power...

What's Wrong with China is the most cogent, insightful and penetrating examination I have read on the paradoxes and self-deceptions of Modern China, written by someone who has lived in the country and dealt with it day to day for decades. This book will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520617Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 181g

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the economics of airports for all managers, regulators and educators within the aviation industry. Written by three renowned experts but made accessible and relevant for all those working within the industry,...

The financial and economic collapse that began in the United States in 2008 and spread to the rest of the world continues to burden the global economy. David Kotz, who was one of the few academic economists to predict it, argues that the ongoing economic...

The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Narratives about the failures of capitalism, the greed of the 1 percent, and the blindness of corporations to public need have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735654300Author Martin A ArmstrongFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 1864gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

It was in the second half of the first millennium A.D. that northern Europe took on the basic configuration that it now presents. Recently a wealth of new archaeological evidence has emerged to enable historians to assess the growth of international...

This is the most comprehensive and significant statement about the value and potential of economic geography in thirty years. More than forty leading economists and geographers from around the world investigate the rival theories and perspectives that...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633311343Author Gene LudwigFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Disruption BooksPublisher Disruption Books

The New Era will be transformative of the Chinese economy. China will join the ranks of developed economies of the world.This book presents a collection of articles by Professor Lawrence Juenyee Lau from 1994 to 2018, discussing Chinese economic...

Forget the myth of meritorcracy.It's no longer about what you earn, or what you learn.We are living in an inheritocracy, where the bank of mum and dad matters more than ever.Parental support is the secret taboo of the modern world. Whether we have it or...

Darren Walker has lived the promise of America. Born to a single mother in a Louisiana charity hospital, the pride of Head Start and public schools in rural East Texas, Walker serves today as the tenth President of the Ford Foundation, among the largest...

Economists disagree on whether recent US trade policies are harmful or helpful, but they all agree that there is a trend towards focusing on results-oriented policies in specific markets and with particular trading markets. These 12 essays explore...

When the African National Congress inherited an economy in 1994 that had been shrinking for 5 years, and that had not grown in per capita terms for almost 15, it was also one of the most unequal societies in the world. The government deficit had risen to...

The Closing Door is the first major critique of the effect of conservative policies on urban race and poverty in the 1980s. Atlanta, with its booming economy, strong elected black leadership, and many highly educated blacks, seemed to be the perfect site...

This book describes, analyses, and compares the political economy of growth in its interrelationship with equity and poverty in Egypt and Turkey. It covers the period of modern national independence, obtained in both countries in 1923, up to 1985...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998365579Author Laurent CarbonneauFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

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...

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...

The analysis of rural markets and the behaviour of those involved in them should be at the centre of the study of the economies of poor countries. This book is about such markets and its main purpose is to examine and develop theories relating to them in...

The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism provides a comprehensive set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers. The foundations of the field are reviewed first, with a sequence of chapters that...

This is the first of a five-volume series offering a definitive analysis of the economic development of eastern Europe from the dismemberment of the great nineteenth-century empires in 1919 to the 1975 Act of Helsinki which confirmed the boundaries of...

The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism provides a comprehensive set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers. The foundations of the field are reviewed first, with a sequence of chapters that...

When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. In this New York Times bestseller, Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history. With his trademark humor and brilliant...

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...

De-industrialization, accelerated by the financial crisis, is a long term process. The comparative advantage of emerging economies shifted towards more advanced goods and their growing populations commanded an increasing share in global demand. This...

Albert Feuerwerker fashioned a distinguished legacy as a scholar of Chinese history. His publications on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese economy often became the starting point for any further work and staples for graduate training in...

The Chinese Economy reproduces two chapters on China's economy originally published in The Cambridge History of China, vols. 11 (1980) and 12 (1983). These texts were written in the late 1970s, and reflect the state of the published literature on late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459903Author GaleanoPage Count 317Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 165mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869844Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Tahir Nisar presents a cogent, compelling account of recent developments and disruptions within the digital economy, and particularly within the industrial and service sectors. Through an original, overarching framework rooted in the concept of...

Using the growth accounting model proposed by Edward F. Denison in the 1960s, this work analyzes the sources of growth in the postwar Greek economy. The Greek experience is contrasted with that of other countries, and general as well as country-specific...