Economic Conditions

How people adapt and survive in the harsh environment of the drought-prone Sahelian region to the south of the Saharan desert forms the subject of this book. The author concentrates on the choices facing farmers in a small village in central Mali, West...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800664596Author Joerg RiegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815721680Author Riordan RoettFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

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...

2023 Hagley Prize for Best Book in Business HistoryBuying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939-1975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the...

Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By 2000, Ireland had achieved a remarkable macroeconomic performance producing 10% economic growth, a budget surplus, and a very low debt to GDP ratio. Emigration had disappeared and there was significant immigration from Eastern Europe. By November...

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.AwardsWinner of Association of American Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishing: Economics 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780815702238Author Akio MikuniFormat PaperbackPage...

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.

In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262515115Author Lorenzo PecchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 295g

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595231239Author Edward ConardFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062009050Author Richard FloridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly large in recent years, and the American military footprint on the...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307341457Author Robert FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing GroupPublisher Crown Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 416gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578690902Author Anthony BiglanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Values to ActionPublisher Values to ActionWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518134Author W G HoskinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

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...

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...

In recent years Africa appears to have turned a corner economically. It is posting increased growth rates and is no longer the world's slowest growing region. Commentators are beginning to ask whether emerging from Africa is a new generation of 'lion'...

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

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)...

Throughout history, financial crises have always been caused by excesses - frequently monetary excesses - which lead to a boom and an inevitable bust. In our current crisis it was a housing boom and bust that in turn led to financial turmoil in the...

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 Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand is a timely survey and assessment of the state of contemporary Thailand. While Thailand has changed much in the past decades, this handbook proposes that many of its problems have remained intact or even...

The beauty of science may be pure and eternal, but the practice of science costs money. And scientists, being human, respond to incentives and costs, in money and glory. Choosing a research topic, deciding what papers to write and where to publish them,...