Economic Conditions

The spectacular economic growth experienced by China since 1978 has often been hailed as the "China Miracle". Many economists have tried to understand the forces behind China's phenomenal growth and the explanations can be divided into two broad schools...

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 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 9781800555297Author E R ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 249g

More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country's leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden...

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...

Financial market bubbles are recurring, often painful, reminders of the costs and benefits of capitalism. While many books have studied financial manias and crises, most fail to compare times of turmoil with times of stability. In Bubbles and Crashes,...

The European Economy Between the Wars provides a full and up-to-date economic history of Europe in the inter-war period. The authors place the Great Depression of 1929-33 and the associated financial crisis at the centre of the narrative, and present...

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...

In this book, Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a broad-based, original study of German wartime industry and transportation, and of Allied air force planning...

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...

Inequality is a choice. The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story-the U.S. today lags behind most other...

Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including...

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 9780805081244Author Barbara EhrenreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541758001Author Shoshana ZuboffFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Weight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972285Author James BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 392g

The Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare presents, in two volumes, essays on past and on-going work in social choice theory and welfare economics. The first volume consists of four parts. In Part 1 (Arrovian Impossibility Theorems), various aspects of...

This book provides a history of British financial crises since the Napoleonic wars. Interest in crises lapsed during the generally benign financial conditions which followed the Second Word War, but the study of banking markets and financial crises has...

World Inequality Report 2018 is the most authoritative and up-to-date account of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of the world's leading economists of inequality, it presents-with unrivaled clarity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881326062Author Arvind SubramanianFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582436067Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 261g

A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them "Conniff brings her skills and insights to a particularly urgent project: moving...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781101972670Author Anand GiridharadasFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

"The image of a pristine isolation has been almost as common in research on foragers as in the popular media. Land filled with Flies is a sustanined argument against such views. Wilmsen marshals an enormous quantity of historical, archival,...

"The image of a pristine isolation has been almost as common in research on foragers as in the popular media. Land filled with Flies is a sustanined argument against such views. Wilmsen marshals an enormous quantity of historical, archival,...

Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six studies which reflect the author's ideas on revising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309664Author Chris AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955507984Author Ivor Agyeman-DuahFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 598g

Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of...

The emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa on a global stage has upset the dominance of the United States as the world's only superpower. But can they chart a path toward a more just global economy? This collection, which brings...

"Guaranteed to make blood boil." -Janet Maslin, New York Times In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together-some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850366327Author Sasha LilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

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...

Roar Out of the Covid-19 RecessionYou've weathered the shock, the lockdowns, and the slow crawl back. But with a new normal come new risks—and new opportunities. What must you and your business do now to come out of the downturn stronger and better...

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it...