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How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today?To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked...
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¿Cuáles son las causas de la pobreza? ¿Son inevitables las crisis cíclicas en una economía de mercado? ¿Es beneficiosa la intervención del Estado en la economía o, por el contrario, es fuente de problemas? Aunque las respuestas a estas preguntas básicas nos conciernen a todos, el vocabulario económico puede ser un obstáculo para muchos. Breve historia de la Economía, escrito de forma amena y accesible, está pensado para todos aquellos...
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Ben S. Bernanke was chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2022. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. His many books include The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis (Princeton).
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial...
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Au fil des siècles, les Bourses se sont adaptés à l'évolution économique de nos sociétés. Des tulipes aux produits dérivés obscurs et complexes, les marchés que nous connaissons actuellement ont subi de nombreuses transformations, rythmées par des krachs financiers d'envergure. Un tournant majeur s'opère cependant durant les années 90, au moment o le secteur technologique prend de l'ampleur. Les Bourses perdent progressivement leur visage...
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"Excellent . . . I highly recommend this book." -RON PAUL
Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the economic meltdown that began in 2007-or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities?
Mainstream economics has no adequate answers for these pressing questions. To understand how we got here, and how we can ensure prosperity, we must turn to an alternative to...
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This book explores the complex developments that have shaped Ireland's economic development, north and south, and led to recurring crises and instability.
The Irish economy has been traditionally portrayed as a product of its political divisions and the colonial legacy, divided and analysed in terms of the hegemonic tensions that exist on the island. Influenced by these divisions, academics have tended to look at a two-region approach to economic...
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The book consists of preface, introduction, six chapters and two appendixes. The first chapter deals with the last decades of the Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second chapter analyses interest of Austro-Hungary for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The third chapter gives the overview of literature of Austro-Hungarian period in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The fourth chapter is about methodology, and introduces formulae and equations used in the chapters...
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Syriza's victory in the recent Greek general election shook the foundations of the Western political establishment and gave hope to the millions suffering the austerity measures imposed by the European Troika. Millions asked, how did this happen and what is it about Greece that created such a centre of radicalism?
This insider's account, from Syriza's Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and economist Christos Laskos, shows that that the narrative...
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Leviathan is back
The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has radically expanded its power-through bailouts, "stimulus" packages, a trillion-dollar health-care plan, "jobs bills," massive expansions of the money supply, and much more. But such interventionism did not suddenly materialize with the recent economic collapse. The dangerous trends of government growth, debt increases, encroachments on individual liberty,...
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Paul Heyne, one of the nation's best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society-a realization essential to a proper understanding of the fundamental principles of economics. The sweep of economic thinking is presented here with reference to the great economists and important schools of thought.
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"[Following the financial crisis], some 95% of 2009-2012 income gains went to the wealthiest 1%"--The Wall Street Journal
You've heard about million-dollar football contracts. You scoff at CEOs making tens of millions per year. You know that Warren Buffett has made billion-dollar trades with companies like Apple. Yet, these stories only have one thing in common, and it relates to a word you think about every day: value.
Whether you earn a salary,...
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The 2008 recession left the United States in deep trouble. With unemployment levels approaching 25 million and banks sustained by trillions of government dollars, are governments and economists understanding the crisis correctly?
Examining US economic history, Jack Rasmus reveals how the 2008 global financial crisis is an 'epic recession'. This 'epic recession' is neither a full-blown depression nor a short-lived period of economic contraction,...
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Dans Cultiver une mentalité de milliardaire: Le parcours inspirant de Toussaint Louverture, vous serez emmené dans un voyage fascinant à travers la vie d'une des figures les plus remarquables de l'histoire.
L'histoire de Toussaint Louverture n'est pas seulement un récit de résilience et de courage; c'est une étude profonde de la culture d'un état d'esprit de grandeur qui peut mener au succès dans tous les aspects de la vie.
À travers les...
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LA ECONOMÍA EN LA PREHISTORIA Y LA ANTIGÜEDADEUROPA PREINDUSTRIALLA CRISIS DEL SIGLO XVIILA REVOLUCIÓN INDUSTRIAL: LAS POSIBLES DEFINICIONES Y EL DEBATE HISTORIOGRÁFICOEN LOS ORÍGENES DE LA REVOLUCIÓN INDUSTRIALFACTORES CONDICIONANTES DEL PROCESO DE INDUSTRIALIZACIÓNLA PRIMERA REVLUCIÓN INDUSTRIAL (1750-1850)EL COMIENZO DEL PROCESO DE INDUSTRIALIZACIÓN EN EL CONTINENTE EUROPEOLA INDUSTRIALIZACIÓN EN GRAN BRETAÑA, BÉLGICA, FRANCIA, ALEMANIA...
15) Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy
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There is no doubt that we are in the middle of a transition to a knowledge-based economy. Breakthrough technologies in microelectronics, biotechnology, new materials, telecommunications, robotics, and computers are fundamentally changing the game of creating wealth. While these new industries are growing explosively, existing industries such as banking and retail are being transformed beyond recognition. As a result, a new global economy is emerging...
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This critical study of the development of systematic economic ideas explores them in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Many of the issues that faced economists in the past are still with us. The theories and methods of such men as Adam Smith, T. R. Malthus, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, and J. M. Keynes are often relevant to us today. As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century,...
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From the philosophical dialogues of Ancient Greece and the moral contemplations of Medieval Europe to deregulation and cryptocurrency, “The Economics Book” presents 250 milestones in the science of the production, sale, and purchase of goods and services. These concise, engaging, informative essays examine the full gamut of subjects, revealing both the entertaining stories and the world-changing developments in the field.
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The Essential Galbraith includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time-from The Affluent Society, the groundbreaking book in which he coined the tern "conventional wisdom," to The Great Crash, an unsurpassed account of the events that triggered America's worst economic crisis. Galbraith's new introductions place the works in their historical moment and make clear their...
20) Bad News
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Where was the business press in the weeks and months leading up to the deepest financial crisis since the Great Depression? As our economy unraveled, journalists struggled to keep up with the story of the century, grappling with an alphabet soup of derivatives, backroom deals, and toxic financial instruments. But many fault the media itself for having helped to create the bubble in the first place. Did the press fail its mandate as an engine of truth...
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