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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist. Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge-fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does. Enter Financial Times columnist and bestselling author...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink...
Author
Language
English
Description
The history of the United States is the history of capitalism. The colonies began when property and trade were still new concepts in Europe and the country relied on the exploitation of human labor--first of Indigenous and enslaved peoples, and then of all workers--to grow the economy. Each era of exploitation was met with a violent response, until the political infrastructure turned to the divide-and-conquer plan that defines our modern era. Levy...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than four billion people--some 60 percent of humanity--live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with climate, geography, and culture. It tells us all we have to do is give aid to help poor countries up the development ladder. If poor countries would only adopt the right institutions and economic policies, they could join the ranks of the rich world....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 558 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 287 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Weaving together economics, history, archaeology, anthropology, mathematics and the nature sciences, this book by an influential economist and founder of Unified Growth Theory examines exactly what sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
"How can economists effectively capture the effects of psychology and its influence on economic events and change? Shiller attempts to help us better understand how psychology affects events by explaining how popular economic stories arise, how they grow viral, and ultimately how they drive economic developments. After defining narrative economics in the book's preface with allusions to the advent of both the Great Depression and to World War II,...
Author
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In The Contemporary Global Economy, Alfred Eckes provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy for non-specialists. Focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s, the book views developments historically, explaining how the main motors of economic change work and how we can discern their effects in the world today. Eckes begins with a brief description of economic change since the nineteenth century, the age of...
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