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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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Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental,...
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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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Mark J. Roe is a professor at Columbia Law School.
In this major reinterpretation of the evolution of the American corporation, Mark Roe convincingly demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U.S. firms owes its distinctive character as much to politics as to economics and technology. His provocative examination addresses essential issues facing American businesses today as they compete in the new international marketplace. "Economic theory...
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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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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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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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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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Striding explores the modernization process by outlining the economics of agriculture, growth theories of economic development, and problems with growth.
During the last century, policy makers and the public acquired a considerable interest in economics. As a result, this heightened awareness enhanced the well-being of society.
In 1969, the Nobel Foundation initiated the new prize category of economic sciences and started awarding the prize annually....
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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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Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Economic History at Utrecht University and a senior research scholar at the International Institute of Social History. Arthur van Riel is a Senior Economist in the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and a member of the Netherlands's Economic Institute in Rotterdam.
A major feat of research and synthesis, this book presents the first comprehensive history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century--an important...
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The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets. One of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected the theories of John Maynard Keynes offers a journey through history to illustrate the importance of understanding monetary economics, and how monetary theory can ignite or deepen inflation. With anecdotes revealing the far-reaching consequences...
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The term "capitalism" is generally applied to the system under which the instruments of production are the property of private owners, who usually employ managers and manual workers to carry out production by their means…
A word first of all to indicate clearly the point of view which characterizes the study. I shall not enter into the question of the formation of capital itself, that is, of the sum total of the goods employed by their possessor...
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Rowan Dorin is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.
A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe
Beginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who denounced the evils of usury as they expelled Jews from their lands. Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit...
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In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength-and the foundation of a national renewal.
America and other developed countries, including Germany, Japan, France, and Great Britain are in desperate straits. The loss of community, a contracting jobs...
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In Killing the Planet: How A Financial Cartel Doomed Mankind, best-selling authors Rodney Howard-Browne and Paul L. Williams investigate the true motives and consequences of the Pilgrim Society. Early members of the Society included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Paul Warburg, Mortimer I. Schiff, Otto Kahn, and John D. Rockefeller. Although the Pilgrim Society and the powerful men involved are often praised for...
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In the vein of Blowout and War Dogs, the explosive story of the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand.
In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, ProPublica investigative reporter David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. While disaster capitalism is...
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ECONOMICS 101
In Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics (Regnery Publishing; April 13, 2015; $27.99) Tamny translates the so-called difficult and intimidating subject of economics into plain language, revealing that there is nothing mysterious about finance, commerce, and budgets. In fact, we are all microeconomists in our daily lives.
"Economics is easy, and its lessons are...
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