Comparative Economics category: 246 books
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This very readable book by a distinguished economist, Wall Street Journal editor, and Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury is a major challenge both to economic theory and to media explanations of the ongoing 21st century economic crisis. The one percent have pulled off an economic and political...
Political Standards
Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the detriment of the economy at large. These changes have...
The Lost Continent
The BBC's Europe Editor on Europe's Darkest Hour Since World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous, and which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two - a crisis for which it was totally unprepared.
A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared...
by Simon Kuznets
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Originally published in 1959, this book contains in straightforward language a general account of the major variables significant for the analysis of economic development. It stresses above all the quantitative aspects of the economic growth of nations, and establishes a series of propositions on...
Summary & Analysis of Skin in the Game
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life | A Guide to the Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb challenges conventions about success, change, and equanimity in his bestselling...
Market Orientalism
Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where practices,...
Varieties of Capitalism and Business History
The Dutch Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history perspective on the Varieties of Capitalism debate and considers the respective merits of the liberal and coordinated market economies. It looks at individual...
by Parag Khanna
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized.
The “Asian Century” is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational...
Contemporary Corporate Strategy
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
With the onset of the third millennium, increasing numbers of corporations around the world have been undergoing cultural and mindset shift paradigms whilst developing corporate strategies that are increasingly attuned to the highly competitive and dynamic business realities arising from globalising...
In 100 Years
Leading Economists Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In this book, ten prominent economists—including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates—offer their ideas about what the future might hold in 100 years.
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers....
Inequality in America
Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A bedrock American principle is the idea that all individuals should have the opportunity to succeed on the basis of their own effort, skill, and ingenuity.-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
Income inequality has been on the rise since the late 1970s, but the economic and financial crisis...
The Logic of Discipline
Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values...
The Political Economy and Media Coverage of the European Economic Crisis
The case of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies. The media have played an important ideological role in presenting the policies of economic and political elites in a favourable light, even if the latter’s...
Remade in China
Foreign Investors and Institutional Change in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Since opening to foreign investment in 1979, China has emerged as the leading investment site for multinational corporations. Remade in China looks beyond the macroeconomic effects of China's investment boom to analyze how foreign investors from the US, Japan, and other nations are shaping China's...