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"The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade. That is the message of this brilliant and controversial summary of our current economic predicament from an internationally respected consultant and commentator on financial markets, who predicted the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The author challenges the assumption that growth can be perpetual and questions the ability of...
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"The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg. In his book, The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts shows readers the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered. He focuses...
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
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Can Finance Save the World? Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good. Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007–2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badré says that finance is inherently neither good nor bad....
6) How to Create and Maintain a Diversified Investment Portfolio: A Comprehensive Guide on Investment
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"The book 'How to Create and Maintain a Diversified Investment Portfolio: A Comprehensive Guide on Investment and Portfolio Management' is a complete guide on investment and portfolio management. It covers everything from various investment options to create a varied portfolio that matches an investor's objectives and risk appetite. The book presents a systematic approach towards creating and managing a successful portfolio." The book includes important...
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In twenty-five years, 80% of the world population will live in Asia and Africa. What changes, culturally I particular, should be expected in this century? This is the vast and fascinating question Jean-Louis Roy tries to answer with the help of correspondents from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. The author argues that shifting wealth from the West to Asia, Latin America and Africa causes the reconfiguration of the economic map. This tilting...
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En el Siglo XX, la economía mundial, especialmente la estadounidense, empezó a cambiar desde los años setenta, pero realmente estos cambios se consolidaron en los ochenta. Antes, desde los años cincuenta, predominaba el llamado "Acuerdo de Detroit" (Palley 2007, 2010, abril), es decir, aquel alcanzado entre los sindicatos y las compañías automotrices de ligar los salarios a la productividad, en la ciudad de Detroit. La política, basada en este...
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"It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments." – from The Theory of Money and Credit
Originally published in 1912, Ludwig von Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit remains today one of economic theory's most influential and controversial treatises. Von Mises's examination into...
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This report aims to demonstrate the compelling need to increase investments in natural capital in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and identifies actions now being taken regionally and nationally to manage natural capital. It also proposes a guiding framework for promoting investments and actions by GMS countries to secure natural capital and thus ensure sustainable and inclusive growth in the subregion.
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A concise introduction to the principles of world economics, Swap is an easy-to-understand resource for a general audience. This brief, practical volume covers the principles of specialization, comparative advantage, deficits, supply chains, labor and environmental standards, trade with the developing world, and more.
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This book, edited by Cheng Enfu, is one of the results of the discipline construction and theoretical research of the Marxist Theory implemented by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and is one from the book series The Discipline Construction and Theoretical Research of the Marxist Theory. This book mainly contains the representative and high-level articles on Marxist economics published nationwide in 2013, which are the representative,...
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Abul A'la Mawdudi laid down the foundations of modern Islamic economics. Drawing upon Islamic sources, Mawdudi spelled out a new paradigm for economic analysis and policy, wherein economic pursuits take place in the context of moral values and are directed towards the achievement of personal and social objectives. Integral to this approach is the concept of an interest-free economy that attempts to make efficiency and equity inseparable and interdependent....
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The End of the Euro begins with an overview of the birth of the euro itself. Understanding this history is essential to understand the anomalies built into the project from the beginning. These anomalies form the subject of chapter two, along with how they led to the situation that turned Greece, Portugal, and Spain into euro-destroying economic disaster areas. Chapter three shows how this was not an unforeseeable situation, as Europe's history is...
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Learn How to Make Money with Forex Trading
Within the investment world today are many options where people can or should invest their hard-earned money. Most of these investment options do their best to guarantee growth and profitability. From binary to forex to shares to property to retirement annuities, the list is endless. Forex is fine art. Attention is paid to detail. Time is spent fine tuning strategies. In this book, you are going to learn...
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Alternative economics is a vital corrective to market radicalism and neoliberalism with unfettered deregulation, privatization and liberalization of markets. While neoliberal mythology insists higher profits bring more jobs and greater investments, profits soar and investments fall by the wayside.
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The classic text on the post-Cold War economic battle.
Starting with the fall of communism, influential economist and former dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management Lester Thurow deftly explores how head-to-head competition -- not military might -- among Japan, the United States, and the newly united European countries would produce the next world leader.
As Thurow explains, in the 1990s the race for economic supremacy was only just beginning....
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According to Bertrand Badré, finance is neither inherently good nor bad. It's just a tool, the most powerful tool on earth. In “Can Finance Save the World?”, he describes innovative approaches and financial tools that can help us address many of the world's biggest problems, ranging from climate change to the eradication of poverty to building much-needed infrastructure. Badré details options for creating positive financial regulation and for...
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Des dangers menacent la réussite suisse. Quels sont les scénarios pour demain ?
« Les Suisses se lèvent tt, mais se réveillent tard. »
Les temps changent à une vitesse vertigineuse et la Suisse apparaît comme un îlot de prospérité jalousé et perdu dans l'océan de la mondialisation.
Heidi réveille-toi a pour ambition d'alerter des dangers qui menacent la réussite suisse et de favoriser une prise de conscience salutaire.
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Douglas A. Irwin is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. His books include Peddling Protectionism (Princeton), Trade Policy Disaster, and Clashing over Commerce.
An updated look at global trade and why it remains as controversial as ever
Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues...
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