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“deborah figart”

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  • Living Standards and Social Well-Being

    Edited by John Marangos, Deborah Figart ...
    Too many of the world’s citizens face impoverished living standards. The economic and financial crises have made matters worse. The viewpoint of Living Standards and Social Well-Being is that the fundamental objective for an economy is provisioning, not simply efficiency. The chapters in this volume examine how economies across the globe come to understand what constitutes a living and how they ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Foolproof

    Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe

    by Greg Ip ...
    How the very things we create to protect ourselves, like money market funds or anti-lock brakes, end up being the biggest threats to our safety and wellbeing.We have learned a staggering amount about human nature and disaster -- yet we keep having car crashes, floods, and financial crises. Partly this is because the success we have at making life safer enables us to take bigger risks. As our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System

    by Mark Williams ...
    How Excessive Risk Destroyed Lehman and Nearly Brought Down the Financial Industry“Uncontrolled Risk will ruffle feathers—and for good reason—as voters and legislators learn the diffi cult lessons of Lehman’s collapse and demand that we never forget them.”Dr. David C. Shimko, Board of Trustees, Global Association of Risk Professionals“Uncontrolled Risk is a drama as gripping as any work of fiction ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Collaborative Governance

    Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times

    by John D. Donahue, Richard J. Zeckhauser ...
    How government can forge dynamic public-private partnershipsAll too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they are willing to pay. Collaborative ... Read more

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  • SuperHubs

    How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule our World

    by Sandra Navidi ...
    **A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018FOREWORD BY NOURIEL ROUBINI**SuperHubs is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the global financial system and the powerful personal networks through which it is run, at the centre of which sit the Elites - the SuperHubs.Combining an insider's knowledge with principles of network science, Sandra Navidi offers a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Better, Stronger, Faster

    The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy

    by Daniel Gross ...
    Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the United States—have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding America’s economic prospects. Bloated with debt, and outpaced by China and other emerging markets, the United States has been left for dead as an economic force. But in this time of grim predictions, Daniel Gross, Yahoo! ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Squam Lake Report

    Fixing the Financial System

    by Kenneth R. French, Martin N. Baily, John Y. Campbell, John H. Cochrane, Douglas W. Diamond, Darrell Duffie, Anil K. Kashyap, Frederic S. Mishkin, Raghuram G. Rajan, David S. Scharfstein, Robert J. Shiller, Hyun Song Shin, Matthew J. Slaughter, Jeremy C. Stein, René M. Stulz ...
    A nonpartisan plan of action for fixing the global economy from fifteen of the world's leading economistsIn the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists—representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion—gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself

    by Robert Sloan ...
    Why Main Street blames financial speculation for economic crashesDisdain for short selling is as American as apple pie, dating back to our nation’s founding. But as Bob Sloan argues in Don’t Blame the Shorts, short selling lies at the heart of every Wall Street transaction and fuels the financial system.Sloan explains that without shorting, credit in high-yield, distressed, convertible bonds and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Richard Clarida, Mark Taylor ...
    The global financial crisis has sent shockwaves through the world’s economies, and its effects have been deep and wide-reaching. This book brings together a range of applied studies, covering a range of international and regional experience in the area of finance in the context of the global downturn.The volume includes an exploration of the impact of the crisis on capital markets, and how ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Money Anxiety

    by Dan Geller ...
    This is a behavioral economics book showing readers how money anxiety impacts consumer financial behavior and the economy. The book demonstrates the impact of financial anxiety on retail sales and bank savings. When money anxiety increases, consumers save more and spend less, which pushes the economy into a recession. Conversely, when money anxiety decreases, consumers save less and spend more, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Mergers and Acquisitions

    Edited by David Faulkner, Satu Teerikangas, Richard J. Joseph ...
    With its inception at the end of the nineteenth century as a means of consolidation and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have since become quasi-institutionalized as one of the primary strategic options for organizations, as they seek to secure their position in an ever more competitive and globalizing market place. Despite the optimism surrounding M&A as strategic moves, research on ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Banking Crises, Liquidity, and Credit Lines

    A Macroeconomic Perspective

    by Gurbachan Singh ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    The banking crises in 2007-10 are not exceptional. There have been many such crises in the past in both developed countries and emerging economies. A banking crisis can be related to solvency or liquidity (or both). This book focuses on banking crisis and liquidity. This book starts from basics and gradually builds up with very few technicalities. Though the analysis is primarily theoretical, we ... Read more

    $65.99 USD