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“james barth”

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  • The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets

    A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown

    by James Barth ...
    The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about it now?In The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets, renowned finance expert James Barth ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

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  • A World of Three Zeros

    The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

    by Muhammad Yunus ...
    From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declare it’s time to admit that the capitalist engine has failed most people – that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Richistan

    A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich

    by Robert Frank ...
    The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house staffs of more than 100, and their own “arborists.” They’re also different from Old Money, and have torn down blue-blood institutions to build their own shining ... Read more

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  • The Weekend That Changed Wall Street

    And How the Fallout Is Still Impacting Our World

    by Maria Bartiromo, Catherine Whitney ...
    America's most famous business reporter gives her unique perspective on the white-knuckle weekend that brought the financial world to its knees.During a single historic weekend (September 12-14, 2008) the fate of Lehman Brothers was sealed, Merrill Lynch barely survived, and AIG became a ward of the federal government. Top CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo spent the entire weekend taking frantic phone ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Tiger That Lost Its Roar

    by Tony Pua ...
    The book tells the tale of Malaysia's political economy, on how politics is deeply intertwined with the economy. The author backs his thesis that corruption, cronyism and abuse of power is crippling Malaysia's ability to compete in the global economy with facts and figures. His insights tells of how Malaysians can fulfill the country's potential and make a difference for the future generations. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Efficiency Criteria for Nationalised Industries (Routledge Revivals)

    by Alec Nove ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, Efficiency Criteria for Nationalised Industries asks by what criteria we should judge the efficiency of nationalised industries, what we mean by saying they should be run commercially and where the public interest should lie. In this work, Professor Nove believes we answer these questions incorrectly due to a lack of understanding of economic theory and a desire to relate ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • When Capitalism Ran Amok and Brought the Capitalist Economy to the Brink of Collapse, Socialism Was Called to the Rescue.

    SHORT STORY # 52. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

    by Alla P. Gakuba ...
    Series Book 52 - Nonfiction series
    Unrestricted and unchecked American capitalism has run amok and 2 times brought the USA economy to the brink of collapse: “The Great Depression of the 1930s,” and a Financial Crisis of 2008.The 1st time capitalism ran amok was in the 1930s. It resulted in a national crisis called “The Great Depression of the 1930s,” 1929–1939, that devastated the nation. Socialism was called to rescue the economy ... Read more

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  • It’s Time to Implement the Forgotten Constitution of India for Liberty and Dignity

    by K.C. Agrawal, Anjuna Agrawal Singh ...
    The highly regressive and continually deteriorating plight of our large populace is no secret. More than 100 crore of India's population exists under highly impoverished and wretched conditions. Forty percent of our country is infected with Maoism, Naxalism, Terrorism and Seditious activism. Consistent failures of our Legislature and Executive are no more acceptable. The basic objectives of our ... Read more

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  • When Everyone Wins: from Inequality to Cooperation

    by David Gray ...
    We often focus on winning at the expense of others, which can create problems in and outside of the workplace.David Gray, a longtime professor of psychology, makes the case that everything runs much smoother when everyone is a winner.That goal can be achieved when people cooperate instead of competing. Taking an approach that relies heavily on the behavioral sciences, the author provides the tools ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Retirement Security in the Great Recession

    Edited by Christian Weller ...
    Few events have posed as many challenges for retirement and retirement policy as the crisis of the late 2000s. At the end of the last decade, the United States experienced the Great Recession—a combination of unprecedented wealth losses and historically high unemployment increases that marked the longest economic recession since the Great Depression. These adverse economic shocks coincided with ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Who Gains from Free Trade

    Export-Led Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America

    Edited by Rob Vos ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The issue of the pros and cons of free trade from the point of view of developing countries refuses to dissipate, and in Latin America, the debate rages most fiercely. Argentina is still licking its wounds after a catastrophic past five years, and Brazil and others have hardened their line – even going so far as to initiate the influential new G20 group of the most powerful LDCs.Who Gains from ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Employability and Local Labour Markets

    Edited by Ronald W. McQuaid, Anne E. Green, Mike Danson ...
    Series series Urban Studies Monographs
    The concept of employability has provided a foundation for much current labour market policy. It has also provided a useful framework for analyzing national and urban labour markets and related policies in a variety of different circumstances both for those in and out of work.The papers in this book help progress the concept of employability, demonstrating the importance of the geographic and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD