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  • Asian Financial Integration

    Impacts of the Global Crisis and Options for Regional Policies

    Edited by Yiping Huang, Shiro Armstrong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, Asia is leading the global recovery with strong economic growth. However, this book argues that, in the coming years, the region will need to play a much more active role in shaping the future global financial system and, in turn, suggests policy strategies for doing so.Asian Financial Integration explores the lessons we can learn from Asia’s experience ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • International Institutions and Economic Development in Asia

    Edited by Thanh Tri Vo, Armstrong Shiro ...
    Series series PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)
    Are international and Asian regional institutions serving the development goals of Asian and Pacific Economies as well they should? The global economy, led by the Asia Pacific region, has undergone immense change and growth. Have the existing institutions and arrangements been able to keep pace with those changes in the global economy? International Institutions and Asian Development tackles these ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The End of Normal

    The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    From one of the most respected economic thinkers and writers of our time, a brilliant argument about the history and future of economic growth.The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe—and a stale argument between two false solutions, “austerity” on one side and “stimulus” on the other. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Entering the Shift Age

    The End of the Information Age and the New Era of Transformation

    by David Houle ...
    Praise for David Houle"Houle breaks down big ideas into easily digestible, entertaining small bites…Crack this book open whenever globalization's gotten you down."—Slate.com."The Shift Age lifts us out of the rapids of techno-change and helps us see the course of the river we've been rafting on."-Howard Bloom, author of the GOD PROBLEM and GLOBAL BRAIN"[The Shift Age] is must read for anyone who ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Economics of Innocent Fraud

    Truth For Our Time

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and ... Read more

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  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economic Indicators

    Manage Your Investments with an Eye on the Key Factors Affecting Today's Market

    by R. Rogers ...
    An expert helps readers understand what the big economic picture means for their money—and how to respond.Today's investors must play an active role in managing their money. This guide introduces the leading U.S. economic indicators and shows how to use them to make better investment decisions.Indicators covered include: national output; employment; consumer reports; housing and construction; and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Strapped

    by Tamara Draut ...
    Drowning in student loans? Can’t afford to get married, buy a home, have children? Up to your ears in credit card debt? At last, a book for the under-35 generation that explains why it’s not their fault, and what can be done about it. Strapped offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course facing young adults. Getting ahead, argues commentator and policy maven Tamara Draut, is getting ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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 Management Explosion and the Next Environmental Crisis

    by David Ehrenfeld, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.David Ehrenfeld examines the consequences of "the extraordinary proliferation of administration, of bureaucracy, of management, the increasing percentage of people in our society who control events but do not themselves produce anything real." He ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Exit Strategy: Ending the Tyranny of Finance

    by Giulio Tremonti ...
    From Italy’s former minister of economy and finance, a provocative and galvanizing jeremiad on the Euro crisis and the global economic status quo. As Europe’s debt crisis persists and the aftershocks of the 2008 collapse hinder recovery across the globe, Giulio Tremonti underscores the dangers that unchecked financial markets pose to democracy, and explains what nations must do to protect their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Grande Expectations

    A Year in the Life of Starbucks' Stock

    by Karen Blumenthal ...
    Karen Blumenthal, like most people, is mystified by the stock market. Just why is it, she wonders, that seemingly good news can send a stock plummeting and bad news can send it skyrocketing again?In Grande Expectations, she shows how money is made and lost by following one of America’s hottest growth stocks, Starbucks, through a year of rapid store openings, fancy new drinks, and clever promotions ... Read more

    $11.99 USD