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"Excellent . . . I highly recommend this book." -RON PAUL
Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the economic meltdown that began in 2007-or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities?
Mainstream economics has no adequate answers for these pressing questions. To understand how we got here, and how we can ensure prosperity, we must turn to an alternative to...
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Au fil des siècles, les Bourses se sont adaptés à l'évolution économique de nos sociétés. Des tulipes aux produits dérivés obscurs et complexes, les marchés que nous connaissons actuellement ont subi de nombreuses transformations, rythmées par des krachs financiers d'envergure. Un tournant majeur s'opère cependant durant les années 90, au moment o le secteur technologique prend de l'ampleur. Les Bourses perdent progressivement leur visage...
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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and had previously taught at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976. He was also a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981. Anna Jacobson Schwartz is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which she joined in 1941. She is a Distinguished...
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"Honorable Mention for the 1999 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science, Association of American Publishers" George J. Borjas is the Pforzheimer Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of several books, including Wage Policy in the Federal Bureaucracy, Friends or Strangers:...
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John Patrick Diggins is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His previous books include Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, The American Left in the Twentieth Century, Up from Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History, and The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past (Princeton).
Fired by Stanford and the University...
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How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression.
Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great Depression. Today we remember long dole queues, shanty towns and destitute men roaming the country in search of work. With over a third of the workforce...
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Ben S. Bernanke was chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2022. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. His many books include The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis (Princeton).
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial...
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Siete años después del inicio de la crisis financiera, este libro da testimonio del fulgor y muerte de las cajas de ahorro españolas. Un terremoto inmobiliario las sacudió y han seguido un nuevo camino de bancarización, facilitando su entrega a los operadores financieros privados. En la reconversión, gran número de entidades se reflotaban con dinero público mientras salían a la luz errores de gestión, créditos dudosos, sueldos de escándalo...
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For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance--in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself.
In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly...
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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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Oxford historian Karl Gerth reveals why we should all care about the everyday choices made by ordinary Chinese. Chinese consumers are quickly replacing overspent Americans as the global economic engine, but in so doing they are dramatically reconfiguring the world economy in ways that may be impossible to reverse.
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"Americans face real economic hardship but respond with fantastical solutions, from tax-cut magic to the end of capitalism. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro focus on what truly worries people: their own insecurity. The authors propose concrete reforms affecting taxes, health care, and wages and share organizing strategies to achieve changes people need"--
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El libro explora el tema de la memoria y las múltiples formas como se elaboran los relatos del pásado en el Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, en él se analizan varias coyunturas históricas de trascendental importancia para el Caribe Colombiano.
La primera tiene que ver con la recuperación del territorio por parte de España a finales del siglo XVIII,Y la importancia que se le otorga a las islas y costas adyacentes en...
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We all know the book: it's been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world economy works, or doesn't work, and it's been a colossal bestseller since it first appeared in 2014, with more than 1.5 million copies sold. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes a powerful case that wealth, and accumulated wealth, tends to stay where it lands: and with the passage of time, just gets bigger… and bigger. But how many...
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Esta no es una crónica de la crisis financiera más reciente (aunque también), ni del saqueo de los conquistadores españoles en América (que en el libro se relata), ni de cómo llegó y se fue el patrón oro, o por qué se crearon el Fondo Monetario Internacional y el Banco Mundial (¿le dice algo "Bretton Woods"?), ni siquiera de las grandes turbulencias financieras desde la Depresión hasta la creación del euro (con sus protagonistas y avatares)....
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El pueblo de poetas y pensadores, que en dos ocasiones ha sido víctima de terribles guerras mundiales en la historia reciente, se encuentra nuevamente en una profunda crisis en estos días y se encuentra en una encrucijada. En los últimos siete años, en este contexto se han producido innumerables obras, analíticamente brillantes, pero sobrias, extensas y para la mayoría incomprensibles y, por lo tanto, en última instancia, sólo fugaces, en...
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"Winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations" "Winner of the 2010 Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA-CREF" "One of USA Today's "Year's Best Business Books To Make Sense of Financial Crisis"" "Listed on Bloomberg.com by James Pressley as one of "our favorite financial-crisis books this year"" "Shortlisted for the 2010 Spear's Book of the Year Award in Financial History" "Finalist for the 2011 Estoril Global Issues...
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Milton Friedman changed the world. From free markets in China to the flat taxes of Eastern Europe, from the debate on drugs to interest rate policy, Friedman's skill for vivid argument and ideas led to robust and often successful challenges to a dizzying amount of received wisdom.
Relying on big-picture economic analysis and an insistent faith in human freedom, he took on the economic and political orthodoxies of his day-and if he didn't always win,...
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How Main Street was hit by-and might recover from-the financial crisis, by The New York Times's national economics correspondent
When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street. The New York Times national economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman takes us behind the headlines and exposes how the flow of capital from Asia and Silicon Valley to the suburbs of the housing bubble perverted America's economy....
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