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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
La crise économique des années 1970, caractérisée notamment par la « stagflation » (situation durable de fort chmage et d'inflation élevée) met à mal les modèles macroéconomiques keynésiens, utilisés depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice de Robert...
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Vous vous posez des questions sur votre futur économique et sociétal, celui de vos enfants ou de vos petits-enfants?
Les medias et les économistes actuels, aux messages anxiogènes, subjectifs et dogmatiques ne vous apportent pas les réponses que vous attendez.
Alors ce livre est fait pour vous.
Il s'appuie sur un courant de pensée économique centenaire mais inconnu, la physico-économie, qui est basé sur l'énergie et les lois de la physique.
Durant...
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This complete summary of "The Freedom Agenda" by Mike Lee, a prominent American politician, presents his examination of US national debt and its implications: inflation, stagnation, and potential insolvency. He argues that the only solution to this crisis is to pass an amendment to the Constitution which will require the federal government to pass a balanced budget every year.
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This complete summary of "The Case for Big Government" by Jeff Madrick, a renowned economist, presents his argument in favour of a big government of high taxes and wise regulations, which in the past has fostered greatness and prosperity. He demonstrates that political conservatives are wrong about favouring a small government and returning to 19th-century principles, while left-wing politicians are gradually abandoning the efforts of the Great Society,...
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The must-read summary of George Soros' book: "The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means".
This complete summary of "The New Paradigm for Financial Markets" of George Soros, a prominent businessman and political activist, shows that we are currently in the midst of the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In his book, the author explores the reasons behind this new crisis...
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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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Is it Really Possible to End Global Poverty?
Every generation of people puts forth a prescription for handling poverty. To date, every antidote for poverty has been a miserable failure. Follow the Money looks at the history of failures, both liberal and conservative, in the United States and declares if the real causes aren't addressed we are headed for a catastrophic economic collapse.
Daniel is an emotionally reclusive and secretive mathematician,...
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This complete summary of "Back to Work" by Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, analyses his argument that America needs a strong private sector and a smart government working together to recover from the financial crisis and restore the American Dream.
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• Expand your knowledge of American economics and politics
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Cartesian Economics, The Bearing of Physical Science upon State Stewardship is a compilation of two lectures given by Frederick Soddy to the student unions of Birbeck College and the London School of Economics. The lectures were the first of four works written between 1921 and 1934 that applied the concepts of hard science to the economy. Though Soddy's ideas were largely rejected at the time, much of his theories are rooted in real-world examples...
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The must-read summary of Wayne Allyn Root's book: "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling and Tax Cuts".
This complete summary of "The Conscience of a Libertarian" by Wayne Allyn Root, a prominent political figure and Libertarian Republican, presents the author's belief that there is a need for a new government system based on a dramatic tax reduction, a transfer of powers from the federal government...
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Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, a regular "Economic View" columnist for the New York Times, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. His books, which have been translated into twenty-two languages, include The Winner-Take-All Society (with Philip Cook), The Economic Naturalist, Luxury Fever, What Price the Moral High Ground?, and Principles of Economics (with Ben Bernanke).
What Charles...
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The must-read summary of James K. Galbraith's book: "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too".
This complete summary of "The Predator State" by James K. Galbraith, a renowned American economist, presents his argument that Reagan's economic policies were replaced by capitalism under the Bush administration, and that tax cuts, deregulation and privatization will eventually lead to lower prosperity...
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Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre la pensée marxiste qui anime encore aujourd'hui les plus vifs débats politiques et économiques.
En véritable esprit révolutionnaire, Karl Marx marque son époque en énonçant sa virulente critique envers le capitalisme émergent. S'appuyant à la fois sur la sociologie, la philosophie, l'histoire et l'économie, il défend la cause de l'homme, à la fois produit et producteur de son environnement.
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Education is the great transformer, said John Kenneth Galbraith. The truth will set us free but the truth is a process, not a cudgel. Truth must well up within us and cannot be imposed or decreed from the outside. The event of understanding is a fusion of horizons, said Hans Georg Gadamer, where prejudice and misunderstanding give way to enlightenment and new life. These essays and poems could reawaken an interest in critical thinking and philosophical...
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Zero-sum economics is a new theory of economics that can be used to explain the general operation of economies including such phenomena as business cycles, cash distribution, global labor, and ultimately poverty. These explanations use system analysis and control theory to describe how economic phenomena occur and use numerical simulations and current economic statistics to validate the claims. The most interesting part of this theory is that it shows...
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"Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016" "One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016" "Selected for Canada's Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016" "Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016" Kenneth S. Rogoff, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and former...
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This publication examines Mongolia's recent economic development and outlines reforms that would help the country take advantage of its many opportunities. Mongolia is rich in natural resources and, although landlocked, is well-placed to boost trade with its two giant neighbors. The country needs to diversify its economy beyond mining, enhance economic stability, and increase employment. To maximize Mongolia's potential the government can improve...
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Remember when mania led to a massive housing bubble? When Americans found themselves saddled with too many houses and were hit with the reality that our economy had been built on unsustainable borrowing? Everyone knows about that, right? What if that was wrong? What if, when we get down to brass tacks, Americans have been struggling to build enough new housing, especially in places where housing is in high demand, and this was true, even in 2005?...
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David Card, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Alan B. Krueger is Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wage
David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with...
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Revolutionary thinking and the fight against capitalism
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the life and works of Karl Marx.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Recognize and understand the main ideas behind the works of Karl Marx on economic thought
• Identify the impact his contributions had on economics, perceptions of capitalism and political revolutions
• Understand the limits of his contributions...
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