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  • The New Depressionby Richard Duncan

    John Wiley & Sons 2012; US$ 29.95

    Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop it When the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed. All previous constraints on money and credit creation were removed and a new economic paradigm took shape. Economic growth ceased to be driven by capital accumulation and investment as it had been since before the Industrial Revolution. Instead, credit creation and consumption began to drive the economic dynamic. In The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy , Richard Duncan introduces an analytical framework, The Quantity Theory of Credit, that explains all aspects of the calamity now unfolding: its causes, the rationale for the... more...

  • Brazil since 1980by Francisco Vidal Luna; Herbert S. Klein

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00

    This book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development - the shift, in effect, from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society - in any language. more...

  • The White Man's Burdenby William Easterly

    Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 13.99

    From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth , William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man’s Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West’s economic policies for the world’s poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude... more...

  • 13 Bankersby Simon Johnson

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.99

    Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley—which together control assets amounting, astonishingly, to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, these financial institutions (now more emphatically “too big to fail”) continue to hold the global economy hostage, threatening yet another financial meltdown with their excessive risk-taking and toxic “business as usual” practices. How did this come to be—and what is to be... more...

  • More Than Good Intentionsby Dean Karlan; Jacob Appel

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work. American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have a realistic way forward. Presenting innovative and successful development interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how empirical analysis coupled with the latest thinking in behavioral economics can make a profound difference. From Kenya, where teenagers reduced their risk of contracting AIDS by having more unprotected sex with partners their own age, to Mexico, where giving kids a one-dollar deworming pill boosted school... more...

  • Conversations in Colombiaby Stephen Gudeman; Alberto Rivera

    Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 40.00

    Drawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a conversation involving themselves, a Colombian rural people, and the writings of past economists. more...

  • The Real Crashby Peter Schiff

    St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 12.99

    You might be thinking everything’s okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over.   You’d be wrong.   In The Real Crash , New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode . . . with disastrous consequences for the economy and for each of us. Schiff demonstrates how the infusion of billions of dollars of stimulus money has only dug a deeper hole: the United States government simply spends too much and does not collect enough money to pay its debts, and in the end, Americans from all walks of life will face a crushing consequence.   We’re in hock to China, we can’t... more...

  • The Euro Crisis For Dummiesby Julian Knight

    John Wiley & Sons 2012; US$ 1.95

    Your handy mini-guide to the eurozone crisis These are turbulent times for Europe. The European debt crisis has dominated headlines, toppled elected leaders, and even called into question the survival of the Euro itself. In fact, not a day goes by without headlines screaming about the eurozone in crisis. But what are the key issues at stake? What exactly caused the crisis...and what might happen next? Julian Knight walks you through the issues and explains - in plain English - what the crisis means for you, and for the global economy.  Open the book and find: How the crisis came about What it means to you Crystal ball predictions on what might happen next  ‘Must know' facts about the crisis more...

  • Salmon Dayby Douglas Lamont

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005; US$ 37.50

    "I am impressed by Lamont's assessments of who will be the global winners and losers. Lamont holds back no punches. If you want to see the big picture, globally and technologically, read this book." —Philip Kotler, S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University "Too often, companies charge headlong into global business activities with little strategic thought, historical perpective or analysis of global trends. Douglas Lamont’s Salmon Day perspective provides these companies with necessary food for thought as they expand their global sales and investment activities, helping them to make informed choices on market entry strategy, as well... more...

  • The Weightless Worldby Diane Coyle

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1999; US$ 32.95

    This text maps out how the economic world has been turned upside down by technology, globalism and the death of job security. It takes up the thread of thought established in Negroponte's 'Being Digital', in terms of asking how our lives will change in a world where technology is the major currency. more...