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The Real Crash
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 26.99You 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... more...
Austerity
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 18.99Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our... more...
The Wealth of Nations
Penguin Books Ltd 1999; Not AvailableSmith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry,... more...
South Africa Pushed to the Limit
Zed Books 2011; US$ 44.95In his wide-ranging, incisive and provocative analysis, Hein Marais shows that although the legacies of apartheid and colonialism weigh heavy, many of the strategic choices made since the early 1990s have compounded those handicaps. Marais explains why those choices were made, where they went awry, and why South Africas vaunted formations of... more...
Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00This book explains cross-national and temporal changes in employment outcomes. more...
The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 40.00Andrews explains why many institutional reforms in developing countries have limited success and suggests ways to overcome these limits. more...
Open Budgets
Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 29.95Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands?from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic actors, and increasingly from international sources?to... more...
Finance and the Good Society (New in Paperback)
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 19.95The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that... more...
In Spite of the Gods
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward... more...
Natural Capitalism
Little, Brown and Company 2007; US$ 9.99There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold worldwide, they have set the agenda for rational, ecologically sound industrial development. In this inspiring book they define a superior & sustainable form... more...









