books about: economist     books:       And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina Paul Blustein PublicAffairs, 2006 In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn its back on arrivistes and cast them out. That was what happened in 2001, when Argentina suffered one of the most spectacular crashes in modern history. With it came appalling social and ...             Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays Walter E. Williams Hoover Institution Press, 2008 In unyielding defense of personal liberty In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights and brutal honesty. He offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics, always with an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the ...             The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, ... Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Meet your new global consumer You’ve heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers? Do you know that: • There will be nearly one billion middle-class consumers in China and India within the next ten years? • More than 135 million Chinese and Indians will graduate from college in this timeframe, compared to ...             Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach (Mba Series) Luke M. Froeb, Brian T. McCann Cengage Learning, 2009 Teach your MBA students how to use economics to solve business problems with this breakthrough text. Froeb/McCann's MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: A PROBLEM SOLVING APPROACH, 2E covers traditional material using a problem-based pedagogy built around common business mistakes. Models are used sparingly, and then only to the extent that they help students figure out why mistakes are made, and how to fix them. This edition's succinct, fast-paced ...             Korea: The Impossible Country Daniel Tudor Tuttle Publishing, 2012 South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just fifty years into ...             Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) Walter E. Williams Hoover Inst Pr, 2011 Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. Contrasting the features of market resource allocation with those of the political arena, he explains how, in the political arena, minorities cannot realize a particular preference unless ...             Get Your Fats Straight (The Healthy Home Economist Guide), 2013 In THE HEALTHY HOME ECONOMIST GUIDE: GET YOUR FATS STRAIGHT, Sarah Pope quickly identifies how the low-fat movement got its start and the devastating health effects it is having on people in our society today. She beats back the arguments made to convince you to eat low-fat and presents simple, practical advice on the first three steps you need to take to regain your own health, if you have lost it, or raise children to be healthy and fulfill ...             from Bedlam to Boardroom: How to get a derailed executive career back on track! Colleen Aylward CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011 You need this book whether you are employed or not... It's a tough economy out there and not likely to change in the next several years. Besides, the average time in a job now is 3-4 years. GET VISIBLE.  GET KNOWN for your expertise, and you'll never have to conduct a "job search" again. In 10 chapters, you'll find a detailed roadmap with helpful examples, timelines and insider tips for becoming the niche authority that you are, and pushing ...             The Measure of a Nation: How to Regain America's Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing Howard Steven Friedman Prometheus Books, 2012 If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? According to UN statistician Howard Steven Friedman, that hypothetical analyst would label America a corporate dinosaur and recommend that the nation either change or face extinction. This book focuses on how to improve America by first comparing its performance with thirteen competitive industrial nations, then ...             The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered John Michael Greer New Society Publishers, 2011 The Wealth of Nature proposes a new model of economics based on the integral value of ecology. Building on the foundations of E. F. Schumacher's revolutionary "economics as if people mattered," this book examines the true cost of confusing money with wealth. By analyzing the mistakes of contemporary economics, it shows how an economy centered on natural capital—the raw materials that support human life—can move our society toward a more ...             The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey David R. Henderson Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2001 The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey isn't a dry tome about free market economics: it brings the idea of freedom to life through stories of people who have discovered it in their own lives. David Henderson brings together these stories as never before, celebrating those in American society -- and around the world -- who are fighting to get the government off their backs. The cause of freedom led David Henderson to join the Reagan ...             Wealthology: Creating Lasting Prosperity in an Uncertain World Akinaw Bulcha CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010 Through a series of letters written to his nephew Kidus (in Ethiopia), business professor, Akinaw Bulcha, sets out to teach the truth he's come to find about creating lasting wealth. "This book shows you how to take complete control of your income and your money, and to become wealthy as a result." ~Brian Tracy-Author-The Way to Wealth For those simply tired of the confusion, misinformation and politics about money, pick up a glass ...             The Firm, the Market, and the Law R. H. Coase University Of Chicago Press, 1990 Few other economists have been read and cited as often as R.H. Coase has been, even though, as he admits, "most economists have a different way of looking at economic problems and do not share my conception of the nature of our subject." Coase's particular interest has been that part of economic theory that deals with firms, industries, and markets—what is known as price theory or microeconomics. He has always urged his fellow economists to ...             Micromotives and Macrobehavior Thomas C. Schelling W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."—official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these ...             Introduction to Mathematical Economics (Schaum's Outlines) Edward T. Dowling Mcgraw-Hill, 1992 This is an accompaniment for economics students who have a limited knowledge of maths, presenting a solved-problem introduction to basic concepts in calculus, differential equations, matrix algebra and linear programming. This new edition contains new chapters on logarithmic differentiation, area under a curve, and a review section for those students whose understanding of maths is very weak.             The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy James S. Henry Basic Books, 2005 Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family and the financial collapse of nations throughout the developing world. A rogues' gallery of international criminals owes its existence to the dramatic growth of the underground global ...             High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families Peter Gosselin Basic Books, 2009 Peter Gosselin predicted in High Wire that the American worker would take on an exceedingly high level of risk in the American economy, and would be ever more exposed to the volatility of the market. Today, Gosselin’s worst fears have been realized. American families are walking a high wire in which a medical crisis, a natural disaster, or the loss of a job could send them into free fall. And as the housing crisis worsens and banks and ...             Stealing from Each Other: How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit Edgar K. Browning Praeger, 2008 Almost all Americans would be better off if none of the federal welfare-state policies of the last century—including Social Security—had ever been enacted. So argues economist Edgar Browning, and with good reason: In 1900, government played a very small role in the day-to-day activities of American citizens. There was no income tax. No Social Security. No federal welfare programs. No minimum wage laws. No federal involvement in education. ...             The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos Ravi Batra Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 In The New Golden Age, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to economic prosperity--and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made books like The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism international bestsellers, Batra takes on falling minimum wages, corporate scandals, rocketing oil prices, and many of the other crises facing the world economy. He also offers an ...             The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the ... Clyde Prestowitz Free Press, 2010 CONSIDER THIS SHOCKING FACT: while China’s number one export to the United States is $46 billion of computer equipment, the number one export from the U.S. to China is waste—$7.6 billion of waste paper and scrap metal. Bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz reveals the astonishing extent of the erosion of the fundamental pillars of American economic might—beginning well before the 2008 financial crisis—and the great challenge we face for ...              search for books americans, argentina, bankrupting, boardroom, captivating, competitive, controversial, corruption, delusions, discrimination, economics, executive, financial, impossible, introduction, macrobehavior, managerial, mathematical, micromotives, political, post-dollar, precarious, problem-solving, prosperity, publication, revolution, socialism, uncertain, underground, wealthology books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Notions générales et pratiques de Radiesthesie. Sur les traces d'un ... home  impressum - about us