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The Age of Aging: How Demographics Are Changing the Global Economy and Our World

by George Magnus

The year 2008 marks the beginning of the baby boomer retirement avalanche just as the different demographics in advanced and most developing countries are becoming more pronounced. People are worrying again...

Asia's Turning Point: An Introduction to Asia's Dynamic Economies at the Dawn of the New Century

by Ivan Tselichtchev & Philippe Debroux

Asia was probably the biggest economic sensation of the post-war decades. The breathtaking success of Japan was followed by a remarkable rise of "four tigers", then ASEAN founder states and then China. The Asian...

Working Scared (Or Not at All): The Lost Decade, Great Recession, and Restoring the Shattered American Dream

by Carl E. Van Horn

Working Scared tells the story of the American workforce during a period of wrenching economic change and two recessions. By tracing the experiences of workers in times of economic prosperity and economic recession,...

The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture

by Carmine Gorga

This book transports the reader from the world of mainstream economics, in which the object of observation is The Market (exchange), to a world in which the object of observation is the economic process. Both...

Bad Economics - Pestilent Economists, Profligate Governments, Debt, Dependency & Despair

by Peter Smith

Bad Economics is a book for everyone who wants to understand why things have gone wrong rather than slavishly accepting the mainstream version of events. It takes on the illusions and delusions which regularly...

Theory of the Leisure Class

by Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism. Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social...

The Policy Governance Model and the Role of the Board Member, A Carver Policy Governance Guide

by John Carver

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill...

The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It

by Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig

What is wrong with today's banking system? The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing...

The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future

by Geoff Mulgan

The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan...

Rediscovering Sustainability: Economics of the Finite Earth

by A.R.G. Heesterman & W.H. Heesterman

This thought-provoking book summarises the present sustainability predicament and maps out financial and economic strategies. Rediscovering Sustainability helps bridge the gap in understanding between scientists...

The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis

by Ben S. Bernanke

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role...

Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility

by David Walker

He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us...

Awkward Embrace: The United States and China in the 21st Century

by Daniel Blumenthal & Phillip Swagel

In Awkward Embrace, Phillip Swagel applies his experience at the Treasury Department to show the reader why America’s economic relationship with China has been a beneficial one and details what needs to happen...

One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy

by Thomas Frank

In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.

Frank's...

Principles of Newspaper Management

by , James Pollard

Written by the once Director of the School of Journalism at the Ohio State University, this is a fascinating guide for anybody interested in becoming a journalist or involved in the world of the printed media....

The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It

by Peter Temin & David Vines

The Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis. In this timely and important book, Peter Temin and David Vines argue that our current...

"The Law," "The State," and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850

by Frederic Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat was a keen observer and analyst of political and economic problems and a passionate proponent of liberal economic theory. “The Law,” “The State,” and Other Political Writings (1843–1850),...

Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War

by Ludwig Von Mises

The present volume is devoted to some of Mises's earliest writings. As with the second volume in the series, the articles that compose this book include Mises's policy memoranda, essays, and speeches that were...

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

by Ludwig Von Mises

Published in 1944, during World War II, Omnipotent Government was Mises's first book written and published after he arrived in the United States. In this volume Mises provides in economic terms an explanation...

Social Justice and Economics: Critical Economic Theory in the Spirit of Duncan Foley

by Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai & Thomas Michl

This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley's work cannot be easily classified,...