Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax faced a storm of protest.
The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue.
Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with marginal variations.
The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008.
Underwriting Services and the New Issues Market integrates practice, theory and evidence from the global underwriting industry to present a comprehensive description and analysis of underwriting practices.
Almost 15 years ago, in The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman popularized the latest wave of globalization as a world of giant corporate supply chains that tripled world trade between 1990 and 2010.
Freemium Economics presents a practical, instructive approach to successfully implementing the freemium model into your software products by building analytics into product design from the earliest stages of development.
Real-life ';wildpreneur' Tamara Jacobi shares her insights on what it takes to successfully make the leap from a safe yet soul-crushing day job to chasing your dreams.
Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade?
ASan Francisco ChronicleBestseller An NPR Best Book of the YearTheNew York TimessGlobal Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires systematic plunder of the worldbrazenly accelerated during the pandemichas transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.
This authoritative book on China's oil demand and government policies and practices rests on two essential foundations: first and foremost on the author's considerable knowledge of China's oil situation and prospects, together with his access to Chinese energy literature and data; and secondly, on that insight afforded to him and, therefore, his readers from his fluency in Chinese.
La marca Mercado Libre se convirtió, en los últimos años, en el faro del liberalismo vernáculo, una suerte de enclave de éxito global en un continente empobrecido.
Best execution, market integration, and other major financial market issues have traditionally been dealt with as separate matters requiring individual solutions.
From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of Critical Race Theory, offering a clear understanding of its origins, the way it has been problematized and its potential for societal change.
Los procesos de integración económica empezaron a ganar importancia a partir de la terminación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con motivaciones políticas en algunos casos y económicas In otros.
Have you ever felt that you had a great insight that would benefit your department, division, or organization and found that you seem to be the only one who can see it?
In einer Welt, die zunehmend von Konsum und globalen Märkten dominiert wird, suchen immer mehr Menschen nach Alternativen, die Gemeinschaft und Nachhaltigkeit in den Vordergrund stellen.
Introducing a Powerful New Business Model for Today's ITBlogger, speaker, software executive, and bestselling author Jill Dyche has been thinking about leadership a lot lately.
The highly anticipated follow up to The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure-the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestsellerThe Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure reveals the integrated principles he sees as critical to the success of any leader--all of which are modern day reflections of the American Founders' concept of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
