New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and ';Corner Office' columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs.
The essays in this book, originally published in 1984, examine many problems within the structure of industry including wage policies, financial incentives and other economic policies.
Due to differences in the legal systems and business environments, it is difficult to compare the process of buying and selling land in different European countries.
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money.
Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetary and financial instability is extremely relevant to today's debates about commercial bank credit, the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.
El analisis del sector externo es fundamental para el estudio del desempeno macroeconomico de nuestros paises, influenciado de manera decisiva por los cambios en las condiciones internacionales.
This title was first published in 2001: Bringing together geographers, planners, political scientists, economists, rural development specialists, bankers, public administrators and other development experts, this volume questions the benefits of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs).
The Korean Economy: From Growth to Maturity takes an in-depth, amalgamated look at the evolution of Korea's globalization drive from the early 2000s (Kim Dae-jung regime, 1998-2003) to the present period (Park Geun-hye, 2013-2017).
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt lawArgentina's 2001 default on $100 billion in bonds and the messy litigation that followed has had an outsized impact on sovereign debt markets, sovereign debt law, and the International Monetary Fund's policies.
This book, originally published in 1951, is a theoretical study inspired by some central economic problems which have appeared during and after the Second World War in many countries, including Scandinavia.
In response to the credit crunch during the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, many have called for the re-establishment of regional banks in the UK and elsewhere.
Following the acquisition of its sovereignty from the Netherlands in 1949, Indonesia experienced serious economic and political problems during the 1950s and 1960s, before entering a three-decade-long period of rapid economic growth.
Das generelle Ziel des Buches ist bei sich anbahnenden oder vorliegenden Behinderungen dazu beizutragen, eine erste Orientierung über den angemessenen Umgang mit Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Behinderungen zu erhalten.
This book gives a complex description and discussion of today's populist attacks against the European Union (EU) following the financial crisis of 2008, which opened the floodgates of dissatisfaction, and the migration crisis which destabilized the traditional solidarity basis of the EU.
Research in macroeconomics in the last thirty years has featured, almost exclusively on two characteristics: an emphasis on the microfoundations of macroeconomics and secondly, intertemporal economics, that is, the behavior of economic actors over time.
This edited collection assesses the level of financial integration in the European Union (EU) and the differences across the countries and segments of the EU financial system.
The rise of the renminbi and what it means for forex markets Chinese authorities have ambitious plans to "e;internationalize"e; the renminbi, transforming it from a tightly controlled domestic legal tender into a global currency for international trade, held by both private and public sector asset managers.
Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yetThe United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history.
The story of GDP and why we need a better measurement of growthIn one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith.
Assesses central bank policies towards capitalist money creation and war finance against inflationary and deflationary class strengths in specific democracies.