Economics

We see it everywhere:*; shady zoning regulations in a small town;*; taxpayer money diverted into political campaigns;*; deals that enrich the few at the expense of the many;*; billion-dollar bailouts;*; trillions of newly printed dollars flowing from government to Wall Street at giveaway interest rates; *; brand-name economists hired to defend the indefensible with a smokescreen of economic theory.

As the winning practices and advantages of previous generations fade and we fail to address our problems, our challenges grow, incomes stagnate, debt explodes, and fitness wanes.

China's extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions of an inevitable slowdown.

Economic growth, inflation, and interest rates have declined in Asia, just as they have in the United States and Europe.

Labor productivity growth in the United States and other advanced countries has slowed dramatically since the mid-2000s, a major factor in their economic stagnation and political turmoil.

Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy.

The global financial crisis produced an important agreement among regulators in 2010-11 to raise capital requirements for banks to protect them from insolvency in the event of another emergency.

For decades, economic policymakers have worshipped at the altar of combating inflation, reducing public deficits, and discouraging risky behavior by investors.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation.

Spurred by the success of the first stress test of US banks toward the end of the global economic crisis in 2009, stress testing of large financial institutions has become the cornerstone of banking supervision worldwide.

Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries.

Ukraine suffered unprecedented political, economic, and military turmoil following Russia's annexation of Crimea in early 2014.

The fall of communism transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia.

The global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 has blasted livelihoods, inspired protests, and toppled governments.

The terrain of the world trading system is shifting as countries in Asia, Europe, and North America negotiate new trade agreements.

Will the Obama administration's decision to normalize relations with Cuba usher in a new era of economic cooperation, trade, and investment between the two countries?

In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-09, economists feared that protectionist policies might sweep the world economy, echoing the wave of tariff escalations during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Countries blessed with abundant natural resources often seek financial and political power from their supposedly lucky status.

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was devastating for the region, but policymakers at least believed that they gained a great deal of knowledge on how to prevent, mitigate, and resolve crises in the future.

It is not in the US interest to adopt tax and regulatory policies that would discourage global engagement by US multinational corporations (MNCs).

Americans have long been ambivalent toward foreign direct investment in the United States.

In September 1985, emissaries of the world's five leading industrial nations-the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan-secretly gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and unveiled an unprecedented effort to correct the largest set of current account and exchange rate imbalances that had ever threatened the world economy.

Packed with useful information, this is an essential resource for anyone thinking of setting up and running a community energy project.

George Buckley & Sumeet Desai: What You Need To Know About Economics Economics Matters.

George Buckley & Sumeet Desai: What You Need To Know About Economics Economics Matters.

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK ON MODERN ECONOMICS The Wealth of Nations is an economics book like no other.

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK ON MODERN ECONOMICS The Wealth of Nations is an economics book like no other.

In today's rapid-fire, global economy, insightful business policy and on-target strategy are essential for a corporation's survival.

An economics-focused analysis of why humanitarian relief efforts fail and how they can be remedied.

Durante décadas, la clase media ha creído que el camino hacia el éxito significaba trabajar duro y jugar por las reglas.

Here some of the state's most noted and qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050What can we be?

First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic.

Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001).

Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction.

Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "e;dollar diplomacy"e;-the use of international lending and advising-to early-twentieth-century U.

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Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic "e;South,"e; both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

What do Brazil's top beauty brand, America's second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world's third bestselling car have in common--besides achieving enormous success with revenue in the tens of billions?

An invaluable resource that helps anyone merge high-tech tools with the personal touch to forge lasting bonds and steady profits.

Using a sophisticated approach that unifies the three key areas of supply chain strategies, sales and operations planning (SOP), and lean manufacturing, The Market-Driven Supply Chain is the only book that takes a comprehensive approach to succeeding in today's on-demand environment.

The ultimate guide to navigating the increasingly complicated world of export and import guidelines.

Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change, but they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.