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  • Why Iceland? : How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty: How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty

    How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty

    by Asgeir Jonsson ...
    As late as the mid 1980s, Iceland’s economy revolved around little else than a semi-robust cod-fishing industry. By the end of the century, however, it had transformed itself into a major player in world finance, building an international banking empire worth twelve times its GDP. The tiny island nation of 300,000 was one of the global economy’s great success stories.And then everything came ... Read more

    $38.59 CAD

  • The Icelandic Financial Crisis

    A Study into the World´s Smallest Currency Area and its Recovery from Total Banking Collapse

    by Ásgeir Jónsson, Hersir Sigurgeirsson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a detailed account of Iceland’s recovery from the tumultuous banking collapse that overturned its financial industry in 2008. Early chapters recount how Iceland’s central bank was unable to follow the quantitative easing policies of the time to print money and save the banks, while serving the world´s smallest currency area. The book goes on to explore how the government ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • The New Depression

    The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy

    by Richard Duncan ...
    Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop itWhen the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed. All previous constraints on money and credit creation were removed and a new economic paradigm took shape. Economic growth ceased to be driven by capital accumulation and investment as it had been since ... Read more

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  • The Dollar Crisis

    Causes, Consequences, Cures

    by Richard Duncan ...
    In this updated, second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller, The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts:Part One describes how the US ... Read more

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  • A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy

    Eighty-one Basic Economic Concepts That Will Change the Way You See the World

    by Randy Charles Epping ...
    In a time of rapid change in the world economy, this fascinating, concise, and user-friendly primer is the most reliable tool for keeping track of what's happening.What is the new economy? What is globalization? Is the euro the final seal on European Union? How is e-commerce transforming our world beyond economics? What is virtual money, and does it have real value? How do social concerns and ... Read more

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  • The Housing Boom and Bust

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    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and the even more "creative" marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up -- ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Fuzzy Math

    The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan

    by Paul Krugman ...
    Wielding his widely recognized powers of explanation, Paul Krugman lays bare the hidden facts behind the $2 trillion tax cut.With huge budget surpluses just ahead, the question of whether to cut taxes has shifted to when? and by how much? With Fuzzy Math, Paul Krugman dissects the Bush tax proposal and shows us who wins, who loses, and how quickly the tax cuts will consume the surplus. Always the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • What You Need to Know about Economics

    by George Buckley, Sumeet Desai ...
    George Buckley & Sumeet Desai: What You Need To Know About EconomicsEconomics Matters. But with confusing things like GDP and interest rates, it's often hard to get you head around.So What do you really need to know about economics? Find out:What economic growth is and why it mattersHow inflation happensHow jobs are created and lostHow the property market worksWhat central banks... ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Lost Decades

    The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery

    by Menzie D. Chinn, Jeffry A. Frieden ...
    A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead.The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Read this lucid explanation of the origins and long-term effects of ... Read more

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  • False Profits

    Recovering from the Bubble Economy

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    Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country’s top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs, homes, and the life savings of tens of millions of people. He quashes dire warnings of ... Read more

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  • Offshore Investments that Safeguard Your Cash: Learn How Savvy Investors Grow and Protect Their Wealth

    by Erika Nolan, Shannon Crouch ...
    Moving your money offshore is a highly effective and surprisingly affordable strategy for you and your wealth. Until now, though, a huge barrier has stood between you and the world's best asset protection and investment opportunities-a lack of quality information.Offshore Investments That Safeguard Your Cash is the long-awaited, how-to book for everyone who has ever considered moving even a ... Read more

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