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  • When financial folly can lead to tragedy

    by Xavier Maurin ...
    The history of the economy since the 1980s has been one of stratospheric growth in finance. Yet few members of the general public really know what finance is, what its objectives are, what it does and what its repercussions are. Some see it as a casino economy for greedy billionaires at the expense of the people, while others see it as the divine structure of growth. What is certain is that ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism

    by Joseph Heath ...
    Economists have a bad reputation. Not only do they assume that everyone is self-interested and amoral, they are almost always cheerleaders for the free market. As a result, most people who do not already share their beliefs ignore everything that economists have to say. This is a problem. Even among the highly educated, economics is a minefield of fallacies and errors. Among those who know little ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Finance and the Good Society

    The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The New Financial Order

    Risk in the 21st Century

    In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real assets, such as income ... Read more

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  • Microeconomics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Avinash Dixit ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Microeconomics - individuals' choices of where to live and work, how much to save, what to buy, and firms' decisions about location, hiring, firing, and investment - involves issues that concern us on a daily basis. But when people think about economics, they tend to place importance on the bigger picture - macroeconomics - including issues such as unemployment, inflation, and the competitiveness ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    Series series The Macat Library
    Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' ... Read more

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  • Economists and the Powerful

    Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards

    “Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on an array of empirical and theoretical studies by a series of distinguished economists, this book reveals a stark and unpleasant truth: that the ... Read more

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  • Economics After the Crisis

    Objectives and Means

    by Adair Turner ...
    Series series Lionel Robbins Lectures
    A noted economist challenges the fundamental economic assumptions that cast economic growth as the objective and markets as the universally applicable means of achieving it.The global economic crisis of 2008–2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Taking Economics Seriously

    by Dean Baker ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them ... Read more

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  • Specialization and Trade

    A Re-introduction to Economics

    by Arnold Kling ...
    Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like the Federal Reserve Board. It turns out they were wrong. Their equations do not hold up. Their policies have not produced the promised results. Their interpretations ... Read more

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  • American Dream Dying

    The Changing Economic Lot of the Least Advantaged

    Using recent polling results, this book identifies the core economic components of the American Dream: standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. The authors document the trend in each of these components over the last thirty years, using figures (trend lines and bar charts) based upon the best available data. Collectively, this evidence has alarming implications for the economic ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Law of Diminishing Returns: Theory and Applications

    Understand the fundamentals of economic productivity

    by 50minutes ...
    Series Book 13 - Management & Marketing
    Understand the fundamentals of economic productivityThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding diminishing returns, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the theory of diminishing returns and the effects caused by changes in the production process• Analyze the recent interpretations and developments of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus