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The US economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to f……続きを見る

This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviat……続きを見る

As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the adv……続きを見る

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E.……続きを見る

First Published in 2005. This volume offers a summary of all phases of economic growth in the USA. It is based upon the contents of the standard college textbooks in American economic history. It pr……続きを見る

First published in 1990, this book traces the logic and the peculiarities of German economic development through the Weimar Republic, Third Reich and Federal Republic, providing a comprehensive anal……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1923, endeavoured to provide a brief account of the social and economic conditions in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Russia and Peace discusses the i……続きを見る

This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation. Over the past few decades, the economics of innovation has given rise to a lively flow of studies, and i……続きを見る

Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 19……続きを見る

There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, t……続きを見る

“The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn.” --Zhu Yongxin One of today’s leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin pos……続きを見る

China enjoys a splendid ancient culture, which is inseparable from the role of cultural transmission played by the country’s system of education. As a nation that attaches great importance to educat……続きを見る

John F. Henry is an eminent economist who has made important contributions to heterodox economics drawing on Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. His historical approach……続きを見る

K. William Kapp’s heterodox theory of social costs proposes precautionary planning to pre-empt social costs and provide social benefits via socio-ecological safety standards that guarantee the grati……続きを見る

Un guide pratique et accessible pour découvrir la Success Story de TripAdvisor Quelle histoire se cache derrière le succès international du hibou aux yeux bicolores de TripAdvisor ? Comment cette pl……続きを見る

Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre le fonctionnement de la pyramide de Ponzi Telle une pyramide de cartes dont les fondements semblent à la fois miraculeux et incertains, le montage fra……続きを見る

Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre comment fonctionne le modèle Mundell-Fleming Si les tenants et aboutissants des politiques budgétaire, fiscale et monétaire appliquées au niveau natio……続きを見る

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is regarded by many as the most important text in the history of economics. Jerry Evensky's analysis of this landmark book walks the reader through the five 'Books……続きを見る

Thomas Pikettyーwhose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debateーwrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual back……続きを見る

In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to……続きを見る

Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations By Leo Huberman Originally published in the 1930s, this is 'an attempt to explain history by economic theory, and economic theory by history'……続きを見る

Robert Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, explor……続きを見る

How scientific is economics? This question has often been framed by analogies and correspondences made between economics and other, seemingly more well-established scientific disciplines, starting w……続きを見る

C’est en Allemagne que nos socialistes, depuis plus de vingt ans, vont chercher toutes leurs aspirations. Ils se  font gloire d’être Germains, de penser et de parler à la mode alle……続きを見る

Money could be as essential to everyday life in medieval England as it is today, but who made the coinage, how was it used and why is it important? This definitive study charts the development of co……続きを見る

Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the world’s foremost urban areas. This book is an economic his……続きを見る

Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation of the Mediterranean, Maria Fusaro presents a new ……続きを見る

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how……続きを見る

In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and RightーCommunists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military inter……続きを見る

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and mid……続きを見る