Economics
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

Hmm. Maybe Ford was trying to get a reputation as a philanthropist? It’s another plausible-sounding theory. He was a rich man, after all, and his five-dollar working day made him ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Michael Lewis [Lewis, Michael]

Chapter Six Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn’t like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-14 | Author:Turk, James & Rubino, John [Turk, James]

CHAPTER 16 CENTRAL BANKS TAKE OVER THE WORLD “The only viable solution for monetary stability is to get government out of the money business permanently. The way to bring this ...
( Category: Introduction March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Mauldin, John & Tepper, Jonathan [Mauldin, John]

The Return of the 1970s We have every reason to believe that central bankers everywhere will be looking in the rearview mirror this time, too, as they struggle to steer ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Lorenzo Fioramonti

CHAPTER 4 Change from below I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. … This is ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chester Hartman [Hartman, Chester; Squires, Gregory D.]

A New Political Bloc to Advance Our Long-Term Agenda One of the verities community organizers inherited from the 1970s was, with a few exceptions, an aversion to electoral politics. The ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Mitch Feierstein [Feierstein, Mitch]

Figure 13.3: The price of gold, 2000–2011 Source: ThomsonReuters. We’re just about done on equity markets. The simple truth, once again, is that the assets promised by a Ponzi scheme ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Thom Hartmann [HARTMANN, THOM]

1) Please use the term “government-run health insurance” or, when brevity is a concern, “government option,” whenever possible. 2) When it is necessary to use the term “public option” (which ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Blinder, Alan S.

VARIETIES OF QUANTITATIVE EASING The Fed’s favorite unconventional weapon has been quantitative easing (QE), a term that encompasses a variety of ways to use the central bank’s balance sheet to ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:David Harvey [Harvey, David]

CHAPTER 13: CO-OPERATION The three chapters that follow deal with the various ways in which capitalists can procure relative surplus-value of the individual sort. The overall focus is on whatever ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

II The economic forces moving agriculture in those areas where it was accessible to change were those of expansion. Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against ...
( Category: Economic History March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

II In retrospect the movement for emancipation seems natural enough, and even its acceleration in the 1880s is not very surprising at first sight. Like the democratization of politics, a ...
( Category: Economic History March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

The Right’s alternative Europe’s crisis is not an accident, but it’s not caused by excessive long-term debts and deficits or by the “welfare” state. It’s caused by excessive austerity—cutbacks in ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Wolff

* See the ample documentation of this point in Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000). The Major Problems ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Noam Chomsky [Chomsky, Noam]

Notes 1. David Sanger, NYT, February 17, 1997; Youssef Ibrahim, NYT, December 13, 1996; Harvey Cox, World Policy Review, Spring 1997; Martin Nolan, Boston Globe, March 5, 1997; John Buell, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )