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Stewards of the Market by Mitchel Y. Abolafia
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mitchel Y. Abolafia

A Fragile Situation: August 2008 By the August 5 meeting, James Bullard was the only remaining proponent of the improvement narrative. It now appears that the worst quarter associated with ...
( Category: Public Finance June 9,2020 )
Fault Lines by Raghuram G. Rajan
epub |eng | | Author:Raghuram G. Rajan

CHAPTER SEVEN Betting the Bank ROUGHLY 60 PERCENT of all asset-backed securities were rated AAA during the lending boom, whereas typically less than 1 percent of all corporate bonds are ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 6,2020 )
Outsourcing Empire by Andrew Phillips
epub |eng | 2020-04-13 | Author:Andrew Phillips

GEOPOLITICS AND THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY To what degree is the Hudson’s Bay Company representative of the company-state form? As observed earlier, its original charter was entirely typical in its ...
( Category: History & Theory June 5,2020 )
Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America by Stephen L. Klineberg
epub |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Stephen L. Klineberg [Klineberg, Stephen L.]

* * * As you travel away from Central Houston on Westpark Tollway, heading toward Missouri City in Fort Bend County, you will encounter along the Beltway 8 service road ...
( Category: Economic History June 4,2020 )
Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty by George G. Szpiro
epub |eng | 2020-01-07 | Author:George G. Szpiro

FIGURE 7.3: John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern (l-r); Dorothy Morgenstern Thomas, photographer. Source: Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. The infamous ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving June 4,2020 )
The Failure of Capitalist Production by Kliman Andrew;
epub |eng | | Author:Kliman, Andrew; [Kliman, Andrew]

Figure 7.4 shows the cumulative percentage changes since 1947 in the rate of profit and its components. On the one hand, we see that short-term movements in the rate of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism May 31,2020 )
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration--And Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives by Danny Dorling
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Danny Dorling [Dorling, Danny]

35. United States: total fertility rate, 1973–2016. (World Bank Open Data, fertility rate, estimates based on the 2017 UN World Population Prospects and other sources, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.dyn.tfrt.in.) From 1990 to 2005, ...
( Category: Economic History May 28,2020 )
Brazil's Revolution in Commerce by James P. Woodard
epub |eng | | Author:James P. Woodard

Comfort Zones By the time of Periscinoto’s intervention, many of the most important Brasil Grande slogans had fallen into disuse. As growth rates fell, “At the Pace of Brasil Grande” ...
( Category: Economic History May 26,2020 )
The Classical School by Callum Williams
epub |eng | 2020-05-18 | Author:Callum Williams

What led to Sismondi’s radicalisation? His training as a historian may have something to do with it. As a young man, Sismondi had annotated a copy of Edward Gibbon’s Decline ...
( Category: Classical May 25,2020 )
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
epub |eng | 2020-04-03 | Author:Matt Ridley

Their approach was in fact a melding of machine and human intelligence. Their algorithm relied on the billions of human judgments made by people when they created links from their ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship May 25,2020 )
The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Zachary D. Carter [Carter, Zachary D.]

* * * — By 1938, Walter Lippmann was perhaps the most influential American man of letters. His column for the New York Herald Tribune was syndicated nationwide, and though ...
( Category: Economic History May 21,2020 )
Money, Power, and the People by Christopher W. Shaw
epub |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Christopher W. Shaw [Shaw, Christopher W.]

“Cooperation and Not Conflict” The inclusion of agriculture and labor in New Deal policymaking imparted these groups with stature. “Labor has improved its status tremendously,” Perkins observed. This new standing ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 20,2020 )
The European Guilds by Sheilagh Ogilvie
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Sheilagh Ogilvie

HOW IMPORTANT WERE GUILD SALES ROOMS? In another special case, guild sales rooms are proposed as the key to solving information asymmetries about product quality. Maarten Prak argues that the ...
( Category: Economic History May 13,2020 )
EuroTragedy by Ashoka Mody
epub |eng | 2018-05-11 | Author:Ashoka Mody

ECB Scrambles to Stop the Trauma, Merkel Helps: July–September 2012 “The bumblebee,” Draghi began, “is a mystery of nature because it shouldn’t fly but instead it does.” Thus, his opening ...
( Category: Macroeconomics May 12,2020 )
Survive -- The Economic Collapse by Piero San Giorgio
mobi |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:Piero San Giorgio [Giorgio, Piero San]

As with anything, survival depends above all on the experience acquired by practice. Train yourself to go beyond your comfort zone, where you will learn endurance, strength, agility and the ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing May 7,2020 )

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