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The Rational Optimist by Ridley Matt
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Ridley, Matt [Ridley, Matt]

solar panels the size of Spain or wind farms the size of Kazakhstan or woodland the size of India and Pakistan or hayfields for horses the size of Russia and ...
( Category: Economic History February 13,2015 )
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street by Jonathan A. Knee
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jonathan A. Knee

·9· CRACKS IN THE FAÇADE Although the beginning of the Internet era is usually dated from the 1995 IPO of Netscape, it did not begin to deeply infect the rest ...
( Category: Economic History February 13,2015 )
The End of Power by Naim Moises
epub |eng | | Author:Naim, Moises [Naím, Moisés]

THE NEW RULES OF GEOPOLITICS One of the best examples of smaller countries that have used coalitions of the willing, economic diplomacy (i.e., a lot of money), and soft power ...
( Category: History & Theory January 29,2015 )
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1 by Allan H. Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Allan H. Meltzer

At its March 3 meeting the Federal Reserve Board discussed the growing number of states with bank holidays. Miller advocated the use of clearinghouse certificates, but he opposed any plan ...
( Category: Economic History January 29,2015 )
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2 by Allan H. Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Allan H. Meltzer

124. Includes reserve position in the International Monetary Fund. Excluding the reserve, the decline was 8.7 percent in 1960. 125. The new administration began planning for the speech before the ...
( Category: Economic History January 29,2015 )
The Company Town by Hardy Green
epub |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Hardy Green

During the 1910s, the steel industry seemed to arrive at a formula for avoiding industrial strife. The corporations were not above coal-industry-like repression, albeit of a less violent nature: Many ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
The Big three in Economics by Mark Skousen
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Mark Skousen

Figure 5.1 Aggregate Supply (AS) and Aggregate Demand (AD) Model from a Keynesian Perspective p Source: Byrns and Stone (1987: 311). Reprinted by permission of Scott, Foresman and Co. forces—which ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists January 17,2015 )
The Worldly Philosophers: The Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L Heilbroner
mobi, pdf |eng | 1969-01-02 | Author:Robert L Heilbroner

Another, rather different nod of approval came from those who agreed with Sir Charles Crossthwaite that the real question between Britain and Siam was “who was to get the trade ...
( Category: Theory January 17,2015 )
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis by Bernanke Ben S
epub |eng | 2013-02-23 | Author:Bernanke, Ben S. [Bernanke, Ben S.]

Figure 23. Subprime Mortgage Securitization In addition, we had companies, such as AIG, that were selling insurance. They were using various kinds of credit derivatives to say, “Pay us a ...
( Category: Government & Business January 14,2015 )
The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Andrew Keen [Keen, Andrew]

CHAPTER SIX THE ONE PERCENT ECONOMY An Abundance of Stupidity My own epiphany about the Internet’s disastrous impact on culture is well documented. In the fall of 2005, I was ...
( Category: E-Commerce January 12,2015 )
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
epub |eng | 2008-01-07 | Author:Naomi Klein

September 11 and the Civil Service Comeback As Bush and his cabinet took their posts in January 2001, the need for new sources of growth for U.S. corporations took on ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 8,2015 )
Uncommon Grounds The History of Coffee
mobi | | | Author:Mark Pendergrast

( Category: Coffee & Tea January 6,2015 )
Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Sven Beckert [Beckert, Sven]

Famine victims, probably 1899, India (illustration credit 11.12) Experiencing a new kind of uncertainty thanks to world market integration, and squeezed by moneylenders, cotton growers in India, Brazil, Mexico, and ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs January 4,2015 )
Meet You in Hell
epub |eng | 2005-04-17 | Author:Les Standiford

15 OVER THE EDGE HAD THIS BEEN A MODERN-DAY standoff, with Frick in close touch with his emissaries by cell phone and Carnegie observing the scene via CNN satellite feed, ...
( Category: Company Profiles December 27,2014 )
You Only Have to Be Right Once by Randall Lane
epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Randall Lane

CHAPTER 9 Nick Woodman, GoPro: Chasing the Thrillionaire It’s hard to get too jealous of Sean Parker, Drew Houston, and other hacker prodigies, who took to computers the way Mozart ...
( Category: Business December 27,2014 )

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