Business & Money
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Sarah Rose

Behind the gentlemanly façade of the East India Company there were often hidden rivalries and simmering tensions, and within the Indian network of company gardeners this friction often centered on ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:David Graeber

The Near West: Islam (Capital as Credit) Prices depend on the will of Allah; it is he who raises and lowers them. —Attributed to the Prophet Mohammed The profit of ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Chang, Ha-Joon [Chang, Ha-Joon]

Sir Isaac Newton once famously said, ‘if I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’.42 He was referring to the fact that ideas ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2000-12-13 | Author:Murray Newton Rothbard

Part III The Great Depression: 1929–1933 7 Prelude to Depression: Mr. Hoover and Laissez-Faire If government wishes to alleviate, rather than aggravate, a depression, its only valid course is laissez-faire—to ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Matt Taibbi

This was never supposed to happen. All the way back in 1936, after gamblers disguised as Wall Street brokers destroyed the American economy, the government of Franklin D. Roosevelt passed ...
( Category: Americas March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

SCHELLING’S CHESSBOARD MODEL suggests that transformations such as Fifteenth Street’s should be impossible: Things always fall apart, people always give in to their prejudices, and small anxieties lead to big ...
( Category: Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:David Stockman

CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT DEFORMATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS How Wall Street Got Huge THE COLLAPSE OF THREE SEPARATE $5 TRILLION FINANCIAL BUBBLES in less than a decade attested to the ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1848-01-02 | Author:Friedrich Engels; Victor Kiernan

THE STEAM KING There is a King, and a ruthless King, Not a King of the poet’s dream; But a tyrant fell, white slaves know well, And that ruthless King ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Even better for Arison and his family was yet another provision in the SEC public offering document that said: “The company intends to distribute dividends to all shareholders in at ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Dan Senor; Saul Singer

CHAPTER 9 The Buffett Test For our customers around the world, there was no war. —EITAN WERTHEIMER WE’RE NOT HERE TO STEAL WORKERS FROM MICROSOFT,” said Google’s Yoelle Maarek. “But,” ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Naomi Klein

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. —Michael Ledeen,The War against the Terror Masters, 2002 George's answer to ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Lanchester, John [Lanchester, John]

FIVE THE MISTAKE And yet the financial industry could still have got away with it. All the things described up until now could have been survived, and the resulting chaos ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Arianna Huffington

“WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?” Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP finally released underwater video showing a massive column of oil gushing out ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |ru | 2012-03-25 | Author:Paul Krugman

CHAPTER EIGHT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEFICIT? There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines. So we’re taking a ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-29 | Author:Dalton Conley

1∗A luxury has a precise economic definition: It is a good (or service), the consumption of which rises proportionately more when income rises (the amount of necessities we consume also ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 25,2014 )