Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like t...
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Poli...
Paul KrugmanNew York Times Bestseller “A revelation. It showcases the range of Krugman's intellect… and his gift for clear, accessible writing.” Stephanie Mehta, Washington Post There is no better guide to basic econom...
Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited F...
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've...
Martin WolfFrom the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times—a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new global economy There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis th...
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Be...
Jacqueline NovogratzThe Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, w...
Macroeconomics (The MIT Press Essenti...
Felipe Larra BAn accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies. Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggrega...
Childhood Under Siege: How Big Busine...
Joel BakanCorporations have found a new resource to be mined for profit: our children. In this shocking and indelible behind-the-scenes journey, Joel Bakan, acclaimed author and award-winning maker of the renowned film and international bestsel...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better...
Abhijit V. BanerjeeTwo prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our dayThe experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists: asleep at the wh...
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back...
Tim HarfordA provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist. Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can i...
Seventeen Contradictions and the End ...
David Harvey"What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes a...
The End of Banking: Money, Credit, an...
Jonathan McMillanThere is an alternative! In this thought-provoking book, Jonathan McMillan dissects banking to reveal its inner workings. He cuts through the complexity of modern finance and explains how banking almost crashed our financial system. B...
Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn...
Joseph E. StiglitzIn February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi,...
According to Plan: The Elites' Secret...
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