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Too big to fail: inside the battle to save Wall Street
By Andrew Ross Sorkin. 2010
From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, Russia and the corridors of Washington,…
Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego, greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy. Includes strong language. 2010.This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly (Your coach in a box)
By Kenneth S Rogoff, Carmen M Reinhart. 2009
This work examines financial crises of the past and discusses similarities between these events and the current crisis, presenting and…
comparing historical patterns in bank failures, inflation, debt, currency, housing, employment, and government spending. 2009.The wealth and poverty of nations: why some are so rich and some so poor
By David S Landes. 1998
Explores causes of the disparities in wealth and health that exist among societies, "the greatest single problem and danger facing…
the world." Argues that a nation's prosperity derives from industrial technology, nurtured by supportive cultural values and institutions. Avers that world peace depends on the well-being of all people. 1998.The value of nothing: why everything costs so much more than we think
By Raj Patel. 2009
Why do things cost what they do? Patel tracks down the reasons through history, philosophy, neuroscience and sociology, showing why…
prices are always at odds with the true value of the things that matter most to us. Also examines everything from Google to TV and from love to thoughts, to see the gap between price and value by looking at things that are so-called free. Bestseller. c2009.Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everything from supermarkets to insurance companies to airlines in this entertaining and informative book.…
To protect both our wallets and our bank accounts, we must better understand why companies do what they do. 2006.Pietra Rivoli is an economics professor at Georgetown University, where the question "Who made your T-shirt?" set her on a…
quest. On her journey she found that globalization is just as much about history and politics as it is about economics. 2007.The trouble with billionaires
By Neil Brooks, Linda McQuaig. 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem like a harmless source of entertainment, but such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout…
society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. And while we tend to regard large fortunes as evidence of great talent or accomplishment, the vast new wealth isn't due to an increase in talent or effort at the top, but rather to changing social attitudes legitimizing greed and government policy changes that favour the new elite. Strong language. 2010.The roaring '80s
By Adam Smith. 1988
The rational optimist: [how prosperity evolves]
By Matt Ridley. 2010
The habit of exchange and specialization - which started more than 100,000 years ago - has created a collective brain…
that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair. Thanks to the ceaseless capacity of humanity for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. 2010.The other side of the coin: the emerging vision of economics and our place in the world
By David Orrell. 2008
Current economic theory has resulted in social injustice, huge disparities between the rich and the poor, and the degradation of…
our ecology and environment. There is now an alternative, inspired by new sciences such as complexity and network theory, science-related movements like environmentalism, and social movements like feminism. c2008.The patch: the people, pipelines, and politics of the oil sands
By Chris Turner. 2017
The story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world's second largest proven reserve of oil.…
But this is no conventional story about the oil business. Rather, it is a portrait of the life cycle of the Patch, showing how it continues to impact lives around the world. 2017.The next Canada: in search of our future nation
By Myrna Kostash. 2000
Are young Canadians becoming increasingly disenfranchised by global corporations, and losing their sense of national identity? Myrna Kostash, in an…
attempt to validate or dismantle these claims, went across the country interviewing a diverse group of young professionals. She also attempted to see how the younger generation's ideals compared to those of her own, who had come of age in the 1960's and 70's. Talking to everyone from auto-workers and artists to investment brokers, union organizers and television producers, Kostash then interprets her findings and forecasts the prospects of a national identity for future Canadians. 2000.Fox introduces a new wave of economists and scholars who no longer teach that investors are rational or that the…
markets are always right. Many of them now agree that the efficient markets theory is wrong and that it's given way to counterintuitive hypotheses about human behaviour, psychological models of decision making, and the irrationality of the markets. In his treatment of the history of the world's markets, Fox uncovers the new ideas that may come to drive the market in the century ahead. 2009.The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more
By Chris Anderson. 2006
The logic of life: uncovering the new economics of everything
By Tim Harford. 2008
If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this…
really rational behaviour? And how come your boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don't quite realise it. We are rational beings after all. 2008.Les travailleurs face au pouvoir
By Louis Favreau. 1972
Ce livre s'adresse d'abord et avant tout aux militants du mouvement ouvrier québécois. Il est un instrument de travail pour…
les militants préoccupés de relier les luttes immédiates qu'ils mènent à partir de leur syndicat, de leur coopérative, de leur comité de citoyens aux luttes à faire pour transformer en profondeur les structures économiques et politiques du Québec. 1972.An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Modern Library college editions)
By Adam Smith, Edwin Cannan, Richard F Teichgraeber. 1965
The philosopher's theories of value, population and distribution had tremendous influence on such men as Thomas Malthus and Karl Marx.…
First published in 1776. 1965. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Le travail noir et l'ébconomie de demain
By Alfred Sauvy, Rosine Klatzmann, Anita Hirsch. 1984
Le nouvel état industriel: essai sur le système économique américain ((Bibliothèque des sciences humaines))
By John Kenneth Galbraith. 1967
Le système du monde, du XVe siècle à nos jours
By Immanuel Wallerstein. 1980