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La sphère marchande, désormais mondialisée et digitalisée, entre en violente collision avec les politiques de nombreux pays européens. En effet, le néo-libéralisme américain apporte une incontestable croissance économique et une extraordinaire élévation du niveau de vie. Il exige cependant une mobilité parfaite et une individualisation du travail. En revanche, les États-providences européens furent bâtis, à l'opposé du néo-libéralisme,...
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The fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of contemporary Russian capitalism are often all too often read as a juncture with the past. In reality, Russia's current capitalist system originated in the degenerated Soviet bureaucracy, alongside the pressures of global capital.
From Roman Abramovich to Leonid Mikhelson, the reign of the CEO in Russia corporations mirrors the autocracy of the Soviet Union's leaders: the Russian tradition of...
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An incisive, hard-hitting and utterly compelling expose of media, powerful mates and multimillion-dollar deals that reads like a thriller. "Not since The Latham Diaries came out in 2005 has a book delivered so many scoops, insights and revelations into how power is wielded in Australia ... a treasure trove of gems" - Crikey
"Pamela Williams has written a manual for corporate directors and senior managers, who should all be compelled to read it."...
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Following the bank bailout and the Global Financial Crisis, anger towards the financial system reached new heights. Yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people, this practical guide to the financial sector will bridge the gap between protest slogans and practical proposals for reform.
Activist and former derivatives broker Brett Scott proposes a framework for understanding financial institutions, based on the three principles...
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In the tradition of his contemporary classic Parliament of Whores, P.J. O'Rourke is back with Eat the Rich, in which he takes on the global economy. P.J. leads you on a hysterical whirlwind world tour from the "good capitalism" of Wall Street to the "bad socialism" of Cuba in search of the answer to an age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?" With stops in Albania, Sweden, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Tanzania,...
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Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages duplicity in our everyday transactions? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense? In Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't, economist and bestselling author John R. Lott, Jr., answers these and other common economic...
7) How to Create and Maintain a Diversified Investment Portfolio: A Comprehensive Guide on Investment
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"The book 'How to Create and Maintain a Diversified Investment Portfolio: A Comprehensive Guide on Investment and Portfolio Management' is a complete guide on investment and portfolio management. It covers everything from various investment options to create a varied portfolio that matches an investor's objectives and risk appetite. The book presents a systematic approach towards creating and managing a successful portfolio." The book includes important...
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This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.
Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet in meltdown. He looks at scientists' conclusions about climate change, the business world's opinions about its own power, and reveals the fingerprints of finance on American elections.
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Economics has become a taboo topic because is not well understood. As a taboo topic it doesn't get discussed, and since it is not discussed, it is not understood-what a vicious cycle!
Shying away from open discussions about money, budgets, markets, and trade has resulted in many misconceptions. Economics is all around us, and with a little common sense understanding of economic principals, Jonathan M. Lamb changes the way people view the world. Economics...
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How do labour markets work? Is it better to aim for inflation or full employment? How can developing countries escape the poverty trap?
Economics explores how we produce, consume and distribute resources and the incentives, financial or otherwise, that motivate our behaviour. As our approach to money and markets has changed over the centuries, great thinkers have sort to explain their workings. In this beautifully illustrated book, the author introduces...
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How do economists decide what questions to address and how to choose their theories? How do they tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? With these broad questions, Nobel laureate R. H. Coase, widely recognized for his seminal work on transaction costs, reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists over the past two centuries.
In fifteen essays, Coase evaluates the contributions of a number of...
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Basic Income is a policy idea that could help us revolutionise the way we organise society. This book is the first proper guide to basic income -- what it is, how we can organise it, and how it can benefit the majority in different spheres of their lives.
Basic Income is simply the idea that everyone in a given society has a right to a minimal income. This is paid by the state out of taxation. Set at a subsistence level, it would take the place...
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Get the Summary of Laura Tretheway's The Deepest Map in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Deepest Map" by Laura Tretheway chronicles the journey of Cassie Bongiovanni, a young ocean mapper, as she joins the ambitious Five Deeps Expedition led by Victor Vescovo, a millionaire adventurer. The book delves into the challenges of mapping the largely uncharted ocean floor, a task with significant scientific, economic,...
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Is the bridge between the Austrian and Chicago schools coming together or moving apart?
In Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? economist and author Mark Skousen debates the Austrian and Chicago schools of free-market economics, which differ in monetary policy, business cycle, government policy, and methodology. Both have played a successful role in advancing classic free-market economics and countering the critics of capitalism during crucial times...
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This is the account of a microfinance true believer whose decade in the industry turned him into a heretic. Working with several microfinance institutions around the world, Hugh Sinclair realized that the $70 billion industry wasn't doing much to help the people it claimed to serve. In fact, exorbitant interest rates led borrowers into never-ending debt spirals, and aggressive collection practices resulted in cases of forced prostitution, child labor,...
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Get the Summary of Ray Dalio's Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Ray Dalio's "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order" examines the cyclical nature of empires, focusing on the rise and fall of the Dutch, British, and American empires, among others. Dalio identifies recurring patterns of wealth and power accumulation, overextension, and conflict,...
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Our current economic system-which assumes endless growth and limitless potential wealth-flies in the face of the fact that the earth's resources are finite. The result is increasing destruction of the natural world and growing, sometimes lethal, tension between rich and poor, global north and south. Trying to fix problems piecemeal is not the solution. We need a comprehensive new vision of an economy that can serve people and all of life's commonwealth.
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The End of the Euro begins with an overview of the birth of the euro itself. Understanding this history is essential to understand the anomalies built into the project from the beginning. These anomalies form the subject of chapter two, along with how they led to the situation that turned Greece, Portugal, and Spain into euro-destroying economic disaster areas. Chapter three shows how this was not an unforeseeable situation, as Europe's history is...
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The classic text on the post-Cold War economic battle.
Starting with the fall of communism, influential economist and former dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management Lester Thurow deftly explores how head-to-head competition -- not military might -- among Japan, the United States, and the newly united European countries would produce the next world leader.
As Thurow explains, in the 1990s the race for economic supremacy was only just beginning....
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According to Bertrand Badré, finance is neither inherently good nor bad. It's just a tool, the most powerful tool on earth. In “Can Finance Save the World?”, he describes innovative approaches and financial tools that can help us address many of the world's biggest problems, ranging from climate change to the eradication of poverty to building much-needed infrastructure. Badré details options for creating positive financial regulation and for...