"Examines effects of the 2008-09 financial downturn on all workers with particular attention to low-income older workers who stand to suffer the most, often retiring early because of lack of work; discusses the real effects of the stock market decline, falling house prices, and …
How did the sharpest global slowdown in more than six decades happen, and how can recovery be made sustainable? This publication traces the causes, course and consequences of the "Great Recession". It explains how a global buildup of liquidity, coupled with poor regulation, crea…
Providing practical guidance on reducing government, household and business debt, a well-respected economist stresses the importance of revising the neoclassical consensus governing global-economic decision-making to avoid the next financial collapse.
La 4e de couverture indique : "Face à la crise globale du capitalisme, on voit désormais le FMI, des gouvernements ou des économistes célèbres brûler ce qu'ils ont adoré? le marché? et réhabiliter l'État qu'ils honnissaient. Nous vivons en fait l'amorce d'une "démondialisation".…
"Debunking Economics exposes what a minority of economists have long known and many of the rest of us have long suspected: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. In this updated and expanded edition, Keen builds on his scathing critique of convention…
"Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. When the original Debunking was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible…
Krugman pursues the questions of how bad the "Great Recession" really is, how we got stuck in what can now be called a depression and, above all, how we can free ourselves.
Krugman pursues the questions of how bad the "Great Recession" really is, how we got stuck in what can now be called a depression and, above all, how we can free ourselves.
This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative moderni…
This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative moderni…
Demystifying buzzwords, laying bare the truths behind oft-quoted numbers and answering the questions you were always too embarrassed to ask, the breezy Naked Economics gives readers the tools they need to engage with pleasure and confidence in the deeply relevant, not-so-dismal …
Wheelan cuts a large swath though contemporary microeconomic and macroeconomic issues, controversies, and fallacies. Topics include environmental problems, health care and insurance, risk and safety, education and productivity, the Federal Reserve System and monetary policy, fin…
