"Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson-one of our leading public voices on economic issues -- the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories...

Examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those in recent memory.

"The untold story of how one of America's most invincible institutions--the Treasury--has used the U.S. dollar to define America's role in the world, and our economic future"--

You may not realize it, but you helped pay for a $10 million, fourteen-month government "investigation" of the housing collapse. Only your $10 million didn't buy much, and it certainly didn't buy truth; any hope of that went out the window on day one. The congressionally appointed panel-made up primarily of anti-market, historic revisionists-managed to shift the blame away from Washington and onto mortgage lenders and "greedy" Wall Street executives,...

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Syriza's victory in the recent Greek general election shook the foundations of the Western political establishment and gave hope to the millions suffering the austerity measures imposed by the European Troika. Millions asked, how did this happen and what is it about Greece that created such a centre of radicalism? This insider's account, from Syriza's Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and economist Christos Laskos, shows that that the narrative...

Este libro, que consta de seis capítulos, tiene la intención de sistematizar las experiencias controladas de socialización económica realizadas paralelamente, desde hace más de diez años por el Grupo de Investigación en Psicología Económica y del Consumo de la Universidad de La Frontera y por el Grupo de Investigaciones de Desarrollo Humano de la Universidad del Norte, que puedan servir de referentes a las instituciones encargadas de la formulación...

Bubbles-from hot stocks in the 1920s to hot stocks in the 1990s-are much-lamented features of contemporary economic life. Time and again, American investors, seduced by the lures of quick money, new technologies, and excessive optimism, have shown a tendency to get carried away. Time and again, they have appeared foolish when the bubble burst. The history of finance is filled with tragic tales of shattered dreams, bankruptcies, and bitter recriminations. But...

Chicagonomics explores the history and development of classical liberalism as taught and explored at the University of Chicago. Ebenstein's tenth book in the history of economic and political thought, it deals specifically in the area of classical liberalism, examining the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and is the first comprehensive history of economics at the University of Chicago from the founding of the University in 1892 until...

La actual crisis económica ha venido determinada, en buena parte, por la defi¬ciente gestión de las entidades bancarias? La Banca que necesitamos? ofrece una visión crítica sobre las medidas que se están adoptando ante la crisis económica y el papel que está desempeñando la banca. En este libro se analiza cómo ha influido el comportamiento y la evolución de las entidades bancarias (bancos, cajas de ahorros y cooperativas de crédito) en...