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Author: James Grant Publisher: Crown Business ISBN: 9780812929911 Category : Business cycles Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this updated paperback edition, Jim Grant spins a series of revealing, interlocking stories from little-known Wall Street lore. The historic episodes of boom and bust wittily recounted by Grant offer cautionary lessons for every investor.
Author: James Grant Publisher: Crown Business ISBN: 9780812929911 Category : Business cycles Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this updated paperback edition, Jim Grant spins a series of revealing, interlocking stories from little-known Wall Street lore. The historic episodes of boom and bust wittily recounted by Grant offer cautionary lessons for every investor.
Author: Bernard Lietaer Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1609942981 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 337
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This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity. In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs, but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. In Rethinking Money, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current monetary system—built on bank debt and scarcity—revealing how its limitations give rise to so many serious problems. The authors then present stories of ordinary people and communities using new money, working in cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies, create work, beautify cities, provide education, and more. These real-world examples are just the tip of the iceberg—over four thousand cooperative currencies are already in existence. The book provides remedies for challenges faced by governments, businesses, nonprofits, local communities, and even banks. It demystifies a complex and critically important topic and offers meaningful solutions that will do far more than restore prosperity—it will provide the framework for an era of sustainable abundance.
Author: Juliet Johnson Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501703757 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 311
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Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson's detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties of the past collapse around them, today’s central bankers in the postcommunist world and beyond find themselves torn between allegiance to their transnational community and its principles on the one hand and their increasingly complex and politicized national roles on the other. Priests of Prosperity will appeal to a diverse audience of scholars in political science, finance, economics, geography, and sociology as well as to central bankers and other policymakers interested in the future of international finance, global governance, and economic development.
Author: Meredith Whitney Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101601493 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 197
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"Forget everything you think you know about the direction of the American economy, about our growing need for foreign oil, about the rise of the service economy and the decline of American manufacturing. The story of the next thirty years will not be a repeat of the last thirty." One of the most respected voices on Wall Street, Meredith Whitney shot to global prominence in 2007 when her warnings of a looming crisis in the financial sector proved all too prescient. Now, in her first book, she expands upon her biggest call since the financial crisis.
Author: Daron Acemoglu Publisher: Currency ISBN: 0307719227 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 546
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.
Author: Glenn Hubbard Publisher: FT Press ISBN: 0132371316 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 308
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If you think the current administration is mismanaging the economy straight towards disaster, you're not alone: so do two top economists from both sides of the political aisle. In Seeds of Destruction, former Bush chief White House economist R. Glenn Hubbard and well-known CNBC commentator Peter Navarro explain why current economic policy is a catastrophic failure. Then, they offer a comprehensive, bipartisan blueprint for reversing the decline of America's currency, manufacturing base, and standard of living - setting the stage for the epic policy debates that will precede the 2010 elections. Hubbard and Navarro begin with a "checklist" of what it takes to be a prosperous, democratic nation - and show why Obama's policies (some of Bush's also) fail on every level. They explain why the activist Federal Reserve and Obama fiscal stimulus policies are doing far more harm than good... why we must restore the U.S. manufacturing base, whatever China says about it... how to transform tax policy into an engine of growth and innovation... how to apply the "tough love" needed to save Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid... why America must resign the job of world policeman... how market-based solutions can finally deliver real energy independence... how to reform our antique financial regulatory system without imposing heavy-handed rules that cause even more trouble.
Author: James Grant Publisher: Crown ISBN: 9780812924398 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 378
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In Boom and Bust in the American Century, James Grant tells why the financial prosperity of the 1990s is destined to collapse. This is a book about cycles of optimism and pessimism, of bull markets and bear markets, and of orthodoxy and heresy. Boom and Bust in the American Century is sophisticated financial writing by a gifted author and analyst at the top of his form.
Author: James A. James A Ziegler Publisher: Advantage Media Group ISBN: 1599320177 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 178
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Written by accomplished professional speaker and business consultant, James A. Ziegler, CSP, HSG, The Prosperity Equation shares the journey that took one man from desolation to success. It's about how to achieve great personal wealth and security. This down to Earth book is written in a personable conversational style as if Ziegler was right in the room speaking with you. The author interweaves personal stories with 'the pillars of prosperity'. the conceptual strategy that made him successful and wealthy. Not for the faint hearted, Ziegler's style in often brash, forthright and in your face - the author who says, "success leads to excess," actually lives the dream himself with expensive jewelry, luxury cars, fine restaurants, travel, and an extravagant home. The man is high-energy and perpetual motion: his enthusiasm is contagious. He will be the first to tell you that prosperity is about much more than money. It is about quality of life and security. His definition of prosperity is a total package that includes having abundance to share your good fortune with others as well as having the ability to car for your family and those you care about. Wealth provides choices. The bottom line in Ziegler's world is that very few wealthy people are 'employees'. Of you want to freedom and the ability to control your destiny, you have got to start and grown your own business. The Prosperity Equation: New Millennium Edition is about how to achieve those goals and enjoy the lifestyle you have only dreamed about.
Author: James Grant
Author: James Grant
Author: Bernard Lietaer
Author: Juliet Johnson
Author: Meredith Whitney
Author: Daron Acemoglu
Author: Kate Bowler
Author: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Author: Glenn Hubbard
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Author: James A. James A Ziegler