Mostrando títulos en Macroeconomía

Rationing: It’s a word and idea that people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to "shouting an obscenity in church". Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has said, the results can be "thoroughly unequal and nasty". In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox shows that rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and 1970s gas station lines. Instead, he persuasively argues that rationing is a vital concept for our fragile present.

Who can you trust when it comes to voting in an election? Politician A tells you one thing and politician B another. They all make promises but can they actually deliver on them? Clearly asking them that question won't help, nor will asking the army of their supporters, including the news media which is mostly owned by them. In fact, asking any single human being can be problematic, as even people we trust deeply might not be sufficiently up to speed to know the answer. And what should you ask? Well one topic is fundamental because it underpins every political policy, and that's the economy...

"The Economic Consequences of the Peace" is a book written by John Maynard Keynes, a British economist, in 1919. The book was a critique of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I and imposed harsh economic sanctions on Germany. In the book, Keynes argued that the treaty would have disastrous economic consequences for Germany and for Europe as a whole. He believed that the sanctions would cripple Germany's economy and lead to political instability, which would in turn lead to further economic problems for the rest of Europe.

Twice in the early 21st century, the U.S. economy plunged into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. In this audio book, Dean Baker argues not only that competent economists should have recognized the developing housing bubble, but also that policy makers and the media neglected those economists who did predict danger.

In Childhood Under Siege, Joel Bakan reveals the callous and widespread exploitation of children by profit-seeking corporations and society's failure to protect them. The creator of the award-winning film and internationally best-selling book The Corporation, Bakan shows how corporations pump billions of dollars into rendering parents and governments powerless to shield children from a relentless commercial assault designed solely to exploit their unique needs and vulnerabilities.

If Europe is to return to an innovative and dynamic economy - and if there is to be shared prosperity, social solidarity, and justice - then EU countries need to break with their current, destructive trajectory. This volume offers concrete strategies for renewal that would also reinvigorate the project of European integration, with fresh ideas in the areas of both macroeconomics and microeconomics, including central banking, public investment, corporate governance and competition policy, social policy, and international trade.

Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and-gift giving. Lots and lots - and lots - of gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But let's stop to consider the gifts we receive - the rooster sweater from Grandma or the singing fish from Uncle Mike. How many of us get gifts we like? How many of us give gifts not knowing what recipients want? Did your cousin really look excited about that jumping alarm clock?

Economic theories and models shape our everyday lives. They are relied on by politicians when tax rises or cuts are being considered. They inform debates about everything from bonuses for CEOs to minimum wage rates, to the level of job protection enshrined in law. They determine what levels of tobacco or petrol duty are charged and influence government approaches to issues as diverse as obesity and climate change. But are policy makers right to be so slavishly reliant on them? Tom Bergin is sceptical, and he subjects eight of the most prevalent economic mantras to close scrutiny.

La Inversión a Prueba de Errores es el último libro escrito por Harry Browne, que sirvió para dejarnos su legado final sobre la seguridad financiera y la cartera permanente. Sin secretos de trading o fórmulas mágicas, el autor nos enseña a tener nuestras finanzas bajo control, sin importar lo que ocurra en el futuro. ¿Le preocupa no estar prestando la suficiente atención a sus inversiones? ¿Siente que se está perdiendo algo cuando los expertos hablan sobre los mejores activos del momento? Relájese, usted no tiene que ser un genio de las finanzas para proteger su patrimonio. Este ...

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant." – Benjamin Disraeli "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." – Charles Darwin Editorial Summary The world is changing. Fast. Economics, finance, politics. Revolutions in information, communication, economic liberalization, and political integration are bombarding us at a dizzying pace. Individually and collectively, we try to manage this change, seeking to adapt and thrive. One way we organize our collective action is through the exercise of public policy, but the ...

Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin is a foundational Marxist text that explores the economic and political dynamics of imperialism in the early 20th century. Originally published in 1917, this work was a response to the global geopolitical landscape of the time and sought to analyze the nature of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalist development. Lenin argues that imperialism represents a new and advanced form of capitalism characterized by the domination of finance capital.

You've chosen an overview of Macroeconomics. Congratulations! We hope that you'll better understand how Macroeconomics affects you in your daily life. Here is a sneak preview of what topics we will be covering in this AudioLearn overview of macroeconomics. To establish the basics, we will review again the Latin watchword of economics, "Ceteris Paribus". We'll briefly cover some other fallacies of thinking. These mistakes are fundamental to economics as well as to other disciplines. If you already know them, listen again and refresh your thinking.

In underserved communities across the United States, violence, food insecurity, unstable housing, lead poisoning, and other factors such as racist redlining policies negatively impact young people's everyday experiences―and their futures. What opportunities are available to young Black people living in these neighborhoods? What are their survival expectations? Who can they look to for support? Lorece V. Edwards offers a thought-provoking and timely account of the day-to-day experience of living in America's neglected neighborhoods.

Mensen gebruiken wereldwijd meer dan 160 verschillende munteenheden, elk met hun eigen monopolie binnen de landsgrenzen. De meeste verliezen echter snel aan waarde en zijn buiten hun eigen gebied nauwelijks bruikbaar. Geboren worden in het 'verkeerde' land kan sparen daardoor onnodig moeilijk maken. In Geldnood kijken we naar de geschiedenis van geld door de bris van technologische vooruitgang. Politiek speelt lokaal en tijdelijk een rol, maar uiteindelijk is het technologie die structurele, wereldwijde veranderingen aanjaagt.

China ha controlado el comercio global durante casi cinco milenios, y aunque no estoy de acuerdo con todo lo que hace el país, hablan un idioma que conozco: el dinero, el capitalismo y las ganancias. Los aranceles de la Administración Trump 2.0 son tanto positivos como negativos, ya que ayudan a financiar algunos programas gubernamentales incipientes, generan volatilidad en el mercado bursátil estadounidense y llevan el índice del dólar a mínimos no vistos en décadas. Personalmente, creo que la Administración Trump 2.0 busca tasas de interés bajas, es decir, dinero barato, para ...

Solving the world’s biggest problems - from climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance - requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us. In The Spirit of Green, Nobel Prize-winning economist William Nordhaus describes a new way of green thinking that would help us overcome our biggest challenges without sacrificing economic prosperity, in large part by accounting for the spillover costs of economic collisions.

In this book, Patrick Bolton and Haizhou Huang offer a novel perspective, viewing monetary economics through the lens of corporate finance. They propose a richer theory, where money can be seen as the equity capital of a nation, playing a similar role as stocks for a company. This innovative framework integrates the real and monetary sides of the economy, with a banking sector and debt at its core.

Since the eviction of Occupy protestors from encampments in many cities throughout the world, smaller and more targeted occupations have continued. Workers in a Chicago factory occupied - with the support of their union - to protest layoffs. Teachers and students in Tucson staged a walkout to protest the removal of Chicano history books from the curriculum. Home foreclosures were disrupted, even avoided, by direct community action. But what does it all mean? What do we talk about when we talk about "revolution", if we talk about it at all?

It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords of Greenland and the remote islands of Faroe to the dining tables of London's middle classes, the bacalao restaurants of Spain and the Jewish shtetls of Eastern Europe. As well as following the historical thread and exploring how very different cultures were drawn together by the salt fish trade, John Goodlad meets those whose lives revolve around the industry in the twenty-first century and addresses today's pressing themes of sustainability, climate change, and food choices.

Why does capitalism feel productive and destructive at the same time? Markets were never meant to consume the world they depend on. Yet today, economic growth coincides with burnout, ecological collapse, social fragmentation, and institutional fragility. These are not separate crises. They are expressions of a single structural failure. The Extraction Trap explains why. This book is not an argument for or against capitalism. It is a diagnosis of how capitalism works when it works, the precise point where it breaks, and why once it breaks, reform keeps failing. At its core is a simple ...