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The Meltdown Years
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Wolfgang Münchau |
The Meltdown Yearsoffers the most lucid and useful explanation todate about why home values, life savings, jobsecurity, and investments around the worldare in peril. Rather than focus on who is to bl… |
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Global capitalism in crisis
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Murray E. G. Smith |
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Aftershocks
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A. Hemerijck |
"Aftershocks was written in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Although it would be premature to presume to identify the repercussions of the crisis, it is clear tha… |
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Fool's gold
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Gillian Tett |
Award-winning journalist and social anthropologist Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to… |
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Breakout nations
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Ruchir Sharma |
After a decade of rapid growth, the world's most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? To identify the economic stars of the future we shou… |
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Global turning points
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Mauro F. Guillén |
"The twenty-first century is replete with uncertainty and complexity: game-changing events and trends are transforming the world beyond recognition. For the first time in human history more people li… |
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The global financial crisis
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Holly Dolezalek |
Examines an important historic event -- the modern global financial crisis. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the impact of the failing housing market and the credit crisis in the United States,… |
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The future
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Al Gore |
"The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out… |
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The statesman's yearbook 2011
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Turner, Barry |
Following recent research into customer needs, a wealth of extra content has been included in this new edition, including political profiles, government histories, extended economic overviews and a g… |
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The retreat of western liberalism
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Edward Luce |
In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice o… |
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Capitalism 4.0
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Anatole Kaletsky |
Argues that the economic recession of 2008-2009 forced a change in the philosophy of global capitalism, and will redirect the fundamentals of the capitalist system to create a new, successful, produc… |
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The consolations of economics
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Gerard Lyons |
In the next twenty years the world economy will enjoy one of its strongest periods of growth. Greater innovation and technical change will increase opportunities. Life expectancy, income and educatio… |
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The Economist pocket world in figures 2016
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The Economist |
The 25th annual edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features, including a section exploring the huge global changes since its inception… |
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