The road from ruin

how to revive capitalism and put America back on top

Matthew Bishop and Michael Green first take a step back and analyze what can be learned from financial crises of the past-from the Tulip Craze of the seventeenth century through the Great Depression of the 1930s, Japan's Great Deflation, and the Long-Term Capital debacle ...

Economics. An A-Z guide

Economics is the 'study of how society uses its scarce resources' or, more snappily, 'the science of choices' that helps people make decisions about how to use such scarce things as land, labour, raw materials, capital, entrepreneurial spirit and time. An understanding of economics can ...

Filantrocapitalismo

cómo los ricos pueden cambiar el mundo

Los gobiernos parecen incapaces de afrontar sus propios problemas. Las naciones apenas tienen capacidad de decisión frente a las grandes corporaciones. En semejante contexto: ¿quién ayuda a los más necesitados? Dos expertos en economía ofrecen un apasionante análisis de la respuesta más controvertida y novedosa ...

Essential economics

In the complicated, fast-moving global environment in which we live and work today, an understanding of economics is more important than ever. This book is a clear and lively guide to the essentials of economics, with entries that stretch from A to Z and cover ...