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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the many failures of the greatest economic system in history, and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Western society, once thriving, is being torn apart by deep new rifts in its social and economic fabric. It's now populous cities versus rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less educated; wealthy versus developing countries. As these breaks have...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Zero hour: turn the greatest political and financial upheaval in modern history to your advantage
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change.
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the "dismal science" of economics as a practical art.
Narrowing the thousands of factors that can shape a country's fortunes to ten clear rules,
...Author
Publisher
Cato Institute
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations, graphs ; 19 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"You're wrong. The world is, for the most part, not getting worse. 58 percent of folks in 17 countries surveyed in 2016 thought the world is getting worse rather than better or staying the same. Americans were even more glum : 65 percent thought the world is getting worse and only 6 percent thought it was getting better. The uncontroversial data on major global trends in this book will persuade you that this dark view of the prospects for humanity...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xvi, 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Top economist Gary Shilling shows you how to prosper in the slow-growing and deflationary times that lie ahead. While many investors fear a rapid rise in inflation, author Gary Shilling, an award-winning economic forecaster, argues that the global economy is going through a long period of de-leveraging and weak growth, which makes deflation far more likely and a far greater threat to investors than inflation. Shilling explains in clear language...
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