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Monday, January 10, 2011

America’s Bubble Economy: Profit When It Pops

America’s Bubble Economy is the first book to focus on several simultaneous financial bubbles that are interacting to temporarily boost—and ultimately threaten—the United States and world economies. Filled with expert analysis and straight talk, this book will show you how to turn the coming economic transformation into a once-in-a-lifetime wealth-building opportunity.

Summary: America’s Bubble Economy
Rating: 5

This is a great book. A must read for anyone with money invested in the Market in any form. A great way to be prepared.

Summary: interesting read
Rating: 3

I agree with a previous reviewer regarding the same information being replayed over and over again. I’m new to this subject, and initially found the book interesting, but found that the authors seemed to be re-hashing the same points more times than were necessary.
I did enjoy the book, but now think I would probably check it out of the library instead of purchasing it.

Summary: Sometimes, simple is good.
Rating: 3

This is a simplistic synopsis of the current state of the economy and offers some simple suggestions on how to deal with it. It’s a pretty good read for the non-economist who’s looking for a quick and easy grasp of the big picture. It does get a bit tedious and repetitious at times and has enough typos to keep a proofer busy for a week. There’s also a less than subtle self-serving purpose as the authors attempt to drive the reader to their web site. The only problem is it appears they haven’t updated the web site with any current information since the book was published.

Nonetheless, an interesting and quick read for those looking for the summary view of the world’s economy today.

Summary: Economic Understanding in the Midst of Denial
Rating: 5

The authors bring clarity through scholarly historical analysis, to unfolding economic events. Their established excellent track record using their proprietary techniques to predict the March 2000 stock market collapse and their timely advice then to buy gold, can only be dismissed by those who wish to cling to ideology while denying reality.

Summary: Broad Coverage of Issues
Rating: 4

This book gives a broad view of the fiscal problems facing the United States, using understandable language. It leaves little hope for a growing robust economy

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The Food Economy: Global Issues and Challenges

"The Food Economy: Global Issues and Challenges", Frank Bunte, Hans Dagevos
Wageningen Pers | 2009 | ISBN: 9086861091 | English | 191 pages | PDF | 1.35 MB

The food economy is increasingly shaped by such new issues as sustainability, safety and quality standards, consumer health, and industry concentration. Cultural and ethical arguments gain momentum when aligned with issues such as economic welfare and stakeholder interests. The food economy grows ever more global and encompasses more elusive elements like trust, integrity, transparency, corporate social responsibility and creating emotional bonds with customers. The food economy is inextricably interrelated with globalisation, changes in consumer demand for food and energy, the ICT revolution, sustainability issues, and shifts in the relationship between private companies and public regulators.

The Food Economy explores a variety of trends and topics from the broad perspective that their evolution is interdependent with all kinds of counter currents and opposite notions: scarcity goes together with abundance, public and private initiatives co-evolve, slow food is connected with fast food, global brands and local products exist simultaneously. The Food Economy devotes chapters to existing and emerging issues and challenges of the expanding food economy. The Food Economy is relevant to academics, students, policymakers and consumers who are interested in recent developments in the food system and their implications for the food policy and research agendas in the years to come.

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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology

Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive SociologyUniversity of California Press | 1978-12-19 | ISBN: 0520035003 | 1640 pages | PDF | 48 MB

Max Weber's Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century. Published posthumously in Germany in the early 1920's, it has become a constitutive part of the modern sociological imagination. Economy and Society was the first strictly empirical comparison of social structures and normative orders in world-historical depth, containing the famous chapters on social action, religion, law, bureaucracy, charisma, the city, and the political community with its dimensions of class, status and power.

Economy and Society is Weber's only major treatise for an educated general public. It was meant to be a broad introduction, but in its own way it is the most demanding textbook yet written by a sociologist. The precision of its definitions, the complexity of its typologies and the wealth of its historical content make the work a continuos challenge at several levels of comprehension: for the advanced undergraduate who gropes for his sense of society, for the graduate student who must develop his own analytical skills, and for the scholar who must match wits with Weber.

When the long-awaited first complete English edition of Economy and Society was published in 1968, Arthur Stinchcombe wrote in the American Journal of Sociology: "My answer to the question of whether people should still start their sociological intellectual biographies with Economy and Society is yes." Reinhard Bendix noted in the American Sociological Review that the "publication of a compete English edition of Weber's most systematic work [represents] the culmination of a cultural transmission to the American setting...It will be a study-guide and compendium for years to come for all those interested in historical sociology and comparative study."

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Remaking the Argentine Economy

Remaking the Argentine Economy By Felipe A. M. De LA Balze
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press 1995 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 0876091710 | PDF | 11 MB

While the economies of many Latin American and Asian countries have soared in the past two decades, Argentina -- a rich country in many ways -- has had great difficulty in fulfilling its economic potential. Remaking the Argentine Economy examines the historical reasons behind Argentina's disappointing economic performance since World War II, as well as recent encouraging changes that have taken place in Argentina's economy. According to de la Balze, Argentina's failure to thrive economically is a case of a relative modern country pursuing misguided economic strategies and its resulting inability to cope with changes in the international environment. Argentina's turbulent and unstable political system has also hampered its economic development. But the last few years have given rise to a more optimistic scenario: stringent economic reforms and profound political changes have begun to turn the economy around. De la Balze provides a concise, thorough exploration of all facets of Argentina's postwar economy and singles out the key issues that Argentina must face to ensure the success of the political and economic reforms underway. Remaking the Argentine Economy provides a valuable case study of one country's attempt to re-engineer its economic viability in today's world.

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America and the New Global Economy (TTC - Course 5620)

America and the New Global Economy (TTC - Course 5620) By Timothy Taylor
Publisher: The Teaching Company 2008 | 18 hours and 47 mins | ISBN: 1598034812 | MP3 | 757 MB

This riveting 36-lecture course takes you beyond the economy of the United States and reveals the recent history of economies in Asian countries, including Japan, India, and China, as well as in other regions. Journey with veteran Teaching Company Professor Timothy Taylor of Macalester College through the last 50 years of world economic history, explore international perspectives on the new global economy, and develop a richer understanding of our increasingly interconnected world.

1. The World Economy since 1950
2. The U.S. in the World Economy—1960 to 1995
3. The U.S. Economy Resurgent?
4. Europe—From Catch-Up to Jobless Growth
5. The Single European Market
6. The Rise of the Euro
7. The Economy of the Soviet Union
8. Transitions from Communism to Markets
9. Japan's Economic Miracle
10. When Japan's Bubble Economy Burst
11. Government versus Market in East Asia
12. East Asia's Tigers—Restore the Roar?
13. China's Gradualist Economic Reforms
14. China's Challenges for Continued Growth
15. India and the License Raj
16. India's Turn toward Market Economics
17. Inherited Institutions in the Middle East
18. The Curse of Oil Wealth in the Middle East
19. Africa's Geography and History
20. Time for Optimism on Africa?
21. Latin America and Import Substitution
22. Markets or Populism in Latin America?
23. Globalization in Goods and Services
24. Globalization of Capital Flows
25. The Foreign Exchange Market
26. Migration—Senders and Recipients
27. Global Population Growth
28. World Poverty—Growth or Redistribution?
29. Global Food Markets—The Supply-Demand Race
30. An Urbanizing World
31. Women in the Global Economy
32. Improving Governance, Fighting Corruption
33. Foreign Aid—Promises and Limits
34. The Multilaterals—World Bank, IMF, WTO
35. The Economics of Global Climate Change
36. Globalization and Convergence

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CannaBiz: The Secret Economy Of Marijuana (2010)

CannaBiz: The Secret Economy Of Marijuana (2010)
English | avi | 624x336 | XviD @ 1105 Kbps | mp3 Stereo @ 160 Kbps | 0:44:08 | 348 Mb
Genre: Documentary

Canada's $20 billion-dollar marijuana industry is now at a violent crossroads between crime and commerce. Impossible to police, yet steadily gaining public acceptance, the cannabis industry is now so vast and vital to Canada's national economy that it can no longer be ignored.
CannaBiz unfolds in Grand Forks, BC, a small border town nestled in the Kootenay Mountains, where draft dodgers planted the first "BC Bud" in the 1960s. After the pine beetle chewed through what was left of the forest industry, marijuana became the backbone of the local economy. In secret forest plots, basements, barns and high-tech underground bunkers, growers nurture some of the world's most potent bud. Most of the marijuana here, and in the rest of Canada, is destined for the US market, where a pound of premium weed sells for a street price of $4,500.

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Across the country, formerly laid-back marijuana growers now live in fear of armed thieves, and smugglers take huge risks to cross the beefed up American border. Conflicted police and RCMP officers like Harland Venema continue to fight a seemingly futile battle. In Grand Forks, Brian Taylor, once nicknamed "the marijuana mayor", is campaigning for medical marijuana as a prescription for economic prosperity. Ex con Sam Mellace dreams of supplying medical marijuana nationally through Shoppers Drug Mart outlets.
With inside access to growers, gangsters and police, CannaBiz untangles the inner workings of the marijuana industry and raises serious questions about Canada's drug laws. Stephen Easton, a leading Canadian economist, recommends the end to marijuana prohibition, yet the government's position is to get even tougher on an industry that now employs as many Canadians as the auto industry.
Are the staggering profits from the cannabis industry better off in the pockets of hard-core smugglers and criminal gangs, or would the Canadian economy benefit from taxing this exploding industry?

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The Byzantine Economy (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)

This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the state and ideology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economy with an emphasis on the economic actions of the state and the productive role of the city and non-economic actors, such as landlords, artisans and money-changers. The final chapter compares the Byzantine economy with the economies of western Europe and concludes that the Byzantine economy was one of the most successful examples of a mixed economy in the pre-industrial world. This is the only concise general history of the Byzantine economy and will be essential reading for students of economic history, Byzantine history and medieval history more generally.

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The New Economy And Beyond: Past, Present And Future

Dennis W. Jansen, "The New Economy And Beyond: Past, Present And Future"
Edward Elgar Publishing | 2006-04-30 | ISBN: 1845425448 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

What is the New Economy, what makes it new, and what are the implications for antitrust, regulation and macroeconomic policy? Providing a non-technical and compelling analysis of the modern macro-economy, the contributors to this volume, eminent scholars all, provide their views on the New Economy from a variety of perspectives.
The phrase 'The New Economy' means many things to many people. It is often used to refer to the information economy, the high-tech economy, or to the explosive growth of the World Wide Web. It has also been used to refer to the expansion and stock market boom of the last decade. Despite these confusions and excesses in the term's usage, there is indeed something new about the New Economy. The initial set of three chapters explores what may be the defining feature - the resurgence of productivity growth in the United States in the 1990s and its link to the IT revolution. Macroeconomic policy challenges are also discussed. The second set of papers concentrates on what is perhaps the second defining feature of the New Economy - the idea of network economies. The contributors consider challenges for regulatory policy, look at internet pricing policies, and challenge some aspects of network economics. The volume concludes with a discussion of how the US postal service, an important exemplar of the changing world, responds to competition.
Students, scholars and all those interested in gaining a better understanding of the global economy will find this volume a valuable resource.

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The National Economy

"The National Economy" by Bradley A. Hansen
GW | 200 pages | English | 2006 | ISBN: 0313335419 | PDF | 1,0 MB

From the impact of rising gas prices to debates over free trade agreements, the workings of the economy remain a mystery to most, even as the demands on our economic resources increase. This volume presents a basic introduction to the national economy—how it works and how various political and business decisions affect it. Chapters one through four explain the concept of Gross Domestic Product, with an emphasis on supply and demand, long-term growth, and short-term fluctuations, resulting from such factors as interest rates and inflation. Chapters five through eight highlight the four basic sectors of the economy—businesses, households, the government, and the international arena—and how they interact.

The national economy is the engine of growth for any country—whether it is a superpower with global reach or a small nation struggling to emerge from poverty. Every citizen is a participant in the economy, as they work to create income for their families, pay taxes, spend their earnings of products and services, or draw from government programs, such as welfare or Social Security. And yet the workings of the economy remain a mystery to most, even as the demands on our economic resources increase.

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New Economy Edge: Strategies and Techniques for Boosting Online Profitability

Jeremy Kourdi, «New Economy Edge: Strategies and Techniques for Boosting Online Profitability»John Wiley & Sons | ISBN: 0471498440 | 2001 | PDF | 256 pages | 15.4 MB

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The Wiley New Economy Excellence series has a simple aim - to help managers create and sustain competitive advantage in the new economy. Written by series editor Jeremy Kourdi, New Economy Edge is an inspiring look at how to create and develop profitable online activities by grasping the impact of the Internet on employees, markets, customers and business partners. Features include a review of products and services suitable for new channels, a guide to integrating 'clicks' into 'bricks', and an exploration of the skills required to take a business forward once a new direction has been set.

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Analyzing the Global Political Economy

Andrew Walter, Gautam Sen, "Analyzing the Global Political Economy"
Publisher: Princeton University Press | PDF | 2009 | ISBN 0691139598 | 387 pages | 14.3 Mb

Ideally suited to upper undergraduate and graduate students, Analyzing the Global Political Economy critically assesses the convergence between IPE, comparative political economy, and economics. Andrew Walter and Gautam Sen show that a careful engagement with economics is essential for understanding both contemporary IPE and for analyzing the global political economy. The authors also argue that the deployment of more advanced economic theories should not detract from the continuing importance for IPE of key concepts from political science and international relations. IPE students with little or no background in economics will therefore find this book useful, and economics students interested in political economy will be alerted to the comparative strengths of political science and other social science disciplines.
* A concise look at the foundations of analysis in the political economy of global trade, money, finance, and investment
* Suitable for upper undergraduate and graduate students with some or no economic background
* Techniques and findings from a range of academic disciplines, including international relations, political science, economics, sociology, and history
* Further reading and useful weblinks including a range of relevant data sources, listed in each chapter.

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The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth

This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The book will be an essential resource for students, teachers, scholars, business people, and policymakers. It is suitable for classroom use for undergraduate or graduate courses.
After presenting background material on the pre-1949 economy and the industrialization, reform, and market transition that have taken place since, the book examines different aspects of the modern Chinese economy. It analyzes patterns of growth and development, including population growth and the one-child family policy; the rural economy, including agriculture and rural industrialization; industrial and technological development in urban areas; international trade and foreign investment; macroeconomic trends and cycles and the financial system; and the largely unaddressed problems of environmental quality and the sustainability of growth.
The text is notable also for placing China's economy in interesting comparative contexts, discussing it in relation to other transitional or developing economies and to such advanced industrial countries as the U.S. and Japan. It provides both a broad historical and macro perspective as well as a focused examination of the actual workings of China's complex and dynamic economic development. Interest in the Chinese economy will only grow as China becomes an increasingly important player on the world's stage. This book will be the standard reference for understanding and teaching about the next economic superpower.

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