Showing titles in Economic Conditions

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At night, a Virginia neighbourhood begins to hum. The sound comes from the buildings powering a future everyone is being told to embrace. Hundreds of miles away, electricity bills jump. In Oregon, a city fights to keep its data centres’ water use out...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The water off Peru warms. Fish disappear. Rain floods places built for drought, while farms thousands of miles away wait for rain that never comes. Ships stall. Food prices rise. At first, these look like separate crises. Super El Niño follows the...

How can we think about the future? What do we need to do - and who do we need to be? We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won’t provide that; experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn’t repeat itself and even genetics won’t tell you everything you want to know. Ineradicable uncertainty is now a fact of life.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it’s that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can’t compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping...

In What’s Yours Is Mine, internationally acclaimed technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk.

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from the ongoing collaboration that began at these meetings and provides a revelatory, unified, and coherent voice for fixing our troubled and damaged financial markets.

In 2008 the US Treasury put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a life-support state known as "conservatorship" to prevent their failure - and worldwide economic chaos. The two companies, which were always controversial, have become a battleground. Today, Fannie and Freddie are profitable again but still in conservatorship. Their profits are being redirected toward reducing the federal deficit, which leaves them with no buffer should they suffer losses again.

The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection of his recent writings on the global financial situation, George Soros presents his views and analysis of key economic policy choices leading up to, during, and following the financial crisis of 2008-2009.

When Robin Chase cofounded Zipcar, she not only started a business but established the foundation for one of the most important economic and social ideas of our time: the collaborative economy. With this important audiobook, she broadens our thinking about the ways in which the economy is being transformed and shows how the Peers Inc model is changing the very nature of capitalism.

Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is...

David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution that was meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. Stockman describes how the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America and provides a surprising, nonpartisan catalog of the corrupters and defenders. His analysis shows how both liberal and neoconservative interference in markets has proved damaging and often dangerous.

Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.  

The second global downturn in a dozen years is upon us - but do lessons learned during the Great Recession still apply? What must you and your business do, now, to ensure you come out the other side intact? Global Recession: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the smartest ways to cut costs intelligently, find opportunities amid upheaval, and reshape your business to seize advantage in the upswing. 

Written by the New York Times best-selling author team of John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper, Code Red spills the beans on the central banks in the US, UK, EU, and Japan and how they've rigged the game against the average saver and investor. More importantly, it shows you how to protect your hard-earned cash from the bankers' disastrous monetary policies and how to come out a winner in the irresponsible game of chicken they're playing with the global financial system.

Een meeslepende historische reconstructie toont hoe blinde hebzucht een ongekende financiële crisis veroorzaakte. Maak van je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer een spannende tijdreis naar het Amerika van de jaren twintig, waar onder een glanzende façade de fatale scheuren van een economisch drama al...

America's housing crisis is more than a shortage. It is a mismatch between the households we have today and the places we continue to build.Families are smaller and more varied. People are living longer. More adults live alone, share housing, or need homes that can adapt over time. Yet zoning...

終わらないバブルと暴落のサイクルを読み解き、情報に振り回されることなく世界の経済ニュースを自分の頭で解釈する強靭な視点を手に入れる。毎日の通勤時間や心落ち着く夜のひとときが、複雑なグローバル金融市場...

Desentraña la desigualdad económica actual y comprende por qué la riqueza se concentra velozmente en muy pocas manos. Ya sea que busques claridad mientras escuchas en tu trayecto diario o necesites respuestas frente a un panorama financiero abrumador, este análisis reflexivo te ofrece un...

個人の努力だけでは越えられない経済格差の壁と、少数の勝者に富の集中をもたらす社会構造のからくりを鮮やかに解き明かす没入型リスニング体験。毎日の通勤電車の中で「なぜこんなに頑張っているのに報われないの...

Desentraña la compleja anatomía del poder económico global y comprende cómo la extrema riqueza moldea nuestro mundo. Ideal para tus trayectos matutinos, este agudo análisis periodístico te invita a explorar el opaco universo de la élite financiera sin caer en mitos superficiales...