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In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard. This time, Ammous delves into the...

What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement (1902) is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Lenin contends that the working class will not become politically aware simply by struggling with employers over wages, hours and working conditions. He maintains that Marxists should form a political party of committed revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers.

An accessible, compelling introduction to today’s major policy issues from the New York Times columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel prize–winning economist Paul Krugman. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy...

To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work - and what makes it fail - is crucial to understanding its long-term health and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it. 

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed economist Diane Coyle explains how GDP came to rule our lives— and why it needs to change Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive. In Angrynomics, Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive and ill-targeted, and propose radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world.  

Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is an audio adaptation of the ⁠OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics 3e textbook⁠. The audiobook is produced by ⁠Audileo⁠. Principles of Macroeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one-semester introductory macroeconomics...

A bold retelling of the story of capitalism that treats the core concepts of economics as living, breathing beings, blending fiction and fact to upend 250 years of economic orthodoxy For 250 years, a ghostly hand – bloodied and invisible – has scripted our lives. We call it economics...

The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries. The book provides an accessible new synthesis of current economic thinking on key questions: How is poverty measured? How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist, and is it inevitable? What can be done to reduce poverty? Can it even be eliminated? The book does not assume that listeners know economics already.

Don't leave it to the experts. This beginner-friendly guide will arm you with everything you need to know about the forces that shape our economy. Quite Possibly the Best Introduction to the Economy empowers listeners to understand what causes crashes, bangs and economic wallops, and how to leverage this new-found knowledge to do more than just survive in the global economy. This essential book provides simple answers to frequently asked questions.

In The Price of Money, the Bloomberg Economics team explain the evolution of the natural rate, the forces driving it, where it is headed, and what that means for everything from government debt to saving for retirement.

An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. ‘A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us all' Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism ‘Easily one of the most compelling economics communicators of our...

During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already. In 1990, Vietnam was still one of the poorest countries in the world, while Poland was one of the poorest in Europe. But in the three decades since then, both countries have drastically improved their citizens’ standards of living and escaped the vicious cycle of national poverty.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is an audio adaptation of the ⁠OpenStax Principles of Microeconomics 3e textbook⁠. The audiobook is produced by ⁠Audileo⁠. Principles of Microeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one semester introductory microeconomics...

Vladimir Lenin’s 1916 essay "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism", is a synthesis of Lenin's development of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital. It attempts to account for the increasing importance of the global market in the 20th century. Lenin contends that colonialism and the First World War were the consequences of the global spread of the capitalist economy.

L'ampleur démesurée de la dette publique menace-t-elle notre bien-être collectif? Jusqu'où ira-t-elle? Existe-t-il seulement une limite? Un grand pays, émetteur d'une monnaie de réserve importante comme les États-Unis, peut-il réellement faire faillite? Et si oui, à quoi cela ressemblerait-il? Depuis des décennies, responsables politiques, décideurs publics et investisseurs débattent de ces questions… sans parvenir à trouver de réponses claires.

Domina el ciclo de inestabilidad económica y entiende por qué los colapsos financieros hunden los mercados globales. Si buscas proteger tu patrimonio frente a la incertidumbre o necesitas dar sentido a las alarmantes noticias actuales, este revelador análisis te ofrece claridad absoluta...

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide.

When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral-or permanent and structural? False alarms are costly traps, but so are true structural changes that go undetected. Leaders must also assess the doom-laden public macroeconomic discourse, which habitually presents worst-case scenarios as foregone conclusions.