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The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today's economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers. When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today's digital economy?

Descifra cómo la política monetaria oculta manipula tu economía diaria y altera la inflación sin que te des cuenta. Mientras viajas al trabajo o haces la compra, un pequeño grupo de instituciones invisibles toma decisiones que definen tus finanzas personales. Esta reveladora exploración te...

Domina tus finanzas personales revelando los principios de economía que controlan en secreto tu dinero y tus decisiones. Ya sea que te preocupe la inflación al hacer la compra o busques optimizar tu ahorro, este recorrido accesible ilumina los mecanismos invisibles de tu rutina diaria. Es la...

Domina le regole della finanza personale decifrando i meccanismi economici che governano i tuoi risparmi ogni giorno. Che tu stia pianificando il tuo futuro durante il tragitto verso il lavoro o cercando chiarezza tra mercati instabili, questo ascolto lucido e illuminante trasforma l'ansia da...

1920年代の熱狂的な繁栄から突如牙を剥いた株価大暴落がいかにして世界的な大不況へと連鎖したのか、現代の経済危機にも通じるドミノ倒しのメカニズムを鮮明に描き出します。先行きが不透明な時代において、通勤や...

Maîtrisez les forces économiques invisibles qui dictent votre quotidien et reprenez le contrôle de votre pouvoir d'achat. Idéal pour accompagner vos trajets, cet essai pragmatique traduit une réalité complexe en concepts limpides. Apprenez à décrypter l'économie pratique qui influence...

Décryptez la politique monétaire et saisissez comment la macroéconomie dicte secrètement votre pouvoir d'achat. Idéal pour enrichir vos connaissances lors de vos trajets quotidiens, cet audio immersif et profondément analytique clarifie le jargon des élites financières. Vous ne subirez...

Verstehe die systematische Marktdynamik hinter globalen Finanzkrisen und bewerte wirtschaftliche Risiken rational. Ob auf dem täglichen Weg zur Arbeit oder beim gezielten Vermögensaufbau, dieses fundierte Wirtschaftssachbuch liefert dir die analytische Klarheit, um das Chaos der...

難解な専門用語や冷たい株価チャートに悩まされることなく、毎日の身近な買い物から経済の大きなうねりと投資の本質を鮮やかに解き明かします。漠然とした将来への不安を抱えながらも、何から学び始めればいいか迷...

American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations. Economists and politicians often talk - and act - at cross purposes: politicians typically seek economists' "advice" only to support preconceived notions, not to learn what economists actually know or believe. Politicians naturally worry about keeping constituents happy and winning elections. Some are devoted to an ideology.

Central Banking in Turbulent Times examines fundamental questions about the central banking system, asking whether the model of an independent central bank devoted to price stability is the final resting point of a complex development that started centuries ago. It dissects the hypothesis that the Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of that model; a renewed emphasis on financial stability has emerged, possibly vying for first rank in the hierarchy of objectives of central banks.   

Entrepreneur and investor Jason A. Williams is the first author to put bitcoin in context of the 2020 crisis - a year of financial disaster and unprecedented money creation (money printer go brrr!). Hard Money You Can’t F--k With explains bitcoin in simple, understandable terms and maps out how this "magic internet money" will grow into the best form of money we’ve ever had.

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...

Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt's best-selling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, but it can't explain why they often fail so badly - or what we should do when they stumble. In Economics in Two Lessons, John Quiggin teaches both lessons, offering a masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes - and failures - of free markets.

The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask-wearers and the mask-haters. Some businesses, like Amazon and video conference software maker Zoom, woke up to find themselves crushed under an avalanche of consumer demand. Others, like the restaurant, travel, hospitality and live entertainment industries, scrambled to not become instantly obsolete. But the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends that were already well underway. 

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. 

 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperialist colonialism as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital (1867). 

Over the last four decades, debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures have risen to epidemic levels, and the personal savings rate has sunk dangerously low. Why, in the richest nation on Earth, can't Americans hold on to their money? First published in 2008, Stuart Vyse's Going Broke described the epidemic of personal debt that existed in the years leading up to the Great Recession and anticipated the home mortgage crisis that started it. Ten years later, this fully updated new edition tackles the post-recession era of economic recovery. 

A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times. According to GDP, the economy is in a golden era: economic growth has risen steadily over the past 70 years and shows no sign of stopping. But if this is the case, why are we living in such fractured times, with global populism on the rise and wealth inequality as stark as ever?

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.