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These two volumes bring together articles, commentaries, and excerpts by Nobel Prize-winning economist Franco Modigliani published from the late 1970s to 1989. The 11 essays collected in Volume 4 focus on money and inflation and on stabilization policies for growth and unemployment. The 21 essays in Volume 5 cover saving and wealth, deficits, the real effects of inflation, and finance.

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The new Political Economy, which in 1815 captured the attention of a country exhausted by war and drained by economic crisis, was to have profound effects on British and, indeed, the Western world's economic and political life for more than a hundred years.

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Showing us the strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives, this book includes a chapter that analyzes how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy and the financial crisis that succeeded it.

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Presents an analysis of the rise and fall of US inflation after 1960. This book examines two explanations for the behavior of inflation and unemployment in this period: the natural-rate hypothesis joined to the Lucas critique and a more traditional econometric policy evaluation modified to include adaptive expectations and learning.

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This volume demonstrates that being civic-minded is good for business. There are interviews with Iowa business owners, managers and community leaders, along with findings from studies of corporate citizenship. The evidence shows that most businesses do provide some form of community support.

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Knowledge about the magnitude of the cost of capital invested in an asset and its determinants is essential for the analysis of corporate investment decisions and for assessing profitability.

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Who was the greater economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin This title predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. It argues that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Smith's.

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Argues that innovation and productivity improvement are lost arts in American business. This book tells what's wrong with US management practices and what to do about it. It outlines the problem, as well as the solution by establishing a 21st-century definition of management that will succeed in the global economy.

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Senator Tom Coburn reveals the fascinating, maddening story of how we got to this point of fiscal crisis---and how we can escape.

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This highly original book puts the crash of 2008 into a broad perspective by digging deeply into the misguided theories behind the policies that allowed it to happen.

Who was responsible for the 2008 crash

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Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, although the surviving peasant ideology, village kinship networks,

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Moves beyond Marx's concepts of capital as value in motion and the fetishism of commodities to sketch an alternative called New Economic Democracy. This title offers an explanatory approach of Marx's concepts that is suitable for students and researchers in political theory, democratic theory, and political economy.

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A comprehensive, detailed study of the rationale underlying the emergence of global private power, ways to find opportunities for further development within the global private power business, and alternative methods and techniques for its development and finance.

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This work examines the development of the Greek economy during the years 1950-1991, dividing that era into five separate political periods and evaluating each one's economic development. The author looks at specific economic policies and their impact on economic growth and development.

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One of FDR's most intimate advisors, Tugwell provides an open account of what went on in the New Deal, particularly in the early days when programs to address the Great Depression were being devised.

The diary talks openly about how programs were devised, who was involved, and how FDR reacted.

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This book contends that central bank policy pits the Federal Reserve against consumers, creating business cycles and inflation.

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It is not free-spending liberals who have been driving this country to its current level of economic anxiety, the author argues, but a union of conservative Republican and conservative Southern economic policy.

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An analysis of the strength of the dollar, the role of the dollar and other alternatives as international money, the U.S. as an international capital market, and the past and future relationships between financial policy and foreign relations.

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The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar's looming displacement as the main reserve currency. Yet, as The Dollar Trap powe