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1. The Economy: Economics for a Changing World (2017)
Oxford University Press has partnered with the international collaborative project of CORE researchers and teachers to bring students a text and learning system that complements and enhances CORE’s open-access eBook.The Economy: *offers new approach that integrates recent developments in economics including contract theory, strategic interaction, behavioral economics, and financial instability *challenges students to address inequality, climate change, economic instability, wealth creation, and innovation*provides a unified treatment of micro- and macroeconomics *supports all models and concepts…
2. The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works (2012)
Economics isn’t just about numbers: it’s about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists – when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries. Yet many of us feel lost when the subject arises. Award-winning professor Timothy Taylor tackles all the key questions and hot topics of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, including: * Why do budget deficits matter? * What exactly does the Federal Reserve do? * Does globalization take jobs away from American workers? * Why is health insurance so costly? The…
3. China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2016)
China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world’s second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world’s steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America.China’s growth has lifted 700 million people out of…
4. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works–and How It Fails (2019)
Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important―and difficult―audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic…
5. The Political Economy of Latin America: Reflections on Neoliberalism and Development (2010)
Neoliberalism has been at the centre of enormous controversy since its first appearance in Latin America in the early 1970s. Even neoliberalism’s strongest supporters concede that it has not lived up to its promises and that growth, poverty, and inequality all have performed considerably worse than hoped. This brief text offers an unbiased reflection on the neoliberal debate in Latin America and the institutional puzzle that underlies the region’s difficulties with democratization and development. In addition to providing an overview of this key element of the Latin American political economy, Peter…
6. The Experience Economy, Updated Edition (2011)
In 1999, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore offered this idea to readers as a new way to think about connecting with customers and securing their loyalty. As a result, their book The Experience Economy is now a classic, embraced by readers and companies worldwide and read in more than a dozen languages.And though the world has changed in many ways since then, the way to a customer’s heart has not. In fact, the idea of staging experiences to leave a memorable—and lucrative—impression is now more relevant than ever. With an ongoing torrent of brands attacking…
7. Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism (2014)
Vampires are not just mythical creatures that come out and prowl for victims during a full moon. Today’s vampires are the politicians and bureaucrats who drain the lifeblood out of businesses through taxation,regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, fiat money, and attacks on private property. The Vampire Economy provides a frightening look at the consequences of state economic management. #706,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1950 in Economic History (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?…
8. International Political Economy: Sixth Edition (2018)
Broadly viewing the global economy as a political competition that produces winners and losers, International Political Economy holistically and accessibly introduces the field of IPE to students with limited background in political theory, history, and economics. This text surveys major interests and institutions and examines how state and non-state actors pursue wealth and power. Emphasizing fundamental economic concepts as well as the interplay between domestic and international politics, International Political Economy not only explains how the global economy works, it also encourages students to think critically about how…
9. Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series) (2016)
In the Third Edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, Stephen Sweet and Peter Meiksins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Through engaging vignettes and rich data, this text frames the development of jobs and employment opportunities in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work (the “old economy” and the “new economy”) and identifying the profound effects that these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances. The text examines…
10. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar’s Edition (2011)
Murray N. Rothbard’s great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austrian economic theory, a reconstruction of many aspects of that theory, a rigorous criticism of alternative schools, and an inspiring look at a science of liberty that concerns nearly everything and should concern everyone. The Mises Institute’s new edition of Man Economy, and State, united with its formerly sundered companion volume Power and Market, is a landmark in the…
11. Ecology: The Economy of Nature (2013)
This landmark text helped to define introductory ecology courses for over four decades. With a dramatic transformation, Ecology: The Economy of Nature, Seventh Edition becomes the first textbook to fully embrace the challenges and opportunities of teaching ecology today. The text maintains its signature evolutionary perspective and emphasis on the quantitative aspects of the field, but it has been completely rewritten for today’s undergraduates—with extensive new pedagogy, fresh examples (including more aquatic coverage), and fully integrated media resources. See what’s in the LaunchPad…
12. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters (2014)
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. Tracing a T-shirt’s life story from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a U.S. storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy. Along the way, this fascinating exploration addresses a wealth of compelling questions about politics, trade, economics, ethics, and the impact of history on today’s business landscape. This…
Best Economy Books Worth Your Attention
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The space economy at a glance.
Author(s): OECD
Publisher: OECD, Year: op., Size: 7 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2143659
Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard : Towards a Knowledge-Based Economy 2001.
Author(s): OECD
Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Oct. 2001, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2148888
The Future of Indian Economy: Past Reforms and Challenges Ahead
Author(s): Yashwant Sinha, Vinay K. Srivastava
Publisher: Rupa Publications India, Year: July 7, 2017, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2238419
Engineering Economy
Author(s): William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, C. Patrick Koelling
Publisher: Pearson Education, Year: c2015, Size: 19 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 1390113
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
Author(s): Elizabeth C. Economy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 4 Apr 2018, Size: 3 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2442149
The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Age of the Robot
Author(s): Roger Bootle
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey, Year: 26 Nov 2019, Size: 492 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 2448298
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Author(s): Mariana Mazzucato
Publisher: Penguin, Year: 26 Apr 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2422142
Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
Author(s): Anders Åslund
Publisher: Yale University Press, Year: 23 May 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2388380
Violence In The Barrios Of Caracas: Social Capital And The Political Economy Of Venezuela
Author(s): Daniel S. Leon
Publisher: Springer, Year: 2020, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2394902
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are truly chart-busters according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.