Tirole, Jean
Summary: When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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Summary: Sowell explains the principles of economics in plain jargon for the general public, answering questions like: Why are homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks of New York in the winter, when abandoned apartment buildings have four times as many dwelling units as there are homeless people in the city? Why did Russians have to import food to feed people in Moscow, when Russia itself had vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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Summary: Bringing a fresh perspective to current debates over the 'free market,' this wide-ranging look at how market economies are designed and constructed helps us understand how 'the market' works and how we can build fairer and more effective markets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.12 MARSummary: For centuries, cotton has influenced the relationship between America and Africa. It drove the slave trade, and today it epitomizes the uneven playing field created by farming subsidies. This program examines the lopsided nature of the global cotton industry-in which U.S. and European producers enjoy massive government support while independent African farmers struggle to remain competitive....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Roubini, Nouriel
Summary: "Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true--when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats. From the worst debt crisis the world has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022