The Economics category has 353 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 2,738 ratings. The most-rated is Stealing Fire.
The Innovative State
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Conventional wisdom says the state can best foster innovation by just getting out of the way. In fact, government has historically served not as a meddler in the private sector, but as a key booster of it - and often a daring one, willing to take risks that businesses won’t.
©2015 Foreign Affairs (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
VC
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A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. VC tells the riveting story of how the industry arose from the United States' long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. Venture capital has been driven from the start by the pull of outsized returns through a skewed distribution of payoffs - a faith in low-probability but substantial financial rewards that rarely materialize. Whether the gamble is a whaling voyage setting sail from New Bedford or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. It is a state of mind exemplified by an appetite for risk-taking, a bold spirit of adventure, and an unbridled quest for improbable wealth through investment in innovation. Tom Nicholas' history of the venture capital industry offers listeners a ride on the roller coaster of setbacks and success in America's pursuit of financial gain. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 The President and Fellows of Harvard College (P)2019 Tantor
The Myth of the Rational Market
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Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance and investing, from the formative days of Wall Street through the Great Depression and into the financial calamity of today. It’s a tale that features professors who made and lost fortunes, battled fiercely over ideas, beat the house in blackjack, wrote bestselling books, and played major roles on the world stage. It’s also a tale of Wall Street’s evolution, the power of the market to generate wealth and wreak havoc, and free market capitalism¹s war with itself. The efficient market hypothesis—long part of academic folklore but codified in the 1960s at the University of Chicago—has evolved into a powerful myth. It has been the maker and loser of fortunes, the driver of trillions of dollars, the inspiration for index funds and vast new derivatives markets, and the guidepost for thousands of careers. The theory holds that the market is always right, and that the decisions of millions of rational investors, all acting on information to outsmart one another, always provide the best judge of a stock’s value. That myth is crumbling. Celebrated journalist and columnist Fox introduces a new wave of economists and scholars who no longer teach that investors are rational or that the markets are always right. Many of them now agree with Yale professor Robert Shiller that the efficient markets theory “represents one of the most remarkable errors in the history of economic thought.” Today the theory has given way to counterintuitive hypotheses about human behavior, psychological models of decision making, and the irrationality of the markets. Investors overreact, underreact, and make irrational decisions based on imperfect data. In his landmark treatment of the history of the world’s markets, Fox uncovers the new ideas that may come to drive the market in the century ahead.
©2009 Justin Fox (P)2010 HarperCollins Publishers
The Boom
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Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of "fracking". Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country’s energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians. He has also sifted through reams of engineering reports, lawsuit transcripts, and financial filings. The result is an essential audiobook - a commanding piece of journalism, an astounding study of human ingenuity, and an epic work of storytelling.
Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started to change geopolitics and global energy markets in profound ways. Gold tells the story of this once-obscure oilfield technology - a story with an incredible cast of tycoons and geologists, dreamers and drillers, speculators and skeptics, a story that answers a critical question of our time: Where will the energy come from to power our world - and what price will we have to pay for it?
©2014 Russell Gold (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Recorded by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws
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Economics in Three Lessons: Henry Hazlitt's 1946 book Economics in One Lesson sold more than a million copies. It is perhaps the best selling economics book of all time. In this volume, Hunter Lewis, a Hazlitt admirer and student, provides a sequel and update. The central lesson of Hazlitt's seminal work is that economic thought and policy must consider all the consequences of an action, not just the immediate or most visible ones. Hazlitt is right that this is the kernel of all good economics. Lewis covers this theme and also introduces two more lessons: how a free and uncontrolled price system creates prosperity and how a controlled or manipulated price system creates only crony capitalist corruption and, ultimately, poverty and economic failure. The great merit of this volume is its simplicity. Anyone can listen to it and understand it. It is an ideal introduction to economics. One Hundred Economic Laws: In this groundbreaking volume, Lewis does what no one has attempted to do, at least not for many decades: It collects in one place some of the most important laws of economics. Everyone understands the importance of understanding the laws of physics and other natural sciences. Are there also laws of economics? Can understanding them also make our lives better? This volume answers with a resounding "Yes" to both questions. We need the laws of economics to help guide our choices and actions in a very uncertain world. We also need them to protect us from the “thinkers for hire” who, paid by special economic interests, try to persuade us to ignore reality. This short audiobook is also a complete course in economics. Unlike the dry-as-dust and often irrelevant textbooks forced on high school and college students, it is authored in a lively and even sparkling style.
©2017 Axios Press (P)2018 Axios Press
Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus
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Get yourself up to guru speed. This insightful guide, which has proven hugely popular around the world in hardback, not only includes the most significant ideas that have influenced the management of business over the past century, but it also includes entries on the most influential business thinkers of the past and present. Entries on ideas include: Active Inertia; Disruptive Technology; Genchi Genbutsu (Japanese for"Go and See for Yourself"); The Halo Effect; The Long Tail; Pareto Principle ; Six Sigma;, Skunkworks; SWOT analysis; Thin Slicing; Tipping Point; Triple Bottom Line. Tim Hindle is author of several best-selling books on management and business. He is a former business and management editor of the Economist and was the founding editor of Euro Business. He has also been editor of Director magazine.
©2012 Tim Hindle (P)2013 Audible Ltd
Bitcoin for Beginners
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Bitcoin is the invention of the 21st century? Really? Well, Bitcoin is using Elliptic Curve Cryptography to participate in a discrete logarithm problem while uses SHA-256 hashing algorithm and ASCII encoding (plus many more technologies combined). Yet, some people refers to Bitcoin as a dead currency, a scam, a stock, a pyramid scheme or even a bubble, so why would you be interested hearing about it, correct? Well, Bitcoin is portable, durable, recognizable, fungible, scarce, hard to counterfeit and its supply is guaranteed to be stable. You might call it money, currency, cryptocurrency, medium of exchange, store of value, software, application, payment system, peer-to-peer network, decentralized system, borderless money, internet money, distributed ledger system, bank in your pocket, a chain of transactions, a chain of blocks, blockchain, trusted money, electronic cash, money of the internet or money of the people. And to understand why one might describe Bitcoin for any of the above mentioned; this easy to follow beginners guide will help you comprehend in no time! After listening to this book, you will be able to explain to your friends, family members or to anyone what Bitcoin really is, in plain English! Buy this book now and get started today! You will learn: Why Bitcoin is called cryptocurrency Defining medium of exchange Trusted third parties and quantitative easing Double spending problem and it's solution The revolution of crypto and digital cash Centralization and decentralization The rise of the cypherpunks What is the distributed ledger system How transactions are validated Bitcoin mining fundamentals Block reward process Block validation process Transaction fees Supply and demand Network effects and BTMs Market manipulation and price predictions The best time to buy bitcoins The worse time to buy bitcoins Why would you use Bitcoin Why Bitcoin is not dead Why Bitcoin is not a scam Why Bitcoin is not a bubble Why Bitcoin is not a stock Why Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme, and more.... Buy this book now and get started today!
©2020 Boris Weiser (P)2020 Boris Weiser
Shopify Business 2020
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Are you thinking about an entrepreneurial activity that does not need capital to start? Shopify Business 2020 will teach you how to earn money comfortably from home through online sales without needing initial capital and a physical warehouse. It will help you to find the perfect niche for your product, saving your time and effort. It will show you, through already-tested methods, the real strength of this new business. Dropshipping has revolutionized the way we do business online. While it might sound intimidating to beginners, the fundamentals could not be simpler. The traditional methods of e-commerce are usually what we think of when selling items online. You advertise and market the item, buyers pay and leave their postal address, you package and send the item. While this might be great if you have all the time in the world to package and handle items, in today’s fast-paced world, there has got to be an easier way. This guide will focus on the following: The advantages of working in dropshipping Getting ideas on what products to choose Finding the right niche Find and work with the right suppliers Building the website How to run your dropshipping company The dropshipping model with Shopify What are you waiting for? Click “Buy Now” and learn how to generate passive income with Shopify Business 2020.
©2020 Michael Jones (P)2020 Michael Jones
The Age of Em
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Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations, or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times; an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics, he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems. While human lives don't change greatly in the em era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear. Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship, and love. This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it seems good to be an em.
©2016 Robin Hanson (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Escape from Rome
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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn't until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world. What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away.
©2019 Princeton University Press (P)2019 Recorded Books
Early Austrian Economics
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Carl Menger (1840-1921) and Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk (1851-1914), working in Vienna in the late nineteenth century, rejected the classical and Marxian ideas that value can be measured objectively. They insisted that the subjective preferences of consumers determine value; this shifted the attention of economic analysis from productive power to consumer demand. This shift led to keen new insights, including the idea that the marginal utility of goods determines its price. Other insights of the early Austrians include an explanation of why interest is necessary, how the price system allocates economic resources, how to determine cause vs. effect in economic affairs, and how to distinguish between the means (activities) and ends (goals) of economic activity.
©1988 Carmichael & Carmichael, Inc. and Knowledge Products (P)1988 Carmichael & Carmichael, Inc. and Knowledge Products
The China Dream
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In The China Dream, acclaimed business journalist Joe Studwell takes to task the predictions that China will become an economic juggernaut on the world stage in the 21st century - and instead foresees an economic crisis. He argues that since the days of Marco Polo, Western nations have seen the vast population of the Middle Kingdom as a fantastic opportunity for expanding trade, investing time and resources again and again in the hope to develop it, only to see, century after century, its economy crash and their dreams turn to dust. Studwell traces the most recent developments in China, from Deng Xiaoping's "liberalization" of its market in the 1980s through the opening of its economy to foreign investment in the 1990s. In his rigorous analysis of the Chinese economy, government, and culture, Studwell also shows the roadblocks to the continuation of the country's unprecedented expansion and why its economy will fail once more - but this time harder than ever before and with potentially catastrophic results. Provocative, flawlessly researched, and endlessly engaging, The China Dream is a book that will have the business and political worlds talking about what's really going on in China - and what we can do to prepare for the coming crisis.
©2002, 2003, 2005 Joe Studwell. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.
The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century
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The Skyscraper Curse is Dr. Mark Thornton's definitive work on booms and busts, and it explains why only Austrian economists really understand them. It makes business cycle theory accessible to a whole new 21st-century audience. And they need it, especially those under 40. Many of the brilliant quants working on Wall Street and at the Fed barely remember the Crash of 2008, much less understand it. But Mark Thornton does, and his book is a warning about overheated equity markets, overinflated housing prices, and clueless central bankers. Given the shaky stock markets lately, 2018 may be the year the Fed’s latest bubble bursts. And when it does, it will be even more painful than 10 years ago. In fact, US household and business debt is now $1 trillion higher than in 2008. Mark is well known as an expert on bubbles and Fed malfeasance. His work appears in outlets like Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Economist, Barron’s, and Investor’s Business Daily. His now-infamous Skyscraper Index theory draws the connection between loose monetary policy, artificially low interest rates, and vanity construction projects. Put the three together and it doesn’t turn out well. And let’s not forget that Dr. Thornton was among only a handful of economists to warn about the dangerous housing bubble in 2004, and again in 2006. Cabbies and waiters bought up condos with no money down in places like Las Vegas. Prices rose 25 percent or more every year in some coastal markets. Even people with terrible credit financed houses at five or seven times their annual income. All of it was made possible by the Fed and its mania for low interest rates. So when the experts said, “Nobody could have seen this coming,” the Mises Institute had Mark’s articles and papers ready to go. The housing crash, and the meltdown in equity markets less than a year later, were thoroughly explained by Austrian business cycle theory. And Mark was the capable face of the Mises Institute during it all. Without a lay-friendly book like The Skyscraper Curse, millions more Americans will be duped by the next crash. Dr. Thornton’s book tells the story that needs to be told. It will be among the only alternative explanations available when the next crisis comes.
©2018 Ludwig von Mises Institute (P)2018 Ludwig von Mises Institute
Ripple for Beginners: An Introduction to XRP
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Ryan Fugger conceived Ripple in 2004 after working on a local exchange trading system in Vancouver. The intent was to create a monetary system that was decentralized and could effectively empower individuals and communities to create their own money. Fugger later built the first iteration of this system, RipplePay.com. Concurrently, in May 2011, Jed McCaleb began developing a digital currency system in which transactions were verified by consensus among members of the network, rather than by the mining process used by Bitcoin. In August 2012, Jed McCaleb hired Chris Larsen, and they approached Ryan Fugger with their digital currency idea. After discussions with McCaleb and long-standing members of the Ripple community, Fugger handed over the reins. In September 2012, Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb co-founded the corporation OpenCoin. OpenCoin began development of the ripple protocol (RTXP) and the Ripple payment and exchange network. On April 11, 2013, OpenCoin announced it had closed an angel round of funding with several venture capital firms. That same month, OpenCoin acquired SimpleHoney to help it popularize virtual currencies and make them easier for average users. On May 14, 2013, OpenCoin announced that it had closed a second round of angel funding. In July 2013, Jed McCaleb separated from active employment with Ripple. On September 26, 2013, OpenCoin officially changed its name to Ripple Labs, Inc. Their CTO, Stefan Thomas, further announced that the source code for the peer-to-peer node behind the Ripple payment network was officially open source. Parts of Ripple, particularly a JavaScript-based web client, had been open source months before, but the release of the peer-to-peer "full node" Rippled meant that the community now had the required tools needed to maintain the Ripple network on its own.
©2018 Ron Stern (P)2018 Ron Stern
Ecommerce Mastery: 3 in 1
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Do you want to crack the code to generating serious, travel-round-the-world-on-a-whim monthly income by harnessing the amazing power of ecommerce? If your answer is a resounding "YES!" to the question above, then keep reading. You're in for a special treat. Ecommerce has seen a meteoric rise in recent years, and it's easy to see why. It is low-risk, requires little capital, does not require an inventory, and does not require a physical store and can be run from the comfort of your home, in your pajamas or sweats. All you simply need to do is play the role of the middle man as a dropshipper, sourcing for products directly from the manufacturer and selling them to end-users, with the mark up in between the two points being your profit. Here are some of the wallet-boosting advice you're going to uncover in this comprehensive ecommerce book bundle: The different sales channels for your dropshipping store and how to properly leverage them A crash guide to optimizing your online store to sell like crazy 10 simple but powerful and effective ways to completely destroy your competitors The best techniques you can use to attain a large following and turn your audience into great customers as quickly as possible Little-known social media secrets to engaging followers and attracting bigger audiences on your store Surefire ways to brand your products and distinguish yourself from your competitors and induce customer loyalty A crash guide to advertising your products to pull in massive amounts of traffic to your offer Nine secret product research tools used by Amazon FBA titans to find hot selling products and make massive bank The 5 point checklist every product must pass before you even consider selling it on Amazon ...and tons more! Ready to take your ecommerce business to the next level? Don't hesitate to click the "Buy Now" button to get started today!
©2020 Phil Ortiz (P)2020 Phil Ortiz
Millionaire Mind: 6-Book Bundle
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Do you want to....
Make money in your sleep?
Rise above the competition?
Find the most profitable niches?
Create a thriving business around your passion?
Learn the language of success?
And get extraordinarily rich along the way?
If so, Millionaire Mind is the business solution you’ve been searching for!
Inside this 6-Book Bundle, you’ll discover a wealth of perspectives and pathways for success. Each of these valuable audiobooks will help you crack the code of money mastery and start creating massive wealth - today!
Passive Income
Don't Compete, Dominate!
Don't Wait for Opportunity - Create It!
Entrepreneurship
The A to Z of Success
Top Secrets of Accumulating More Money
What you’ll find inside:
With Passive Income, you’ll discover how to profit legally from other people’s sales, make loads of money as a drop shipper, and sell “invisible gold” online. In Don't Compete, Dominate!, you’ll learn to master your image, become indispensable to others, and outthink the competition. Don't Wait for Opportunity – Create It! helps you take the right risks when no one else dares!
When you read Entrepreneurship, you’ll learn how to fire your boss and create your own business. In The A to Z of Success, you’ll explore the earth-shaking careers of various luminaries - from Henry Ford to Harrison Ford. You’ll also discover 26 alphabetical chapters on the qualities successful people share. Top Secrets of Accumulating More Money shares the three secret pillars of success and a magic formula for uncommon riches. You’ll learn about the safest investments you can make – and how to emulate Warren Buffet’s market wizardry!
©2017 SJ Baker (P)2017 SJ Baker
L'illusione della crescita
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L'imperativo della nostra economia è la crescita - continua, inarrestabile, vertiginosa. È il metro con cui giudichiamo il valore delle nostre società e il prodotto interno lordo è il suo indicatore principale, lo specchio magico che ci dice quanto le nostre economie sono belle e sane, senza, dirci nulla su quanto stiamo bene noi e quanto staranno bene i nostri figli. La realtà è molto diversa da quella raccontata dal PIL: trasformare l'economia in una gara a chi produce di più ha portato a conseguenze disastrose, alla devastazione dell'ambiente, allo sfruttamento di mezzo mondo, alla disoccupazione di massa; in una parola, all'infelicità. Con "L'illusione della crescita" David Pilling ci propone un'idea straordinariamente semplice e rivoluzionaria: le nazioni non devono scegliere tra la ricchezza e la felicità, l'una non esclude l'altra. La qualità della vita, la salvaguardia dell'ambiente e perfino la serenità individuale non sono optional, ma beni essenziali perché una nazione possa davvero definirsi ricca. Con un vero e proprio viaggio intorno al mondo Pilling si mette sulle tracce di nuovi parametri per calcolare e definire il concetto di ricchezza: visita prestigiosi istituti di ricerca occidentali e remoti uffici statistici, cammina per le capitali emergenti del continente africano come per le grandi città industriali cinesi, parla con economisti, politici e lavoratori. Tutti concordano sulla necessità di un cambiamento radicale nel modo di pensare l'economia, tutti caldeggiano l'adozione di un paradigma alternativo rispetto all'attuale. Con proposte che spaziano dall'inserire nel bilancio di una nazione il valore delle risorse naturali al calcolare gli indici di felicità dei suoi abitanti, David Pilling consegna nelle nostre mani il libro che, se solo lo vorremo, potrà diventare il testo sacro per il nostro futuro.
©2019 Il Saggiatore S.r.l. Tradotto da Galimberti, Fabio & Seller Gaia (P)2020 Audible Studios
Misunderstanding Financial Crises
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Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the US, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there were none in the US from 1934 to 2007. Misunderstanding Financial Crises offers a back-to-basics overview of financial crises and shows that they are not rare, idiosyncratic events caused by a perfect storm of unconnected factors. Instead, Gorton shows how financial crises are, indeed, inherent to our financial system. Economists, Gorton writes, looked from a certain point of view and missed everything that was important: the evolution of capital markets and the banking system, the existence of new financial instruments, and the size of certain money markets like the sale and repurchase market. Comparing the so-called "Quiet Period" of 1934 to 2007, when there were no systemic crises, to the "Panic of 2007-2008", Gorton ties together key issues like bank debt and liquidity, credit booms and manias, moral hazard, and too-big-to-fail-all to illustrate the true causes of financial collapse. He argues that the successful regulation that prevented crises since 1934 did not adequately keep pace with innovation in the financial sector, due in part to the misunderstandings of economists, who assured regulators that all was well. Gorton also looks forward to offer both a better way for economists to think about markets and a description of the regulation necessary to address the future threat of financial disaster.
©2012 Oxford University Press (P)2019 Tantor
The New Empire of Debt
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In the last half of 2008, the Empire of Debt received the margin call from Hell. Now, all of its citizens are asked to pay up as the U.S. economy stumbles down a dangerous path of financial turmoil. What exactly went wrong? When things are good, people tend to believe the most outrageous things - that the financial sector could get rich by lending money to people who couldn't pay it back, and that a whole economy could flourish by luring consumers to spend more than they could afford. These hallucinations created an immense worldwide bubble of debt and dollars. And now - with the U.S. government inflating the biggest bubble in public debt the world has ever seen - a financial whirlpool has formed and threatens to drag the entire country down the drain. In The New Empire of Debt, the internationally acclaimed author team of William Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the epic financial bubble that is plaguing the United States will soon bring an end to this once great empire. They offer a frightening look at the United States' precarious position and discuss how government control of the economy and financial system - combined with unfettered deficit spending and gluttonous consumption - has ravaged the business environment, devastated consumer confidence, and pushed the global economy to the brink. They warn of the dangers that lie ahead and offer practical advice to protect your financial well-being as the American empire collapses upon itself. You'll discover that you don't have to tie your own fate to the inevitable destruction of America's system of imperial finance. Instead you can take some simple steps to weather the crisis. Bonner and Wiggin have been studying the financial landscape for more than 20 years. Now, they not only show you how we got into this mess, but how to get yourself out of it.
©2009 William Bonner, Addison Wiggin (P)2009 Gildan Media Corp
Microeconomics AudioLearn Follow-Along Manual
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You've chosen an overview of Microeconomics. Congratulations! We hope that you'll better understand how Microeconomics affects you in your daily life. Here is a sneak preview of what topics we will be covering in this AudioLearn overview of microeconomics. To set down the basics, we will cover the Latin watchword of economics, "Ceteris Paribus" and some other fallacies of thinking. We'll briefly review the problem between scarcity and unlimited needs and wants. As we establish what microeconomics specifically analyzes, we'll discuss elasticity, utility, and maximizing on your budget. Then you will learn about our business structures - sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. You'll hear about the difference between economists and accountants and how to look at fixed and variable costs. Next, you'll find out the difference between pure competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. You'll learn about patents, copyrights, and trademarks and how the government helps to protect business. Finally, we'll also shed some light on how private, public and social costs are shared, and major issues confronting microeconomics. Sit back, adjust your volume and relax. Welcome to the world of economics.
©1997-2012 AudioLearn (P)1997-2012 AudioLearn