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Economics explained: everything you need to know about how the economy works and where it's going
Par Robert L Heilbroner, Lester C Thurow. 1998
Economics in perspective: a critical history
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1987
Crunch: why do I feel so squeezed? (and other unsolved economic mysteries) (Your coach in a box)
Par Jared Bernstein. 2008
Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I…
hurting a native-born worker? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? What's a "living wage"? Why do I feel so squeezed? 2008.Blue ocean strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant (Your coach in a box)
Par W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne. 2006
In a book that challenges the typical entrepreneurial strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies…
will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans": untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. 2006.Boom, bust & echo: how to profit from the coming demographic shift
Par David K Foot, Daniel Stoffman. 1996
Foot uses demography as a tool to understand the past and foretell the future. He explains how demographics play a…
critical role in Canada's economy and social life, and how they affect every one of us as individuals. He argues that by understanding demographic realities, we will be better prepared to cope with them and to turn them to our advantage. 1996.Coming of age in the Milky Way
Par Timothy Ferris. 1988
Cities and the wealth of nations: principles of economic life
Par Jane Jacobs. 1984
Thorne writes for nonscientists and scientists who are not physicists in a quest to share his insights about "where and…
how relativity fails and what replaces it." He combines established principles of physics with imaginative speculation to examine concepts, such as black holes, that were developed theoretically long before technology was able to provide any observable evidence. 1994.All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism
Par Linda McQuaig. 2001
Explains the mired history of social and economic thinking that has culminated in the new capitalism. McQuaig argues that instead…
of shaping our society to fit the economy, we must shape the economy to fit the society we want. 2001.Alice in Quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
Par R. S Gilmore. 1995
Physicist Gilmore makes accessible some complex concepts in quantum mechanics by sending Alice to Quantumland - a whole new Wonderland,…
smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. Alice's unusual encounters make the Uncertainty Principle, wave functions, the Pauli Principle, and other elusive concepts easier to grasp. 1995.A world of three zeros: the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emissions
Par Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber. 2017
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who invented microcredit, founded Grameen Bank, and earned a Nobel Prize for his work in…
alleviating poverty, declares that it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. 2017.Absolute zero and the conquest of cold: And The Conquest Of Cold
Par Tom Shachtman. 1999
Historical survey of western scientists' efforts to control cold. Discusses Boyle's experiments in the seventeenth century, the invention of the…
sealed glass thermometer, the work of Fahrenheit and Celsius, the discovery of refrigeration, twentieth-century research on attaining absolute zero, and related topics of superconductivity and superfluidity. 1999.A short history of financial euphoria (Whittle Ser.)
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1993
In an essay originally written for the financial community, Galbraith humorously discusses the major financial fiascos of the past three…
hundred years beginning with Tulipomania in Holland in 1636. He warns that history repeats itself and outlines the conditions necessary for another stock market crash while cautioning that human nature will never change. 1993.A line in the tar sands: struggle for environmental justice
Par Steve D'Arcy. 2014
Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents - fighting a powerful international…
industry - are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are muzzled; and public hearings are concealed and rushed. Despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. 2014.A first-class catastrophe: the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
Par Diana B Henriques. 2017
Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. For thirty years, investors, regulators, and…
bankers have failed to heed the lessons of 1987, even as the same patterns have resurfaced, most spectacularly in the financial crisis of 2008. This book offers a new way of looking not only at the past, but at our financial future as well. 2017.A brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes
Par Carl Sagan, S. W Hawking. 1988
The author answers the question, "How can an expanding universe follow unchanging laws of nature?" The relativity theory not only…
allows, but requires, a Big Bang. Written in layman's terms, the book explains the nature, origin, evolution and fate of our universe. Bestseller 1988.11 brefs essais contre l'austérité: pour stopper le saccage planifié de l'État
Par Ianik Marcil. 2015
Un ouvrage à la fois pédagogique et critique, qui montrera au lecteur que la vision des principaux partis politiques au…
Québec et au Canada sont tous contaminés par une idéologie ultralibérale et trempés de mesures dites d'austérité - et que ces politiques ont des effets néfastes sur tous les citoyens et ont en réalité comme objectif le démantèlement des institutions publiques, voire de l'État. Ce livre s'inscrira dans la réalité contemporaine du Québec et du Canada, sachant qu'en 2015, le gouvernement du Québec présentera un budget qui continuera de mettre à mal les missions de l'État, et qu'il y aura des élections au niveau fédéral qui opposeront essentiellement le PC et le PLC. 2015.The nature of economies
Par Jane Jacobs. 2000
Jacobs examines the similarities between the growth and change that occurs within an economy, and the growth and changes that…
occur within nature. She argues that through the study of systems found in nature we can better understand economic development.The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
Par Naomi Klein. 2007
Klein assails economist Milton Friedman's free-market precepts, as their exponents have applied them to a series of formerly state-dominated economies…
since 1975. She condemns reform programs of the last three decades that have aimed to separate the state from the economy; the process of market liberalization has created a "disaster capitalism complex," consisting of corporations that thrive on catastrophe. Some descriptions of sex and strong language, descriptions of violence. 2007.Mainmise sur les services: privatisation, déréglementation et autres stratagèmes
Par Claude Vaillancourt. 2006
Aujourdhui, tout se vend. Même les services. Mais jusquà quel point pouvons-nous abandonner aux entreprises des secteurs aussi vitaux que…
la santé, leau, léducation, la culture ? À lheure des grands accords de commerce internationaux et de la mode des PPP, Claude Vaillancourt nous éclaire sur la privatisation progressive de tout le bien public dans cet essai de vulgarisation. Nos dirigeants nous répètent quà lère de linévitable déréglementation, les services publics seront épargnés. Est-ce vrai? Comment savoir? -- 4e de couv.