Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever? Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more. Yet this narrative misses something important: by almost every meaningful measure, the modern world is better...

"After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so spectacularly. In 1990, the G7 Countries enjoyed 70 percent of world GDP. In the face of the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was supposed to be a story of the success of free markets. However, in the...

The first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. The Debt of Dictators is the first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, asserts that transnational...

You may not realize it, but you helped pay for a $10 million, fourteen-month government "investigation" of the housing collapse. Only your $10 million didn't buy much, and it certainly didn't buy truth; any hope of that went out the window on day one. The congressionally appointed panel-made up primarily of anti-market, historic revisionists-managed to shift the blame away from Washington and onto mortgage lenders and "greedy" Wall Street executives,...

"Winner of the Talcott Parsons Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences" Albert O. Hirschman is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of many books, including Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and The Strategy of Economic Development. Robert H. Frank is Godwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is the author of Luxury Fever (Princeton). Why does society oscillate between...

Horst Siebert is President Emeritus of the Kiel Institute for World Economics, Steven Muller Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and Jelle Zijlstra Professorial Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He previously served as a member of the German government's Council of Economic Advisors for twelve years. He is the author of The World Economy, Economics of the Environment, and the author or editor of numerous other...

Bringing under consideration a significant time span, this brief history of economics is an ideal course for acquainting understudies with the field. This course represents how the thoughts of the considerable economics experts affected social orders along with themselves moulded by their social situation. Not does this course only discuss the history of economics but also talks upon the following topics: Introduction to economics Basics of economics Monopolies,...

"Una economía que fue aplicada" es una monografía que pretende explicar a través de una aproximación histórica la situación económica española en la que nos encontramos. Se realiza un repaso sobre las fases por las que ha pasado, desde el final de la Guerra Civil hasta la primera etapa de España como miembro de pleno derecho en la Comunidad Europea. Se divide en cuatro partes, la primera abarca desde el final de la Guerra Civil española...

A vital and varied survey of economic theory in the pre-modern era, this well-chosen collection includes extracts from the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Antonio Serra, David Hume, and twelve other extraordinary thinkers. Their writings in this volume illustrate the ways in which great thinkers of the past sought to argue for and explain the moral, ethical, monetary, and political dimensions of trade and exchange. Translated and annotated by...

Where Art Thou, Dwight Eisenhower? In 2012, it's clear that neither America's political left or right knows or cares the first thing about dealing with the nation's challenges and ills, starting with its sick economy. It's hard to imagine even a small room filled with politicians who know how and are determined to do right by their country and planet Earth. Informed and visionary leaders, I'm guessing, can be far more easily found in universities,...