Asian ways of thinking and advice and guidance on doing business in China, espousing a common sense approach and the benefits of Confucian philosophy in international finance and corporate governance. Analysis of Chinas role in the world economy and how to take advantage of emerging economies.
This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts? The authors examine orthodox theories of growth grounded in different schools of economics (classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, neoliberal) before considering critical alternatives (Marxist, ......
Argues that understanding America's role in the development of global civil society will help achieve cultural and spiritual freedom, political equality and economic cooperation in the world.
"Originally published as Kritik der politischen 'Okonomie: Eine Einf'uhrung by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, c2004, by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH."
Rick Kuhn's Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism is the definitive study of the life and work of this renowned economist, activist, and intellectual. As a young man, Grossman joined the socialist movement and participated in Jewish workers' strikes and demonstrations, as well as in boycotts against employers and the Austro-Hungarian state. ......
In this insightful book, John Bloom, author of The Genius of Money, explores approaches toward transforming the conventional habits of mind and practice that have led to today's imbalance in our economic life and in society as a whole. Acknowledging that money has permeated almost every aspect of daily life--including our relationships to ......
The IMF and the Economic Transition in Russia and Other Former Soviet Co
The book is a personal account of the changes in the economies, politics and societies of former Soviet Union countries, and the role of the IMF in helping them make the transition from planned to market economies. From 1992 to 2003, the author was in charge of the IMF's work on the fifteen countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union.
Workers in distant nations who produce the products we buy frequently suffer from accidents, managerial malfeasance, and injustice. Are consumers who bought the products made by these workers in any way morally responsible for those injustices? And what about the far more frequent, less severe injustices, such as the withholding of wages, the ......
In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx's theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical economists, once pondered: how can every commodity, including labor power, sell at its value on the market and still produce a profit for owners of ......