Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Impo
This essential primer on finance and economics provides readers with a practical understanding of our economy and the ability to identify, understand, and advocate for constructive solutions to the problems we face.
Global Poverty, Conflict, and Security in the 21st Century
Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict. Just as poverty begets insecurity, however, the reverse is also true.
How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad
Was inflation's recent spike exacerbated by corporate greed? Do rent controls really help the needy? Are U.S. health care prices set in a wild west marketplace? Do women get paid less than men for the same work, and pay more than men for the same products? The War on Prices is an eye-opening book that peels back the curtain on all these burning ......
How the Search for a Good Life Can Change the World
Homi Kharas looks at how the powerful dream of middle class life captivated generations, from Victorian England to present day India, but its demands have led younger generations to ask if it is all worth it. Can the middle class continue to thrive, or will it falter under the stresses of automation, consumerism, pollution, and political strife?
This book proposes a "representational" theory of capital according to which there is a relation between capital goods in the real side of the economy and instruments representative of property claims on those goods in the abstract side. Financial instruments are treated herein as a particularly liquid form of property claim. The relation proposed ......
This book surveys the history of the idea of capital and offers a tool to its understanding. It uses philosophy, social ontology, legal theory, and economic reasoning, particularly macroeconomic concepts from financial theory, to create an integrated concept of capital. Such concept is then applied to wealth creation and individuals' wellbeing.
Responding to the critical need of policymakers, and practitioners for current research on Indonesia, this text focuses on four areas: the economy; religion and ethnicitiy; civil society; and the military. A concluding chapter covers the International Monetary Fund and US policy towards Indonesia.
The New Health Economy offers leaders a 360-degree look at health care politics, policy, providers, and personalization. Drawing from interviews with industry leaders, this guide brings together the best thinking from across the sector, setting ground rules to shape US health care after COVID-19.
The New Health Economy offers leaders a 360-degree look at health care politics, policy, providers, and personalization. Drawing from interviews with industry leaders, this guide brings together the best thinking from across the sector, setting ground rules to shape US health care after COVID-19.
