Are ever-increasing incomes for the already-rich still a legitimate goal for advanced nations? Or should we be aiming for prosperity without growth? This book explains that society faces a profound dilemma: economic growth is unsustainable; but economic contraction is unstable. It examines the economic structure and social logic of consumerism.

From hedge funds to arbitrage to Roth IRAs to globalization, capitalism and all that it entails is often complicated, jargon-prone, and intimidating. This title offers a compendium of capitalism's many aspects - from the mechanisms and institutions that uphold it to the terms and laws that define it.

Covers tighter regulation of banks, reform of corporate boardrooms and changes affecting institutional investors.

The collapse of the banking system and instability in the financial markets has dramatically shaken confidence in the global economic order. This work argues that the crisis has arisen as a result of fundamental economic problems, stemming from the growing redundancy of both labour and capital since the 1970s.

What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? This book begins by addressing basic issues such as 'what is capital?' and discusses the history and development of capitalism through three case studies. It also looks at issues such as globalization and the ecological crises.

A Guide to Marxist Political Economy.

Includes coverage of the USA, with case studies examining the role of huge American corporations such as Wal-Mart and General Electric. This title looks at China and the global impact this economic giant may have in the 21st century.

Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilisation deserve to survive? These are the unnerving questions raised by the Great Crash of 2009. In this book, the author insists that global society has only begun to realise its full potential.

Dr Uvalic demonstrates the similarities of the Yugoslav economy to other socialist systems.

Challenging standard economic models, this book shows how farmers tend to use cognitive shortcuts and how professional pride frequently trumps profit considerations when farmers make decisions about fertilizers and other types of decisions. It contains a comprehensive and comparative review of rational and bounded rationality models of behaviour.

In the 20th century, privatization and market capitalism have reconstructed Eastern Europe and lifted 800 million people - in China, Brazil, and India - out of poverty. This book reveals that behind this unprecedented growth is not only the collapse of state socialism but also a scientific revolution in economics.

Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought.

Ron Paul - the Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author - returns with another provocative and controversial treatise that argues we cannot actually fix the broken economy without discussing the 800-lb gorilla in the room: the Federal Reserve.

Ron Paul - the Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author - returns with another provocative and controversial treatise

Presents an explanation of the principles of economics in Islam within the context of economic institutions.

Unravels the truth about markets, from Wall Street to Switzerland, from Russia to Mumbai, examining why some nations are rich and some poor, why 'one-size-fits-all' globalization hurts developing countries and why markets can work - but only in a humane social and cultural context. This title offers a radical blueprint for the future.

A study of Britain as a capitalism poised between American and European models, exploring themes of legitimation, denial and opportunism via a series of substantial case studies framed by a reinterpretation of Thatcherism's economic contexts and a critical assessment of New Labour.

US capitalism has long been ranked first among nations in production, jobs, wealth, power, and individual freedom. Is this level of pre-eminence likely to continue? This title presents an assessment of our fiscal maladies that explains why the author predicts capitalism is rushing to its demise.

Presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. This book discusses each thinker's key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas.

Demystifies the world of markets, competition, monopolies and cartels, prices and overspills. Using examples from our everyday lives, this book explains how the markets we have, and the many more we need, can work to create a richer, freer and more peaceful world.