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  • Environmental Finance and Investments

    by Marc Chesney, Jonathan Gheyssens, Luca Taschini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The current economic and environmental situation poses fundamental questions that this book aims to answer: Under which conditions could a market-based approach contribute to a decrease in emissions? How are abatement and investment strategies generated or promoted under permit regimes like the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)? In the context of the EU ETS, what is the trade-off ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Environmental Finance and Investments

    by Marc Chesney, Jonathan Gheyssens, Anca Claudia Pana, Luca Taschini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment strategies that the Kyoto Protocol and the emerging carbon pricing schemes around the world should ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • A Permanent Crisis

    The Financial Oligarchy’s Seizing of Power and the Failure of Democracy

    by Marc Chesney ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy’s seizing of power and the dangers it represents for democracy today. There have been many books since the financial crisis that have considered historical events leading up to the crisis but few that consider a solution. Ten years after the great financial crash, this book ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Mark Blyth ...
    Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The End of Alchemy

    Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

    by Mervyn King ...
    “If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world.” —Michael Lewis, Bloomberg ViewSomething is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his ten years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Meltdown

    The Classic Free-Market Analysis of the 2008 Financial Crisis

    by Thomas E. Woods Jr. ...
    With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists

    How Open Financial Markets Challenge the Establishment and Spread Prosperity to Rich and Poor Alike

    by Raghuram Rajan, Luigi Zingales ...
    Capitalism’s biggest problem is the executive in pinstripes who extols the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists is a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of the capitalist system, particularly the role of financial markets. They are the catalyst for inspiring human ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Taxation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Taxation is crucial to the functioning of the modern state. Tax revenues pay for public services - roads, the courts, defence, welfare assistance to the poor and elderly, and in many countries much of health care and education too. More than one third of national income in the industrialized (OECD) countries is on average taken in taxation. Taxes affect individuals in many ways. Taxes paid on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How Markets Fail

    The Logic of Economic Calamities

    by John Cassidy ...
    Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work—how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society's resources. But what about when markets don't work? What about when they lead to stock ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Economists and the Powerful

    Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards

    by Norbert Häring, Niall Douglas ...
    “Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on an array of empirical and theoretical studies by a series of distinguished economists, this book reveals a stark and unpleasant truth: that the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greece's 'Odious' Debt

    The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community

    by Jason Manolopoulos ...
    Series series Anthem Finance
    For more information please visit the book website:http://greecesodiousdebt.anthempressblog.com/Jason Manolopoulos combines his experience of the global financial system, European politics and Greek society to demonstrate how one of the EU’s smaller countries played a catalytic role in a crisis that threatens the future of the euro, and possibly even of the European Union itself.</... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Energy Policies in the European Union

    Germany’s Ecological Tax Reform

    by P.J.J. Welfens, B. Meyer, W. Pfaffenberger, A. Jungmittag, P. Jasinski ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global warming is a serious threat to the stability of world climate and to economic prosperity in some regions. The book offers a theoretical analysis which focuses on double dividend issues. Moreover, the ecological tax reform in Germany and the options of modern energy policy are described and evaluated. The volume presents innovative model simulations and analyzes, in the context of the model, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD