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The best way to learn economics is through hands-on work, which is exactly what students will get when they purchase the Study Guide, written by Michael Baye. Each chapter presentation includes outlines, key concept reviews, multiple-choice and true/false questions, technical problems, and a complete set of answers to all aforementioned materials.

Author: Michael Baye
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill/Irwin (2009-10-05)
ISBN: 0077245741
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"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes," are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization." John Perkins should know-he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. Once these countries were saddled with huge debts, the American government and international aid agencies were able to request their "pound of flesh" in favors, including access to natural resources, military cooperation, and political support. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the story of one man's experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world.

Author: John Perkins
Paperback: 303 pages ISBN13: 9780452287082, Condition: NEW, Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark., Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices
Company: Plume (2005-12-27)
ISBN: 0452287081
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If you think economics is a complicated discipline that’s reserved for theorists and the intellectual elite and has nothing to do with you, think again. Economics impacts every aspect of our lives, from what we eat, to how we dress, to where we live. Economics might be complicated, but it has everything to do with you.

Economics For Dummies helps you see how your personal financial picture is influenced by the larger economic picture. When you understand how what happens on Wall Street affects Main Street and how policies emanating from the White House impact the finances in your house, you’ll be able to: Learn how government economic decisions affect you and your family Make better spending decisions and improve your personal finances Maximize your business profits Make wiser investments

Written by Sean M. Flynn, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at Vassar College, Economics For Dummies covers all the basics of micro- and macroeconomic theory. The next time you need to understand an economic theory or calculation, whether it’s on the nightly news or on a spreadsheet at work, you’ll no longer be in the dark. Economics For Dummies covers all the history, principles, major theories, and terminology, including: How economics affect governments, international relations, business, and even environmental issues like global warming and endangered species How the government fights recessions and unemployment using monetary and fiscal policy How and why international trade is good for you even if you don’t appreciate French champagne, Irish crystal, or Swiss watches How the law of supply and demand can explain the prices of everything from comic books to open heart surgeries How the Federal Reserve controls the money supply, interest rates, and inflation Basic theories such as Keynesian economics, the Laffer Curve, and Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand

Presenting complex theories in simple terms and helping you decode the jargon, understand the equations, and debunk the common misconceptions, Economics For Dummies could be a big boon to your personal economy!

Author: Sean Flynn
Paperback: 384 pages ISBN13: 9780764557262, Condition: USED - GOOD, Notes:
Company: For Dummies (2005-04-08)
ISBN: 0764557262
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The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize–winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the Great Depression—and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression have made a comeback. He lays bare the 2008 financial crisis—the greatest since the 1930s—tracing it to the failure of regulation to keep pace with an out-of-control financial system. He also tells us how to contain the crisis and turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession. Brilliantly crafted in Krugman’s trademark style—lucid, lively, and supremely informed—this new edition of The Return of Depression Economics has become an instant classic. A hard-hitting new foreword takes the paperback edition right up to the present moment. .

Author: Paul Krugman
Paperback: 224 pages ISBN13: 9780393337808, Condition: NEW, Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Company: W. W. Norton & Company (2009-09-08)
ISBN: 0393337804
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A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.

Author: Henry Hazlitt
Paperback: 218 pages ISBN13: 9780517548233, Condition: NEW, Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Company: Three Rivers Press (1988-12-14) (1988-12-14)
ISBN: 0517548232
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