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The Little Book of Economics : How the Economy Works in the Real World.
An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life Not surprisingly, regular people suddenly are paying a lot closer attention to the economy than ever before. But economics, with its weird technical jargon and knotty concepts and formulas can...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Wiley,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: The Secrets of Success; A Recipe for Economic Growth; Take a Growing Population; Add Capital; Season with Ideas; Nurturing Growth; Into the Weeds; Will the United States Become the Next Japan?; Chapter Two: Economic Bungee Jumping; Not Your Father's Business Cycle; Ringing the Gong; When the Bungee Cord Breaks; Chapter Three: In-Flight Monitor; The Four Engines of the Economy; The Mapmakers; How to Make Astrologers Look Prescient; Chapter Four: Labor Pains; Say It Ain't So; Diving into the Employment Petri Dish.
- PaydayUnemployment, Naturally; Into the Weeds; The Job Market of Tomorrow; Chapter Five: Fire and Ice; From Cigarettes to Aztecs; Even Worse than Inflation; The People's Choice; Into the Weeds; Chapter Six: Drop the Puck!; A Gravitational Pull from Afar; It's Complicated; A Question of Balances: Trade Deficits and Surpluses; Meet Mr. Smoot and Mr. Hawley; Into the Weeds; Chapter Seven: All the World's an ATM; Financing Deficits and More; The American Dollar: The World's Problem; Into the Weeds; Chapter Eight: The Price of Economic Freedom; What Drives Exchange Rates; Exchange Rate Regimes.
- The EuroInto the Weeds; Chapter Nine: All the President's Men; The Company Presidents Keep; The Long Arms of the Law; Chapter Ten: The Buck Starts Here; Spandex Money; Who's in Charge?; Chapter Eleven: White Smoke over the Washington Mall; Inside the FOMC Meeting; Punch Bowls and Ham Sandwiches; Fedspeak; Into the Weeds, Conventionally; Into the Weeds, Unconventionally; When Monetary Policy Stops Working; Chapter Twelve: When the World Needs a Fireman; A Rude Awakening; Could the Fed Go Broke?; Into the Weeds; Lender to the World; Chapter Thirteen: The Elephant in the Economy.
- What the Government GivethWhat the Government Taketh Away; In Search of a Better Tax System; Into the Weeds; Chapter Fourteen: Good Debt, Bad Debt; Three's a Crowd; Stimulus versus Austerity, the Great Debate; Debt Traps and Debt Crises; Could It Happen Here?; Into the Weeds; The Hidden National Debt; Chapter Fifteen: Love-Hate Relationship; Where Have You Gone, George Bailey?; Capital Markets; The Teenage Boys of Finance; A Species of Neuralgia; Acknowledgments; About the Author.