Download or read book Economic Parables and Policies written by Laurence S. Seidman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes sections on combating recessions and the free market, as well as updated material on the pros and cons of establishing new individual accounts under Social Security. It also includes a discussion of the tax-credit approach to encourage the purchase of health insurance.
Download or read book Economic Parables Policies written by Laurence S. Seidman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Economic Parables and Policies: Saving for America's Economic Future, Second Edition, Laurence Seidman addresses important economic issues that will occupy center stage into the next century. Writing in an entertaining and conversational style, the author includes both microeconomic and macroeconomic topics, using parables to present economic lessons. Each chapter advocates a specific economic policy to illustrate the particular issue under discussion and to provide an opportunity for debate and reaction. Topics covered include taxation, social security, international trade, the environment, health care, education, investment, and other vital issues.
Download or read book The Economics of the Parables written by Robert Sirico and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless and moral economic wisdom for life's choices and changes derived from the parables of the New Testament by famed free market advocate and Catholic priest Robert Sirico. Libraries are filled with books on the parables of Christ, and rightly so. In the words of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, “While civilizations have come and gone, these stories continue to teach us anew with their freshness and their humanity.” Two millennia later, the New Testament parables remain ubiquitous, and yet, few have stopped to glean from one of Christ’s most prevalent analogies: money. In The Economics of the Parables, Rev. Robert Sirico pulls back the veil of modernity to reveal the timeless economic wisdom of the parables. Thirteen central stories—including “The Laborers in the Vineyard,” “The Rich Fool,” “The Five Talents,” and “The Faithful Steward”—serve as his guide, revealing practical lessons in caring for the poor, stewarding wealth, distributing inheritances, navigating income disparities, and resolving family tensions. As contemporary as any business manual and sure to outlast them, The Economics of the Parables equips any economically informed reader to uncover the enduring financial truths of the parables in a reasonable, sensible, and life-empowering manner.
Download or read book Economic Parables written by David Cowan and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered how to pay the next bill? Felt the world is unfair in economic rewards? Been indecisive about investing wisely? These types of fiscal questions are addressed from a Christian viewpoint in Economic Parables. Using his vast experience in the financial world as well as church ministry, the author invites you to listen directly to the words of Jesus and reflect on a number of economic parables to understand life in an increasingly globalized economy. Some of the answers you find will be surprising, in part because Jesus was a more sophisticated economist than he is given credit for. His words will shed light on many modern economic problems and decisions we may not think to go to the Bible about. By taking this journey through the economic parables, your response to finances and the global marketplace will be enriched from a balanced biblical approach. Each chapter contains a parable and reflection, followed by a question making this book ideal for group or personal Bible study.
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Download or read book Economic Development Parables written by Winai Wongsurawat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts. He selects defining moments in Thailand’s history to convey key economic ideas worthy of classroom discussion. Written without excessive jargon, the chapters connect complex historical phenomena with broader, transportable economic concepts. The cases range from the signing of the Bowring Treaty in 1855, opening Siam to the forces of globalization, to the Asian Financial Crisis that wreaked havoc on the economy in 1997. Key economic terms are also explained. Reconnecting the increasingly distant fields of history and economics, this is an appealing text to researchers with an interest in Thailand’s economic history, as well as undergraduates undergoing an introductory economics course or overseas program in Thailand.
Download or read book Defending the Free Market written by Robert Sirico and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, the economic system of the Soviet empire—socialism—seemed definitively discredited. Today, the most popular figures in the Democratic Party embrace it, while the shapers of public opinion treat capitalism as morally indefensible. Is there a moral case for capitalism? Consumerism is an appalling spectacle. Free markets may be efficient, but are they fair? Aren’t there some things that we can’t afford to leave to the vicissitudes of the market? Robert Sirico, a onetime leftist, shows how a free economy—including private property, legally enforceable contracts, and prices and interest rates freely agreed to by the parties to a transaction—is the best way to meet society’s material needs. In fact, the free market has lifted millions out of dire poverty—far more people than state welfare or private charity has ever rescued from want. But efficiency isn’t its only virtue. Economic freedom is indispensable for the other freedoms we prize. And it’s not true that it makes things more important than people—just the reverse. Only if we have economic rights can we protect ourselves from government encroachment into the most private areas of our lives—including our consciences. Defending the Free Market is a powerful vindication of capitalism and a timely warning for a generation flirting with disaster.
Download or read book Discovering Prices written by Paul Milgrom and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional economic theory studies idealized markets in which prices alone can guide efficient allocation, with no need for central organization. Such models build from Adam Smith’s famous concept of an invisible hand, which guides markets and renders regulation or interference largely unnecessary. Yet for many markets, prices alone are not enough to guide feasible and efficient outcomes, and regulation alone is not enough, either. Consider air traffic control at major airports. While prices could encourage airlines to take off and land at less congested times, prices alone do just part of the job; an air traffic control system is still indispensable to avoid disastrous consequences. With just an air traffic controller, however, limited resources can be wasted or poorly used. What’s needed in this and many other real-world cases is an auction system that can effectively reveal prices while still maintaining enough direct control to ensure that complex constraints are satisfied. In Discovering Prices, Paul Milgrom—the world’s most frequently cited academic expert on auction design—describes how auctions can be used to discover prices and guide efficient resource allocations, even when resources are diverse, constraints are critical, and market-clearing prices may not even exist. Economists have long understood that externalities and market power both necessitate market organization. In this book, Milgrom introduces complex constraints as another reason for market design. Both lively and technical, Milgrom roots his new theories in real-world examples (including the ambitious U.S. incentive auction of radio frequencies, whose design he led) and provides economists with crucial new tools for dealing with the world’s growing complex resource-allocation problems.
Download or read book Economic Parables Policies written by Laurence S. Seidman and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- I. Introduction to Economics -- 1. An Economist's Genesis -- II. Microeconomics -- 2. Markets: Demand and Supply -- 3. Environmental Pollution -- 4. International Trade -- III. Macroeconomics -- 5. Recession -- 6. Inflation -- 7. Growth -- 8. Growth Through Tax Reform -- IV. Policy Issues -- 9. The Social Contract -- 10. Social Security -- 11. Health Insurance -- 12. Education -- 13. Poverty -- Index -- About the Author.
Download or read book The Price of Everything written by Russell Roberts and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanford University student Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby megastore hikes its prices the night after an earthquake. But he crosses paths with provost and economics professor Ruth Lieber when he plans a campus protest against the price-gouging retailer - which also happens to be a major university donor.
Download or read book Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy written by Dean Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent economists analyze the impact of the emerging global economy on national sovereignty and standards of living.
Download or read book The Irreconcilable Inconsistencies of Neoclassical Macroeconomics written by John Weeks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of this book it is argued that the loss of what is essentially "macro" in Keynes is the result of a preference for a form of equilibrium analysis that gives unqualified support to the ideology of free markets. In the case of Marx, his theory of exploitation and from this the stress on class struggle, led to an almost complete neglect of his contribution to the analysis of the aggregate demand and supply of commodities.
Download or read book Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy written by K. Vela Velupillai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond Malinvaud.
Download or read book A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980 written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common - the movement since the 1950s known variously as 'cliometrics', 'economic history', or 'historical economics'. A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, a highly comprehensive bibliography of historical economics covering the period up until 1980. The book will be useful to all economic historians, as well as quantitative historians, applied economists, historical demographers, business historians, national income accountants, and social historians.
Download or read book Parable of The Broken Window written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Parable of The Broken Window The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen" to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Parable of the broken window Chapter 2: Balance of trade Chapter 3: Frédéric Bastiat Chapter 4: Gross domestic product Chapter 5: Macroeconomics Chapter 6: Economic growth Chapter 7: Protectionism Chapter 8: Uneconomic growth Chapter 9: Henry Hazlitt Chapter 10: Deficit spending Chapter 11: Aggregate demand Chapter 12: Tax cut Chapter 13: Economics in One Lesson Chapter 14: The Failure of the New Economics Chapter 15: Lump of labour fallacy Chapter 16: Genuine progress indicator Chapter 17: Steady-state economy Chapter 18: The Law (Bastiat book) Chapter 19: Treasury view Chapter 20: Market monetarism Chapter 21: Treadmill of destruction (II) Answering the public top questions about parable of the broken window. (III) Real world examples for the usage of parable of the broken window in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Parable of The Broken Window.
Download or read book Ideas in the History of Economic Development written by Estrella Trincado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the obstacles that have prevented the sustained economic growth of these countries and examines the origins of national and regional approaches to development. The chapters present a fascinating insight into the ideas and visions in the different locations, with the overarching categories of economic nationalism and economic liberalism and how they have influenced development outcomes. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of development economics, the history of economic thought and economic history.
Download or read book Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Global Diffusion Economics and Policy written by Ekekwe, Ndubuisi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book assesses the state of nanotechnology and microelectronics, and examines many issues, such as climate change, trade, innovation, diffusion, etc, with a theme focused on facilitating the structures for the adoption and penetration of the technologies into developing nations"--Provided by publisher.
