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-- Twenty-first century economy.c2009., Vintage Books Call No: 330.9 E64t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: With recent economic turmoil monopolizing the headlines, it has become more important than ever to understand fundamental economic terms and concepts.
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2008., Penguin Press Call No: 330.09 F353a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. Through Ferguson's expert lens, for example, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world's first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. Yet the central lesson of financial history is that, sooner or later, every bubble bursts.--From publisher description.
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2011., General, W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 330.9 L675b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2006., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: 332.11 G815h Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2016., Adult, [Drawn & Quarterly] Call No: GN Fic Oli Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in the mid-twentieth century, just before the end of the period when most goods were still produced domestically, The Envelope Manufacturer chronicles the gradual demise of a small company as it struggles to adapt to a changing economic landscape.
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c2014., Adult, W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 332.62 L675f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Flash Boys -- small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading -- source of the most intractable problems -- will have no advantage whatsoever. Several of the Flash Boys have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the world's stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. The Flash Boys have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it"--Provided by publisher.
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By Conway, Russc1995., Macfarlane Walter & Ross Call No: 796.962 C767g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c1986., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 338.761 Y68i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2012., Adult, Crown Forum Call No: 322.43 H816n Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Thoroughly researched and amply documented, "The New Leviathan "over-turns the conventional wisdom about which end of the political spectrum represents the rich and powerful, and which represents the people. The Democratic Party presents itself to the electorate as the party of working families and the poor. In the 2000 election campaign, Democrat Al Gore ran on the slogan "The People vs. the Powerful," while President Obama describes him-self as a "grassroots organizer" and a spokesman for "fairness" and "progressive change." Such is the world of political myth. In reality, the Democrats and the Obama progressives represent the richest and most powerful political machine in American history. Backed by a near trillion-dollar treasury in America's oldest and largest tax-exempt foundations, progressives outspend conservatives by a factor of seven to one. In "The New Leviathan," David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin examine this growing financial power of left-wing organizations and politicians. They show how left-wing foundations under-wrote the political career of Barack Obama and how massive funding advantages for progressive proposals have disenfranchised American voters and shifted the national policy debate dramatically to the left. "The New Leviathan "draws connections between the Obama administration and progres-sive organizations from labor unions to media outlets to nonprofits to political groups, and shows how on key policy fronts--national security, immigration, citizenship, environment, and health care--the sheer force of left-wing financial resources has reconfigured the nation's political agenda.
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[2006], Key Porter Books Call No: 338.762 B695h Edition: 1st paperback ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2009., A.A. Knopf Canada Call No: MYS Fic Pea Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
