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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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-- 24 hours in the global economy.2007., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 337 A468c Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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1998., Viking Call No: 336.71 M173c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the past four years, the Chretien government has slashed our cherished social programs more deeply than Brian Mulroney's Tories ever dared. We were told that Canada's deficit problems left no alternative; international financial markets would cut us off if we didn't start slashing. We did as we were told, and the deficit has all but disappeared. Yet now that we've reached this deficit-free nirvana -- the point at where we were told the world would once again be our oyster -- there are certain things we apparently still can't have, such as jobs and social programs.The popular belief is that we can't have these things because of factors beyond our control --because globalization and technology have left us powerless to acheive them. But in this provocative book, Linda McQuaig argues that we are not really powerless. She shows that the international community in fact has the tools to regulate the world financial system in a way that would harness its enormous energy to our collective advantage. This was done before -- for three prosperous decades after the Second World War -- and can be done again. If anything, advances in computer technology would actually make the regulation of capital easier now.This book challenges one of the most widely held beliefs of our time. And it shows how, if we stopped buying into the cult of impotence, we could create a new order that would put the rights of people before the rights of capital.
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c2013., Adult, Random House of Canada Limited Call No: Fic Rei Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When his father, a chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a brazen attack on the White House lawn, Bobby Astor, a rising hedge fund manager, untangles a web of lies to reveal a sophisticated plot against the U.S. financial system.
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2023., 07:09:47, Cordoc-Co LLC Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Series Title: Martin Hench, Volume: 01Summary Note: New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. Martin is a—contain your excitement—self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He's as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he's a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. He's not famous, except to the people who matter. He's made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he's been paid pretty well. It's been a good life. Now he's been roped into a job that's more dangerous than anything he's ever agreed to before—and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.
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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.
