Bailout Books
Sick of hearing about earmarks? Wondering how lobbyist are involved in sub-prime mortgage bubbles? Harbor a secret hatred for bar graphs? Fear not, we at the University of Michigan Press have a couple of bankable books on our shelves to help navigate Wall Street's "perfect storm," worth their weight in U. S. Treasury gold!
GENERAL
Check out Economics for Everyone . Jim Stanford's book is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wage labor are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. He offers both a realistic assessment of capitalism's strengths, and a robust critique of its many failures.
Additional Recommendations:
- The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
- Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, The Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage
- In Defensive of Monopoly: How Market Power Fosters Creative Production
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
If you wish to gain insight on foreign economic policies, International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent Times is where to look. The book analyzes financial crises in recent history and draws attention to the type of lenders and investors that triggered and deepened the crises. It provides detailed analysis of the countries most affected by the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis as well as the Czech Republic and Brazil. It also suggests necessary international financial reforms to make crises less likely in the future.
Additional International Economy Books:
- Banking on Reform
- Capitalism, Not Globalism
- Monetary Divergence
- Politics, Markets, and Grand Strategy
BUSINESS ETHICS
Integrity and Agreement discusses economics when principles and morals matter. Minkler explores the implications of integrity for contracts between buyers and sellers and understandings between employers and employees. He also finds a role for integrity in an individual's religious vows, an elected official's accountability to constituents, and, in what promises to be a huge issue in the very near future, the global community's obligation to human rights.
Additional Business Ethics Books:
- The Street Porter and the Philosopher
- Eat What You Kill
- A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change
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