Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Free Enterprise & Capitalism

Pour comprendre pourquoi l'economie allemande a particulierement reussi son insertion dans la premiere mondialisation, cet ouvrage examine les conditions pratiques de ce processus. Il prend en compte l'extreme diversite des milieux economiques, depuis les grandes firmes comme Bayer jusqu'aux petites entreprises tentees par l'aventure de l'exportation, en passant par les universitaires, les publicistes et les fonctionnaires de l'administration du Reich. A partir du cas americain,...

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture. Yet there is a growing body of research from a range of disciplines that suggests that consumer capitalism may be past its sell-by date.

Beyond Consumer Capitalism begins by showing how, for people in the developed world, consumer capitalism has become economically and environmentally unsustainable and is no longer able to deliver its abiding promise of enhancing quality of life . This cutting-edge book then asks why we devote so little time and effort to imagining other forms of human progress. The...

Consulting rich archival sources, including some that have...

From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we improve them?"

Taking us on a lively tour of a world we once took for granted, John McMillan offers examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market in the Netherlands to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Eschewing ideology, he shows us that markets are...

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written in the twentieth Century. Schumpeter's contention that the seeds of capitalism's decline were internal, and his equal and opposite hostility to centralist socialism have perplexed, engaged and infuriated readers since the book's first publication in 1943. By refusing to become an advocate for either position, Schumpeter was able both to make his own great and original contribution and to clear the way for a more balanced consideration of the most important social movements of his and our...