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Taylor & Francis Refashioning Nature
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Taylor & Francis Who Pays for the Kids Gender and the Structures of Constraint Economics as Social Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dynamics of Cities Ecological Determinism Dualism and Chaos
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Agricultural Geography
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Taylor & Francis Britains Cities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Southeast Asia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geographies of Commodity Chains Routledge Studies in Human Geography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indias Ocean The Story of Indias Bid for Regional Leadership 26 Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
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Taylor & Francis Regional Economic Integration in South Asia
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Taylor & Francis The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region
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Taylor & Francis Retailing in Emerging Markets
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Taylor & Francis The Dynamics of Cities Ecological Determinism Dualism and Chaos
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Taylor & Francis Southeast Asia Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Southeast Asia Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Airports Cities and Regions
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Taylor & Francis The Social Dynamics of Innovation Networks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Region in Transition
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Taylor & Francis A Critique of the Gold Standard 5 Routledge Library Editions The Gold Standard
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Taylor & Francis A Critique of the Gold Standard Routledge Library Editions The Gold Standard
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Taylor & Francis Gold Credit and Employment Four Essays for Laymen 3 Routledge Library Editions The Gold Standard
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Taylor & Francis Gold Credit and Employment Four Essays for Laymen 3 Routledge Library Editions The Gold Standard
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Economics and Finance of Commodity Price
Book SynopsisThe behaviour of commodity prices never ceases to marvel economists, financial analysts, industry experts, and policymakers. Unexpected swings in commodity prices used to occur infrequently but have now become a permanent feature of global commodity markets. This book is about modelling commodity price shocks. It is intended to provide insights into the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical modelling of the underlying causes of global commodity price shocks. Three main objectives motivated the writing of this book. First, to provide a variety of modelling frameworks for documenting the frequency and intensity of commodity price shocks. Second, to evaluate existing approaches used for forecasting large movements in future commodity prices. Third, to cover a wide range and aspects of global commodities including currencies, rarehardlustrous transition metals, agricultural commodities, energy, and health pandemics. Some attempts have already been made towards modelling commoditTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. History and Theories of Commodity Price Shocks 3. Modelling Commodity Price Shocks 4. Commodity Price Shocks Identification 5. Effects of Commodity Price Shocks 6. Applications 7. Commodity Price Forecasting 8. Risks Associated with Commodity Price Forecasts 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Policy and the Impact of COVID19 in Europe
Book SynopsisThis book analyses Europe's COVID-19 response provided by governments and societies, to assess its influence on the economy from both a short- and long-term perspective. The authors argue that there are three key factors that determine how successful a given country is. The first is the determination and effectiveness of the government. The second is the capacity of states and their healthcare systems in times of crisis. The third is society's willingness to adhere to emergency measures and to cooperate with authorities. The book examines the government policy of EU states during the pandemic; studies the behaviour of EU societies; reveals the influence of the pandemic crisis on the economy of EU states and formulates a successful strategy to counteract the challenges wrought by the pandemic. The book will appeal to scholars and researchers engaged in the fields of economic and political science, global studies and international relations. Furthermore, itTable of Contents1. Policy response to coronavirus in European Member States 2. European societies and their behaviour towards coronavirus 3. Can the European economy survive the coronavirus crisis?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia
Book SynopsisFew countries as culturally rich, politically pivotal, and naturally beautiful as Indonesia are as often misrepresented in global media and conversation. Stretching 3,400 miles east to west along the equator, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and home to more than four hundred ethnic groups and several major world religions. This sprawling Southeast Asian nation is also the world's most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy. Although in recent years the country has experienced serious challenges with regard to religious harmony, its trillion-dollar economy is booming and its press and public sphere are among the most vibrant in Asia. A land of cultural contrasts, contests, and contradictions, this ever-evolving country is today rising to even greater global prominence, even as it redefines the terms of its national, religious, and civic identity.The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia offers an overvieTable of ContentsPart I: Legacies and Junctures 1. Introduction. Indonesia at the Crossroads: Imbroglios of Religion, State, and Society in an Asian Muslim Nation, Robert W. Hefner 2. Gender Legacies and Modern Transitions, Barbara Watson Andaya 3. Ethnic Groups and the Indonesian Nation-State: With special reference to ethnic Chinese Ethnic Diversity and Legacies, Leo Suryadinata 4. Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Simon Butt 5. The Making of a National Educational System, Christopher Bjork and Raihani Part II: Democratic Politics and Plurality 6. Problems of Democratization: An Overview, Edward Aspinall 7. Parties and Party Politics in the Post-Reformasi Era, Dirk Tomsa 8. The Ephemeral Nature of Local Political Monopolies, Michael Buehler 9. Ethnic, Religious, and Regional Conflict, Chris Wilson 10. Historical Justice and the Case of the 1965 Killings, Katharine McGregor 11. The Indonesian Armed Forces, Coalitional Presidentialism and Democratization: From Praetorian Guard to Imagined Balance of Power, Marcus Mietzner 12. Everyday Citizenship in Democratizing Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken and Ward Berenschot Part II: Markets and Economic Cultures 13. New Muslim Cultures of Capitalist Enterprise, Gwenaël Njoto-Feillard 14. Chinese Indonesians: Businesses, Ethnicity, and Religion, Juliette Koning 15. Consumption and the New Middle Classes, Carla Jones 16. Reinventing "Wonderful Indonesia": Tourism, Economy, and Society, Kathleen M. Adams Part IV: Muslims and Religious Plurality 17. The Religious Field: Plural Legacies and Contemporary Contestations, Robert W. Hefner 18. Islamization, Law, and the Indonesian Courts: The More Things Change....., Tim Lindsey 19. The Special Status of Islamic Aceh, Arskal Salim 20. Salafism in Indonesia: Transnational Islam, Violent Activism, and Cultural Resistance, Noorhaidi Hasan 21. Christians in Indonesia, Jan S. Aritonang 22. Hinduism and Buddhism in an Islamizing Indonesia, Martin Ramstedt 23. The Politics and Law of Religious Governance, Zainal Abidin Bagir 24. Islamic Populism in Indonesia: Emergence and Limitations, Vedi R. Hadiz Part V: Gender and Sexuality 25. Gender culture and politics in post New Order Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson 26. Gender and Sexual Plurality in Indonesia: Past and Present, Sharyn Graham Davies 27. Courtship and Marriage in Indonesia’s New Muslim Middle Class, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner 28. Women’s Responses to the Implementation of Islamic Law in Aceh, Dina Afrianty Part VI: Indonesia in a Age of Multiple Globalizations 29. Popular Culture and Identity Politics, Ariel Heryanto 30. Nation, Islam, and Gender in Dangdut, Indonesia’s Most Popular Music, Andrew N. Weintraub 31. Language Diversity and Language Change, Zane Goebel 32. A "Tolerant" Indonesia? Indonesian Muslims in Comparative Perspective, Jeremy Menchik and Katrina Trost 33. Public Diplomacy and the Global Dissemination of "Moderate Islam," James Bourk Hoesterey
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Cambridge University Press Agricultural Systems of the World An Evolutionary Approach 5 Cambridge Geographical Studies Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Economics of Cities
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Cambridge University Press The Gravity Model in International Trade
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Cambridge University Press Urban Economic Theory
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Cambridge University Press Urban Economic Theory
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Cambridge University Press Economics of Cities
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Geography of Innovation
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Cambridge University Press The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Geography of Innovation
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Cambridge University Press State Platform Capitalism
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Yale University Press The Corporation in the TwentyFirst Century
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The 21st Century EconomyA Beginners Guide
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, accessible guide to understanding today's global economy, from the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy. While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream media alike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumer may find baffling. In his latest book, Randy Charles Epping uses compelling narratives and insightful analogies to clearly and concisely explain the rapidly changing way business is done in the twenty-first century, without a single chart or graph. Epping defines key ideas and commonly used words and phrases like carbon footprint, WTO, economy of scale, NAFTA, and outsourcing. He also illustrates how central banks help navigate global crises and drive the global economy, discusses the benefits of Green Economics, shows how trade wars can be avoided, and explains the virtual economy, where multimillion dollar transactions take place in the blink of an eye. Complete with 89
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W. W. Norton & Company Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy
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Random House USA Inc Futureproof
Book SynopsisA practical, deeply reported survival guide for the age of AI, written by the New York Times tech columnist who has introduced millions to the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. “Artificial intelligence can be terrifying, but Kevin Roose provides a clear, compelling strategy for surviving the next wave of technology with our jobs—and souls—intact.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of HabitIt’s time to get real about AI. After decades of hype and sci-fi fantasies, AI—artificial intelligence—is leaping out of research labs and into the center of our lives. Millions of people now use tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to write essays, create art and finish coding projects. AI programs are already beating humans in fields like law, medicine and entertainment, and they’re getting better every day. But AI doesn’t just threaten our jobs. It shapes our entire human experience, steering our behavior and influencing our choices about which TV shows to watch, which clothes to buy, and which politicians to vote for. And while many experts argue about whether a robot apocalypse is near, one critical question has gone unanswered: In a world where AI is ascendant, how can humans survive and thrive? In Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose shares the secrets of people and organizations that have successfully navigated waves of technological change, and explains what skills are necessary to stay ahead of the curve today, with lessons like • Be surprising, social, and scarce• Resist machine drift• Leave handprints• Demote your devices• Treat AI like a chimp army Roose rejects the conventional wisdom that in order to compete with AI, we have to become more like robots ourselves—hyper-efficient, data-driven workhorses. Instead, he says, we should focus on being more human, and doing the kinds of creative, inspiring, and meaningful things even the most advanced algorithms can’t do.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Big Fail
Book SynopsisFrom the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism?and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemicIn 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans suffered?and over a million died?in less than two years, while government officials blundered; prize-winning economists overlooked devastating trade-offs; and elites escaped to isolated retreats, unaffected by and even profiting from the pandemic.Why and how did America, in a catastrophically enormous failure, become the world leader in COVID deaths? In this page-turning economic, political, and financial history, veteran journalists Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera offer fresh and provocative answers. With laser-sharp analysis and deep sourcing, they investigate both what really happened when governments ran out of PPE due to snarled supply chains and the shock to the financial system when the world''s biggest economy stumbled. They zero in on the effectiveness of wildly polarized approaches, from governor Andrew Cuomo''s lockdowns to governor Ron DeSantis''s insistence on keeping Florida open under the guidance of scientist Jay Bhattacharya. And they trace why thousands diedin hollowed-out hospital systems and nursing homes run byprivate equity firmsto ?maximize shareholder value.In the tradition of the authors? previous landmark exposés, The Big Fail is an expansive, insightful account on what the pandemic did to the economy and how American capitalism has jumped the rails?and is essential reading to understand where we?re going next.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Post Corona From Crisis to Opportunity
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestseller! Few are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York University’s Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned the crisis of the pandemic into the market-share-grabbing opportunity of a lifetime. --The New York Times As good an analysis as you could wish to read. --The Financial TimesFrom bestselling author and NYU Business School professor Scott Galloway comes a keenly insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic worldThe COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask wearers and the mask haters. Some businesses--like home exercise company Peloton, vi
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Vintage Canada The Expendables
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Globe and Mail Favourite Book of 2020 From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world.Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is. Former CIBC World Markets Chief Economist Jeff Rubin argues that all this was foreseeable back when Canada, the United States and Mexico first started talking free trade. Growing global inequality is a problem of our own making, he says. And solving it won''t be easy if we draw on the same ideas about capital
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Undena Publications,U.S. Studies in Babylonian Feudalism of the Kassite
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Heinemann Educational Books Economies Around the World Understanding Money
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The WileyBlackwell Companion to Economic
Book SynopsisThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars. Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a comprehensive assessment of the field Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent developments, recurrent challenges, and emerging agendas Incorporates diverse perspectives (in terms of specialty, demography and geography) of up and coming scholars, going beyond a focus on Anglo-American research Encourages authors and researchers to engage with and contextualize their situated perspectives Explores areas of overlap, dialogues, and (potential) engagemTrade Review“The editors have done an outstanding job of representing, through the collection of chapters in the Companion, economic geography in all its guises, with chapters being authored by both more and less senior figures (albeit as the editors admit with a bias toward the Euro-American world in terms of where the scholars practice) . . . indeed, through the efforts of the editors to assemble a broad array of contributors, and in turn the endeavors of these contributors to capture the vibrancy, relevance, and importance of scholarship in their areas, the Companion manages to effectively portray a subdiscipline that economic geographers will recognize and many outsiders will (one hopes) be intrigued and excited by.” (Economic Geography, 7 October 2013) “This most recent Companion to Economic Geography is an impressive reminder of the diverse, restless nature of economic geography in meeting its mandate to describe, explain and shape the remarkable (and changing) geographic diversity of the global economy and its integration.” (Regional Studies, 1 July 2013) “The Companionis an excellent and timely contribution that simultaneously maps the past, present, and possible futures of economic geography. The Companionis an important text for all geographers, not just those willing to call themselves ‘economic’." (Geographical Research, 1 May 2013) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgements xviii The Long Decade: Economic Geography, Unbound 1 Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck Section I Trajectories 25 Editors’ Introduction: Trajectories 27 Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck 1 Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for “Other Worlds” 33 J.K. Gibson-Graham 2 Geography in Economy: Reflections on a Field 47 Richard Walker 3 Release the Hounds! The Marvelous Case of Political Economy 61 Geoff Mann 4 The Industrial Corporation and Capitalism’s Time–Space Fix 74 Phillip O’Neill 5 Theory, Practice, and Crisis: Changing Economic Geographies of Money and Finance 91 Sarah Hall 6 The “Matter of Nature” in Economic Geography 104 Karen Bakker 7 East Asian Capitalisms and Economic Geographies 118 Henry Wai-chung Yeung 8 Contesting Power/Knowledge in Economic Geography: Learning from Latin America and the Caribbean 132 Marion Werner Section II Spatialities 147 (a) Accumulation and Value 147 Editors’ Introduction: Accumulation and Value 149 Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck, and Trevor J. Barnes 9 The Geographies of Production 157 Neil M. Coe and Martin Hess 10 The Global Economy 170 Jim Glassman 11 Evolutionary Economic Geographies 183 Jürgen Essletzbichler 12 Geographies of Marketization 199 Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler 13 Economies of Bodily Commodification 213 Bronwyn Parry 14 Lives of Things 226 Ian Cook and Tara Woodyer 15 Crisis in Space: Ruminations on the Unevenness of Financialization and its Geographical Implications 242 Ewald Engelen 16 The Insurmountable Diversity of Economies 258 Adrian Smith 17 Waste/Value 275 Vinay Gidwani (b) Regulation and Governance 289 Editors’ Introduction: Regulation and Governance 291 Jamie Peck, Trevor J. Barnes, and Eric Sheppard 18 The Virtual Economy 298 Matthew Zook 19 Economic Geographies of Global Governance: Rules, Rationalities, and “Relational Comparisons” 313 Katharine N. Rankin 20 The Geographies of Alter-globalization 330 Joel Wainwright 21 Reinventing the State: Neoliberalism, State Transformation, and Economic Governance 344 Danny MacKinnon 22 New Subjects 358 Wendy Larner 23 Renaturing the Economy 372 Morgan Robertson 24 Bringing Politics Back In: Reading the Firm-Territory Nexus Politically 385 Jinn-yuh Hsu (c) Embodiment and Identity 399 Editors’ Introduction: Embodiment and Identity 401 Trevor J. Barnes, Eric Sheppard, and Jamie Peck 25 Economic Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Explorations in Continuity and Change 407 Beverley Mullings 26 Gender, Difference, and Contestation: Economic Geography through the Lens of Transnational Migration 420 Rachel Silvey 27 Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility, and Geographies of Work 431 Philip F. Kelly 28 Making Consumers and Consumption 444 Juliana Mansvelt 29 The Rise of a New Knowledge/Creative Economy: Prospects and Challenges for Economic Development, Class Inequality, and Work 458 Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi 30 The Corporation as Disciplinary Institution 472 Joshua Barkan 31 Social Movements and the Geographies of Economic Activities in South Korea 486 Bae-Gyoon Park 32 Subalternities that Matter in Times of Crisis 501 Sharad Chari Section III Borders 515 Editors’ Introduction: Borders 517 Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard 33 The Genuine and the Counterfeit: Qualitative Methods in Economic Geography and Anthropology 524 Elizabeth Dunn and Erica Schoenberger 34 The Cultural Turn and the Conjunctural Economy: Economic Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies 537 John Pickles 35 Worlds Apart? Economic Geography and Questions of “Development” 552 Susan M. Roberts 36 Putting Politics into Economic Geography 567 John Agnew 37 Inheritance or Exchange? Pluralism and the Relationships between Economic Geography and Economics 581 Peter Sunley 38 Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy 594 Matt Vidal and Jamie Peck 39 Political Ecology/Economy 612 James McCarthy Index 626
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Simon & Schuster Balance The Economics of Great Powers from
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PublicAffairs The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan
Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of The Death of Money and Currency Wars reveals the global elites' dark effort to hide a coming catastrophe from investors in The Road to Ruin, now a National Bestseller. A drumbeat is sounding among the global elites. The signs of a worldwide financial meltdown are unmistakable. This time, the elites have an audacious plan to protect themselves from the fallout: hoarding cash now and locking down the global financial system when a crisis hits. Since 2014, international monetary agencies have been issuing warnings to a small group of finance ministers, banks, and private equity funds: the U.S. government’s cowardly choices not to prosecute J.P. Morgan and its ilk, and to bloat the economy with a $4 trillion injection of easy credit, are driving us headlong toward a cliff. As Rickards shows in this frightening, meticulously researched book, governments around the world have no compunction about conspiring against their citizens. They will have stockpiled hard assets when stock exchanges are closed, ATMs shut down, money market funds frozen, asset managers instructed not to sell securities, negative interest rates imposed, and cash withdrawals denied. If you want to plan for the risks ahead, you will need Rickards’s cutting-edge synthesis of behavioral economics, history, and complexity theory. It’s a guidebook to thinking smarter, acting faster, and living with the comforting knowledge that your wealth is secure. The global elites don’t want this book to exist. Their plan to herd us like sheep to the slaughter when a global crisis erupts—and, of course, to maintain their wealth—works only if we remain complacent and unaware. Thanks to The Road to Ruin, we don’t need to be.If you are curious about what the financial Götterdämmerung might look like you’ve certainly come to the right place... Rickards believes -- and provides tantalizing snippets of private conversations with those who dwell in the very eye-in-the-pyramid -- that the current world monetary and financial system is on the verge of insolvency and that the world financial elites already have a successor system for which they are laying the groundwork. --Ralph Benko, Forbes
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