Economics

Victoria’s Secret is one of the most influential and polarizing brands to ever infiltrate the psyche of the American consumer. Almost right at its start in the late 1970s, the company developed a cult following for its glamorous catalogs. Back then, shoppers had few alternatives to the stodgy department stores that sold most of the nation’s intimate apparel. By 1982, the founders of Victoria’s Secret avoided bankruptcy by selling to Les Wexner, the fast-fashion pioneer behind the Limited, whose empire of mall brands would go on to dominate American retail for forty years.

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.

With clarity and moral courage, Shelton charts the course to a brighter future. She’s one of the few economists bold enough to challenge the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve, emphasizing how today’s policies enrich elites at the expense of—you guessed it—poor and middle-class Americans. This, Shelton insists, must end. And it can end—easily. But Shelton doesn’t stop there. Her vision is for not only America but also for people around the world. Global, economic upliftment, she insists, need not come at the expense of domestic prosperity. We can have both.

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Descubre cómo piensan las mejores inversores del mundo. El autor bestseller número uno del New York Times,Tony Robbins, pone fin con este libro a su trilogía sobre la libertad financiera, y lo hace con una guía práctica para desvelar el poder de las inversiones alternativas. Junto al renombrado inversor Christopher Zook, Robbins ha entrevistado a más de una docena de los mayores líderes inversores globales. Sus cuatro décadas de actividad como estratega personal y empresarial le han granjeado la confianza de muchas de las mentes financieras más brillantes y exitosas del mundo.

The inside story of the unprecedented restructuring of Greece’s debt in 2012—the largest restructuring in history—and how the Eurozone was stabilized and Greece was saved from exit from the Euro and economic calamity. In the fall of 2009, the world economy was beginning to recover from the global financial crisis that had shaken global markets and had led to a sharp recession. At the same time, Europe was entering a new phase of economic stress.

A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch. A city rushes to build landing pads for flightless air taxi prototypes. Tech giants hire thousands of techies for fake projects to stop them working for rivals. The tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. In Siliconned, industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.

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Las consecuencias económicas de la paz es un análisis profético sobre las repercusiones económicas de la Primera Guerra Mundial y los errores cometidos en la Conferencia de Paz de París en 1919. Keynes argumenta que las condiciones impuestas a Alemania llevarían a un resentimiento duradero y a futuros conflictos. Su obra desafía las políticas económicas predominantes de la época y advierte sobre las devastadoras consecuencias de imponer reparaciones excesivas a los países derrotados.

財政の仕組み、税金、保険、年金、仮想通貨、家の購入……正しい経済知識があなたを守る！「人生１００年時代」が本格的に訪れる中で、高齢者たちがセカンドライフをより充実させるために、積極的に「学び直し」をする動きが広がっている。

Professor Meir Statman, established thought leader in behavioral finance, explores how life well-being, the overarching aim of individuals in the third generation of behavioral finance, is underpinned by financial well-being, and how life well-being extends beyond financial well-being to family, friendship, religion, health, work, and education.

Entdecken Sie, wie Frauen den Arbeitsmarkt transformieren, in dieser umfassenden und detaillierten Studie, die ihre Integration, wirtschaftliche Bedeutung und ihren Kampf um Geschlechtergerechtigkeit untersucht. Dieses Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Lektüre, um die Trends der weiblichen Beschäftigung im Laufe der Zeit zu verstehen, indem die Ursachen und Folgen der beruflichen Segregation sowie die Barrieren für die berufliche Mobilität, wie die gläserne Decke und diskriminierende Praktiken, untersucht werden.

Discover how women are transforming the labor market in this comprehensive and detailed study that explores their integration, economic importance, and struggle for gender equity. This book is essential for understanding the trends in female employment over time, investigating the causes and consequences of occupational segregation and the barriers to professional mobility, such as the glass ceiling and discriminatory practices.

Un relato en primera persona del caso bancario que conmocionó a España. El 7 de mayo de 2012, Rodrigo Rato anunció su dimisión como presidente de BFA y de Bankia para dar paso a José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, banquero de prestigio. Ese mismo día había amanecido con varias noticias en medios de comunicación apuntando a la inminente inyección de dinero público en la entidad.

A diverse and growing range of financial institutions and platforms—from PayPal and Venmo to WeChat, Alipay, and the brave new world of stablecoins—has harnessed new technology to disrupt the system of money and payments as we know it. Beyond Banks explains why this disruption holds out the promise of faster, cheaper, more convenient, and more secure payments, but also how it increasingly risks exposing consumers, businesses, and governments to the problem of bad money.