Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale business...

There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a U.S. or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and U.S. housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined. Starting in th...

Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent".U. S. Engineering in a Global Economy" brings clarity to issues of supply and demand in this important ma...

The modern-day Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship was built on a set of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable co-dependence....

Management expert Fredmund Malik examines the pitfalls of unclear language in "Uncluttered Management Thinking". The use of carelessly defined terms can do a lot of damage, Malik notes, leading to bad, even risky management decisions and actions. Del...

The conditions for sustainable growth and development are among the most debated topics in economics, and the consensus is that institutions matter greatly in explaining why some economies are more successful than others over time. Probing the long-t...

On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the...