Students are expected to build up an understanding of global affairs. This is achieved through engaging daily with media publications on business, finance and law.
Below are only some of the books available in the library to assist you with your Economics course. We have many more books about managing business and leadership. Remember to have a look at the LibGuide that has a list of studies that are in the Public Domain - listed under the Open Access Resources. Again - if you find a book that we should be making available to students, please don't hesitate to contact us via email requesting that copies are purchased.
Contending Economic Theories
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Podcasts:
Bloomberg: Stephanomics
The Economist
What Goes Up
Business of Sport
Harvard Business Review: Ideacast
Business Wars
The David McWilliams Podcast
Explores the economic and cultural impacts of disease epidemics in history
Presents a comprehensive historical narrative that describes how and why ancient civilizations such as the Anasazi, Maya, and the Polynesian culture on Easter Island failed and fell into ruin and examines how lessons learned from the past can help in preserving the future
Presents a variety of perspectives on the debate of the threat to America by China's economic growth
The author recounts how, as part of the U.S. National Security Agency, he helped blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to U.S. businesses.
Explores why traditional methods of alleviating poverty are failing in the world's fifty poorest countries, and explains what the industrialized West can do to help these countries improve living standards and their economies.
Presents an introduction to microeconomics, macroeconomics, and both international and development economics, with cross-curricular materials and activities, case studies, and examples from around the world.
A guide to the study of economics. Covers more than 1700 terms and biographies of important economists. Up-to-date internet links help you explore the subject further.
Contains fifty essays in which Edmund Conway, economics editor of the "Daily Telegraph," explains the central concepts of economics, discussing movements, finance and markets, how economies work, and other topics, and including examples, and quotations from key thinkers.
Presents seventy-eight selections from classic and contemporary literature and drama that speak to over twenty key economic concepts, issues, and themes, each with an explanatory introduction. Could be useful for TOK too.
Identifies four types of capitalism and discusses their affects on economic growth.
An inspirational guide to personal money problems presents eleven ancient Babylonian tales and fables that reveal the path to lifetime financial success as they explain the secrets of acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money
Increases your studying efficiency
Basic Business Statistics - from Data Analysis to Variance with everything in between - use this book to get that result you are working for!
This collection of short essays features articles based on economic topics and opinions
Prosperity without Growth' challenges the assumption of continued economic expansion in rich countries, providing a radical re-think of embedded, unquestioned assumptions and showing it is necessary 'and possible' to have increased and widespread prosperity without economic growth
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economics and for all readers who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas
Explores contemporary issues related to the sociology of economic life, analyzing major trends in the structuring of economics and society and placing those changes and trends in a transnational context.
The authors explore the economics of real-world issues often viewed as insignificant, such as the extent to which the Roe v. Wade decision affected violent crime, and examine hidden incentives behind all sorts of human behavior
Explains why global financial crises occur, reviewing the history of financial crises since 1980, and explaining what needs to be done to end the cycle and attain international economic security
This is an extensive survey of the place of culture and development in four theoretical economic perspectives - Neoclassical, Marxian, Institutionalist, and Feminist. Organised in nine chapters with three appendices and a compendium of over 50 interpretations of culture by economists, this book covers vast grounds from classical political economy to contemporary economic thought. The literatures reviewed include original and new institutionalism, cultural economics, postmodern Marxism, economic feminism, and the current culture and development discourse on subjects such as economic growth in East Asia, businesswomen entrepreneurs in West Africa, and comparative development in different parts of Europe.
Remorseless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Relentless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed? Here, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets the needs of all within the means of the planet.
"The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the consequences of their decisions. This book argues that, in the market for expert opinion, we need real competition in which rival experts may have different opinions and new experts are free to enter. But the idea of breaking up expert monopolies has far-reaching implications for public administration, forensic science, research science, economics, America's military-industrial complex, and all domains of expert knowledge. Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and uses a wide range of examples - from forensic science to fashion - to explain the applications of his theory, including state regulation of economic activity"--
https://www.coursera.org/learn/microeconomics
Most people make the incorrect assumption that economics is ONLY the study of money. My primary goal in this course is to shatter this belief. During this course, we will be addressing the above questions as well as many more relating to: -the environment -love and marriage -crime -labor markets -education -politics -sports -business.
My main goal is to show you the way economists think and how to use this analytical system to answer questions related not only to these and other important human issues but to anything you end up doing with your life after this class. After all, as you will quickly find out, I believe that everything is economics!
Podcasts to Listen to while being driven to school:
A very worthwhile online course:
Course Title: Microeconomics
University: Illinois University
Link: https://www.coursera.org/learn/microeconomics