دانلود کتاب Temporary Economic Crises

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Cyclonic ebbs and flows of trade
Introduction
From prudent to enthusiast and deranged traders
The Dutch tulip crusaders
National sovereignty and the state finance
The end of the medieval era
Equality before the guillotine
Power of appropriation and expropriation
Conclusion
2 High and low times of industrialization
Introduction
The cradle of industrialization
Banking and money economy
Great wars, revolutions, and depressions
Hyperinflation and economic depression
Empires and the Frankenstein states
The generations of wars
The pandemic of globalization
Conclusion
3 Crypto-economy and trade cycle
Introduction
The last decades of the last millennium
The new right and the old left
The 2007–2008 credit depression
Altruistic or self-serving subprime mortgage
The predatory financial products
Conclusion
4 Over-trading, trade cycles, and crises
Introduction
Parting with self-imposed blind faith
From trade to over-trading
Consolidation of three trends
No poor on nature\'s banquet
The original model of capitalism
From trade cycle to economic crisis
Two crises and three illusory capitalisms
Conclusion
5 Economic crises and human propensity to extremism
Introduction
The root cause of the economic crisis
Human propensity to extremism
Monotheism, the extreme end of beliefs
Atrocities – consigned to oblivion
Embedded extremism in economics
Conclusion
6 Coping with unknowns and human follies
Introduction
Digression from fatalism
Every person can acquire knowledge
Perfect and imperfect truths
Liberty and pursuit of self-interest
Economics of might is right
Fixed known and the changing unknown
Permissible and impermissible boundaries
Extremism and survival
The end, the means and adaptability
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index