Great nations at peril. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jürgen Backhaus, editor.
• Editors: Backhaus, Jürgen G, 1950-
• Contents: ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Chapter-1""; ""Troubling Thoughts in Troubled Times""; ""References""; ""Chapter-2""; ""Troubles on Statistical Lies""; ""Introduction""; ""Statistical Background of Political Decisions""; ""Duties and Responsibilities of Governmental Policy""; ""Statistical Data""; ""Mysterious Language of Statistics""; ""Peculiarities of Statistics""; ""Census""; ""Income Statistics""; ""Graphs""; ""The Average""; ""Arithmetic Mean""; ""Mode""; ""Median""; ""Statistical Inquiry""; ""Endogenous or Exogenous Variable?"" ""Result: Statistical Data Based on a Statistical Model""""Résumé""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter-3""; ""Great Nations in Perilâ€?Rise and Fall of Prussia""; ""Introduction""; ""Begin and Rise""; ""Times of Radical Changes""; ""Fragments of the End""; ""Summary and Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter-4""; ""Friedrich Listâ€?s “Great Nationsâ€?: Mobilising Capital for Quality Labour""; ""What the USA and the EU Can Learn from Friedrich Listâ€?s Solution to Americaâ€?s Debt Crisis""; ""The West Has Forgotten and Needs to Relearn""; ""“Rise and Fall of Great Nationsâ€?"" ""Credit as a Tool of Power""""Why Are Great Nations Creditworthy?""; ""Renewed Interest in Friedrich Listâ€?s Insights""; ""Building a Competitive National Economy""; ""Lacking Productive Force""; ""An Agricultural America in Crisis""; ""Agricultural Nations Suffer More Often from Disrupting Crises""; ""Stabilityâ€?Protection of Home Markets""; ""Global Trade Imbalances and National Performance""; ""Balance of Trade and Quality Labour""; ""Trade Imbalancesâ€?the Mercantilists, Smith and List""; ""Balance of Tradeâ€?American and Russian Experiences""; ""Deficitsâ€?Creating Dependency"" ""Imperial Strategyâ€?and Revival""""Hot Money Caused Debt and Bondage""; ""English Dumping and Export of Commercial Crisis""; ""The Merchant Interest""; ""A Magnificent Servant and Deceitful Mistressâ€?Capital Flight""; ""Productive Considerations Must Dominate Financeâ€?Not the Way Around""; ""The Need for Regulation of Finance""; ""Protection Furthers Incentives""; ""“Exploiting Imperialismâ€?""; ""Innovative International Financeâ€?And Then?""; ""A Two-Currency System?""; ""References""; ""Chapter-5"" ""Austerity Versus Productive Investment: Two Traditions in Capital Formation and Growth""""Friedrich Listâ€?s Criticism of Adam Smithâ€?s Materialism and Barter-Based View of Capital""; ""Introduction""; ""Poor Old Solutions""; ""Delayed Understanding""; ""Materialism Ignores Mental Powers""; ""Material Capitalâ€?Less Important""; ""Physiocratic Materialism: No-Money, Barter Economics""; ""Counterproductive Saving""; ""Productive State Credit""; ""Money Creationâ€?Gold or Paper?""; ""Money Creationâ€?Private and Public?""; ""The Not-So-Innovative Keynes""
• Publisher Details: Cham New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 172 pages .)
• Subjects: 338.54209; Economics; Financial crises -- History; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Financial crises; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Macroeconomics; Political economy; Macroeconomics; Management science; Economic history; Economic policy; Macroeconomics; Business & Economics -- Economics -- General; Economic history; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319100555; 3319100556
• Related ISBNs: 3319100548; 9783319100548
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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