Real world economics

This book describes the Group of 20, a forum of key industrialized and developing nations, discussing their mandate and priorities in economics and their accomplishments.

This book describes the consumer credit crisis, a time when consumers use credit irresponsibly, discussing the disadvantages of using credit cards and how credit debt led to the Great Recession of 2007-2008.

Explains currency devaluation, its causes, and its effects.

Learn about the history, methods, and economics of how futures trading works.

Explores the process of making decisions and how good decisions are essential to a successful business.

This book gets past the overheated rhetoric and political posturing to explain clearly how and why governments borrow money, how and why they engage in deficit spending, and the short- and long-term effects such practices have on the economy.

Explains how commodities trading works and its cause-and-effect on the nation's economy.

An overview of the gold standard that discusses its history, the three standards used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, why it is dropped by governments, other monetary systems, and more.

Explains what inflation is, identifies its causes, describes how it is measured and controlled, looks at its effects, and provides a brief history of currency and inflation.

Explains how globalization works on the theoretical level and in actual, observable, real world ways. Includes helpful sidebars such as "Myths and Facts about Globalization" and "Ten Great Questions about Globalization to Ask an Economist.".