Real world economics

Explains what a depression is, discusses how one starts and grows, explores their effects, and questions whether one can happen again.

Explains what a recession is; discusses their causes and how they are predicted and identified; provides examples of recessions throughout history; and examines how people deal with the effects of a recession.

This book explores the different kinds of economic systems that have existed in the past and those that currently hold sway today throughout the world subsistence, barter, gift, market, command, planned, mixed, and Internet economies and analyzes each ones relationship to the three criteria of production, ownership, and government control.

Explores the functioning of the Federal Reserve and monetary policy in the United States. Discusses how these topics contribute to the overall functioning of the nation's economic system and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

An introduction to trade deficit that discusses its causes, history, global effects, and other related topics.

Introduces the concepts of importing and exporting goods, describing how nations have handled international trade in the past, explaining its impact on economies, and detailing the impact of globalization on world trade.

Provides both a broad overview of stock trading and a more fine-grained, "insider" perspective on the international buying and selling that both drives the economy and reflects its health, that both funds corporations and measures their performance, and that increasingly plays a central role in wealth creation or wealth loss for American families.

Explains in plain-language how taxation works, its different forms, and the ongoing debate about the fairest system.

Presents an invaluable guide of how deflation works, one of the most dangerous of economic cycles and also offers the power of knowledge, helping readers to adapt to shifting economic trends with comprehension, historical perspective, and sound advice and strategies.

Provides young readers with a clear understanding of one of the most important, talked-about, and defining subjects of our era, how stimulus plans work.