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Aggressive Capitalism
Claude V. Chang
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Description for Aggressive Capitalism
Paperback. This book offers a frank and honest assessment of the opportunities and challenges ahead for both the US and the wider world, examining the leading economic, political, and social issues in the context of the several rational choice theories and the emergence of challenges to entrenched Western interests. Num Pages: 198 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
The collapse of the American financial system in 2008 has brought the weaknesses of the edifice of financial risk management, upon which the Anglo-American economic model has been premised since the 1980s, into sharper focus. It has also given rise to the larger question regarding the certainty and, thus, the viability of free-market capitalism as a universal economic system; however, while there are several erudite accounts of the collapse of the financial system and its immediate aftermath, very little space has been given to addressing the larger question. As such, Aggressive Capitalism offers a frank and honest assessment of the ... Read more
The collapse of the American financial system in 2008 has brought the weaknesses of the edifice of financial risk management, upon which the Anglo-American economic model has been premised since the 1980s, into sharper focus. It has also given rise to the larger question regarding the certainty and, thus, the viability of free-market capitalism as a universal economic system; however, while there are several erudite accounts of the collapse of the financial system and its immediate aftermath, very little space has been given to addressing the larger question. As such, Aggressive Capitalism offers a frank and honest assessment of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761852940
SKU
V9780761852940
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About Claude V. Chang
Claude V. Chang teaches economics at Johnson & Wales University, North Miami Campus. Chang was a member of the Governing Council of the University of Guyana, served as Secretary to the Treasury of Guyana, and as ex-officio member of the Board of the Guyana Central Bank. He is a former UNDP consultant and has over twenty years of finance experience ... Read more
Reviews for Aggressive Capitalism
Explores the role of the twentieth century's aggressive capitalism in the economic crisis of 2008 and the changes necessary to overcome the collapse. Discusses the economic quagmire - the impossible trinity of mounting debt, balanced trade, and a strong dollar; free-market capitalism in terminal crisis; the 1990s - American triumphalism on steroids; the confluence of rationality, reductionism, and existentialism; ... Read more