Viking Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Viking Economics write by George Lakey. This book was released on 2016-07-12. Viking Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too individualistic, or too . . . something. In Viking Economics George Lakey dispels these myths. He explores the inner workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world’s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how we can enact some of the changes—including universal healthcare, affordable childcare, and a month of paid vacation for all—that the Scandinavians fought for surprisingly recently. We, too, can refuse to be governed by the elites and embrace equality in our economic policy—here’s how.
Viking Economics
Viking Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Viking Economics write by George Lakey. This book was released on 2016. Viking Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scandinavians work less than we do, they have free childcare and healthcare, and they're just generally happier. We're told that we can't have what they have... but what if we can? In Viking Economics, George Lakey explains how the Nordic system works and shows us that if we put in the hard work Scandinavians did not that long ago, we, too, can have a fairer economic policy.
Viking Scotland
Viking Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Viking Scotland write by Anna Ritchie. This book was released on 1993. Viking Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scotland is very rich in the remains and evidence of the Vikings. Using all the sources available - historical, archaeological and linguistic - this book explores this heritage and studies, in detail, the story of the Vikings in Scotland, beginning with the situation in Scotland before they arrived and concluding with the longer term effects of Norse settlement.
Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings write by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson. This book was released on 2022-03-15. Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and metalworking, and trade. Drawing of the latest archeological research and on literary sources, namely the sagas, Sigurðsson depicts a complex and surprisingly peaceful society that belies the popular image of Norsemen as bloodthirsty barbarians. Instead, Vikings often acted out power struggles symbolically, with local chieftains competing with each other through displays of wealth in the form of great feasts and gifts, rather than arms. At home, conspicuous consumption was a Viking leader's most important virtue; the brutality associated with them was largely wreaked abroad. Sigurðsson's engaging history of the Vikings at home begins by highlighting political developments in the region, detailing how Danish kings assumed ascendency over the region and the ways in which Viking friendship reinforced regional peace. Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings then discusses the importance of religion, first pagan and (beginning around 1000 A.D.) Christianity; the central role that women played in politics and war; and how the enormous wealth brought back to Scandinavia affected the social fabric—shedding new light on Viking society.
Capital, Interest, and Money
Capital, Interest, and Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital, Interest, and Money write by Ulrich van Suntum. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Capital, Interest, and Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why is there an interest rate? What does the so-called "natural" interest rate depend on, and could it even get negative because of a "savings glut"? What is the impact of monetary policy on both the interest rate and the price level? Is the super-expansive monetary course of both the FED and the ECB good or bad for the economy? Can monetary unions really work, and what about "Vollgeld," Helicopter money, and parallel currencies? These are key issues in contemporary economics, but they are rarely dealt with in common textbooks. The present book gives clear answers to these and many other questions, by using just one model, and with minimal mathematical effort. Starting with the case of a simple barter economy, where nothing else is produced than corn, the model is modified step by step by integrating a public sector, different sorts of money, a central bank, a commercial banking sector, and foreign trade. The model is fully microfounded as well as stock-flow-consistent, and yet analytically solvable at each stage by using only a few equations. By relegating all proofs to the appendix, only key formulae appear in the main text, all being supported by intuitive explanation as well. The book is suitable for both advanced students of economics and experienced economists, who like to see various macroeconomic issues being tackled in just one comprehensive, but nevertheless simple model. Although this is a textbook, with many charts and only few prerequisits, it also contributes to economic theory by generating some surprising, hitherto unknown results. For example, it is shown that expansionary monetary policy can even generate deflation instead of inflation, if one takes the reaction of liquidity demand into account. Likewise, the effects of variations in the bank reserve rate are far from being obvious with an endogenized liquidity demand. Moreover, the so-called golden rule of accumulation turns out to be only silver at best, if one takes transition periods from one steady state to another into account. Hence, the present book provides also some fresh arguments for the current debate on these issues. An Excel file with all model variations which are in the book can be downloaded for free at https: //www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/insiwo/de/news/96
