Brazil is the new America [[electronic resource] ] : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / / James Dale Davidson |
Autore | Davidson James Dale |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.981 |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Brazil
Economic development - United States Economic forecasting - Brazil Economic forecasting - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-13445-0
9786613807038 1-118-22175-3 |
Classificazione | BUS022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Brazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The World in 2050; A Preview of the Future; A Decrease in Productive Capacity; Squandering Prosperity; Chapter 2: The Original America Is the New Brazil; The Country of the Future; The Origins of America; The Mythic Brazil; A Difficult Dream to Realize; Can America's Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil?; Chapter 3: How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World; The Impact of Topography; Yesterday's Limitations as Today's Strengths
Three Radical ChangesPredatory Government; Growth Imperatives Lead to Fiat Money and Runaway Debt; Energy Surges Alter Spatial Configurations of Economies; Chapter 4: Prosperity and Energy Density: The Hidden Role of BTUs in the Rise and Fall of Economies; Denser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity; Coal and Adam Smith; Going Forward or Backward?; The Phases of Extracting Energy; Phase One: An Abundance of Wood; Phase Two: An Abundance of Coal; Phase Three: The Original Petroleum Industry; The Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I; Peak Oil and Declining Money Declining Energy and Systemic CollapseThe Real Symptoms of Peak Oil; The Competition for Prosperity; Expensive Oil Remains; A 665,000 Percent Increase in the Price of a BTU?; The SS Great Britain Sails Again; ""Yes! We Have No Bananas""; Chapter 5: Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age; The Dynamics of Weather; Not Wrong, but Early; Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment; The Next Little Ice Age; ""The Dog That Did Not Bark""; Putting Two and Two Together; A New Maunder Minimum; Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution Chapter 6: Deficit Attention Disorder: How the Perverse Logic of Debtism Promotes the Illusion of Democratic Consensus but Devastates the EconomyHow Debtism Changed the World; Debtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You; The U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush; Worse than the Great Depression; The Collapse of the Boom; Chapter 7: ""Rome"" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy; Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency; The Destruction of the Middle Class; Pre-Industrial Growth Rates; Are You Ready for Taxes to Double? Welcome to the Second Decline and Fall of ""Rome""The New Berlin Wall; Americans as the New Illegal Emigrants; Chapter 8: The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle: How Brazil's Legacy of Hyperinflation Prepared It to Prosper in a Post-Dollar World; You Are in Steerage on a Sinking Ship; Stopping Runaway Spending; Important Lessons from Hyperinflation; Minimal Bank Capital Ratios: A Crisis Waiting to Happen; U.S. Reserve Requirements: A System Failure; The Political Roots of the Economic Crisis; How Brazilians Became the New Scots; Crash-Proofing the System Brazilian Style America's 104 Trillion Problem |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452850503321 |
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Brazil is the new America [[electronic resource] ] : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / / James Dale Davidson |
Autore | Davidson James Dale |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.981 |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Brazil
Economic development - United States Economic forecasting - Brazil Economic forecasting - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-13445-0
9786613807038 1-118-22175-3 |
Classificazione | BUS022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Brazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The World in 2050; A Preview of the Future; A Decrease in Productive Capacity; Squandering Prosperity; Chapter 2: The Original America Is the New Brazil; The Country of the Future; The Origins of America; The Mythic Brazil; A Difficult Dream to Realize; Can America's Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil?; Chapter 3: How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World; The Impact of Topography; Yesterday's Limitations as Today's Strengths
Three Radical ChangesPredatory Government; Growth Imperatives Lead to Fiat Money and Runaway Debt; Energy Surges Alter Spatial Configurations of Economies; Chapter 4: Prosperity and Energy Density: The Hidden Role of BTUs in the Rise and Fall of Economies; Denser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity; Coal and Adam Smith; Going Forward or Backward?; The Phases of Extracting Energy; Phase One: An Abundance of Wood; Phase Two: An Abundance of Coal; Phase Three: The Original Petroleum Industry; The Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I; Peak Oil and Declining Money Declining Energy and Systemic CollapseThe Real Symptoms of Peak Oil; The Competition for Prosperity; Expensive Oil Remains; A 665,000 Percent Increase in the Price of a BTU?; The SS Great Britain Sails Again; ""Yes! We Have No Bananas""; Chapter 5: Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age; The Dynamics of Weather; Not Wrong, but Early; Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment; The Next Little Ice Age; ""The Dog That Did Not Bark""; Putting Two and Two Together; A New Maunder Minimum; Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution Chapter 6: Deficit Attention Disorder: How the Perverse Logic of Debtism Promotes the Illusion of Democratic Consensus but Devastates the EconomyHow Debtism Changed the World; Debtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You; The U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush; Worse than the Great Depression; The Collapse of the Boom; Chapter 7: ""Rome"" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy; Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency; The Destruction of the Middle Class; Pre-Industrial Growth Rates; Are You Ready for Taxes to Double? Welcome to the Second Decline and Fall of ""Rome""The New Berlin Wall; Americans as the New Illegal Emigrants; Chapter 8: The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle: How Brazil's Legacy of Hyperinflation Prepared It to Prosper in a Post-Dollar World; You Are in Steerage on a Sinking Ship; Stopping Runaway Spending; Important Lessons from Hyperinflation; Minimal Bank Capital Ratios: A Crisis Waiting to Happen; U.S. Reserve Requirements: A System Failure; The Political Roots of the Economic Crisis; How Brazilians Became the New Scots; Crash-Proofing the System Brazilian Style America's 104 Trillion Problem |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779374403321 |
Davidson James Dale
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 | ||
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Brazil is the new America : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / / James Dale Davidson |
Autore | Davidson James Dale |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.981 |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Brazil
Economic development - United States Economic forecasting - Brazil Economic forecasting - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-13445-0
9786613807038 1-118-22175-3 |
Classificazione | BUS022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Brazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The World in 2050; A Preview of the Future; A Decrease in Productive Capacity; Squandering Prosperity; Chapter 2: The Original America Is the New Brazil; The Country of the Future; The Origins of America; The Mythic Brazil; A Difficult Dream to Realize; Can America's Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil?; Chapter 3: How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World; The Impact of Topography; Yesterday's Limitations as Today's Strengths
Three Radical ChangesPredatory Government; Growth Imperatives Lead to Fiat Money and Runaway Debt; Energy Surges Alter Spatial Configurations of Economies; Chapter 4: Prosperity and Energy Density: The Hidden Role of BTUs in the Rise and Fall of Economies; Denser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity; Coal and Adam Smith; Going Forward or Backward?; The Phases of Extracting Energy; Phase One: An Abundance of Wood; Phase Two: An Abundance of Coal; Phase Three: The Original Petroleum Industry; The Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I; Peak Oil and Declining Money Declining Energy and Systemic CollapseThe Real Symptoms of Peak Oil; The Competition for Prosperity; Expensive Oil Remains; A 665,000 Percent Increase in the Price of a BTU?; The SS Great Britain Sails Again; ""Yes! We Have No Bananas""; Chapter 5: Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age; The Dynamics of Weather; Not Wrong, but Early; Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment; The Next Little Ice Age; ""The Dog That Did Not Bark""; Putting Two and Two Together; A New Maunder Minimum; Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution Chapter 6: Deficit Attention Disorder: How the Perverse Logic of Debtism Promotes the Illusion of Democratic Consensus but Devastates the EconomyHow Debtism Changed the World; Debtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You; The U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush; Worse than the Great Depression; The Collapse of the Boom; Chapter 7: ""Rome"" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy; Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency; The Destruction of the Middle Class; Pre-Industrial Growth Rates; Are You Ready for Taxes to Double? Welcome to the Second Decline and Fall of ""Rome""The New Berlin Wall; Americans as the New Illegal Emigrants; Chapter 8: The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle: How Brazil's Legacy of Hyperinflation Prepared It to Prosper in a Post-Dollar World; You Are in Steerage on a Sinking Ship; Stopping Runaway Spending; Important Lessons from Hyperinflation; Minimal Bank Capital Ratios: A Crisis Waiting to Happen; U.S. Reserve Requirements: A System Failure; The Political Roots of the Economic Crisis; How Brazilians Became the New Scots; Crash-Proofing the System Brazilian Style America's 104 Trillion Problem |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818853303321 |
Davidson James Dale
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 | ||
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Paper money collapse [[electronic resource] ] : the folly of elastic money and the coming monetary breakdown / / Detlev S. Schlichter |
Autore | Schlichter Detlev S. <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
Disciplina | 332.4/044 |
Soggetto topico |
Paper money
Money supply Currency question Credit |
ISBN |
1-283-25798-X
9786613257987 1-118-12780-3 |
Classificazione | BUS022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The basics of money -- pt. 2. The effects of money injections -- pt. 3. Fallacies about the price level and price level stabilization -- pt. 4. History of paper money : a legacy of failure -- pt. 5. Beyond the cycle : paper money collapse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781612103321 |
Schlichter Detlev S. <1964->
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 | ||
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Paper money collapse : the folly of elastic money and the coming monetary breakdown / / Detlev S. Schlichter |
Autore | Schlichter Detlev S. <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
Disciplina | 332.4/044 |
Soggetto topico |
Paper money
Money supply Currency question Credit |
ISBN |
1-283-25798-X
9786613257987 1-118-12780-3 |
Classificazione | BUS022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The basics of money -- pt. 2. The effects of money injections -- pt. 3. Fallacies about the price level and price level stabilization -- pt. 4. History of paper money : a legacy of failure -- pt. 5. Beyond the cycle : paper money collapse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826355703321 |
Schlichter Detlev S. <1964->
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 | ||
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The Vega factor [[electronic resource] ] : oil volatility and the next global crisis / / Kent Moors |
Autore | Moors Kent F |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (445 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.2/3282 |
Collana | THEi Wiley ebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Petroleum products - Prices
Petroleum industry and trade Petroleum reserves - Political aspects |
ISBN |
1-118-07709-1
1-119-20010-5 1-283-37477-3 9786613374776 1-118-07707-5 |
Classificazione | BUS022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Vega Factor: Oil Volatility and the Next Global Crisis; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Meaning of Oil Vega; Chapter 2: How Oil Volatility Relates to Strategic Risk; Chapter 3: Determining Oil Prices; Chapter 4: Dollars, Credit, Financial Crises, . . . and the Oil Connection; Chapter 5: Oil Companies and the Upstream/Downstream Tradeoff; Chapter 6: How Government Action Increases Volatility; Chapter 7: Is There a Response?; Appendix A: World Proved Oil Reserves (Billion Barrels); Appendix B: Exxon CARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007)
Appendix C: Exxon ARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007)Appendix D: Shell CARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Appendix E: Shell ARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Appendix F: BP CARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Appendix G: BP ARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Notes; About the Author; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139567403321 |
Moors Kent F
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2011 | ||
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The Vega factor : oil volatility and the next global crisis / / Kent Moors |
Autore | Moors Kent F |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (445 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.2/3282 |
Collana | THEi Wiley ebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Petroleum products - Prices
Petroleum industry and trade Petroleum reserves - Political aspects |
ISBN |
1-118-07709-1
1-119-20010-5 1-283-37477-3 9786613374776 1-118-07707-5 |
Classificazione | BUS022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Vega Factor: Oil Volatility and the Next Global Crisis; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Meaning of Oil Vega; Chapter 2: How Oil Volatility Relates to Strategic Risk; Chapter 3: Determining Oil Prices; Chapter 4: Dollars, Credit, Financial Crises, . . . and the Oil Connection; Chapter 5: Oil Companies and the Upstream/Downstream Tradeoff; Chapter 6: How Government Action Increases Volatility; Chapter 7: Is There a Response?; Appendix A: World Proved Oil Reserves (Billion Barrels); Appendix B: Exxon CARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007)
Appendix C: Exxon ARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007)Appendix D: Shell CARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Appendix E: Shell ARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Appendix F: BP CARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Appendix G: BP ARM per Gallon (January 3, 2000 to December 31, 2007); Notes; About the Author; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811340703321 |
Moors Kent F
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