What's new at Economic DevelopmentThe Blessings of the Black Economy
The Blessings of the Black Economy by: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D. Some call it the "unofficial" or "informal" economy, others call it the "grey economy" but the old name fits it best: the "black economy"... (read more)
Vietnam as an Emerging Economy
Vietnam, one of Asia's Newly Emerging Economies, has turned its economy around dramatically after several years of macroeconomic instability, stagnation, and isolation from the world economy... (read more)
The Economys Greatest Depression Downturn Ever Is Now Just A Few Years Away
What really controls the economy? Forget interest rates, forget deficits, forget the Fed, forget IRAQ, forget which party is in office. In fact, forget just about everything that permeates the news... (read more)
Five Reasons the Economy Will Crash and Will Stay Crashed
If the U. S. economy had to be summed up in one word, the word would be unsustainable. From entitlement programs to trade deficits, the U. S... (read more)
Big Buildings Can Mean Big Economic Disaster
AS BUILDERS BEGIN WORK ON THE FREEDOM TOWER in New York City, to be the world? tallest building, economist Mark Thornton offers a history-based theory of the relation between super-buildings and the economy... (read more)
Industrial Labor Versus Domestic Labor
IntroductionWhen an economic treatise is composed, there is almost no doubt that it is one based on a system of free, or somewhat limited, trade. The reason for that is quite easy to understand... (read more)
Quality of Life in Sussex County Delaware. Facts, Statistics, Observations and even opinions!
We Sussex Countians are fortunate in many ways as we have a wonderful quality of life here.Climate: Our climate for one thing is the best in the region... (read more)
Bosnia An Economy in search of a State
Bosnia - An Economy in search of a State by: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D. Bosnia-Herzegovina (heretofore "Bosnia") is an artificial polity with four, tangentially interacting, economies... (read more)
The Arrow-Debreu Contingent Claims Model of Investment
Throughout the discussion of speculation and stability, we emphasized that uncertainty theorists now have a generally accepted framework for modeling choice under uncertainty... (read more)
Gods Diplomacy International Trade and the Macedonian Economy
God's Diplomacy - International Trade and the Macedonian Economy by: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D. A British politician, Richard Cobden once (1857) wrote: "Free Trade is God's diplomacy and there is no other certain way of uniting people in the bonds of... (read more)
Health And The Economy
We normally do not think that health is related to economics other than with regard to the costs of medical care. But there is another more fundamental way money impacts our wellbeing... (read more)
India Heads Fast In Exports
India Story Just Got BetterWithin a week (31 Dec.-7 Jan), the UPA Government has revised the GDP growth estimates for both, the previous fiscal as well as for the current year. The FY04 estimate was raised from an already impressive 8... (read more)
To Grow Out Of Unemployment
There is a connection between economic growth and unemployment. There is a connection between growth and inflation. Therefore, commonsense (and financial theory) goes, there must be a connection between inflation and unemployment... (read more)
The Perfect Economy?
The U.S. economic data reported this week showed strong output growth with tame inflation. Industrial Production expanded at about 1% in June, three times greater than expected, while both the June Consumer and Producer Price Indices were unchanged... (read more)
Concepts of Socialism
Introduction - What Is Socialism?Socialism is the belief that children should not have to go to sleep hungry at night. Socialism is the belief that sweatshops are an abomination to the ethic of humaneness... (read more)
Restoration in Russia: Much Needed and Inevitable
Handing over power to Vladimir Putin in 1999, Boris Yeltsin sought to preserve the political alignment of forces and coordinates he set during his rule in Russia in 1991-1999... (read more)
From The WorkWise Collection Job Hunting in the New Economy
To succeed in todays global marketplace, companies must hire the best and the brightest... (read more)
Coaching An Adapting Tool For Attaining Fulfillment In The Global Economy
At a time when the global economy is bringing innovation, new ideas and new opportunities into the marketplace, outsourcing and the elimination of... (read more)
Surviving The Digital Economy Meltdown
"Dying isn't hard for men like us, when every everything around you has been butchered or slaughtered . . . living is what's hard... (read more)
Invalid Excuses for Poor Business Results - The Economy
Note to Rite Aid and CVS: It? not about the economyWhen Bill Clinton successfully unset the first President Bush, he focused on a sign in his Little Rock office:? t? the Economy, Stupid? His point was to focus his campaign on economical issues... (read more)
Finding Success In Todays Job Market
This year we are experiencing the most dynamic and rapidly changing economy in all of history except for next year, and the year after, and the rest of our working lives... (read more)
Dole, Kemp, Trusting People
Many in the peanut gallery of society are so quick to attack the republican party, out of duty to their side of the sound and fury of human endeavor, however if you are really going to attack people without debating their concepts then in fact you are... (read more)
Summers Interest Rate Mystery
The end of the Spring brought an end to the Federal Reverse? view interest rates need to positioned in a way of stimulating the economy... (read more)
Bushs Election Victory Ethics Morality and Religion Defeated War Economy and Foreign Policy
President George W. Bush has unofficially won his re-election bid defeating Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry... (read more)
Help Your Kids Learn More About Managing Their Personal Economy
Remember when cash was a tangible commodity in all of our personal economies? As kids, we went to the bank, shopped with our parents and... (read more)
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