| Titre : |
The truth about markets : Their genius, their limits, their follies |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
John Kay, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Allen Lane |
| Année de publication : |
2003 |
| Importance : |
496 p. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Finances internationales
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| Tags : |
Finances Politique économique Nouvelle économie Marchés Compétitivité Entreprises General Electric Morris Motors Coca-Cola Corporation Ford Motor Company Industrie pharmaceutique Royaume-Uni Etats-Unis Pays en développement |
| Index. décimale : |
02.01 Finances |
| Résumé : |
In the 1980s America won the cold war. In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. The decade that followed proved one of the most extraordinary periods in economic history. The American business model — the unrestrained pursuit of self-interest, market fundamentalism, the minimal state and low taxation — offered its followers the same certainties that Marxism had given its own adherents over the previous century. There was a New Economy.
But it was all to end in a frenzy of speculation, followed by recrimination and self-doubt. Corporations that had never earned a cent of profit, and never would, were sold to investors for billions of dollars. Corporate executives would fill their pockets and invent revenues and profits to support their accounts of their own genius. And every international economic meeting would be besieged by demonstrators.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, John Kay unravels the truth about markets. He explains why market economies outperformed socialist or centrally directed ones, but also why the imposition of market institutions often fails. Kay’s search for the truth about markets takes him from the shores of Lake Zurich to the streets of Mumbai, through evolutionary psychology and moral philosophy, to the flower market at San Remo and Christies’ saleroom in New York. Through this range of material he shows that market economies function because they are embedded in a social, political and cultural context, and cannot work otherwise.
The Truth about Markets examines the big questions of economics — why some countries and peoples are rich, and others poor; why businesses succeed and fail; the scope of markets and their limits. Witty yet profound, immersed in the most recent economic thinking yet completely accessible, it is both a tract for our times and a text for a new political economy. |
The truth about markets : Their genius, their limits, their follies [texte imprimé] / John Kay, Auteur . - UK : Allen Lane, 2003 . - 496 p. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Finances internationales
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| Tags : |
Finances Politique économique Nouvelle économie Marchés Compétitivité Entreprises General Electric Morris Motors Coca-Cola Corporation Ford Motor Company Industrie pharmaceutique Royaume-Uni Etats-Unis Pays en développement |
| Index. décimale : |
02.01 Finances |
| Résumé : |
In the 1980s America won the cold war. In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. The decade that followed proved one of the most extraordinary periods in economic history. The American business model — the unrestrained pursuit of self-interest, market fundamentalism, the minimal state and low taxation — offered its followers the same certainties that Marxism had given its own adherents over the previous century. There was a New Economy.
But it was all to end in a frenzy of speculation, followed by recrimination and self-doubt. Corporations that had never earned a cent of profit, and never would, were sold to investors for billions of dollars. Corporate executives would fill their pockets and invent revenues and profits to support their accounts of their own genius. And every international economic meeting would be besieged by demonstrators.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, John Kay unravels the truth about markets. He explains why market economies outperformed socialist or centrally directed ones, but also why the imposition of market institutions often fails. Kay’s search for the truth about markets takes him from the shores of Lake Zurich to the streets of Mumbai, through evolutionary psychology and moral philosophy, to the flower market at San Remo and Christies’ saleroom in New York. Through this range of material he shows that market economies function because they are embedded in a social, political and cultural context, and cannot work otherwise.
The Truth about Markets examines the big questions of economics — why some countries and peoples are rich, and others poor; why businesses succeed and fail; the scope of markets and their limits. Witty yet profound, immersed in the most recent economic thinking yet completely accessible, it is both a tract for our times and a text for a new political economy. |
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