Currency Book Reviews Samples For Students

The book focuses on the financial aspects of investing in stocks. The author’s main contentions are that long term investment in the stocks is cheap to the investor and yields higher income than short term investments. The author backs these sentiments with an in depth research and analysis that shows the strategies and steps that can be used to accumulate portfolio with high returns at low risk. These contentions are in tandem with the historical information, which the author has also presented. The historical records show how the long term stocks have turned out to be low risk ...

Book Review: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor, Chapter 2

Usury in the early years of the renaissance was seen as a sin against humanity according to this chapter. It was under the power of the pope but he applied regulation very selectively. However interest was acknowledged as a necessary factor for commerce to be conducted. Ideas kept coming up concerning usury and interest hence discussions were bound to come up concerning these factors. Money use brought with it great potential for sin. Many praised it and saw it as a wonderful invention. Others saw the possibilities of doing infinite good by the use of money. People were to ...

9-2) Beer and marijuana are substitute goods, i.e. when the demand for one goes up, it is expected that the demand for the other is likely to go down, as most people would consume either of the two products. When marijuana gets legalized, the distributors would fear that their sales would decline. So beer distributors are likely to oppose the legislation regarding legalizing marijuana.
On the other hand, snack food and marijuana are generally considered to be complementary products, i.e. the demand for one of them increases the demand for the other. This way, when marijuana gets legalized, snack ...

(An Application of the Seven Major Sources of Economic Progress)

Authors: William Seyfried & Rollins College

- Article Summary
The article ‘Employment Intensity of Economic Growth’ seeks to examine the relationship between economic growth, as measured by the GDP, and employment levels, with the main focus being on the margin countries of Europe known as PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). It pertains to research done between 1999 and 2012 to study unemployment growth rates and GDP after the financial crisis proved that the peripheral countries were in a dire financial state.
The financial crunch immensely reduced the availability of financing, and hence ...

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In the book Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology, Johnson offers insight into the Christian religion by analyzing the origin and understanding of the same. Johnsons writing finds basis on the start of Jesus’ ministry on earth when he asked the gathered audience, “Who do you say I am?” Different answers have been given in response to this question by the religion clerics, scholars in the same field. To give an account of how the question has been answered over the years, Johnson embarks on a thorough research on the subject ...

This essay seeks to present how contemporary globalization has impacted on Peru. The succeeding sections will first provide an overview of Peru, followed by the specific effects of globalization to the country. In the second half of the essay, this author relates the experience of Peru to the ideas presented by Christian Parenti in his book Tropic of Chaos. The essay then brings together the ideas presented in the concluding section.

Definition of globalization

Ward & Gleditsch (2004) defines globalization as the “increasing internationalization of processes previously confined to nation-states” (, (p. 161). This could include processes that are political, social, and economic. They ...

Book Report: Left BehindCadet Christian Thomas

Book Report: Left Behind

A bored airline pilot Rayford Steele is not happy with his marriage. Having an affair with the beautiful flight attendant, named Hattie Durham is a dream come true. However, fate changes right when the plane takes off for London, almost all of the travelers on the plane strangely vanish into thin air. On earth, mothers run around terrified trying to find their vanished children. Babies are zapped up and pregnant women stomachs suddenly disappear. Yells and screams are heard everywhere as terror takes over the earth. The Rapture has occurred, suddenly driverless cars are colliding everywhere, ...

‘Globalization and its discontents’ is a book written with a sharp wit to provoke the reader into keenly reading and analyzing the whole book. The book is written to illuminate the truth about globalization and the major problems brought about by the whole process of globalization and market liberalization.
The author of the book has vast experience in dealing with world economics having worked at the US economic control body and the IMF. His book appears to draw most of its contents from personal experience while working at the top positions in the institutions.
The main argument of the ...

Ulrich Beck is a German social scientist who has made important additions to how our modern culture solves problems. Cosmopolitan Vision explores the changing world that has been created with globalization. When he talks about globalization he means the globalization of capital and the impact on traditional ways of thinking.

Cosmopolitan Vision makes the argument that nationalism and patriotism to a particular nation state are no longer useful. In fact this type of thinking is detrimental to relationships. There are still boundaries in the world but they are not as rigid as they once were. This is due to the electronic ...