Economic Policy category: 3057 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
An interdisciplinary group of scholars from the global North and South critically explore the global deepening of market economy models. In case studies including Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, they examine the associated tensions of livelihood and ecology in the current context of global...
Remaking Scarcity
From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is in fact a result of the social and economic processes of the capitalist system.
The...
by Ilan Bijaoui
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Economic Reconciliation Process develops hybrid cross-border models based on the free economic zone, the industrial district, and the cluster to generate a common economic interest between countries and populations in declared or potential conflict in the Middle East.
by John Maynard Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
In the light of subsequent history, Essays of Persuasion is a remarkably prophetic volume covering a wide range of issues in political economy. In articles on the Versailles Treaty, John Maynard Keynes foresaw all too clearly that excessive Allied demands for reparations and indemnities would lead...
China Dreams
China's New Leadership and Future Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
With the theme “China Dreams: Opportunities and Challenges,” this book contributes to emerging debates on Chinese new leadership's adaptability to important political, economic, social, and global issues. Can China's political system sustain “China Dreams”, a slogan ushered by Chinese President...
Macroeconomic Theory
Fluctuations, Inflation and Growth in Closed and Open Economies
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Macroeconomics is the application of economic theory to the study of the economy’s growth, cycle and price-level determination. Macroeconomics takes account of stylized facts observed in the real world and builds theoretical frameworks to explain such facts. Economic growth is a stylized fact of...
What is Economic Development?
A Comparative Performance of Indian States
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Development performance is not merely economic growth and prosperity, but includes a multitude of goals. This monograph makes an attempt to conceptualize development, consisting of eight dimensions – material prosperity, education, health, economic security, personal security, environmental conditions,...
Competition, Coordination and Diversity
From the Firm to Economic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Competition, or the freedom to enter into a market, contributes greatly to the differentiation of human activities and therefore to economic progress. This fascinating book highlights the similarities between human systems at both the micro and macro level, and demonstrates how competition can positively...
Bootleggers & Baptists
How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
In Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities...
After the Music Stopped
The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
New York Times** Bestseller**
One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons.
Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history—books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S....
Wealth and Democracy
How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed...
Circus Maximus
The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Athletes compete for national honor in Olympic and World Cup games. But the road to these mega events is paved by big business. We all know who the winners on the field are-but who wins off the field?
The numbers are staggering: China spent $40 billion to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games...
by White House Staff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
When Ronald Reagan took office, he was facing an economic downturn similar to the one our country is currently experiencing. Key members of Reagan’s staff prepared an Initial Actions Project, which takes every branch of government, including Congress, into consideration, and offers a clear and concise...
by W. Arthur Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Discussing the problems arising from a mixed economy, Principles of Economic Planning argues for a system of controls that combine and encourage the best features of laissez faire and state planning.
Chapters covering the following are included:
* Money
* Investment
* Foreign Trade
*...