Economic Policy category: 3057 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Economic growth continues to transform the economic and political landscape of Asia. Equally the policies now being adopted to promote private sector participation, re-structure state entities, and reduce the presence of the state in the provision of public goods and services, are tied to fundamental...
by Helge Berger, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Maurice Obstfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The paper makes an analytical contribution to the revived discussion about the euro area’s institutional setup. After significant progress during the euro crisis, the drive to complete Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) had stalled, and the way forward will benefit from an in-depth look...
James M. Buchanan
A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.”
– Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA
"The overwhelming impression the reader gets from...
Monetary Politics
Exchange Rate Cooperation in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
A single currency--and the necessary prior condition of exchange rate cooperation and the stabilization of exchange rates--has been an elusive goal of many European leaders for more than twenty years. While much of the literature on exchange rate cooperation within the European Union focuses on the...
The Economic Theory of Eminent Domain
Private Property, Public Use
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Surveys the contributions that economic theory has made to the often contentious debate over the government's use of its power of eminent domain, as prescribed by the Fifth Amendment. It addresses such questions as: when should the government be allowed to take private property without the owner's...
For Your Own Good
Taxes, Paternalism, and Fiscal Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Taxing “sin” is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of selective taxation. Founding Father and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is said to have imposed a tax on whiskey “before the ink on the US Constitution was dry.” Motivated as much by a need to increase revenues as by a desire...
Private Governance
Creating Order in Economic and Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
From the first stock markets of Amsterdam,London, and New York to the billions of electronic commerce transactions today, privately produced and enforced economic regulations are more common, more effective, and more promising than commonly considered. In Private Governance, prominent economist Edward...
Monetary Policy, Financial Crises, and the Macroeconomy
Festschrift for Gerhard Illing
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This volume investigates different aspects of monetary policy and prevention of financial crises. It discusses some recently suggested measures for central banks' responses to liquidity shortages and to the liquidity trap, methods for assessing the potential of crisis contagion via the interbank network,...
by Simon Gray, Philippe Mr. Karam
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This paper documents the main themes covered in two seminars (December 2011 and September 2012) on monetary policy and implementation at the IMF—Middle East Center for Economics and Finance, and includes country case studies. Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and swings in cross-border...
The Shared Society
A Vision for the Global Future of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Latin America has gone through a major transformation in the past two decades. According to the United Nations, with the discovery of new oil and mineral deposits and increases in energy exports, manufacturing and tourism, Latin America's economic growth and development will only continue, foreign...
Comparative Economic Systems
Culture, Wealth, and Power in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard rules of economic engagement, creating systems that differ markedly from those predicted by the theory of general market competition. This analysis is grounded...
Mandate for change
policies and leadership for 2009 and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities. Most major institutions of higher...
Poverty and Exclusion in the Western Balkans
New Directions in Measurement and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This book maps the latest developments in the policy relevant analysis on poverty, inclusion and the social agenda in the Western Balkans. It does so by presenting a selection of recent papers which explore from a methodological and analytical point of view how the inclusion agenda can be monitored...