Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Playing Our Game
Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything,...
by James King
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Presented with no charts and almost zero math, this essay provides plain language explanations for some of the most relevant economic concepts affecting our world today. For instance, it tells why, despite being a potentially game changing innovation, Bitcoin and other “crypto-currencies” are...
by International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Economic conditions in sub-Saharan Africa have remained generally robust despite a sluggish global economy. The near-term outlook for the region remains broadly positive, and growth is projected at 5¼ percent a year in 2012-13. Most low-income countries are projected to continue to grow strongly, supported...
Great Transformations
Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2002
This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both...
by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The April 2012 issue of the World Economic Outlook assesses the prospects for the global economy, which has gradually strengthened after a major setback during 2011. The threat of a sharp global slowdown eased with improved activity in the United States and better policies in the euro area. Weak recovery...
by International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Prepared by the IMF African Department, and published twice a year in English and French, Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the macroeconomic performance and short-term prospects of sub-Saharan Africa and provides and in-depth analysis of selected topics. The April 2009 Outlook includes...
Tariff and Science Policies
Applications of a Model of Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This controversial analysis of economic nationalism will interest economists and those concerned with nationalism and the competitive position of Canadian manufacturing. It is the first attempt to test empirically an economic model of nationalism, a model which implies than an emphasis on nationalism...
Power and Neoclassical Economics
A Return to Political Economy in the Teaching of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty. For many, this is a fundamental failing that...
Luigi Einaudi: Selected Economic Essays
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal Italian economist, economic historian and political figure: Governor of the Bank of Italy, Minister for the Budget and President of the Italian Republic. He was a prolific writer in all fields and his writings testify to his outstanding contribution to economics during his long career.
Japan Restored
How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World.
In 1979, the book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America by Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel caused a sensation in the United States by pointing out that Japan was surpassing America as world economic...
The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)
A Feminist Critique of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2006
In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical...
by Arup Mitra
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on. It begins by examining the sectoral composition of growth, revisiting...
by Hye Jee Cho
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Increasingly integrated global financial markets have been shaken by a series of severe shocks in recent decades, from Mexico’s Tequila crisis to the upheavals in the Eurozone. These crises have demonstrated that signs of uncertain local economic and political conditions can result in market fluctuations...
What We Owe
Truths, Myths, and Lies about Public Debt
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The euro crisis, Japan's sluggish economy, and partisan disagreements in the United States about the role of government all have at least one thing in common: worries about high levels of public debt. Nearly everyone agrees that public debt in many advanced economies is too high to be sustainable...