Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain
Perspectives on Change and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart...
Economic Assistance and Conflict Transformation
Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book examines the role of economic aid in the management and resolution of protracted ethnic conflicts, focusing on the case study of Northern Ireland.
The book describes the results of a study of the role of economic aid within Northern Ireland, through the viewpoints of citizens collected...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security? The conference explored the economic element of national power. Often ignored and misunderstood in relation to national security, the economy has been taken...
Macroeconomic Policy after the Crash
Issues in Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created. Focusing specifically on issues in monetary and fiscal policy, chapters demonstrate...
by Lok Sang Ho
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Principles of Public Policy Practice was written with policy makers, concerned citizens, and students of public policy in mind. Striving to avoid technical language, the author introduces a new paradigm that starts from the commonality of human nature and the assumption that public policy should be...
by Yitao Tao, Zhiguo Lu
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The book provides insights into the development of special economic zones, which are an important factor in the political and economic reforms in China. It discusses a number of topics, including the history and the modernization of special economic zones in China, the contributions of special economic...
The Great Risk Shift
The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of...
Becoming Europe
Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
We’re becoming like Europe.” This expression captures many Americans’ sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession’s onset in 2008: that an economy once characterized by commitments to economic liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal...
by Douglass C. North
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties...
by Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Is whether we contract cancer—and whether we survive the disease, if we get it—largely just a result of good versus bad luck, or are these outcomes regarding cancer tied to the policies and actions of our federal government? Cancer-treating drug development and approval is overseen by the U.S....
Revisiting the UK and Ireland’s Transatlantic Economic Relationship with the United States in the 21st Century
Beyond Sentimental Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK and Ireland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisis of the past fifty years. When considering recent developments to these economic links, it appears that oppositional forces are at work. On one hand, globalization...
Disrupted Economic Relationships
Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse.
Cross-border economic relationships gradually strengthened in the decades after...
Governance Institutions and Economic Development
Emerging China, India, East Asia and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
"Roy's book is a rich and detailed study of various facets of economic and social development in ten countries, both democratic and authoritarian. Researchers and students will find here a wealth of information and statistics that can be mined to explore fundamental questions around state interventionism...
We Are Better Than This
How Government Should Spend Our Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs...