Comparative Economics category: 246 books
Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia
An Institutional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Title first publishedin 2003. This comprehensive book focuses on the prevailing conditions in Asia and Africa under various macroeconomic and sectoral themes in order to provide in depth explanations for the divergent development experiences of the two regions. Seeking to go further than the simple...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book deals with the relationship between the competitiveness of countries in Europe and the analysis of macroeconomic imbalances. It focuses mainly on a European analysis, along with special studies of the German economy, which is rarely considered to be a cause for the current crisis. The book...
Social Partnership at Work
Workplace Relations in Post-Unification Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book, originally published in 1999, provided the first comparative, in-depth analysis of workplace relations in east and west Germany. The collapse of communism and the ensuing process of reform means that East Germany provides a particularly interesting case, having experienced rapid and radical...
by Steven Rosefielde
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Twentieth and twenty-first century communism is a failed experiment in social engineering that needlessly killed approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more. These high crimes against humanity constitute a Red Holocaust that exceeds the combined carnage of the French Reign of...
Global Capitalism in Disarray
Inequality, Debt, and Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract. This book focuses on the incidence of these phenomena in the US, UK, Greece, Spain, Chile, South Africa, Australia,...
by Linda A. Heilman
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Originally published in 1991 this book provides a multi-faceted analysis of German unemployment between 1873 and 1913. It can also be read as an example of social scientific historiography during the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. Finally, the study has value for the comparative perspective...
Transition Economies
Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Providing full historical context and drawing on a wide range of literature, this book explores the continuous economic and social transformation of the...
Joint Stock Banking in Germany
A Study of the German Creditbanks Before and After the War
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This classic study of German creditbanks was first published in 1930 and even now deserves its place as a fundamental text on banking in Germany. It is a valuable comparative study of one important type of financial institution and represents a detailed survey of Joint Stock Banking in Germany in the pre-war, war and post-war periods upt o 1928.
The Causes of Industrial Disorder
A Comparison of a British and a German Factory
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Originally published in 1983, this comparative study of day-to-day industrial relations in two closely matched factories in Britain and Germany, the author examines the causes of the disorder in British manufacturing industry. The book describes how, in the absence of government in the British factory,...
The Economics of Paradise
On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The text searches for the origins of modern thinking in one of the best-known stories of our cultural heritage. By applying institutional and constitutional economics to biblical interpretation, it uses a new approach to reconstruct the Paradise story.
By tracing the Paradise story, in economic...
Economics
Making sense of the modern economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again.
This is the starting point and theme of this radically revised Economist books classic, now available for the first time in America.
Richard Davies, economics...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Robert Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, exploring and charting the boundaries of theology and economics from the Western foundations of ancient...
by Tejvan Pettinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Crack the world of money and understand the economic theory that has shaped nations and influenced the way you live now.
From Keynesian models to how inflation affects interest rates, Cracking Economics will make the seemingly complex world of global finance easily understood.
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50 Economics Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Explore the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in economics. Gain the insights and research of contemporary economists and commentators.
WINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018
Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time...