Comparative Economics category: 246 books
Out of the Rabble
Ending the Global Economic Crisis by Understanding the Zimbabwean Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The world economy is in a crisis. From the United States to Europe to Africa, growing uncertainty exists over the future. In the midst of this, however, some nations are thriving. In Out of the Rabble, author David Chiweza dissects the real causes of the financial crisis and presents likely scenarios...
Central Banks into the Breach
From Triumph to Crisis and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Central banks play an important role in the course of national economies and the global economy. Their leaders are regularly feted or vilified, their policy pronouncements highly anticipated and routinely scrutinized. This is all the more so since the global financial crisis. The past fifteen years...
Systemic Changes in the German and Japanese Economies
Convergence and Differentiation as a Dual Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from...
by Jan Winiecki
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
These memoirs portray an individual coping with the adversities and surrealistic qualities of life and work under communism. The author recollects his adolescence, next, how he tried to avoid head-on conflicts, dissented, and how he finally became a known critic of the system. As such, he belonged...
Awkward Embrace
The United States and China in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
In AN AWKWARD EMBRACE, Swagel applies his experience at the Treasury Department to show the reader why America’s economic relationship with China has been a beneficial one and details what needs to happen for this trend to continue. But Blumenthal, a former official specializing in Asia at the Department...
by Tibor Scitovsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This general introduction to the theory of money and of balance of payments adjustment was originally published in 1969. It was the first book to pay full attention to the theory of assets: the relation of the supply of assets to the demand for holding them and the significance of asset movements...
by Robert R. Prechter
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Suppose you had a single framework that allowed you to understand why certain candidates win elections and why nations go to war. And why a country's internal politics can be peaceful one minute and beset with strikes, protests and terrorism the next. Such is the value of Socionomic Causality in Politics....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Originally published in 1987, this book brings together leading authorities from Germany and the USA who analyze how the East German economy actually operated - planning and management, pricing, investment and innovation, the financial system, agriculture and foreign trade (including the special concessions...
Adam Smith
Essays on Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Their Interval Valued Approaches to Probability, Decision Making, and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Adam Smiths original path-breaking work on decision making, uncertainty, and public policies to minimize the impact of uncertainty in the economy has been overlooked for well over two hundred years. One need only peruse the badly analyzed work of Smith in this area, as presented by Henry D. MacLeod...
Trading Places
The Airport Economist's Guide to International Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Is Japan running out of husbands? Is China running out of wives? Did Genghis Khan really invent free trade? And why can’t you see the price of a Big Mac at McDonalds in Argentina? In Trading Places, Tim Harcourt—also known as the Airport Economist—takes you around the globe, talking to businesses,...
Adam Smith
Essays on Adam Smith’S Original Contributions to Economic Thought and the Parallels with the Economic Thought of John Maynard Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Adam Smiths original, path breaking work on decision making, uncertainty and public policies to minimize the impact of uncertainty in the economy has been overlooked for well over two hundred years. One need only peruse the badly analyzed work of Smith in this area as presented by Henry D MacLeod...
by Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen, Johannah Fahey
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible....
by Chary Rangacharyulu, Emmanuel Haven, Bernhard H J Juurlink
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This is one of the few unique books that explicitly explores what the common methodologies are across disciplines that stretch from the humanities to the exact sciences. The goal is to compare and contrast the modes of thinking and methods of research of diverse disciplines to allow readers to explore...
German Industry and German Industrialisation
Essays in German Economic and Business History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Originally published in 1991 this book brings together 9 essays which address a number of central issues relating to the nature of German industrialisation, including the role of foreign competition in fostering technological change, the importance of market integration for economic development and...