Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Economic Well-Being and Inequality
Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession. The first paper addresses the impact of "asset meltdown" on the wealth of the US middle class, with disparate racial and ethnic impacts. The second studies poverty and inequality...
by Douglas Hartle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This crisp, provocative, lively, sometimes opinionated analysis is an important contribution to the scanty Canadian literature on the politics of the budgetary process. It is an important theoretical contribution to the study of political decision-making made by an economist.
Speaking from...
by Kenneth Kenkichi Kurihara
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1961, Kenneth K. Kurihara’s National Income and Economic Growth makes a pioneering effort to integrate national income accounting, income-employment theory and growth analysis as a unified whole. In his belief that growth economics is taught most effectively as a dynamic implication...
International Trade Policy and Class Dynamics in South Africa
The Economic Partnership Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book provides an innovative perspective on class dynamics in South Africa, focusing specifically on how different interests have shaped economic and trade policy. As an emerging market, South African political and economic actions are subject to the attention of international trade policy. Claar...
Challenging the Orthodoxy
Reflections on Frank Stilwell's Contribution to Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena do not occur in isolation from social and political processes. One leading Australian political economist is Frank Stilwell. Highlights of his work...
Openness, Economic Growth and Regional Disparities
The Case of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Substantial disparities across different Chinese regions are one of the most prominent features in China’s development process. This book investigates the mechanisms through which openness affects regional economic growth and interregional disparities in China. Based on the latest data and employing...
Rethinking Unequal Exchange
The Global Integration of Nursing Labour Markets
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Rethinking Unequal Exchange traces the structural forces that have created the conditions for the increasing use, production, and circulation of temporary migrant nurses worldwide.
Salimah Valiani explores the political economy of health care of three globally important countries in the importing...
by Jonathan Luckhurst
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This book analyzes the Group of Twenty (G20) since the 2008 financial crisis. The latter event undermined conventional wisdom and governance norms, constituting a more contested international economic regime. G20 leaders sought a cooperative response to the 2008 crisis through the forum, aware of...
The Political Economy of Anti-dumping Protection
A Strategic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
This book deals with anti-dumping measures (AD) and investigates two questions: First, what country characteristics affect AD use and notably, do domestic political institutions have an effect? Second, (how) is the decision to impose a new AD measure affected by anticipation of trading partners’...
by Mehmet Barca
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book explores the extent to which economic theory is able to provide the theoretical foundations of strategic management. To this end it draws on the philosophy of science; microeconomic theory; and different approaches to strategic management. The work shows that many of the propositions of...
by Richard Westra
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Based upon distinguishing capitalism from other economic systems, as well as analysis of capitalist change across its stages of development, Richard Westra argues that the economic tendencies we refer to as globalization constitute a world historic transition away from capitalism. Westra forcefully...
When Ideas Fail
Economic Thought, the Failure of Transition and the Rise of Institutional Instability in Post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought that were in potential conflict with the market. These patterns, did not render the emergence of capitalism in Russia impossible. But they entailed a deep...
Towards an Effective European Single Market
Implementing the Various Forms of European Policy Instruments across Member States
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
If the European Union and its Member States are to compete successfully in an increasingly aggressive global market, whilst many other economies continue to get stronger, all parts of the European Union, Member States and the EU institutions, have to regulate smarter. The answer therefore is not to...
Protection Amid Chaos
The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps, in some cases for as long as generations, the link between citizenship and property ownership becomes strained. How do refugees protect these assets and preserve communal ties? How do they maintain...