Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Reforging the Central Bank
The Top-Level Design of the Chinese Financial System in the New Normal
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Reforging the Central Bank presents an insightful comparison between financial development in China — a rising global economic superpower — under the old and new normal and an all-encapsulating study of current monetary transmission mechanism and monetary policy instruments. Focusing on the "top-level...
by Douglas D Evanoff, George G Kaufman, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2010 has had a major impact on large cross-border banks, which are widely blamed for the start and severity of the crisis. As a result, much public policy, both in the United States and elsewhere, has been directed at making these banks safer and less influential...
The New International Financial System
Analyzing the Cumulative Impact of Regulatory Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Ever since the Great Recession, the global financial regulatory system has undergone significant changes. But have these changes been sufficient? Have they created a new problem of over-regulation? Is the system currently in a better position than in the pre-Recession years, or have we not adequately...
China's Financial Stability
Inherent Logic and Basic Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, the Financial Tsunami is the most serious global financial crisis since the Great Depression. This book studies financial stability in terms of its determining factors, causal mechanisms and institutional requirements. It aims at understanding...
Economic Growth and Income Disparity in BRIC
Theory and Empirical Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
The recent interest in the development processes of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has been triggered by their high growth performance, but their political and social backgrounds are entirely different. This book traces the economic history of BRIC countries to understand their economic...
by Yasuhiro Monden
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
This book focuses on various business practices to manage ailing companies during economic depression or in the aftermath of man-made and natural disasters. The methods implemented by various Japanese enterprises, such as Japan Air Line, Tokyo Electricity Company, Nissan and Toyota, to overcome their...
Harry S Truman
The Economics of a Populist President
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two. Little however has been written to show that he was also the populist President who set the political economic course for the United States to win it merely...
Alan Greenspan
The Oracle Behind the Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
There is an endless supply of rave reviews for Alan Greenspan and the Fed. This is due to Greenspan's political manipulations, the reluctance of politicians to challenge the Federal Reserve, the press corps' willingness to trade glowing reviews for access, and private economists with ambitions of...
by E Ray Canterbery
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This book is written as a sequel to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, and provides a theoretical framework, for the first time, for surpra-surplus capitalism.
Conventional economics has the income and wealth distributions as "givens". This assumption immediately excludes...
by E Ray Canterbery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Since its onset in late 2007, few expected the Great Recession to be protracted for over half a decade across the world. The Rise and Fall of Global Austerity explains the origins and history of austerity, severe implications of the idea of it and how the continuation of the Great Recession was a...
50 Years of Environment
Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability takes the reader through Singapore's environmental journey over the past 50 years, to its present day challenges and solutions, and seeks to explore what...
Climate Change and the Energy Problem
Physical Science and Economics Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel...
by Ye Qi
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In the midst of global economic development, the world is rapidly running out of resources. It is imperative that the level of carbon emissions be addressed by countries globally. This is especially so in China, where industrialization, city development and progressive agriculture have developed substantially.
This...
Responsible Innovation
From Concept to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
At a time when the limits on human progress are ever-decreasing and the consequences of human actions have never been so critical to predict and manage, the responsible nature of innovations has acquired a whole new importance.
Firms now need to find the appropriate balance between achieving...