Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance
Brazil at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Brazil has followed a pattern of economic development inspired by Washington Consensus. This framework includes a set of liberalising and market friendly policies such as privatisation, trade liberalization, stimulus to foreign direct investment, tax reform, and social...
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism
How the IMF has Undermined Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
'The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism' explores the history of and current collision between two of the major global phenomena that have characterized the last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and the ascendancy of neoliberal economic ideas. The book explains not only how...
The New Middle Class
Creating Wages, Wealth, and Opportunity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Former U.S. Congressman Steve Gunderson grew up in a tightly knit middle-class family in a community where people cherished values, civic duty, and the American Dream. But these communities all across America have moved from an age of progress to an era of survival as they seek to navigate new economic...
Running Steel, Running America
Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in
contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses
the steel industry--long considered fundamental to the U.S.
economy--to examine liberal policies and priorities after World
War II. In a provocative revision of postwar American...
Business Networks in Syria
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private...
Jackson Rising
The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in the collection of essays that is Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and...
Greece's Horizons
Reflecting on the Country's Assets and Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have daily debated the course of the Greek economy, prescribing ways to move forward. This collection of essays progressively moves from an analysis of the...
by Ian Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation.
Professor Bowen, with many years’ experience of research into the economic...
The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism
How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Mainstream, or more formally, neoclassical, economics claims to be a science. But as Michael Perelman makes clear in his latest book, nothing could be further from the truth. While a science must be rooted in material reality, mainstream economics ignores or distorts the most fundamental aspect of...
Virtue and Economy
Essays on Morality and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Interest in Aristotelianism and in virtue ethics has been growing for half a century but as yet the strengths of the study of Aristotelian ethics in politics have not been matched in economics. This ground-breaking text fills that gap. Challenging the premises of neoclassical economic theory, the...
by Federal Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—better known as the Stimulus Act—leaves no business, no American untouched. Signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was established to address the current economic crisis...
China's State Owned Enterprise Reforms
An Industrial and CEO Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Much has been written on China's State-Owned Enterprises ( SOEs) reform following the restructuring impact on China's economic reform process in the last decade. However, as a major root of social and economic change, little has been discussed beyond a description of SOEs shortcomings and their overall...
by Yang Jiang, HENRIETTA LEYSER
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Using first-hand interview data, Yang Jiang reveals the key trends of China's trade and financial politics after its WTO accession. In particular, she highlights the influence of competing domestic interests, government agencies and different ideas on China's foreign economic policy.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book combines overviews of the nature and causes of inter-group violence in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa with a collection of country case studies. Both the overview chapter and the case studies trace how economic policy initiatives, and consequent changes in the roles and statuses of various groups, shape conflict or cooperation.