Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations.
It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic...
by Karen G. Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation.
This book covers the implications for libraries of a broad...
East Asian Transformation
On the Political Economy of Dynamism, Governance and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy....
The Macroeconomics of Corruption
Governance and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This textbook examines corruption through a macroeconomic lens, exploring the relationship between corruption, fiscal policy, and political economy. The book merges macroeconomic growth models with elements of political economic theory to address important applied topics such as income inequality...
Neoliberalism, Accountability, and Reform Failures in Emerging Markets
Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina, and Chile in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The agenda of neoliberal market reform known as the Washington Consensus, which was meant to turn around the economies of developing and postcommunist countries and provide the bedrock of economic success on which stable democracies could be built, has largely proved to be a failure, with Russia and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book explores – at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies – theories, policies and practices about the contributions of artistic research and innovations towards defining new forms of knowledge, knowledge production, as well as knowledge...
What We Owe
Truths, Myths, and Lies about Public Debt
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The euro crisis, Japan's sluggish economy, and partisan disagreements in the United States about the role of government all have at least one thing in common: worries about high levels of public debt. Nearly everyone agrees that public debt in many advanced economies is too high to be sustainable...
Capital and Time
For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major...
Small Is Still Beautiful
Economics as if Families Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Since then, millions of copies of Schumacher’s work have been sold in dozens of different languages; few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent...
by H. Macartney
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Huw Macartney examines the conflicting movements gripping Europe. He explains why 'more Europe and less democracy' seems to be the order of the day. He argues that state managers responses reflect a long-term disquiet about the economic consequences of democracy. Through a critical engagement with...
by Bruce Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and whole system thinking. It is a thoroughly hopeful...
Evolution of Competition Laws and their Enforcement
A Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This edited volume identifies the various country specific factors that warrant changes in the design and implementation of competition laws.
The book covers case studies of nine countries of differing sizes and at varying stages of economic development, that have at one stage or another repealed...
Employment, Inequality and Globalization
A Continuous Concern
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The nature of globalization and the fallout from the international financial crisis have brought profound changes to societies and economies around the world. This book documents that, over the last two decades, the growth of nonstandard and informal employment has led to greater inequalities. This...
Inequality in Living Standards since 1980
Income Tells Only a Small Part of the Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Studies of wage and income inequality among U.S. citizens over the past thirty years have engendered the common wisdom that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. But is it really that simple? In this meticulous economic study, Orazio P. Attanasio, Erich Battistin, and Mario...