Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Industrial Poverty
Yesterday Sweden, Today Europe, Tomorrow America
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Conventional wisdom says that Europe’s crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. The crisis, says Larson, is in fact a welfare-state...
Community Economic Development in the United States
The CDFI Industry and America’s Distressed Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement. Community development is now a multi-billion industry in the US. Hundreds of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), located in all regions of the country,...
The Political Economy of Labour Market Reforms
Greece, Turkey and the Global Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Duman examines the transition from Keynesianism to monetarism by presenting an analysis of labour market reforms in Greece and Turkey - questioning the role of class struggle on the implementation process. She also scrutinises the influence of the global economic crisis and the execution of reform policies in these two countries.
Super Rich
The Rise of Inequality in Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced countries. The book, which is aimed at both an academic and a general audience, examines how this happened, starting with the economic shocks of the 1970s...
The Political Economy of Robots
Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant political, social, and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Addressing the major issues arising from the power ascribed to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), this book reflects the bredth, expertise and multifaceted viewpoints of the contributors: members of OPEC itself, industry representatives, and scholars and energy specialists...
The United States in a Warming World
The Political Economy of Government, Business, and Public Responses to Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Addressing the widespread desire to better understand how climate change issues are addressed in the United States, this book provides an unparalleled analysis of features of the US economic and political system that are essential to understanding its responses to climate change. The introductory...
Prying Open Fortress Europe
The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Prying Open Fortress: The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration is unique in the field of migration studies since it traces the microeconomic motivations of the relevant economic actors who influence labor migration policy. The book updates the study of the political economy of immigration through a focus...
The Sri Lankan Economy
Charting A New Course
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This is a pivotal period in Sri Lanka's economic development. The end of conflict opens a door for accelerated economic growth and poverty reduction. Reform is needed to regain momentum because fiscal imbalances and rising public debt could jeopardize macroeconomic stability. The economy would benefit...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This book offers important new insights into recent advances and perspectives in the field of political economy of development in Southeastern European countries. In addition, it provides theoretical and empirical contributions to political economy of development in an international context. Written...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
This book looks at developmental pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support economic transformation and participation of the poor in growth processes.
by Indermit S. Gill, Martin Raiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The public debt crisis in Europe has shaken the confidence not just in the Euro, but in the European model. Aging and uneconomical Europeans are being squeezed between innovative Americans and efficient Asians, it is said. With debt and demographics dragging down them down, one hears that European economies...
Russian Energy in a Changing World
What is the Outlook for the Hydrocarbons Superpower?
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
For a long time Russia’s position as a key global energy player has enhanced Moscow’s international economic and political influence whilst causing concern amongst other states fearful of becoming too dependent on Russia as an energy supplier. The Global Financial Crisis shook this established...
Saving the Market from Itself
The Politics of Financial Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The 2007–9 financial crisis threatened economic disaster on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, but rapid state action prevented the widely feared devastation. The German response was considerably more generous to banks than the American or British bailouts. Drawing on interviews and primary...