Economic Policy category: 3057 books
by Yves Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.
But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease....
by Kristian Kanthak
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of St Andrews (Department of Economics), course: Monetary Policy, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: According to Goodhart's speech in 1998, the key decision that the...
by International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
This year looks set to be another encouraging one for most sub-Saharan African economies. Reflecting mainly strong demand but also elevated commodity prices, the region's economy is set to expand by more than 5¼ percent in 2011. For 2012, the IMF staff's baseline projection is for growth to be higher...
The American Political Economy
Institutional Evolution of Market and State
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Policy debates are often grounded within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation. In this innovative text, Marc Allen Eisner portrays the state and the market as inextricably linked, exploring the variety of institutions subsumed by the...
by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Despite the recent deterioration in the global economic environment, projections for the region involve only a modest worsening of the outlook. The October 2011 Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere cautions, however, that there are severe downside risks. A sharp slowdown in Asia, for example...
by Bruce Rowse
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Around the world, over 1000 carbon policy measures to reduce carbon emissions have been implemented, with varying degrees of effectiveness. In many cases the level of carbon abatement achieved as a result of a policy is unknown and unquantifiable because it simply has not been measured. The consequence...
Continuities and Discontinuities
The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism. Specialists from a variety of fields and disciplines examine the relation between Canada's changing political economy and its social...
by International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Barring the realization of downside risks to the global economy, growth in the Asia and the Pacific region is expected to gain momentum over the course of 2012, according to this report, and now projected at 6 percent in 2012, rising to about 6½ percent in 2013. Stronger economic and policy fundamentals...
Before the Neoliberal Turn
The Rise of Energy Finance and the Limits to US Foreign Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.S. foreign economic policy from the fixed exchange rate system of the 1960s through to the period between the two oil crises of the 1970s. Chapters pay close attention to the interconnectedness between the long lasting decline of the U.S. Dollar on...
The Next Economics
Global Cases in Energy, Environment, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The Next Economics focuses on how the field of economics must change and incorporate environment, energy, health and new technologies that are called externalities for stopping and reversing climate change. The field of economics needs to become a science. Economics in this book for the Green Industrial...
Wages, Prices, Profits, and Economic Policy
Proceedings of a Conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967. They have been divided into five sections: "Wage-Price-Profit Relations in Canada—The Problem in Perspective," "A Diagnosis of the Problem,"...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
By examining the various policy subfields of European economic integration such as agriculture, trade, banking, economic governance and sustainability this book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of developments that have taken place in the past five years aimed at exploring the path of economic integration in Europe.
by Philipp Schär
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 5 (Erasmus), which is escellent, University of Wroclaw (Faculty of Law and Economy), course: Crucial Problems of Polish Economic Policy in the Globalisation Era, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Through the last couple of decades, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized the importance of political ideas in understanding processes of change and stability in politics and public policy. Yet, surprisingly, relatively little has been done to more clearly and stringently...