Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Systemic Transformation, Trade and Economic Growth
Developments, Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Results
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) have been involved in the transition process. This book compares the progress of some of these economies in transition and analyses their growth potential....
Should We Tax the Rich More?
The Munk Debate on Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
As middle-class incomes stagnate in advanced economies while the rich experience record income gains, the eleventh semi-annual Munk Debate pits wealth redistribution supporters Paul Krugman and George Papandreou against Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer to debate taxation — should the rich pay more?
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Switzerland in Europe
Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
While Switzerland is well known for its specific political institutions, such as direct democracy, federalism and neutrality, or for its banking secrecy, its socio-economic institutions, which decisively contributed to its prosperity, remain relatively unexplored.
This book gives the first...
The role of special eonomic zones in China
History, measures and impact
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Hof, course: International Trade, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Remarkable specialties of the Chinese economic system are...
by Jane Vetter
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Project Report from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, University of North Florida, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Switzerland's economy is very stable and well-known for its monetary security and banking system. Due to its rather small...
Interests and Integration
Market Liberalization, Public Opinion, and European Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Integration in Europe has been a slow incremental process focusing largely on economic matters. Policy makers have tried to develop greater support for the European Union by such steps as creating pan-European political institutions. Yet significant opposition remains to policies such as the creation...
by International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa's economic recovery is well under way, although among country groups there is variation in the speed of the recovery. In most of the region's low-income countries and among the seven oil exporters growth is almost back to precrisis levels. However, in the region's middle-income countries,...
Seven Bad Ideas
How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
A bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories—why they’re wrong, and how they’ve been harming America and the world.
Budget deficits are bad. A strong dollar is good. Controlling inflation is paramount. Pay reflects greater worker skills. A deregulated free...
Progressive Capitalism
How to achieve economic growth, liberty and social justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have...
False Profits
Recovering from the Bubble Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country’s top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions...
The Big Con
Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
The scam of supply-side economics is clearly and convincingly explained in “a classic of political journalism” (Michael Lewis).
Jonathan Chait has written for a range of publications, from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post, and considers himself a moderate. But he’s convinced...
Fed Power
How Finance Wins
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The Federal Reserve, created nearly a century ago, is the most powerful central bank in the world. The Fed's power, which derives from its ability to alter the money supply and move interest rates, weighs heavily not only on the US economy, but on the world economy as well. Not surprisingly, most...
by Tony Cutler, John Williams, Karel Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Presenting a coherent interpretation of the development of economic and social policy in Britain since 1945, this book analyses the political assumptions underlying post-war economic policy. It traces these assumptions through the classic texts of Keynes and Beveridge, the architects of limited, non-socialist...
Government versus Markets
The Changing Economic Role of the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Vito Tanzi offers a truly comprehensive treatment of the economic role of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and world perspective. The book addresses the fundamental question of what governments should do, or have attempted to do, in economic activities in past...