Economic Policy category: 3057 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book discusses the latest theoretical advances in regional innovation research, presents empirical cases involving the development of regional innovation systems (RISs), and explores regional innovation policy approaches. Grounded in the extensive literature on RISs, it addresses state-of-the-art...
Paying for the welfare state in the 21st century
Tax and spending in post-industrial societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
What does the future hold for the welfare state in the post-industrial 21st century? Political and economic forces are threatening the taxation regimes of highly globalised, capitalist societies, prompting an urgent debate around the function of the welfare state and how we pay for it. In a challenge...
Towards just and sustainable economies
The social and solidarity economy North and South
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has been suggested as an alternative. What can contribute in terms of generating livelihoods that provide a dignified life,...
Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development. The book includes theoretical and policy analyses as well as micro level country case studies, including Norway, Chile, Indonesia, Nigeria and Botswana.
The EU and the World Market for Sugar - Finally Sweets for the Developing Countries?
Finally Sweets for the Developing Countries?
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: A, Corvinus University Budapest, course: International Trade Policy, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'Without needs the EU murders existences!' is written in big letters on bills...
by Motoshi Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan illuminates Japan’s contemporary and historical struggle to adjust policy and the institutional architecture of government to an evolving global order. This focused and scholarly study identifies that key to this difficulty is a structural...
Local Government Budget Stabilization
Explorations and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This book is the first comprehensive, full-scale treatment of the politics, law, and economics with regard to the policies and policy instruments for budget stabilization at the local level. It examines budget stabilization in the United States from the 1910s to 2010 (from adoption of public budgeting...
Turkey's trade liberalization and it's accession to the European Union Customs Union
A bird's eye view
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1.3, Marmara University (Department of Economics), course: Turkish Economy, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: People living in Turkey might have very well experienced it, people, like the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched...
Governing Financial Services in the European Union
Banking, Securities and Post-Trading
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The global financial crisis that reached its peak in late 2008 has brought the importance of financial services regulation and supervision into the spotlight.
This book examines the governance of financial services in the EU, asking who governs financial services in the EU, how and why, and...
by Robert D. Atkinson, Stephen J. Ezell
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this...
President Obama's Tax Piracy
Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Starting on Jan. 1, 2011, President Obama’s economic recovery policy will begin the implementation of comprehensive, across-the-board tax rate increases for every major federal tax, along with some completely new taxes. Yet Obama and Congressional Democrats seek even more tax increases.In this insightful...
Makers and Takers
How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?
In looking at the forces that brought our current administration to power one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief...
America the Principled
6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Sometimes it seems that Americans are divided in countless ways—red or blue; black, brown, or white; rich or poor; male or female. What happened to America as the land of freedom and openness? In America the Principled, renowned Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss...