Economic Policy category: 3057 books

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007–8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures? If so, this book is for you. Using imagined dialogue between three economists with contrasting theoretical perspectives and a student who knows little about economics, different...

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,7, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Finanzwissenschaften), course: The reform of federalism, 30 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The term federalism...

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 2,3, Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Business School), course: EU Policy & Business, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'Was it over the line?' - maybe one of the most import questions...

We live in a culture of credit. As wages have stagnated, we’ve seen a dramatic surge in private borrowing across the western world; increasing numbers of households are sucked into a hopeless vortex of spiralling debt, fuelled by exploitative lending. In this book Johnna Montgomerie argues...

This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years. One direction has been to reflect real economic circumstances,...

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: A-, University of Michigan, language: English, abstract: While it is true that there is no perfect government, it is also true that the government is not the root of every evil. Consequently, this paper aims...

Why did the United States forsake its support for public works projects, public schools, public spaces, and high corporate taxes for the neoliberal project that uses the state to benefit businesses at the expense of citizens? The short answer to this question is race. This book argues that the white...

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, course: Research Methods, language: English, abstract: On the 1st of January 2008, the latest anti-smoking law was introduced in eight German states...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1.0, Otto Beisheim School of Management Vallendar (Kuehne Foundation Chair in Logistics Management), language: English, abstract: Replacing traditional internal combustion engine cars by electric vehicles...

This book describes the international context and some of the factors that have weakened the influence of Keynesian economic thought. It illustrates economic responses offered by the new Keynesian school and the alternative perspective on the global crisis presented by the monetary circuit theory,...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 16,00/20,00, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, course: Topics in Economic Integration, language: English, abstract: The paper discusses the evolution and current state of the effects on trade...

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French *régulation *theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about...

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what...

Politicians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted myths and demonstrates that we are in fact navigating...