Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Transformational Public Policy
A new strategy for coping with uncertainty and risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpredictable and changing circumstances often bring nasty surprises that can increase waste in governance and public debt. This book illustrates how new methods...
IMF Exchange Rate Policy Advice
Revisiting the 2007 IEO Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This report is the seventh in a series of evaluation updates by the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF (IEO) that return to past IEO evaluations and assess the continuing relevance of their main conclusions. The report revisits the 2007 evaluation of IMF Exchange Rate Policy Advice, which found...
Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book maps the latest developments in public procurement of innovation policy in various contexts and analyzes the evolution and development of the various policy solutions in broader institutional contexts. In doing so, it addresses significant theoretical and practical gaps: On the one hand,...
Economic Effects of Public Investment
An Emphasis on Marshallian and Monetary External Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book shows the necessity of measuring the incidence-basis indirect economic effects of public investments. The essential argument can be traced back to H. Mohring versus J. Tinbergen, the conclusions of one contradicting those of the other. Their arguments are called, respectively, “transfer”...
The Political Economy of Innovation Development
Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth. Bazhal develops Schumpeter's theory to argue that genuine economic growth - especially in transitioning and developing countries - is only possible with innovation....
by International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This issue discusses economic developments in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP), which continue to reflect the diversity of conditions prevailing across the region. Most high-income oil exporters, primarily in the GCC, continue to record steady growth and solid economic...
Life and Money
The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Ute Tellmann traces the shifting ontologies for defining economic necessity. She argues that our understanding of the malleability of economic relations has been displaced by colonial hierarchies...
The Map and the Territory 2.0
Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was....
Comeback
America's New Economic Boom
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Charles R. Morris's The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more.
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Why Philanthropy Matters
How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Philanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation--and the world--has remained largely unexplored. Why Philanthropy Matters takes an in-depth look at philanthropy as an underappreciated force in capitalism, measures...
The 4% Solution
Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
**Foreword by President George W. Bush
With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health**
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The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe...
Global Capitalist Crisis and the Second Great Depression
Egalitarian Systemic Models for Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this comprehensive work, Armando Navarro delivers a timely analysis of the global capitalist crisis that has arisen in the United States. Navarro offers a wide-ranging political historical analysis of events the led up to the present co-called “Second Great Depression.” Starting with the end...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through...
The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger
Liberalism, Boom and Bust
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US and European economies. Not long ago, however, Ireland was celebrated as an example of successful market-led globalisation...