Economic Policy category: 3057 books
by Maniel
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
We are the USA, a great Super Power, but we're drowning in debt, unemployment is high, Republicans and Democrats hate each other, the public hates Congress, credit is tight, most of us are overweight, and we have too many lawyers. Are we doomed to mediocrity? No, we can return to prosperity by...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second...
Value Economics
The Ethical Implications of Value for New Economic Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics. In Value Economics, Griffiths and Lucas examine some of the reasons for this ethical gap and discuss the resulting loss of confidence in the financial system. One of the reasons has been hazy or inadequate thinking about...
Economic Globalisation as Religious War
Tragic Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Using a critical theory approach to analyze the globalization of the world economy, this provocative and topical new book presents economic globalization not as a recent development, but rather as a familiar process that has occurred throughout history. Michael McKinley argues that it is ultimately...
by Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
This paper examines whether a mix of tighter fiscal policy, looser monetary policy, and greater reserve build-up would increase growth and depreciate the rand in real terms. The experience of South Africa over the last twenty years is looked at using a number of econometric techniques that control for the external environment.
Money and Government
The Past and Future of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A critical examination of economics' past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time
The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only minor roles in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best...
by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites....
by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1995
The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing...
Beyond Mechanical Markets
Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest on the same fatal assumption--that...
Trading Spaces
Foreign Direct Investment Regulation, 1970–2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive study of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization. Political economy FDI research has long focused on how host-country politics influence the supply of FDI, or how firms choose to invest. By contrast, this book focuses on the politics of FDI demand: the sources...
Social Exclusion
Short and Long Term Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of social...
The Primacy of Regime Survival
State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe’s fragility, this research...
The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2001
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire...
by Robert Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Unfortunately, public debate about the economy has become dominated by myths and nonsense. However, if you prefer economic sense to economic fairy-tales and if you'd like to be rather better-informed about economic matters than the average panellist on Question Time, this may be the book you are looking...