Economic Policy category: 3057 books
A Perilous Path
The Misguided Foreign Policy of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Exposing the moral and strategic deficits of the Obama, Clinton and Kerry approach to world affairs, A Perilous Path takes a close look at American history, while at the same time providing fresh, thought-provoking analysis. It calls for renewal of the best American foreign policy traditions, which...
by Brenda Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for "mixing oil and politics." The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a "war for oil." When energy exporters overtly use energy as a tool to promote their foreign policy goals, Europe and the United States regularly...
Saudi Aramco 2030
Post IPO challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book discusses the strategic shift in ownership of Aramco, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, and its potential impact on Aramco's role in a post- privatized world. Scheduled to become an IPO in 2018, Aramco is on the verge of becoming the largest IPO on the market. As the world’s largest oil...
A Creeping Transformation?
The European Commission and the Management of EU Structural Funds in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
How can we approach the Commission's role as co-manager of policy implementation? Why should we expect the Commission to be pulled into domestic policy execution and to accumulate something like an implementation management capacity? How should we conceptualise the Commission's linkage with post-decision...
Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes
Towards Institutional Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee management, energy production, carbon markets and local government.
by B. Khoo
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Malaysia's 40-year strategy of 'poverty eradication' has met with a great deal of success, yet has caused controversy for its links to ethnically-oriented social restructuring. This book is a critical evaluation of changing policy regimes affecting Malaysia's development, record of industrialization, and efficacy in adapting social policies.
Dispatches from the Frontlines
Studies in Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, and International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Dispatches from the Frontlines analyzes some of the world’s most contentious hotspots. It focuses on such compelling global issues as Third World development, the role of the state, corporatism, and foreign aid. Dispatches from the Frontlines is a thought-provoking book for anyone interested in foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs.
Temporal Horizons and Strategic Decisions in U.S.–China Relations
Between Instant and Infinite
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Using an interdisciplinary social-science approach, Temporal Horizons and Strategic Decisions in US–China Relations: Between Instant and Infinite takes on the challenge of understanding the foreign policy decision process through the lens of the temporal horizon. A temporal horizon is the distance...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Research on government institutions is one of the most exciting intellectual areas in political science and policy studies today. Increasingly it is recognized by scholars in these fields that effective and legitimate policies depend on the design and maintenance of complex institutional arrangements....
by International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
The IMF’s surveillance framework encompasses a new focus on multilateral issues, and especially the spillovers from one economy onto others. This third Annual Report of the Independent Evaluation Office describes ongoing and recently completed evaluations and discusses additions to IEO’s work plan....
Capitalism, Not Globalism
Capital Mobility, Central Bank Independence, and the Political Control of the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Capitalism, Not Globalism shows that, while much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not changed throughout the postwar period. Challenging both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists, William Roberts...
Monetary Policy and the Onset of the Great Depression
The Myth of Benjamin Strong as Decisive Leader
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Monetary Policy and the Onset of the Great Depression challenges Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's now consensus view that the high tide of the Federal Reserve System in the 1920s was due to the leadership skills of Benjamin Strong, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
by Peter Mr. Isard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Tax Reforms toward Fiscal Consolidation
Policy Options for the Government of the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This policy note assesses tax administration measures and tax rate adjustments, two options for the Philippines' fiscal consolidation in terms of their efficiency for revenue mobilization and impacts on tax equity. Its key findings are: 1) a policy mix of a higher value-added tax and a lower corporate...