Economic Policy category: 3057 books
by Roger Mr. Nord, Yuri Mr. Sobolev, David G. Mr. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
In 1985, Tanzania was in severe economic distress, plagued by widespread shortages and high inflation. Agricultural production, the mainstay of the economy, had been declining steadily since the 1970s. Exports of cash crops, which traditionally accounted for the bulk of foreign exchange earnings, had...
Economics and Modern Warfare
The Invisible Fist of the Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book demonstrates how economic tools have been used throughout history to accomplish goals of military conflict, how they can be used more effectively than traditional means of warfare in the modern era, and how we can derive a better understanding of economic strategy applicable not just to...
Income Inequality
Why It Matters and Why Most Economists Didn't Notice
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price bubble. After careful analyses of statistical evidence, however, Matthew Drennan discovered that income inequality was the decisive factor...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
As European integration has deepened and become more invasive, the tension between the authority of the European Union and the autonomy of member states has increased, while dissatisfaction with the political institutions of the European Union has increased dramatically. How fast and how far European...
The Political Economy of Public Finance
Taxation, State Spending and Debt since the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This volume examines the major trends in public finance in developed capitalist countries since the oil crisis of 1973. That year's oil shock quickly became an economic crisis, putting an end to a period of very high growth rates and an era of easy finance. Tax protests and growing welfare costs often...
The Captured Economy
How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process...
North America’s Lost Decade?
The Munk Debate on the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
As stock markets gyrate, Europe lurches from crisis to crisis, and recovery in the United States slows, the future of the North American economy is more uncertain than ever. Can individual entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and governments create a new era of sustained economic growth? Or, will...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
How to help the unemployed? This subject developed by Henry George is more relevant to our time when unemployment becomes a major problem. Henry George, famous for his book titled Progress and Poverty, was American political economist who developed a "tax reform" project and promoted economic...
by Richard Dien Winfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book develops a comprehensive systematic economic theory, conceiving how the dynamic of market relations generates an economy dominated by the competitive process of individual profit-seeking enterprises. The author shows how, contrary to classical political economy and contemporary economics,...
by Peter Barnes, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Peter Barnes avers that we are no longer in the Holocene epoch, but in the Anthropocene epoch, an era in which humans are "a, if not...
by Dominique Mr. Desruelle, Alfred Mr. Schipke
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Central America has made substantial progress in recent years in moving economic reforms forward and deepening regional and global integration. As result of these efforts, the region has experienced higher growth, increased capital inflows, and some reductions in poverty rates. But Central America...
by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
The past year has been one of strong economic performance for the Western Hemisphere, notwithstanding somewhat slower growth in the United States in recent quarters. Can this performance be sustained, and what challenges does the region face? Reviewing macroeconomic prospects and risks, this report pays...
Super Imperialism
The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Michael Hudson's brilliant shattering book will leave orthodox economists spluttering. Classical economists don't like to be reminded of the ugly realities of Imperialism. Hudson is one of the tiny handful of economic thinkers in today's world who are forcing us to look at old questions in startling...
Developmental Local Governance
A Critical Discourse in ‘Alternative Development’
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and...