Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Imperial Germany & the Industrial Revolution
The Economic Rise as a Fuel for Political Radicalism & The Background Origins of WW1
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This eBook edition of “Imperial Germany & the Industrial Revolution” has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The book was published in 1915, after the First World War began. Veblen considered warfare a threat to economic productivity...
Boom Town Blues: Elliot Lake
Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community tells of the Northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake, once the uranium capital of the world, which was devastated by the closing of the uranium mines operated by Denison and Rio Algom. The closures and mass layoffs were first announced...
Maonomics
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory...
Going Places
Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Migration and the movement of people is one of the critical issues confronting the world’s nations in the twenty-first-century.This book is about the economic contribution of migration to and from New Zealand, one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the debate. Can immigration, in economic...
The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations
An Uneasy Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book examines the political factors in the economic relationship between the European Union and China that help to explain the apparent stalling of the EU-China strategic partnership in policy terms. Written by two specialists with long experience of EU-China relations, this new volume draws...
by Tahir Mahmutefendic
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
In-spite of uninterrupted prosperity from 2003 until 2008 the main characteristic of the transition period in South-East European countries has been a plight and suffering of majority of population. The transition produced some winners and many losers. This is why at least 80% of people in the South-East...
World Economic and Social Survey 2012
In Search of New Development Finance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) is a yearly publication that provides objective analysis of pressing long-term social and economic development issues, and discusses the positive and negative impact of corresponding policies. Scholars, policymakers, development thinkers and practitioners,...
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity...
by Art Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
After my first family broke up I went to the University of British Columbia and did a degree in economics because I was intrigued by the way in which money is created and because I wanted to understand the dynamics of how we exchange goods and services.I concluded economics is mostly about relationships...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
by Pekka Sutela
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition...
Europe's Troubled Region
Economic Development, Institutional Reform, and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
The countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the province of Kosovo - form a core European region. The region is known for its instability and recent history of wars and civil conflicts, but far less is known about the changes that...
by Sabyasachi Kar, Kunal Sen
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
‘This book is different from most other attempts to understand the politics of Indian economic development. Breaking down the last 65+ years of Indian development into several episodes of growth, it provides a rich set of insights into the political economy of the Indian development process and...
The Political Economy of Brazil
Public Policies in an Era of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The transition from authoritarian to democratic government in Brazil unleashed profound changes in government and society that cannot be adequately understood from any single theoretical perspective. The great need, say Graham and Wilson, is a holistic vision of what occurred in Brazil, one that opens...