Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Democracy Within Reason
Technocratic Revolution in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1997
During the 1980s the Mexican regime faced a series of economic, social, and political disasters that led many to question its survival. Yet by 1992 the economy was again growing, with inflation under control and the confidence of international investors restored. Mexico was now touted as an example...
Policy-Making in the Treasury
Explaining Britain’s Chosen Path on European Economic and Monetary Union.
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Going behind the doors of the Treasury and Number 10, this book explores why successive British Prime Ministers from Callaghan to Blair have been hesitant towards European Economic and Monetary Union. It uses official documents and interviews with former ministers to understand discussions that took place at the heart of government.
The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine
Slow Starts, False Starts, and a Last Chance?
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Marking the 25th anniversary of Ukraine as a sovereign nation, this book traces its economic transformation since 1991. Post-communist transition has been a highlight of recent history, and Ukraine stands out as one of its most interesting and puzzling cases. Havrylyshyn offers the first comprehensive...
by Xiang Wu
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This book offers an eyewitness account of China’s twenty years of rural reform. It records the successive changes in different types of China’s rural economic systems, from rural cooperatives to the people’s communes to the household responsibility system. It demonstrates that, as the starting...
Taiwan in the 21st Century
Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Throughout the twentieth century Taiwan was viewed as a model - whether in terms of a model colony, a model China or a development model. This perception was based on the notion of Taiwan undergoing an economic miracle and political developments. Yet much of Taiwan’s history is unique and may not...
The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora
Patterns of Socio-Economic Influence
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The South Asian diaspora is a diverse group who settled in different parts of the world, often concentrated in developed countries. This volume explores how transnational politics overlap with religious ideologies, media and culture amongst the diaspora, contributing to diasporic identity building in host countries.
The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia
A Wealthy Theocracy in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In 1947 a group of Yoruba-speaking fishermen who had been persecuted because of their religious beliefs founded their own community in order to worship in peace. Although located in an impoverished part of Nigeria, within a few years the village enjoyed remarkable economic success. This was partly...
Business & Economics Collection: Thorstein Veblen Edition (30+ Works in One Volume)
The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of...
Ignoble Displacement
Dispossessed Capital in Neo-Dickensian London
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
We live in a time of great social, political and economic crisis that many date to the collapse of the global banking system in 2008. Many are finding it difficult to contextualise the hardships that have taken place in the years following on from those events. It is difficult to find the answers in...
The Quest for Prosperity
Reframing Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Envisioning a different mode of economic relations requires a rethinking of the classical frames of references we commonly take for granted. The implicit assumptions that we carry into critical debates are the stumbling blocks for finding useful solutions to age-old economic problems. And these impediments...
Champions of a Free Society
Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
This book is constructed around great thinkers of the past and present who have been influential in developing the philosophy of freedom. Its main purpose is to provide a survey and overview of the ideas of leading individual philosophers and economists of capitalism who have contributed to developing...
Industrial Relations
Challenges and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented...
Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica
The Search for Oro Verde
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica: The Search for Oro Verde, by Andrew P. Miller, examines the use of ecotourism as a development strategy in Costa Rica and its applicability to other Central American states. Ecotourism provides an important environmental check on industry, giving the environment...
Across the Great Divide
New Perspectives on the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The financial crisis of 2008 devastated the American economy and caused U.S. policymakers to rethink their approaches to major financial crises. More than five years have passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but questions still persist about the best ways to avoid and respond to future financial...