Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Jon-Arild Johannessen
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
In this book, the author argues that a new form of capitalism is emerging at the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He asserts that we are in the midst of a transition from democratic capitalism to feudal capitalism and highlights how robotization and innovation is leading to a social...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
This book sets out to analyze how the OBOR initiative will influence the world’s geo-political and geo-economic environment, with specific regard to the ‘Belt and Road’ countries and regions. It evaluates what opportunities the OBOR can offer them in light of the constraints they face, paying...
Interdisciplinary Studies of the Market Order
New Applications of Market Process Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Market process theory is crucial to our knowledge and expectations of actors working toward economic coordination and cooperation. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there has been a renewed interested in using new applications of market process theory to better understand the global political...
by Patrici Calvo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This book proposes, from a civil perspective —such as that developed by Stefano Zamagni— and a cordial perspective —such as that developed by Adela Cortina—, orientations to design an economy in tune with what the historical moment demands. Among other things, this comes from encouraging institutions,...
Limited Government and the Death of God
The Rise and Fall of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Limited Government and the Death of God: The Rise and Fall of Freedom is the third of three volumes comprising a comprehensive study of freedom and American society. Volume III explores the historical rise of the free society in the West and especially its relation to the religious worldview that...
Order at the Bazaar
Power and Trade in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Order at the Bazaar delves into the role of bazaars in the political economy and development of Central Asia. Bazaars are the economic bedrock for many throughout the region—they are the entrepreneurial hubs of Central Asia. However, they are often regarded as mafia-governed environments that are...
Informing Public Policy
Analyzing Contemporary US and International Policy Issues through the Lens of Market Process Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Market process theory illustrates how the market is the most effective institution for overcoming the knowledge problem. Specifically, the institutional characteristics of private property, monetary prices, and the disciplining mechanisms of profit and loss, guide actors to utilize knowledge dispersed...
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Public Economics in the United States: How the Federal Government Analyzes and Influences the Economy [3 volumes]
How the Federal Government Analyzes and Influences the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This comprehensive explanation of the U.S. government's role in economics will be an eye-opener for anyone who wants to understand exactly what the government does—and doesn't do—in this most critical area.
• Covers all basic subjects in government economics, addressing the practical...
Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries
New Analytical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. New approaches in development economics have in recent years started from the premise...
The Dilemma of the Commoners
Understanding the Use of Common-Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
One of the classic problems in social science is known as 'the dilemma of the commons', in which land, water, and other resources held jointly by social or economic segments tend to be depleted sooner and to a greater extent than privately held assets. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...
Good Governance Gone Bad
How Nordic Adaptability Leads to Excess
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition...
by David N. Balaam, Bradford Dillman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
*** ***A complete and accessible overview of how politics and economics collide in a global context
This text surveys the theories, institutions, and relationships that characterize IPE and highlights them in a diverse range of regional and transnational issues. The bestseller in the field,...
by Slavoj Žižek
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Non c'è più alcun dubbio: il capitalismo si sta avvicinando ai suoi ultimi giorni. I quattro cavalieri che annunciano la ventura Apocalisse sono secondo Slavoj Žižek: la crisi ecologica globale; i gravi squilibri del sistema economico-finanziario; la rivoluzione biogenetica; le esplosive fratture...
Market-Based Fisheries Management
Private fish and captains of finance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This book reveals how a privatization of fish resources has paved the way for a wide-reaching concentration and change in ownership. It is a thought-provoking contribution to the debate on the future of European fisheries and the possible solutions to overfishing in Europe. Readers will discover a...