Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Niall Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Is America an empire? Certainly not, according to our government. Despite the conquest of two sovereign states in as many years, despite the presence of more than 750 military installations in two thirds of the world’s countries and despite his stated intention "to extend the benefits of freedom...to...
China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa
Powering Development?
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid, trade and investment have on the politics of specific African countries, and the extent to which it excites geopolitical competition.
China's Challenge to US Supremacy
Economic Superpower versus Rising Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book analyzes China’s development in the wider context of the global trade, investment, security, knowledge and production regimes established by the United States. It argues that, although China has thus far been able to enjoy rapid growth within this global architecture, it will have to...
Hydropolitics, Interest Groups and Governance
The Case of the Proposed Epupa Dam
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This book investigates the role that interest groups have played over the years in influencing the government of Namibia, the World Bank, the European Union and project implementation authorities to not construct the proposed Epupa Hydroelectric Power Station on the Kunene River in the Baynes mountains,...
State Capitalism
How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "Washington Consensus:" the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability....
Oil and Finance
The Epic Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
These political essays, which originally appeared in the Huffington Post, chronicle the financial and environment malfeasance of the oil industry during the last five years.
Oil is a commodity that is essential to the worlds economic well-being. But it is also an industry rife with corruption....
Globalization and Agriculture
Redefining Unequal Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...
Digging Out
Global Crisis and the Search for a New Social Contract
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
In hard times, dissension mounts.
The old social contract flounders and cannot be revived.
Forces of reaction assert themselves.
Danger intensifies.
In dark times, opportunity appears.
Such is our time. It is time to debate and define the next social contract, to articulate its political aims...
Sorting Africa's Developmental Puzzle
The Participatory Social Learning Theory as an Alternative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Sorting Africa's Development Puzzle: The Participatory Social Learning Theory as an Alternative Approach is a comprehensive exploration of why Africa has not managed to achieve a sustainable and self-regenerating development over the past half-century of effort. The work situates the problems of Africa's...
The State and the Private Sector in Latin America
The Shift to Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book follows ten political economic histories since the 1970s, showing how different forms of partnership have developed, flourished or declined over the time. The author's argument is supported by rich empirical material. It places partnership schemes in a broader social context and provides a deep insight into the phenomenon.
The Complete Guide to Investing in Gold and Precious Metals: How to Earn High Rates of Return Safely
The Complete Guide to Investing in Gold and Precious Metals: How to Earn High Rates of Return Safely
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
As the U.S. economy struggles to recover from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, citizens across the country are searching for alternative investment vehicles. Many are finding solace in a precious metal that has been a universal measure of wealth since early civilization: gold....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development.
Illustrated by data and 'stylized' accounts, the international contributors chart the evolution of knowledge economies, questioning the way in which they work and criticize...
Continuities and Discontinuities
The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism. Specialists from a variety of fields and disciplines examine the relation between Canada's changing political economy and its social...
Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This book examines recent trends towards mergers and acquisitions in Japan, Greater China and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2004. Comparisons are made among regions and between countries of particular regions.
The economic profiles and investment climates of key countries are discussed and...