Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Confronting Inequality
How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International...
Getting Back to Full Employment
A Better Bargain for Working People
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
While most people intuitively know that low unemployment is important to job seekers, they may not realize that high levels of employment actually would make an enormous difference in the lives of large segments of the workforce who already have jobs. Particularly in an era of historically high wage...
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics
Theory, History, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics provides a complete theoretical, historical, and policy-focused account of the international financial system that covers all of the standard topics, such as foreign exchange markets, balance of payments accounting, macroeconomic policy in an open...
Designing Public Policies
An Approach Based on Multi-Criteria Analysis and Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
This monograph provides a novel approach to the evaluation of economic policy by combining two different analytical strategies. On the one hand, the computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis, a standard tool mostly used to quantify the impact of economic measures or changes in the structural data...
Bio-fuels. Is Ethanol the answer to America's fossil fuel petroleum energy crisis?
Is Ethanol the answer to America's fossil fuel petroleum energy crisis?
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 96.00, University of Phoenix, course: Utilizing Information in College Writing, language: English, abstract: The United States is in the midst of an energy crisis. The U.S. imports the majority of its fossil fuel...
by Alejandro Santos
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Paraguay: Addressing the Stagnation and Instability Trap provides an overview of the analytical insights and policy challenges that a country faces while on the path to sustained growth with stability. It covers a wide range of themes, including improving macroeconomic assessments and policy implementation,...
Inequality and Economic Policy
Essays In Honor of Gary Becker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications,...
The Global Impact of Unconventional Shale Gas Development
Economics, Policy, and Interdependence
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book discusses the economic, political, and environmental issues surrounding the international exploration and exploitation of conventional and unconventional natural gas. Shale gas development in recent years has changed the energy discussion in the US as existing reserves of natural gas coupled...
by Jerry Wyant
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In this book, you will find essays on common misconceptions in topics such as taxes; unemployment; inflation; income inequality; deficits and debt; Social Security; welfare; and the roles that market forces, corporations, and the government play in the economy.I do my best to write about economics...
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Capitalism in crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why are advanced capitalist economies so sick and why do conventional policy solutions, such as reduced taxes and increased money supply, produce only wider income disparity and inequality? We now live in a new world in which we enjoy the highest living standard in...
by Tianyong Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Since its reform and opening up, China has experienced unprecedented social and economic development. It is important to understand the biggest and fastest growing economy's policy and strategy. As a key director in Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the author...
by Stefania Ms. Fabrizio
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
This forthcoming title in the Departmental Paper Series describes the special challenges facing low-income countries as economic growth contracts by an estimated 1.1 percent globally. Coping with the Crisis: Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries provides an assessment of the implications of the financial...
A History of American State and Local Economic Development
As Two Ships Pass in the Night
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems approach while exploring the three eras of economic development.
Migration from CEE - Chances and Risks
Chances and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, , course: WER Prize 2004, language: English, abstract: The debate on movement of people (migration) ranges, 10 days after the probably most important historical moment of European history in the 21st century, from...