Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Regional Economic Outlook, April 2014: Asia and Pacific
Sustaining the Momentum: Vigilance and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
The five Regional Economic Outlooks published biannually by the IMF cover Asia and Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. In each volume, recent economic developments and prospects for the region are discussed as a whole, as well as for specific...
by Peter Birch Sørensen, Pedro Gomes, George Economides
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Theoretically and empirically informed studies on the role and efficiency of the public sector, public wage and employment policy, privatization, tax policy, and fiscal sustainability.
The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, total government...
by International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
The five Regional Economic Outlooks published biannually by the IMF cover Asia and Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. In each volume, recent economic developments and prospects for the region are discussed as a whole, as well as for specific...
The Path to a Modern Economics
Dealing with the Complexity of Economic Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book illustrates how the treatment of complexity in analytical frameworks shapes economic studies. It explores the ways economists make sense of our economic environment and where their differences in interpretations of economic issues and policy proposals are rooted. Schwardt examines developments...
Variations in Economic Analysis
Essays in Honor of Eli Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
For over fifty years, Eli Schwartz has inspired generations of economists through his prolific publications and dedicated in teaching. In 2008, the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise at Lehigh University invited prominent academics and practitioners—including Nobel Prize recipients,...
by Terry Hillman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Economics plays a part in so many news topics-- both domestically and worldwide-- and the need to know the basics is becoming more and more important. Ideal for both the high school and college student, as well as armchair readers, Idiot's Guides: Economics offers an easy-to-understand exploration...
Depoliticisation as an orthodox account of British economic policy since 1997
Criticisms of this thesis
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,7, University of Warwick (University of Warwick, UK), course: Vorlesung University of Warwick, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Only a few authors have yet dealt with the interesting development...
Taxation in Crisis
Tax Policy and the Quest for Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive guide to modern day taxation issues. It presents a thorough overview of many of the crucial aspects of applied taxation and current tax systems, and presents evidence that supports taxation as an important policy issue requiring immediate address globally.
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by Irving Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere. Examining Canadian...
The Dynamics of Environmental and Economic Systems
Innovation, Environmental Policy and Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Exploiting econometric techniques aimed at dealing with the dynamics of economic systems and the heterogeneity of agents performances, the volume integrates innovation-based reasoning with ex-post analyses, and presents ex-ante analyses able to evaluate the role of climate change policies by using...
Singapore's Fiscal Strategies for Growth
A Journey of Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Singapore's fiscal strategies have helped sustain the country's growth as a small and open economy. This book is a pioneering effort in terms of providing a non-technical, holistic view of Singapore's strategies. The author, formerly Director of Fiscal Policy in Singapore's Ministry of Finance and...
Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy
Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies...
by Dean Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.
There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy....
by Michael M. Atkinson, William D. Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
The late twentieth century has seen profound changes in the character of the international economic order. According to the authors of this study, Canada has failed to come to terms with those changes. Our industrial policy is diffuse, ad hoc, and sectoral. Michael Atkinson and William Coleman argue...