Economic Policy category: 3057 books
by M. Stelzner
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.46 percent in 2012 a 144 percent increase. What is driving this astronomic growth in incomes for some? Is it possibly the result of non-meritorious...
Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics
Institutions, Expertise, and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Some of the chief aims of President Ronald Reagan's economic agenda were to reduce the "regulatory burden," minimize state intervention, and reinvigorate market mechanisms. Toward these ends, his administration limited antitrust enforcement to technical cases of price-fixing, invoking the...
Navigating Choppy Waters
China's Economic Decisionmaking at a Time of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
China faces increasing economic headwinds that call into question not only its near-term growth outlook but the longer-term sustainability of its economic success. At a time of leadership transition in Beijing, global markets and policymakers alike are casting an anxious eye on China’s economic...
'An Impartial Umpire'
Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today. The development and reception of this policy are explained as a product of ideological and economic...
by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
This edition of the World Economic Outlook explores how a dramatic escalation of the financial crisis in September 2008 provoked an unprecedented contraction of activity and trade, despite active policy responses. It presents economic projections for 2009 and 2010, and also looks beyond the current crisis,...
External Influences and the Educational Landscape
Analysis of Political, Economic, Geographic, Health and Demographic Factors in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
While the analysis is not the first to investigate empirically the effects of different individual or household factors on school access and completion of Ghanaians, it extends previous work by simultaneously incorporating individual, household, community, regional and national characteristics...
Wealth
NOMOS LVIII
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
An in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies.
Wealth, and specifically its distribution, has been a topic of great debate in recent years. Calls for justice against corporations implicated in the 2008 financial crash; populist...
by Christian A. Nygaard, Abdizhapar Saparbayev, Yerengaip Omarov
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries: Brazil, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia and the UK. The authors situate LC policy within a framework of sustainability in the form of industrial diversification and innovation-led growth,...
Special Economic Zones in India
Status, Issues and Potential
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book examines India’s ten years of experience developing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the performance of SEZs in the context of India’s growing international engagement, its endeavours to attract domestic and foreign investment in manufacturing and services and its aim to increase and...
The Quality of Society
Essays on the Unified Theory of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
This book explores the policy implications of the unified theory of capitalism—how economic growth has led to a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and it presents a new set of economic principles that are needed in this new age. The unified theory of capitalism has been published as a new scientific endeavor,...
The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism
The State, Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In recent years, Israel has deeply and quickly transformed itself from a self-perceived social-democratic regime into a privatized and liberalized "Start-Up Nation" and a highly divided society. This transition to neoliberalism has been coupled with the adoption of a hawkish and isolationist...
People Must Live by Work
Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
In People Must Live by Work, Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea—direct job creation—that transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises. For ten years, between 1933 and 1943, direct...
Jimmy Carter's Economy
Policy in an Age of Limits
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. In Jimmy Carter's Economy, Carl Biven traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors beyond the administration's control...
The social market economy in the age of globalization - problems and perspectives
problems and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2008
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,8, European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel, 55 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic...