Economic Policy category: 3057 books
The Culture Factory
Creativity and the Production of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
“Where are your factories that produce culture? Where are your painters, your composers, your architects, your writers, your filmmakers?” The book opens with Leonardo da Vinci and Qin Shi Huang asking embarrassed contemporary policy makers these questions. The first part of the book is therefore...
Technology-Based Nascent Entrepreneurship
Implications for Economic Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This edited volume presents new means of quantifying the behavioral and consequential differences between technology-based and non-technology-based nascent entrepreneurs in varied economies. It explores the socioeconomic place of technology in developed and developing countries, and describes the...
New Supply Side Economics
The Structural Reform on Supply Side and Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book investigates the basic theoretical framework and conducts a logical analysis of China’s new supply-side economics, while also providing a strategic path to remedy the plight of China’s economic development. From the perspective of connotation, theory and methods, China’s structural...
by V. Borooah
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
This study discusses and analyses the broad issues that have underpinned the current European economic crisis. It examines the experiences of three countries – Greece, Ireland, and Portugal – which reveal an economic system which lacks the adjustment mechanisms that countries with sovereign currencies take for granted.
Regulations, Crown Corporations and Administrative Tribunals
Royal Commission
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
This is the third of six volumes dealing with Law, Society and the Economy (see list in back of book), included in the Collected Research Studies of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada.
This volume surveys administrative law in its various manifestations...
by Zülküf Aydin
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2004
This book analyses the political and socio-economic problems faced by Turkey in recent decades and the country's gradual integration into the global economy.
Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923. Social unrest, political...
India-Pakistan Trade Normalisation
The Unfinished Economic Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book explores the unfinished India–Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book “India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations” published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral engagement...
by Sayer, Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can’t afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others, through the control of property and money. Leading...
by Sean Matgamna
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The economic crisis of 2008 and its aftershocks cracked the mystique which the world capitalist system had built in the two decades after the collapse of Russian and European Stalinism. For the first time in 30 years the left is on the offensive in the Labour Party.
Socialism is again on...
The GCC Economies
Stepping Up To Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 has affected the countries of the region to varying degrees, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, comprising Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain. The GCC has become a significant regional bloc playing a vital economic...
The Capitalist Personality
Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most...
Hypercapitalism
The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism
Bestselling “overeducated cartoonist” Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything from the...
by Mishu Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
This book details a new empirical co-relation discovered between Unemployment and Labor Productivity and studies the factors affecting this relation.This book serves as a guide for all people and especially for our lawmakers to solve the nation's unemployment problem in a very innovative...
by Kent Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Who is afraid of the WTO, the World Trade Organization? The list is long and varied. Many workers--and the unions that represent them--claim that WTO agreements increase import competition and threaten their jobs. Environmentalists accuse the WTO of encouraging pollution and preventing governments...