Economic Policy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484966136Author Matt PalumboFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is advocated on political, ethical and instrumental grounds and believed to benefit...

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems "Bursting with sage, practical advice for public sector officials and civil society actors who want to engage...

The IMF stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the Fund has had its power and prestige restored by the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis. But will the resurgent IMF assert a more...

The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization - "neoliberalism" - took firm root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher...

In this passionate and powerful book-part manifesto, part plan of action-the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable...

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never...

The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official US data, that Marx's crisis theory can explain these events...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479140145Author Lewis LehrmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262018692Author Jean HindriksFormat HardbackPage Count 1016Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1778gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 32mm

Leading governance theorist Jonathan S. Davies develops a rich comparative analysis of austerity governance and resistance in eight cities, to establish a conjunctural perspective on the rolling crises of neoliberal globalism. Drawing on a major...

In order to analyze Brazil's recent accumulation of capital in the light of its continued dependence, Peter Evans focuses on the relationships among multinational corporations, local private entrepreneurs, and state-owned enterprises that have developed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356994713Author Subhash Chandra GargFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm *...

Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523003020Author Raymond W. BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler PublishersWeight(grams)...

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogan's ambition to impose 'one-man rule' have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life, but what does this mean for workers? ...

This book traces the economic ideology of the UK Labour Party from its origins to the current day. Through its analysis, the book emphasises key crises, including the 1926 General Strike, the 1931 Great Depression, the 1979 Winter of Discontent and the...

Released in 1984, Steven E. Rhoads' classic was considered by many to be among the best introductions to the economic way of thinking and its applications. This anniversary edition has been updated to account for political and economic developments -...

In this passionate and powerful book-part manifesto, part plan of action-the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable...

In this penetrating volume, Jeffery Webber charts the political dynamics and conflicts underpinning the contradictory evolution of left-wing governments and social movements in Latin America in the last two decades. Throughout the 2000s, Latin America...

Governments typically build and maintain public infrastructure, which they fund through taxes. But in the past twenty-five years, many developing and advanced economies have introduced public-private partnerships (PPPs), which bundle finance,...

The 2008 collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, raising deep moral and institutional questions about the problems of economic inequality and economic power on the one hand, and...

There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583677544Author Laurence H ShoupFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879899Author Gene SperlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

The traditionally, and wrongly, imagined vulnerabilities of the welfare state are economic. The true threats are demographic and political. The most frequently imagined threat is that the welfare state package reduces the level and growth of GDP. It does...

Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice...

Images of warn-torn societies, and of the disruption and devastation that inevitably result, are a regular feature of today's media. How can such societies, devastated by war, be successfully rehabilitated? What are the challenges of reconstruction and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692793367Author Dean BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Center for Economic and Policy ResearchPublisher Center for Economic and Policy...

When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material...

The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are...

Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it matters: President...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815725336Author David StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman Finklestein Workers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply integrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143459828Author Vijay KelkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604866797Author Andrew RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 214g

Why have Americans severely limited the estate and gift tax - ostensibly targeted at only the very wealthy - but greatly expanded the subsidies to low-wage workers through the Earned Income Tax Credit, now the single largest poverty program in the...

This Element on cost-benefit analysis provides a summary of recent theoretical and empirical developments and summarizes state-of-the-art stated-preference and revealed-preference valuation methods. The Element discusses how to assess small (or marginal)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNicholas Costello is an EEC expert in information technology and telecommunications.Jonathan Michie is a university economics lecturer and author of Wages in the...