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The Economics of Education: Human Capital, Family Background and Inequality by Daniele Checchi 9780521793100
RRP: $195.00$141.51In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in... -
Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy by Alan J. Auerbach 9780521662444
RRP: $243.75$181.80As public expenditures on health, education and transfer programmes increase, demographic change has a growing impact on public expenditures, and the incentives for behaviour created by public transfer programs increase as well. The essays in this volume... -
The Economic Implications of Aging Societies: The Costs of Living Happily Ever After by Steven A. Nyce 9780521617246
RRP: $72.13$56.12The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what life will be like in tomorrow's older societies. But we do know that age dependency ratios - the ratio of retirees to workers - will be much higher than we see today. The implications of this trend... -
Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life by Peter Dorman 9780521553063
RRP: $195.00$141.51In this book the author examines and ultimately rejects the conventional economic view that workers who have more dangerous jobs accept their risks voluntarily and are compensated through higher wages. In doing so, he attacks widely used techniques for... -
New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom by John Hills 9780521553261
RRP: $214.50$160.70It is recognised that the gap between rich and poor in Britain is widening faster than in any comparable country. This important issue is attracting increasing attention after long neglect. Economists and others concerned with problems linked with... -
Global Challenges: An Approach to Environmental, Political, and Economic Problems by Todd Sandler 9780521583077
RRP: $185.25$116.26Using simple economic reasoning, this book analyses a broad range of global challenges including global warming, ozone shield depletion, acid rain, nuclear waste disposal, revolution dispersion, international terrorism, disease eradication, population... -
Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and their Distribution in the United States by Daniel T. Slesnick 9780521497206
RRP: $195.00$140.73The most widely cited social welfare statistics in the United States are based on tabulations of family income. The picture that emerges gives cause for concern: median family income has hardly changed over the last twenty-five years while inequality has... -
Understanding Democracy: Economic and Political Perspectives by Albert Breton 9780521582360
RRP: $195.00$141.51Democracy has moved to the centre of systemic reflections on political economy, gaining a position which used to be occupied by the debate about socialism and capitalism. Certitudes about democracy have been replaced by an awareness of the elusiveness... -
The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries by Ehtisham Ahmad 9780521397421
RRP: $72.13$55.34This 1991 study approaches the subject of tax reform from basic economic principles. The objectives are to develop guidelines for the design of tax policy; to show how the principles can structure systematic research into tax reform in terms of the... -
Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Thought by H.G. Brennan 9780521350433
RRP: $195.00$140.73Much of the most interesting and controversial work in analyzing democratic institutions over the recent past has its intellectual origins in public choice economics. The political arena provides the analytical framework for the study of human behaviour... -
Social Security Policies in Industrial Countries: A Comparative Analysis by Margaret S. Gordon 9780521333115
RRP: $214.50$160.70After 25 years of expansion and liberalisation in the post-war period, social security policies in industrial countries have been encountering stresses and strains in the 1970s and 1980s in an environment of slower economic growth, concern over inflation... -
The Economics of Individual and Population Aging by Robert L. Clark 9780521297028
RRP: $60.43$46.41This study aims to identify and describe the principle economic issues associated with individual and population ageing. In addition, the study surveys and assess the existing knowledge - including research by scholars of many countries and different... -
Political Power and Economic Policy: Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications by Gordon C. Rausser 9780521190169
RRP: $243.75$185.62This book analyzes the links between political economics, governance structures and the distribution of political power in economic policy making. The book theoretically explains and empirically quantifies these interactions. The analysis includes both... -
The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production: International Perspectives by Stephen P. Jenkins 9780521168427
RRP: $72.13$56.12When the overall economic pie is not growing, then how it is shared out becomes more important. This book is a collection of empirical and theoretical papers by a distinguished set of international authors about the personal distribution of welfare and... -
Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change by Torben M. Andersen 9780521047197
RRP: $72.13$55.34Demographic change and increasingly international markets are putting severe pressure on developed welfare states in the OECD countries. The contributors to this book assess the magnitude of these challenges and discuss in depth, and in concrete terms,... -
Labour Unions, Public Policy and Economic Growth by Tapio Palokangas 9780521144056
RRP: $60.43$46.41Collective bargaining is the main vehicle for labour worldwide to negotiate wages, benefits, retirement policies, training and other terms of working with management in both the public and private sectors. Labour economists have long been active in... -
Understanding Democracy: Economic and Political Perspectives by Albert Breton 9780521088244
RRP: $60.43$46.41Democracy has moved to the centre of systemic reflections on political economy, gaining a position which used to be occupied by the debate about socialism and capitalism. Certitudes about democracy have been replaced by an awareness of the elusiveness... -
The Theory of Economic Policy: Statics and Dynamics by A. J. Preston 9780521070225
RRP: $72.13$56.12This book provides a unified analysis of the theory of economic policy, presenting static and dynamic aspects of both the fixed and flexible objective policy problems. The authors conceive of the abstract theory of economic policy as the interaction of... -
Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth [16 Pt Large Print Edition] by David C Korten 9780369381002
RRP: $35.08$31.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369381002Author David C KortenFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 358g -
OPEN States in the Global Economy: The Political Economy of Small-State Macroeconomic Management by J. Moses 9780333775516
RRP: $175.48$175.25In response to the largely closed-economy assumptions of most cross-national work on economic policy-making, Open States in the Global Economy offers an outside-in framework for analyzing the way in which national economic sovereignty is affected by... -
Business Ethics by Norman Barry 9780333551851
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book is an examination of the contemporary ethical problems of business in a philosophical context. It analyses various types of capitalism, in particular, the Anglo-American type which is practised primarily in the English-speaking world, and is... -
The Federal Reserve System: An Encyclopedia by Rik W. Hafer 9780313328398
$164.27The Federal Reserve System, founded in 1913, is recognized as one of the most influential policy-making bodies in the United States. Its duties including managing the country's monetary policy, regulating and supervising banks, and monitoring the... -
Energy and the Rise and Fall of Political Economy by Bernard C. Beaudreau 9780313310591
$163.10The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America. Yet political economy, the science of wealth born of the First Industrial... -
Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927 by Silvano A. Wueschner 9780313309786
$162.32Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, and Benjamin Strong, as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, played a critical role in the formulation of American monetary policy during the 1920s. Yet little attention has been given to the... -
Contending Issues in African Development: Advances, Challenges, and the Future by Obioma M. Iheduru 9780313309618
$163.10Taking a forward-looking approach, this book critically examines the issues and dynamics central to Africa's problematic development and situates these issues within the contents unique cultural, political, economic, and social milieu. Moving away from a... -
Growth and Variability in State Tax Revenue: An Anatomy of State Fiscal Crises by Randall G. Holcombe 9780313304231
$162.32During recessions state government fiscal crises are widespread, as states find their revenues inadequate to meet their expenditure demands. This volume shows that state fiscal crises have only one significant cause: revenue downturns associated with... -
Inequality and Equity: Economics of Greed, Politics of Envy, Ethics of Equality by Charles T. Stewart 9780313303104
$162.32Attempting to explain increased income inequality and decreased productivity growth, this book considers distribution not just in terms of income but also in terms of education and health care: two long-term determinants of income. Reviewing partial... -
Black Unemployment: Part of Unskilled Unemployment by David Schwartzman 9780313301667
$162.32In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production by reducing the cost of financing investment. The mechanization of production displaced more blacks than whites because blacks were... -
The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010 by Abbas Alnasrawi 9780313291869
$162.32The economy of Iraq has fluctuated wildly since the 1950s. It has been affected by changes in governments, by wars, and by general instability. This book analyzes a complex subject and is especially timely at this critical juncture in the history of... -
American Trade Policy, 1923-1995 by Edward Kaplan 9780313294808
$127.78This work covers trade policy from 1923 to 1995 taking the history of American tariffs from the Prelude to Trade Wars to the present. It begins during the period of high tariffs and discusses the arguments for and against protectionism. Cordell Hull and... -
Corporatist Decline in Advanced Capitalism by Mark James Gobeyn 9780313288838
$127.78Gobeyn presents the first book-length treatment of the declining significance of corporatist governance in advanced capitalism, linking that decline to international political economic forces. He contends that current patterns of conflict within... -
State and Local Tax Policies: A Comparative Handbook by William L. Waugh 9780313285295
$141.51Provides an overview of state and local taxation, the current and future outlook across the nation, the role of taxes in economic development, and tax administration. Analyzes and compares all types of state and local taxes-income (individual and... -
Soviet Political Economy in Transition: From Lenin to Gorbachev by Abu F. Dowlah 9780313279447
$163.10Situating Gorbachev and perestroika historically and ideologically, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Soviet political economy in the context of socialist theory and seven decades of its application in the Soviet Union. A. F. Dowlah... -
Arab Nationalism, Oil, and the Political Economy of Dependency by Abbas Alnasrawi 9780313276101
$163.10This pathbreaking survey analyzes a complex subject and is especially timely at this critical juncture of international affairs. Abbas Alnasrawi covers the field from the emergence of modern Arab economic dependence to the present mid-eastern impasse... -
The Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program by Willis J. Nordlund 9780313264122
$163.10The wages of workers are a primary determinant of a worker's standard of living. There has been a long history of governmental action attempting to construct a fair and equitable method of ensuring a living wage to the worker. This book traces the... -
Federal Lands Policy by Phillip C. Foss 9780313256127
$162.32One of the oldest policy debates in U.S. history concerns the allocation, use, and management of public lands, which currently comprise one-quarter of the United States. In this volume, Phillip O. Foss has assembled a selection of original research... -
The Fiscal Congress: Legislative Control of the Budget by Lance T. Leloup 9780313220098
$162.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313220098Author Lance T. LeloupFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Regulation: The Social Control of Business between Law and Politics by Na Na 9780312231040
RRP: $175.48$175.25Regulation has been stimulated by industrialization and particularly by the advent of the consumer economy. The book draws on international scholarship in sociology, political science, law, and economics on the working and regulation, both public and... -
Women At Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse by Lisabeth Paravisini-Gerbe 9780312219963
RRP: $175.48$175.25From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on... -
Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes: Can the United States Compete in Global Telecommunications? by Professor Rob Frieden 9780300177534
$79.15In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out the many ways the United States has fallen behind other countries in telecommunications and broadband development. Despite the appearance of robust competition and entrepreneurism in U.S. markets, there is very...