Economic Policy

Euro Crash diagnoses the three fatal design flaws in EMU as constructed by the Maastricht Treaty and analyses future likely monetary scenarios for Europe, demonstrating how the best of these would be the creation of a new narrow monetary union between...

This book seeks to clarify the positive and negative lessons in the experiences of late development under neoliberal globalization. Dic Lo explores competing theories, with a view to constructing an alternative synthesis that transcends neoliberalism,...

Hardie investigates the link between the financialization - defined as the ability to trade risk - and the capacity of emerging market governments to borrow from private markets. He considers the government bond markets in Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey and...

A topical insider view of causes and consequences of financial crises since the Mexican collapse of 1995. The book includes a detailed exploration of recent and ongoing firestorms, including the near meltdown of the global financial system and the euro...

This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated under a shared set of rules during the Global Financial Crisis. Exploring the role of complex interactions...

This book investigates the role and the impacts of armies and military regimes in the Middle East. It argues that one of the main causes of the slow and stagnated economic development in the region is high military expenditure perpetuated by strong grips...

As European integration continues, the future of EMU becomes ever more important. Can EMU help create an integrated European community, or will it prove a hindrance to the EU project? This book brings together the experts in the area to provide an...

Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems develops an original analytical framework to understand the relationship between the economic, political, and ideological structures, the external environment, and the process of reform that give...

This is the first volume in a new series Africa: Policies for Prosperity. For the first time in more than a generation, sustained economic growth has been achieved across the continent - despite the downturn in global economic fortunes since 2008 - and...

European governments have re-discovered labour migration, but are eager to be perceived as controlling unsolicited forms of migration, especially through asylum and family reunion. The emerging paradigm of managed migration combines the construction of...

What are the links between the impact of increasing globalization and the advent of the knowledge economy on the spatial distribution of economic activity? How can we explain the paradox of growing transnationalization of the production of goods and...

International Politics and Institutions in Time is the definitive exploration, by a group of leading international relations scholars, of the contribution of the historical institutionalism tradition for the study of international politics. Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478733591Author Wendell H WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 100g

This study attempts to explain why the two major United Nations (U.N.) development programs for Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, UNPAAERD and UNNADAF, failed to promote economic and social development. Additionally, this study systematically analyzes the...

Peter J. Wallison is the only member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) to release a formal dissent to the FCIC's official report on the causes of the financial crisis. Wallison, codirector of financial policy studies at the American...

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of...

China's stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country's 'haves' and its 'have-nots'. While people living in some parts of the country have enjoyed dramatically improved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886291778Author Robert MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University...

As countries in the European Union struggle to comply with the Maastricht Treaty, the question of monetary integration is at the forefront of European politics. Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money explores how and why Germany-whose economic power...

As countries in the European Union struggle to comply with the Maastricht Treaty, the question of monetary integration is at the forefront of European politics. Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money explores how and why Germany-whose economic power...

For decades our political leaders and opinion makers have touted higher incomes as the way to a better future. Economic growth means better lives for us all. But after many years of sustained economic growth and increased personal incomes we must...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567511123Author Kevin DanaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Common Courage Press,U.S.Publisher Common Courage Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 220g

An esteemed economist warns that Western societies' economic expectations for the future are about to collide with reality The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended...

To what extent are Canada and Mexico "natural allies" in continental and world affairs? How will this relationship unfold in terms of security issues in the aftermath of the Cold War? These questions were the focus of a workshop held in Mexico...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886293260Author Gene SwimmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University Press,Canada

Development organizations need to reaffirm the Canadian consensus that international co-operation works and persuade the public and politicians that sustainable development is the key to human security and international order. The way to achieve this,...

Development organizations need to reaffirm the Canadian consensus that international co-operation works and persuade the public and politicians that sustainable development is the key to human security and international order. The way to achieve this,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541757134Author Rebecca HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 422g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783642335778Author Paul J J WelfensFormat PaperbackPage Count 987Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag Berlin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679753148Author Alan BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844070763Author Tom BiggFormat HardbackPage Count 359Imprint Earthscan PublicationsPublisher Earthscan PublicationsWeight(grams) 717g

Employment Generation Schemes directs attention to challenges and opportunities of enacting direct job creation policies in developing countries and BRICS, including: China, Ghana, Argentina, and India. This exciting new volume investigates how the Job...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590515075Author Robert SkidelskyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 404g

Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health--and have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and...

Examining the role of the modern nation state, Dexter Whitfield assesses the achievements, failures, costs and benefits of the neoliberal and 'third way' transformation of the state. He demonstrates that private finance of infrastructure,...

This book provides the first multidisciplinary and nonpartisan analysis of how the United States should decide on the legal status of cocaine, heroin and marijuana. It draws on data about the experiences of Western European nations with less punitive...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432758370Author Gary PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 308g

'Ryan Avent is a superb writer ... highly readable and lively' Thomas Piketty To work is human. It puts food on the table, meaningfully structures our days, and strengthens our social ties. When work works, it provides the basis for a stable social order...