Economic Conditions

The difficult economic climate in Europe and the US is set to continue for many years, despite desperate efforts to stimulate growth. The long phase of expansion in western economies that lasted from the 1980s until 2008 was driven by easy money, cheap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895431926Author Henri Lustiger-ThalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895431889Author Colin M. DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 227g

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter The Sustainability of Health Care Systems in Europe provides a comprehensive understanding of the sustainability of health systems in Europe. Furthermore, it includes an introduction to how EU action in...

In eighteenth century Paris, municipal authorities, guild officers, merchant butchers, stall workers, and tripe dealers pledged to provide a steady supply of healthful meat to urban elites and the working poor. Meat Matters considers the formation of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783082933Author Wardie LeppanFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

The quadrupling of the world population in the 20th century has over-burdened the environment and accelerated the depletion of natural resources, whether renewable or not. The effort of the largest nations, China, India, and others, to attain affluence...

This book provides a historical account of the current economic experience. The current financial crisis is the most severe economic crisis that most of today's students and practitioners of economics have experienced. For many years to come, the current...

This book provides a historical account of the current economic experience. The current financial crisis is the most severe economic crisis that most of today's students and practitioners of economics have experienced. For many years to come, the current...

Asian and Pacific countries are rapidly emerging as engines of global growth. In 2006, the 7.9 percent increase in the size of the region's developing economies represented a third of world-wide growth. Developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region...

There is no precise definition of "financial crisis," but a common view is that disruptions in financial markets rise to the level of a crisis when the flow of credit to households and businesses is constrained and the real economy of goods and...

There are many economic issues especially relevant to developing countries and the third world such as international aid, globalization, free trade, and labor issues. In fact, the mix of them and other economic issues and conflicts over priorities and...

There exists a large volume of literature on Korean success in economic development. However, Korea has experienced several economic crises in the development process. While the financial crisis in 1997 has received a substantial amount of attention in...

China, following its radical economic reform has developed rapidly in recent decades with nearly double digit annual economic growth rates. China has experienced a major transformation in its transition from centrally planned economy to a developed and...

This book is a contribution by a diverse group of authors from the academic, business and policy advice communities to our understanding of recent social and economic developments in Albania. The motivation for this book is that there are lessons of...

The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of...

It is predicted by some observers that the 21st century will be remembered as the 'Asian Century'. Many of the countries in the region seem to be able to take the economic and trade baton when one of the others experience problems. The region, in...

Of the ten economic expansions in the post-World War II era, three have been especially long: 1961-1969, 1982-1990, and 1991-2000. This study compares these three expansions in areas such as GDP growth, gross and net investment, growth and productivity...

The articles presented in this book examine the current political and economic situations in nations across Asia, particularly focusing on economic developments.Book InformationISBN 9781590333020Author Frank ColumbusFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint...

This book provides a multidimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 and 2020, focusing on fundamentals, institutions, and socioeconomic trends. The past several decades in Iran have been a period of sluggish and noninclusive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425128883Author Alan B. PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 278g

How to profit from the events leading up to the likely collapse of the U.S. dollar Society is at a crossroads. Here at home and around the world, we are living in a manner that is absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably unsustainable. The Day After the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921689003Author Bertrand BellonFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886451905Author Keith G. BantingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The Institute for Research on Public PolicyPublisher The Institute for Research on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975279Author Charles K RowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 383Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 806g

How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provides a much-needed new perspective on this crucial issue. Pinpointing the economic factors that are most...

Why did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin systematically acquiring the fruits of modern technology? To what extent did the rapid economic developments after 1949 depend on features unique to China and to...

Of the ten Central and Eastern European countries that have applied for membership in the European Union, Romania ranks among the largest and most impoverished. Romania represents the final challenge in the European Union's enlargement to the east,...

This book deals with specific problems in Colombia as a means of exploring interrelated theoretical themes in the development process. Demographic and political as well as specifically economic variables arc given consideration in the authors' analysis...

As economic adviser and manager of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski observed at first hand the crisis that preceded the overthrow of the Belaunde administration on October 3, 1968. His role in the economic policies of that era...

Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during...

A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure of an American colony from its founding up to the Revolution. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton...

"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's...

Bestselling author John Talbott outlines the troublesome economic times ahead and what can be done about them Tough times are here, and author John Talbott-who accurately predicted the dot.com technology stock collapse as well as the recent housing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393254051Author Senior Fellow Joseph E StiglitzFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Disaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of victims: they empower individuals and families to heal themselves long into a disaster's aftermath. This requires helping survivors to rebuild their ability to...

Dorothy N. Gamble and Marie Weil differentiate among a range of intervention methods to provide a comprehensive and effective guide to working with communities. Presenting eight distinct models grounded in current practice and targeted toward specific...

An important component of economic statecraft, investment climate statements provide U.S. firms with country-specific information and assessments prepared by posts abroad on investment laws, measures, and other factors that may be useful in making...

Divided in two sections, this book is based on the authors' 40 years of close involvement with India, including two expatriate assignments and decades of research and teaching. Part I of the book provides answers to 10 questions most often posed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978782Author Anthony JasayFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 660g