Economic Conditions category: 2830 books

Cover of The London and New York Stock Exchanges 1850-1914 (Routledge Revivals)
by Ranald Michie
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

First published in 1987, this is a reissue of the first book to offer a detailed comparison of two of the foremost stock exchanges in world before 1914. It is not only an exercise in comparative economic history but it also relates these institutions to wider world markets, thereby clarifying...
Cover of The TRACE Econometric Model of the Canadian Economy
by Nanda K. Choudhry, Yehuda Kotowitz, John A. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972

The TRACE (Toronto annual Canadian econometric) model is an annual, non-linear econometric model of the Canadian economy designed primarily to forecast the statistics which appear in the principal tables of the Canadian National Income and Expenditure Accounts. TRACE is the first Canadian econometric...
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Money, Interest, and the Structure of Production

Resolving Some Puzzles in the Theory of Capital

by Mateusz Machaj
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

Is macroeconomic equilibrium possible under capitalism? How do economic bubbles develop? How does a monetary system influence the market mechanism? Is the return on capital a beneficial feature of the economic system? How does complexity of a capitalist organization influence the market process? Can...
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Insights on Singapore's Economy and Society from Leading Thinkers

From the Institute of Policy Studies' Singapore Perspectives

by Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019

This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific. Contributed by the who's who of Singapore's government, business and...
Cover of Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017

Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today’s global economy. Macroeconomic theories of crisis, including the global crisis that unfolded in 2008, emphasize the role of financial deregulation; capital flow imbalances; and growing debt, fueled by income and wealth inequality....
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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty

Vietnam now and beyond

by Minh Son Le, Tarlok Singh, Duc-Tho Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

This book uses Alan Winters’ analytical framework to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. The country launched a programme of economic and trade reforms, known as Doi Moi, in the mid-1980s which placed the economy on a transitional path from...
Cover of Feminist Economics and Public Policy
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016

Professor Ailsa McKay, who was known not only for her work as a feminist economist but also her influence on Scottish social and economic policy, died in 2014 at the height of her academic career and impact on public life. Organised around the key themes of Ailsa McKay’s work, this collection brings...
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The Political Economy of Business Ethics in East Asia

A Historical and Comparative Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016

The Political Economy of Business Ethics in East Asia: A Historical and Comparative Perspective deals with modes of ethical persuasion in both public and private sectors of the national economy in East Asia, from the periods of the fourteenth century, to the modern era. Authors in this volume ask...
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What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market?

Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism

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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1998

While there is much literature analyzing the politics of implementing economic reforms, very little has been written on the social and political consequences of such reforms after they have been implemented. The basic premise of this book is that the convergence of many social, economic, and political...
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Demanding Devaluation

Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World

by David Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

Exchange rate policy has profound consequences for economic development, financial crises, and international political conflict. Some governments in the developing world maintain excessively weak and "undervalued" exchange rates, a policy that promotes export-led development but often heightens tensions...
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Neoliberal Moral Economy

Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda

by Jörg Wiegratz
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016

This book offers a fresh take on a major question of global debate: what explains the rise in economic fraud in so many societies around the world? The author argues that the current age of fraud is an outcome of not only political-economic but also moral transformations that have taken place in societies...
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Rethinking Asia's Economic Miracle

The Political Economy of War, Prosperity and Crisis

by Richard Stubbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

In the new edition of this important contribution to understanding both the Asian economic miracle and the 1997-8 crisis, Richard Stubbs assesses the main explanations to date and updates the analysis to take account of globalization and the remarkable economic rise of China.
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Incentives to Pander

How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain

by Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these policies to claim credit for attracting investment....
Cover of China's Rise in the Age of Globalization
by Jianyong Yue
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018

This book deconstructs a series of myths surrounding China’s economic rise. The first myth is that globalization led directly to China’s rise; the second is that China is another East Asian developmental state; the third that China’s market reform had been implemented in an incremental way;...
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