Comparative Economics category: 246 books
Labour Relations in the Motor Industry
A Study of Industrial Unrest and an International Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s. The study also analyses the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management relationships. It contains...
Understanding Chinese Families
A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Southeast China
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families. This first full scale study seeks to understand Chinese families within the Chinese social context and draws comparisons with existing western theories and models of the family. It also...
Maturity Models - Transition Economics
Sustainable Societies Series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Proven, mature government policies sustain good lives and societies at the same time that they bolster economic growth in 95% of countries that adopt them; 80% of countries that do not are in a collapse-trending today as well. Transition Economics Maturity Models describe what are the important measurable...
Borderless Economics
Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries,...
by Basil Al-Nakeeb
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
For two centuries economists have dismissed the choice between morality and immorality as a personal preference, overlooking their opposite effects on economic efficiency, thereby, seeding the economic and political crises of the Western World. Hence, there is a need for a framework to expound and...
World on the Move
Consumption Patterns in a More Equal Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The world is poised on the threshold of economic changes that will reduce the income gap between the rich and poor on a global scale while reshaping patterns of consumption. Rapid economic growth in emerging-market economies is projected to enable consumers worldwide to spend proportionately less...
Health Economics
A Critical and Global Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Health economics applies the tools of economic analysis to the problems of health care finance and delivery. This introductory text uses clear, non-technical language to explain the available economic tools, and critically examine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to health policy and management issues.
Beyond Western Economics
Remembering Other Economic Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case...
by James J. Gosling, Marc Allen Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This text introduces students to the interrelationship of politics and economics in American public policymaking: how economic concerns have been legislated into law since Franklin Roosevelt's time and how politics (e.g., Washington gridlock) affects the economy and the making of public policy. Students...
by Nikolai Bukharin
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
For many years a neglected figure, Nikolai Bukharin has recently been the subject of renewed interest in the West. Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Bukharin's work has wide appeal to those interested in Soviet history and Marxist economics as well as to those concerned with theories of development and socialist economies.
Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control
An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Economic Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
About this Book In this book Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control, the writer assesses what appears to be an increasing trend in big/rich country approach to immigration. Whether deliberately or incidentally, Caribbean peoples especially the would-be migrants, are being subjected to an elaborate...
by Michael Chibnik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the midst of global recession, angry citizens and media pundits often offer simplistic theories about how bad decisions lead to crises. Many economists, however, base their analyses on rational choice theory, which assumes that decisions are made by well-informed, intelligent people who weigh risks,...
by James Haldane Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Collectivist Economics examines such issues as the inequality of the distribution of wealth and its impact on social stability, corrupt financial institutions and economic efficiency.
Chapters covering industrial organization, unemployment, international trade, prices, remuneration, taxation and insurance, and local and national government form the main part of the book.
Summary of Misbehaving
by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler’s role in developing and popularizing the field.
The traditional...