Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes. Among the topics explored are how variations in height, whether over time, among different socio-economic...
Economics and Youth Violence
Crime, Disadvantage, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
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 important, the editors and contributors in this...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In a time of economic downturn, effective marketing becomes increasingly difficult. In order to remain competitive and prosperous, organizations must strategically analyze their position in the market and implement new marketing plans. Strategic Marketing in Fragile Economic Conditions provides relevant...
Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value
Monopoly Capital and Marx's Law of Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover...
After Capitalism
Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an...
A New Economic Growth Engine for China
Escaping the Middle-income Trap by Not Doing More of the Same
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This volume is a report by leading international economic experts on China's economic priorities in the coming years. From various aspects of the domestic and foreign situation, China has now reached a critical juncture in its economic development. Unless China is able to overcome the difficulties...
Business, Politics, and the State in Africa
Challenging the Orthodoxies on Growth and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
In recent years Africa appears to have turned a corner economically. It is posting increased growth rates and is no longer the world's slowest growing region. Commentators are beginning to ask whether emerging from Africa is a new generation of 'lion' economies to challenge the East Asian 'tigers'?...
by Yves Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.
But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease....
Mirrors of the Economy
National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
As international institutions multiply and more governments sign on to standardized ways of organizing economies and societies, resistance to globalization persists. In Mirrors of the Economy, Yoshiko M. Herrera explores the variance in implementation of international institutions through an examination...
How Reform Worked in China
The Transition from Plan to Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.
As China has transformed itself from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, economists have tried to understand...
by Helen Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West. Thompson explains the problems that the rising cost of oil posed in the years leading up to the 2008 crash, and the difficulties that a volatile oil market now poses to economic recovery under...
Regional Integration in the Global South
External Influence on Economic Cooperation in ASEAN, MERCOSUR and SADC
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book presents a theory of economic integration in developing regions, where the level of intraregional economic interdependence is low and the dependence on extra-regional economic relations is high. It argues that the success or failure of regional integration in the Global South is to a large...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Major economic and social developments that will determine the context for tax reforms in the 1990s are the subject of this volume. They include the globalization of markets, free trade arrangements, changing technology and production processes, macro-economic policies and conditions in Canada, and population growth and changes in demographic structure.
State Capacity and Economic Development
Present and Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
State capacity - the government's ability to accomplish its intended policy goals - plays an important role in market-oriented economic development today. Yet state capacity improvements are often difficult to achieve. This Element analyzes the historical origins of state capacity. It evaluates long-run...