Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
In The Future of the Euro, a group of the world's top political economists analyze the fundamental causes of the euro crisis, determine how it can be fixed, and consider what likely futures lie ahead for the currency. The book makes three interrelated arguments emphasizing the primacy of political...
The Legacy of Ireland's Economic Expansion
Geographies of the Celtic Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Ireland underwent a dramatic economic and social transformation from the 1990s onwards, earning it the title the "Celtic Tiger". Rapid economic growth was accompanied by substantial in-migration. However in the later 2000s Ireland is also experiencing a severe economic recession.
This...
The American Political Economy
Institutional Evolution of Market and State
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Policy debates are often grounded within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation. In this innovative text, Marc Allen Eisner portrays the state and the market as inextricably linked, exploring the variety of institutions subsumed by the...
The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms
Managing Soybean Production in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural...
by Mehmet Kurtkaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Who manages the economy in the West?Why do food prices and rents increase even when more houses are built and more food is produced and huge productive capacity sits idle? Why do unemployment and underemployment increase? And above all, why stay uninformed about these most basic aspects of...
by Villar Daniel; Dreyhaupt Stephan; Economou Persephone; Lambert Caroline; Verheyen Gero; Salinas Emanuel
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Two years into the deepest global financial crisis in the post-war era the world economy is still experiencing uneven economic recovery and financial weakness. Financial market conditions are signaling improved investor confidence and more appetite for cross-border investments. As part of its mandate...
Global Game Change
How the Global Southern Belt will reshape our world
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
They captured the essence of the times in their massively influential book Megatrends (selling 14 000 000), so will Global Game Change; where it offers analysis and an indispensable road map of the transforming of the global landscape – enabling entrepreneurs, corporations and governments to reposition...
From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes
The Heritage of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations. This...
Welfare State at Risk
Rising Inequality in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book investigates the causes of inequalities that have developed in the European Union, analyzes their social and economic consequences, and assesses the political measures taken to address these issues – also on the basis of public survey results.
The detailed analyses presented focus...
Whatever Happened to Class?
Reflections from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations...
Collapse of an Empire
Lessons for Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
"My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...." -From the Introduction to Collapse of an Empire The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word-a vast mix...
by Michael G. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Popper, and Parsons, this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously coordinating public institutions that enable...
by Erik Olin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism
Few ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It is said its relevance is limited to explaining...
From Political to Economic Awakening in the Arab World
The Path of Economic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The popular grievances that have fueled the Arab Spring since 2010 demonstrate that past development paradigms have failed to achieve the inclusive and sustainable growth expected by Arab populations. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have failed to develop a strong private...