Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Corruption and Government
Causes, Consequences, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The second edition of Corruption and Government updates Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 book to address emerging issues and to rethink old questions in light of new data. The book analyzes the research explosion that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of Transparency International, and...
Big-Box Swindle
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class...
by Andrea Ms. Schaechter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
by Kevin Mr. Barnes, Ali Mr. Mansoor, Benjamin Mr. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
This report evaluates the role of the IMF in three capital account crises, in Indonesia (1997-98), Korea (1997-98), and Brazil (1998-99), and the lessons to be drawn from the experience. It also recommends steps aimed at making the IMF’s surveillance and program design more effective in the prevention...
Competition for Public Transport Services
Institutional Framework and Empirical Evidence of Bus Services in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
This book evaluates the successes, failures, and factors that influence the competition for public bus transport services. Using Germany as a case study, the author explains the dichotomous system of a market with licenses for commercial services, where operators are granted exclusivity, and licenses...
How to Retire with Enough Money
And How to Know What Enough Is
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Here is a single-sit read than can change the course of your retirement. Written by Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor, a retirement and savings specialist, and a trustee to two retiree health-care trusts worth over $54 billion, How to Retire with Enough Money cuts through the confusion,...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the euro.
When Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz posed this question in the original edition of The Euro, he lent much-needed clarity to a global debate that continues...
by Klaus-Walter Mr. Riechel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
The paper discusses reform in public financial management in small, resource-constrained economies such as the Pacific island countries (PICs). It describes the efforts undertaken by PICs in the past and assesses their results. A principal conclusion is that reform in public financial management needs...
by United States Government President Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The full text of the State of the Union Address as delivered on February 12th, 2013 by President Barack Obama, along with the Republican Response delivered by Senator Marco Rubio, the Libertarian Party Response delivered by the Libertarian Party’s Executive Director Carla Howell, and the Tea Party Response by Senator Doctor Rand Paul.
by United States Government President Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The full text of the State of the Union Address as delivered on February 12th, 2013 by President Barack Obama, along with the Republican Response delivered by Senator Marco Rubio, and the Libertarian Party Response delivered by the Libertarian Party’s Executive Director Carla Howell.
Could It Happen Here?
Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.
Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right,...
Making Ends Meet
How Should We Spread Prosperity and Improve Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
For many Americans, the recovery from the 2007 recession, a recovery that officially began in 2009, feels very remote, or nonexistent. Even as the stock market surges and millions of jobs have been created, they see a very different picture. Many Americans still believe in the basic notion that anyone...
Burning Our Money
How Government wastes our cash and what we can do about it
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Britain is in the midst of a fierce battle over government spending. With debts mounting rapidly, the ?700 billion annual bill is no longer sustainable. But cuts face a wall of opposition, with dire warnings that they will ravage our society: hospital waiting lists will grow, schools will close and...
Takeover
Foreign Investment and the Australian Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history?
As a matter of fact, yes. Efforts by the reviled US company IT&T to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. And this is just one of the strange twists and turns...