Macroeconomics category: 2722 books

Written by four recognized experts with senior experience in research and government, this text is the first comprehensive survival kit for students and practitioners of economic policy. It is set to become an indispensable resource for everyone involved or interested in modern economic policy. Academic...

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Michael Heller in his book “The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time....

When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin's economic policies? What patterns...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter as the follows: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. UTILITY 3. PRODUCTION OF WEALTH 4. DIVISION OF LABOUR, 5. CAPITAL 6. DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH 7. WAGES 8. TRADES-UNIONS 9. CO-OPERATION, ETC....

Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development Studies is largely based upon multidisciplinary work in which anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, and others play important roles. Hence,...

Mounting external debt and large-scale capital flight have been at the forefront of Africa's economic problems since the 1980s. External Debt and Capital Flight in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by S. Ibi Ajayi and Mohsin S. Khan, takes a penetrating look at debt and capital flight during the 1990s in Ghana,...

Economists in the post-Cold War era are increasingly circumspect about universal, one-size-fits-all conceptions of human behaviour and economic institutions. Contemporary economics is thus marked by a nascent pluralism. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist sensibilities to the fore. Its twenty...

The term Purchasing Power Parity may date from the early twentieth century, when it was coined by the Swedish economist Gustav Cassel, but the underlying concept had been enjoying varying degrees of success since its development in sixteenth century Spain. Even towards the end of the twentieth century,...

Financial sector development in sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind the rest of the world, despite some recent positive achievements. There is a growing consensus that financial development fosters economic growth, so why has more not been done to spur financial advancement in Africa? This...

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that is unique in its underlying causes, its scope, and its wider social, political and economic implications. This volume explores some of the ethical issues that it has raised.

China’s transformation into a dynamic private-sector-led economy and its integration into the world economy have been among the most dramatic global economic developments of recent decades. This paper provides an overview of some of the key aspects of recent developments in China’s macroeconomy...

This highly original work offers an intellectual history of four central theories underlying the market economic system, focusing on their conception, evolution, and applications. Four Central Theories of the Market Economy traces the root of the theories, their conception and articulation,...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy 2. The Theory of Political Economy The collection includes two of the most important books about the mathematical method and...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter as the follows: 1. Chapter I: Barter 2. Chapter II: Exchange 3. Chapter III: The Functions of Money 4. Chapter IV: Early History of Money 5. Chapter V: Qualities of the Material of Money 6. Chapter VI: The Metals...