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by R. Kiely
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The author examines the rise of the BRICs and the supposed decline of the United States. Focusing on the boom years from 1992 to 2007, and the crisis years after 2008, he argues that there are limits to the rise of the former and that the extent of US decline has been greatly exaggerated.
African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling
From the Colonial Period to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the...
by N. Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The Oslo Process of September 1993 to January 2001 ultimately brought about a permanent break in American Judaism's traditional wall-to-wall support for any Israeli government. Drawing on extensive new sources, Rubin analyzes what this meant for the American and Israeli Jewish communities—critical constituencies in past and future negotiations.
Euro Crash
The Exit Route from Monetary Failure in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Euro Crash diagnoses the three fatal design flaws in EMU as constructed by the Maastricht Treaty and analyses future likely monetary scenarios for Europe, demonstrating how the best of these would be the creation of a new narrow monetary union between France and Germany founded on strict monetarist principle and without a European Central Bank.
Submerging Markets
The Impact of Increased Financial Regulations on the Future Growth Rates of BRICS Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Submerging Markets is a valuable resource asset to the world academic community, government agencies, global business organizations and anyone interested in the impact of the new financial regulations and reforms implemented after the 2008 crisis, relative to the possible and probable future economic growth rates of the emerging markets (BRICS).
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment
Unity of Knowledge in Economics: Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in which these problems are analyzed using a unified...
Making the Compelling Business Case
Decision-Making Techniques for Successful Business Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Providing the necessary background information and hands-on tools to build compelling business cases, this book will increase the reader's capability to champion new business development ideas, take them to senior management, and facilitate the decision process by understanding the key theories and practices of finance and corporate investments.
The Chinese Birdcage
How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping’s policy of ‘reform and opening up’ in the 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory...
Deepening Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Crisis
Europe’s Treasure Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected. The authors expose the class-based nature of Ireland's crisis resolution.
Basic Income and the Free Market
Austrian Economics and the Potential for Efficient Redistribution
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Discusses whether the Basic Income Guarantee could offer an alternative to both laissez-faire and existing welfare systems in developed countries - often criticized by both advocates and critics of laissez-faire - thus opening a constructive dialog in policy discussion.
Room for Development
Housing Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Latin American and Caribbean countries are the most urban in the developing world and have very high home ownership rates. However, many of the region's inhabitants are still poorly housed. This book examines three key contributing issues: high housing prices relative to family income, lack of access to mortgage credit, and high land prices.
The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power
In Search of the Brazil Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Is Brazil ready to take its place among the world's leading powers? The authors examine Brazil's hard power and soft power resources, assessing the challenges the country will need to overcome in order to build its own "Brazilian dream" and project itself on the international stage.
The China-Latin America Axis
Emerging Markets and the Future of Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The impressive growth of trade and investments between China and Latin America has attracted the attention of the business world and policy makers. This book analyses the business of the main players at the country/region and company levels in the context of globalization and growing importance of emerging markets in the world economy.
Global Automobile Demand
Major Trends in Emerging Economies; Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Global Automobile Demand is a two-volume work analysing the impact of the Great Recession and the structural factors which shape automobile demand in developed and emerging countries. The second volume examines the automobile demand in the BRICS and other emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, Turkey, Mexico, Thailand and Malaysia.