Making Fiscal Policy in Japan is written for those who want to understand the role and performance of fiscal policy as an integral component of macroeconomic policy, and the attendant effects on economic growth. The case explored here is post-Second World War Japan, but the approach is one of international comparison. Ishi traces and analyses the central features of postwar Japanese fiscal policy and considers the institutional framework and policy objectives which shaped the budget process. The...
In 1900 the global average life expectancy at birth was thirty-one years. By 2000 it was sixty-six. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth century also saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by a cold war. This book tells the story of the battles between economic systems that defined the last century and created today's world.The nineteenth century was a period of rapid economic growth characterized by relativ...
This collection analyses Indias economic growth and its integration with the world economy. The essays both analytical and prescriptive offer fresh and unconventional answers to questions related to the turning point of Indias economy, its pattern of economic development, status of public institutions and its economic future. The two broad themes underlying the articles are analysing Indias economic growth and its integration with world economy. The first relates to Indias current and future gr...
Intermediate Microeconomics: A Tool-Building Approach is a clear and concise, calculus-based exposition of current microeconomic theory essential for students pursuing degrees in Economics or Business. This beautifully-presented and accessible text covers all the essential topics that are typically required at the intermediate level, from consumer and producer theory to market structure (perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly). Topics covered include risk, game theory, general equilibrium a...
European Industrial Managers
First published in 1971, this collection of fourteen contemporaneous European research studies on managerial backgrounds and on the patterns, roles, and evolution of managerial careers examine managerial motivations in a broader context than the traditional analysis of psychological qualities. Most of the studies suggest or demonstrate the usefulness of a typology of industrial leaders — whether constructed from individual characteristics, the characteristics of the firm or the characteristics o...
Industriepolitik Und Wirtschaftsordnung (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #1795)
by Reiner Holzem
Angesichts der bestehenden Wettbewerbs- und Strukturprobleme zahlreicher europaischer Industrien und beflugelt durch jungere Konzepte und Initiativen vor allem der Europaischen Gemeinschaft auf dem Gebiet der Industriepolitik, erlangte in Europa die Kontroverse um Industriepolitik seit Anfang der neunziger Jahre erneut Aktualitat. Der Autor analysiert in dieser Arbeit die ordnungstheoretische Legitimation wesentlicher Bereiche der in Deutschland und auf europaischer Ebene betriebenen Industriepo...
Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made toward greater equality and stability. The book is grouped into four parts covering Brazil's dev...
The Challenge Of Globalization And Institution Building
by Randall W. Kindley and David F Good
Describing and analyzing the links between monetary policy and economic governance in small countries in both Western and Eastern Europe, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how interest groups shape monetary policy decisions in increasingly globalized financial markets. The contributors' findings hold great relevance even for large contries like the United States, which are now struggling with the challenges of internationalization. A diverse group of political scientists and economists,...
A guide to making life's biggest decisions, from an internationally renowned lifecoach. Just imagine if you didn't have to agonise over difficult decisions. If you could feel absolute confidence in the choices you made, regardless of the outcome. If you could dispense with decisions altogether, on the basis that you always knew what to do. Well, it's perfectly possible, according to top US lifecoach, Laura Berman Fortgang. Each of us possesses an internal compass which expres...
Alte Begriffe - Neue Probleme
Die Gedenkfeiern zu Max Weber haufen sich: 2004 100 Jahre Protestantische Ethik, 2014 der 150. Geburtstag, 2020 der 100. Todestag, und damit zugleich Jubilaumsbande und Biographien. Doch wie aktualisiert man einen Klassiker? Rein rezeptionsgeschichtliche und werkimmanente Interpretationen werden dafur nicht ausreichen. Die langfristige Vitalitat von Webers Soziologie wird von ihrer Fahigkeit abhangen, die sich verschiebende Signatur unserer Epoche und die damit verbundenen Lebensprobleme zu begr...
Vivre En Suisse 1999-2000- Leben in Der Schweiz 1999-2000 (Population, Famille Et Societe / Population, Family, and Soc, #3)
Inwieweit kann die Art der Anwendung auslandischen Kapitals, die Aussenfinanzierung, einen Beitrag zur raschen und dauerhaften Systemtransformation eines Entwicklungslandes wie China leisten? Diese Studie nimmt auf der Basis einer umfassenden empirischen Untersuchung uber auslandische Investitionen in Singapur, Taiwan, Sudkorea und Indien eine Analyse der Entwicklung der Aussenfinanzierungsstruktur Chinas im Zeitraum 1979-1993 vor. Aus ordnungspolitischer Sicht werden Erfolg und Misserfolg der c...
Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market (Africa Development Forum)
Gender inequality in the labor market remains a pressing problem of contemporary Africa. Notwithstanding the existence of large variations across countries with regard to male and female labor market outcomes, available evidence shows that in several countries of the region women are less likely to be in paid work, they are disproportionately concentrated in informal and precarious employment, and they are paid substantially less. Assessing and comparing the extent and the nature of women disadv...
The rise of modern public finance revolutionized political economy. As governments learned to invest tax revenue in the long-term financial resources of the market, they vastly increased their administrative power and gained the ability to use fiscal, monetary, and financial policy to manage their economies. But why did the modern fiscal state emerge in some places and not in others? In approaching this question, Wenkai He compares the paths of three different nations-England, Japan, and China-t...
Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
by Professor Benjamin M Friedman
Preliminary overview of the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015
This publication highlights a regional slowdown in GDP growth. It argues that the currency depreciation seen in several countries in the region could, if sustained, increase incentives for investment in tradeable sectors other than the region's traditional exports (commodities), while redirecting expenditure to ease pressure on the current account. Growth-supporting industrial, trade, environmental, social and labour policies that take into account the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises...
Europa ALS Ein Club Voller Clubs: Eine Clubtheoretische Betrachtung Des Politischen Systems Der Europaischen Union
by Reto Schemm-Gregory
Economics of Institutional Change (Studies in Economic Transition)
by Tomasz Mickiewicz
This book, a second edition, has been significantly expanded and updated. It revisits the process of institutional change: its characteristics, determinants and implications for economic performance.
Path-dependent Development in the Western Balkans
Despite of structural commonalities resulting from the shared socialist heritage, regional, historical, and cultural peculiarities of every country place a crucial impact on shape and speed of post-socialist development. This applies especially to the process of privatization in transition; methods were chosen to bring in line the socialist legacies and the demands of a fast and as painless as possible transition to a market economy. The compendium aims at accessing choice and success of privati...