Civic Culture of Local Economic Development
by Professor Laura A Reese, Professor and Dr Raymond A Rosenfeld, Professor
In den westlichen Staaten gibt es einen Diskussionsbedarf uber den weiteren Weg von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft angesichts der durch die Globalisierung zunehmenden oekonomischen Konkurrenz und des Wandels von einer Industrie- zu einer Informationsgesellschaft. In den Debatten uber die zukunftige soziooekonomische Entwicklung wird das alte Schlagwort des Dritten Weges (zwischen Kapitalismus und Sozialismus) aufgebracht. Es lasst sich ein Traditionsstrang von der Diskussion um Anthony Giddens Thir...
The international diffusion of policy ideas and practices is a subject of growing interest, raising such questions as: Why are there increasingly such waves of policy innovation? What prompts one country to emulate another's changes? Is it the influence of powerful international actors like the World Bank? Is it the motivations and interests of domestic actors? And how freely do imitators adapt foreign models to the needs and characteristics of their own countries, rather than simply replicating...
This undergraduate/graduate course compares the economic systems of regions on the spectrum from free market to communism. Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the movement toward capitalism in the remaining communist countries, this field of study has changed dramatically. This book concentrates on these movements and their implications and for the first time expands its scope to include more coverage of developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Thoroughly revised in response t...
Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa
by Mthuli Ncube and Eliphas Ndou
For over one hundred years, the British economy has been in decline relative to other industrialized countries. This book explores the origins of Britain's economic problems and develops a striking new argument about the sources of decline. It goes on to analyze the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain from the development of Keynesianism to the rise of monetarism under Margaret Thatcher. France, by contrast, experienced an economic miracle in the postwar period. Hall argues that t...
How Economics Should Be Complicated (Albert Hirschman's Legacy, #1)
This volume brings together select texts representative of the full range of intellectual output of one of the greatest and most eclectic economists of our time, Albert O. Hirschman. Covering a time span of over forty years, they recall his most prominent books and include many additional themes taken from essays of wide-ranging origin and content. The title How Economics Should Be Complicated has the dual sense of an endpoint and a central and recurrent theme in the author’s experience, which u...
Knowledge Region: Alps-Adriatic Challenges
This book discusses the role of knowledge in European transformation under a regional perspective. Starting out with a critical appraisal of 'knowledge', 'knowledge economy' and 'knowledge society' as theoretical concepts the book pursues the regional and cross-border context of knowledge. Its empirical focus is on the Alps-Adriatic cross-border region in Central Europe with some international comparisons. Here the dense fabric of knowledge in regional societies is demonstrated. Awareness of the...
If we are moving toward one global financial market, will all national financial systems that determine how businesses raise money look the same? Richard Deeg argues that, despite financial market integration and considerable harmonization in the regulation of financial markets, the traditional structure and economic functions of national financial systems are not inevitably undermined. Using the case of Germany--a country with a strong and distinctive financial sector that is at the center of t...
These memoirs portray an individual coping with the adversities and surrealistic qualities of life and work under communism. The author recollects his adolescence, next, how he tried to avoid head-on conflicts, dissented, and how he finally became a known critic of the system. As such, he belonged to a group of advisers to the underground "Solidarity" leadership. His memoirs help to understand the collapse of the communist system and the stormy period of systemic change from a personal perspecti...
Social Capital (Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences) (Sociology and Economics)
'Social capital' is a major conceptual and theoretical idea that has received in the last three decades much attention across many social-science disciplines. In this relatively short period, it has developed into a major research paradigm guiding voluminous research conducted in North America, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Theory, measurement, and empirical research continue to grow. At the same time, major components of a theory, systematic research enterprises, and comprehensive applications i...
The Wild East
With the disintegration of the 'Evil Empire' the world's largest country became the world's newest democracy. Many speculators rushed in to occupy the territory vacated by the shrinking state but the bullish expectations were replaced by frustration as the country toppled on the brink of financial meltdown. Faced with an ongoing war in Chechnya, a disintegrating infrastructure, widespread corruption, and a currency in free-fall, the Russian economic market collapsed, losing 84% of its economic v...
Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate. Nasar's account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid 19th century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit....
Development Corruption in South Africa examines governance matters with a focus on corruption. This rich empirical body on governance variables and governance performance is a welcome addition to South African government literature.
Die norddeutschen Seehafen Hamburgs, Bremens und Niedersachsens stehen nicht nur in Konkurrenz zueinander. Sie begegnen im global explodierenden Logistikmarkt dem internationalen Seehandel. Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Hongkong und Singapur sind nur einige ihrer Konkurrenten. So reagieren die Betreiber der deutschen Hafen, die Bundeslander, auf diese Herausforderung sehr unterschiedlich. Ihre Strategien analysiert der Autor sehr intensiv und vergleicht politische, wirtschaftliche und oekologische Inter...
Behaviour is important. Whether this be the behaviour of those who saw it coming, or of those who constantly berated them. The behaviour of those who rode the boom and switched at the tipping point to ride the bust, or the behaviour of those who held on to their principled as the system collapsed around them. It was human behaviour after all, that led us to construct a bubble nobody suspected was dangerous, yet nonetheless would burst with disastrous consequences. Contrary to the views of many...
Seit Mitte der achtziger Jahre ist im pazifisch-asiatischen Raum eine zunehmende Regionalisierung zu beobachten, deren Zentrum Japan ist. Die Internationalisierung der japanischen Wirtschaft, die seit der massiven Yen-Aufwertung von 1985/86 forciert wird, hat fur die aussenwirtschaftlichen Beziehungen der Wirtschaftsmacht zu den benachbarten Entwicklungslandern erhebliche Auswirkungen. Eine Analyse der Beziehungen Japans zu China und ASEAN zeigt, dass trotz der Intensivierung der wirtschaftliche...
China beeindruckt durch hohe Wachstumsraten und eine zunehmende Bedeutung in der Weltwirtschaft - aber hinter der makrooekonomischen Fassade zeigt sich ein System, das lange durch staatliche Banken und Unternehmen dominiert wurde. Die Arbeit untersucht, wie die beeindruckende Entwicklung trotz der Behinderung nicht-staatlicher Unternehmen erzielt werden konnte. Dabei wird im Rahmen der neuen Institutionenoekonomie nicht nur die Entwicklung von landlichen Kollektivunternehmen (TVEs) analysiert, s...
The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent's economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that have often ignored Africa's diversity in their rush to peddle simple nostrums of dubious merit. The book addresses the seemingly intractable economic problems of the African continent, and traces their...