The economics of deflation

#Deflation may be one of the most daunting policy challenges facing policymakers today. What makes deflation particularly challenging is its multifaceted nature and its newness for the current generation of economists and policymakers. With his extensive knowledge of history and the current debate, Pierre Siklos ...

Modern macroeconomics

its origins, development and current state

More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students ...

The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics

an introduction to their careers and main published works

This book provides an introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path- breaking insights. The vignettes should also encourage the reader ...

Institutional reform, regulation and privatization

process and outcomes in infrastructure industries

Table of Contents: 1 Process and outcomes of the infrastructure reform : an evolutionary perspective by John P. M. Groenewegen and Rolf W. Kunneke 2 Deregulation : design, learning and legitimacy by Atle Midttun 3 Competition policy, networks, and the 'new economy' by Erik J. Kloosterhuis and ...

The welfare economics of public policy

a practical approach to project and policy evaluation

This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors# award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation. The authors illustrate how this theory can be used to develop policy ...

The dictionary of health economics

From Abscissa, through to the World Health Organization, this expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the field of health economics and closely related fields including epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, demography, medical sociology, medical statistics and bio-statistics, health policy, health administration and health service management, public health medicine and qualitative ...

Leading issues in competition, regulation and development

The promotion of liberalised and deregulated markets by bilateral and multilateral aid donors, and by global institutions such as the WTO, has led to significant attention being paid to competition and regulatory reforms in developing economies. The process of reform involves the transfer and diffusion ...

The economics of unemployment in Europe

noeclassical, keynesian and structuralist interpretations

This book refreshes the debate of unemployment and the Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU), within a European context. It presents three general views -neo-classical, Keynesian an structuralist.

Monetary theory

Competition and efficiency in a Unified European Banking Market

Private property in the 21st Century

the future of an american ideal

The economics of anti-trust and regulation in telecommunications

perspectives for the new European regulatory framework

Macroeconomics in retrospect

the selected essays of David Laidler

This important collection brings together nineteen of his essays on topics in the history of macroeconomics. It begings with a paper on Adam Smith and ends with a discussion of the implications of newclassical economists' ideas on the role of economic ideas in conditioning agents ...

The new value controversy and the foundations of economics

The papers that comprise this collection introduce key advances in modern value theory. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium approaches are discussed alongside the theory behind abstract labour and money.

Financial systems, corporate investment in innovation, and venture capital

Monetary strategies for joining the euro

In this book, well-known economists an policymakers look at the next step in the integration process for accesssion countries: accession to European Monetary Union

Capital theory

This comprehensive three volume edition brings together the most important contributions in capital theory from its classical origins to its modern instantiations in endogenous growth models. The readings examine the recurring controversies, and the two incisive, and sharply contrasting introduction by Bliss and by Cohen ...

The political economy of financial crises

This important and timely two volume colection presents the key issues and processes that surround recent large-scale financial crises - in Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere - and identifies procedures that will help to avoid and menage crises. The articles are drawn from leading journals in political ...

The future of economic growth

as new becomes old

'How significant was the internet boom and bust? Robert Boyer brings significant and fresh insight to efforts to situate the meaning of the digital transformation through which we are living. With analytic discipline and historical perspective, Boyer provides an important interpretation that will be valuable ...

Recent developments in growth theory

This two volume collection examines the major developmen in growth theory over the past decade. Key papers by leading scholars cover new trends in theoretical and empirical research.

How cartels endure and how they fail

studies of industrial collusion

#This book is about one of the most elusive problems in industrial organization # why some collusive agreements flourish while others fail. It brings together, in one place, much of the best recent work in the literature on this topic. I think the book will become ...

Empirical industrial organization

This two volume collection presents the most important recent articles on empirical issues in industrial organization, related primirily to analysis of imperfect competition.