The future of Europe

reform or decline

This work presents a provocative argument that unless Europe takes serious action soon, its economic and political decline is unavoidable, and a clear statement of the steps Europe must take before it's too late. Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political ...

Mobile communication and society

a global perspective

This book discusses how wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world - in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world. Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile ...

Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods

Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable. In "Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods", Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the ...

The marketplace of christianity

Economics can help us understand the evolution and development of religion, from the market penetration of the Reformation to an exploration of today's hot-button issues including evolution and gay marriage. This startingly original (and sure to be controversial) account of the evolution of Christianity ...

The political future of social security in aging societies

A quantitative analysis of the political sustainability of social security reform in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US, with the suggestion that population aging will lead to more pension spending and that raising the retirement age is the most politically viable reform ...

Web campaigning

This work talks about the evolution of electoral politics on the Web, based on extensive analysis of hundreds of campaign sites produced by candidates in U.S. elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004; a practice-based theory approach to understanding the relationship between the Web and ...

Precautionary politics

principle and practice in confronting environmental risk

This work is a study of the precautionary principle - its meaning, its rationale, its policy implications, and the controversies provoked by its use in environmental regulation. The precautionary principle - which holds that action to address threats of serious or irreversible environmental harm should be taken ...

The chinese economy

transitions and growth

This is the most comprehensive English-language overview of the modern Chinese economy, covering China's economic development since 1949 and post-1978 reforms - from industrial change and agricultural organisation to science and technology. This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on ...

Tax policy and the economy 20

national bureau of economic research

This "NBER" series presents current academic research findings in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysts in government and the private sector without making specific policy recommendations. This twentieth anniversary volume addresses issues relevant to ...

The economics of contracts

a primer

The theory of contracts grew out of the failure of the general equilibrium model to account for the strategic interactions among agents that arise from informational asymmetries. This popular text, revised and updated throughout for the second edition, serves as a concise and rigorous introduction ...

Venture capital, entrepreneurship, and public policy

The existing literature in both public economics and financial economics often fails to consider how appropriate and effective public policy may be in promoting the venture capital industry. Public economics has dealt extensively with the effect of taxes and subsidies but has neglected the unique ...

Moral sentiments and material interests

the foundations of cooperation in economic life

Moral Sentiments and Material Interests presents an innovative synthesis of research in different disciplines to argue that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence of "strong reciprocators" in a social group.Presenting an overview of ...

Economics of industrial ecology

meterials, structural change, and spatial scales

The use of economic modeling techniques in industrial ecology research provides distinct advantages over the customary approach, which focuses on the physical description of material flows. The thirteen chapters of Economics of Industrial Ecology integrate the natural science and technological dimensions of industrial ecology with ...

Transforming enterprise

the economic and social implications of information technology

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom -- and despite the bust -- the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the implications of this change from a ...

Contract theory

The economic effects of Constitutions

Democracy, governance and economic performance

theory and evidence

Asset price bubbles

the implications for monetary, regulatory, and international policies

Digital crossroads

american telecommunications policy in the Internet Age

Committee decisions on monetary policy

evidence from historical records of the Federal Open Market Committee

Growth and enpowerment

making development happen

Exchange rates under the East Asian dollar standard

living with conflicted virtue