Post-stabilization politics in Latin America

competition, transition, collapse

Income, wealth, and the maximum principle

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students ...

Competition policy for small market economies

For the most part, competition policy literature has focused on large economies. Yet the economic paradigms on which such policies are based do not necessarily apply to small market economies. This book demonstrates that optimal competition policy is very much dependent on the size of ...

Democracy's dilemma

environment, social equity, and the global economy

The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity to the neglect of other important considerations such ...

The global internet economy

By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions ...

Inequality and growth

theory and policy implications

Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain less than others, and a fraction of the population may actually ...

Public finance and public policy in the new century

The sixteen essays in this book were written to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Richard Musgrave and to commemorate the tenth anniversary of CES, the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Musgrave is considered to be a founding father of modern public ...

Fiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints

Credit reporting systems and the international economy

The new political economy of Russia

Can Russia's burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian economy: to narrow the productivity gap between Russian and Western firms and ...

Arab economic integration

between hope and reality

Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Meeting these challenges requires ...

Las rosas artificiales

(La búsqueda de la modernidad en la poesía hispánica)

L'étoile de la rédemption

Primeros poemas

Henry Frenay

De la Résistance à l'Europe

Histoire de l'avortement XIXe-XXe siecles

La condition chrétienne

Du monde sans en être

Les Brigades Internationales

Images retrouvées

La imagen de España y Francia en los medios de comunicación

Las heroidas francesas y su recepción en España

Estudio y antología