The making of the State entreprise system in Modern China

the dynamics of institutional change

Imperfect institutions

possibilities and limits of reform

The emergence of New Institutional Economics toward the end of the twentieth century profoundly changed our ideas about the organization of economic systems and their social and political foundations. Imperfect Institutions explores recent developments in this field and pushes the discussion forward by allowing for ...

Beyond continuity

institutional change in advanced political economies

This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary to identify the changes occurring at a national ...

The financial economics of privatization

Central to the book's content is its focus on where privatization stands today and what are the next frontiers, the why and how behind countries who privatize certain industries, whether privatization works as an economic tool and important insights relevant to financial institutions such ...

Federalism and the market

intergovernmental conflict and economic reform in the developing world

This research develops a new comparative model of intergovernmental bargaining to account for variation in the capacity of federations in the developing world to undertake economic policy reform, suggesting that many market reform policies are a function of a constant process of bargaining between national ...

Issues in monetary, financial and macroeconomic adjustment policies

This volume sheds light on crucial questions in the field of monetary, financial and macroeconomic policy. Consisting of a series of surveys written by leading international economists, it addresses questions such as: What is the role of the financial sector in economic development? Is financial ...

The economics of european integration

limits and prospects

It is of paramount importance that European firms, investors and countries, take into consideration the implications, changes and opportunities of European integration in their decision-making processes. This is reinforced by the fact that the EU has been continuously evolving and enlarging. This textbook is one ...

Private and public enterprise in Europe

energy, telecommunications and transport, 1830-1990

This is the first comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways, electricity, gas and ...

The politics of policies

economic and social progress in Latin America: 2006 Report

Table of Contents: Ch. 1 Overview Ch. 2 Understanding the politics of policies : a methodological approach Ch. 3 Political parties, legislatures, and presidents Ch. 4 Cabinets, the bureaucracy, subnational governments, and the judiciary Ch. 5 Actors from civil society Ch. 6 Political institutions, the workings ...

The economy of Esteem

an essay on civil and political society

However much people want esteem, it is an untradable commodity - there is no way that you can buy the good opinion of another or sell to others your good opinion of them. And yet esteem is allocated in society according to systematic determinants: people's ...

Economía política, participación e interdependencia

la cuestión social

Texto para la asignatura de Economía Política de la Facultad de Sociología de la Universidad de La Laguna. Su autor nos dice: Esta misión que se me encomendo no resultaba fácil. La dificultad aparente radicaba en la necesidad de explicar para esta asignatura los conceptos ...

A course in public economics

A Course in Public Economics explores the central questions of whether or not markets work, and if not, what is to be done about it. The first part of the textbook, designed for upper-level undergraduates and first- year graduate students, begins with an extended discussion ...

Beyond structural adjustment

the institutional context of african developmThe institutional context of African development

As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, "underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance". This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role ...

Siglo XXI

¿un nuevo paradigma de la política?: I Simposium de Filosofía Política Alberto Saoner

Procesos de Mercado

Revista Europea de Economía Política, Nº 1, año 2004

The economics of adjustment and growth

This book provides a systematic and coherent framework for understanding the interactions between the micro and macro dimensions of economic adjustment policies; that is, it explores short-run macroeconomic management and structural adjustment policies aimed at promoting economic growth. It emphasizes the importance of structural microeconomic ...

Shaping the New Europe

economic policy challenges of European Union enlargement

This volume brings together contributions on the major economic policy issues which have opened up as a result of the process of European Union enlargement. The issues analysed range from modelling and analysing the costs and benefits of enlargement, to challenges for macroeconomic policy both ...

Economía, política e idiomas

intercambio lingüístico y sus efectos sobre la eficiencia y la distribución

The economy of Esteem

an essay on civil and political society

The text contends that people care about others' opinions of them and that the actions they take to raise the esteem they enjoy produce social patterns. They also point out that the actions taken to raise esteem affect individual economic behaviour.

La economía argentina y sus crisis (1976-2001)

visiones institucionalistas y regulacionistas