Reforming pensions

principles and policy choices

Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the ...

The economics of climate change

the Stern Rewiew

There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global ...

Specificity and the macroeconomics of restructuring

ÍNDICE: I. Introduction. 1. Introduction. 2. The empirics of aggregate restructuring. II. The basics. 3. The "Fundamental Transformation". 4. Efficient restructuring. III. Inefficient restructuring. 5. Ineficient restructuring. 6. Financial market specificity and restructuring. 7. Application: structural adjustment. IV. Institutional and Technological evolution. 8. Institution, interest ...

Identidad y opción

dos formas de entender la política

¿Vivimos la política de forma colectiva, como resultado de la pertenencia a grupos #socioeconómicos, religiosos lingüísticos## con los que nos identificamos, o de forma individual, como resultado de opciones personales? En realidad, ni siquiera en ciertos periodos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en ...

The european service economy

changes and policy implications for Europe

This book contributes to a better understanding of the service economy. By exploring the key dimensions, available empirical evidence and associated policy implications, the author comprehensively investigates the new challenges facing the global economy, including employment, productivity, innovation and competitiveness. The case of the European ...

Competition, Innovation, and Antitrust

a theory of market leaders and its policy implications

This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. These theories are applied to models of competition in quantities, prices and to ...

The political economy of the Welfare State in America

globalization, democracy, and development

This book is one of the first attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection and how these systems have been affected by the recent processes of globalization and democratization. The book focuses on Latin America ...

Global economic decay

war, future crises and changes in global governance

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical ...

Gender and the politics of time

feminist theory and contemporary debates

Women's increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. This wide-ranging and accessible book assesses policy alternatives in the light of feminist ...

An East Asian model for latin American success

the new path

Latin America is at a uniquely important juncture in its history and the history of development more generally. Neoliberal market-orientated policies are being called into question, growth has been volatile and equity has stayed the same or worsened. In Latin America, there is no clear ...

The EU-Russian energy dialogue

Europe's future energy security

EU-Russian energy dialogue represents a policy issue that forces us to take a serious look at several crucial questions related to the present and future of Europe such as: how can the EU area ensure its future energy security when it is running out of ...

Rescuing social capital from social democracy

Many of those on the left of the political debate regard social capital as the 'magic bullet', arguing that intervention to provide social capital will allow socialist policies to succeed. Their argument is comprehensively undermined in this Hobart Paper, which shows that social capital itself ...

Microsimulation as a tool for the evaluation of public policies

methods and applications

Ed. Amedeo Spadaro. Microsimulation as a Tool for the Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications recoge las contribuciones de los expertos que participaron en el encuentro internacional del mismo nombre, celebrado con el apoyo de la Fundación BBVA. Durante este encuentro, se presentó el ...

La sociedad sitiada

Hoy la sociedad está sitiada, el estado-nación sufre un doble acoso: el de la globalización y el de la biodiversidad; ambas corroen las fronteras que la modernidad había considerado sólidas e infranqueables. Las instituciones políticas, confinadas territorialmente y ligadas al suelo, son incapaces de hacer ...

Applying the dismal science

when economists give advice to governments

In this exciting collection, Iain McLean and Colin Jennings bring together some of the most eminent social scientists to have advised British governments since 1964. Successive chapters show what went wrong in UK economic policy making in the 1960s and 1970s, what goes better now ...

Principios de política económica

ejercicios de test y cuestiones resueltas

Principled agents?

the political economy of good government

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own? These questions and ...

Key debates in new political economy

This is a concise and highly informative overview of the major intellectual debates within the field of political economy over the last decade. Each chapter provides a review of a key area written by a distinguished expert in the field. A comprehensive introduction locates these ...

The Oxford handbook of political economy

"The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science" is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...

Política económica

objetivos e instrumentos