The art of public strategy

mobilizing power and knowledge for the common good

The strategies adopted by our governments and public officials can lead to significant change in citizens' lives - smoking bans, carbon markets, even the reunification of a country like Germany. Equally, strategic failure can result in highly visible disasters, such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ...

Manufacturing possibilities

creative action and industrial recomposition in the United States, Germany, and Japan

Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. As national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets, the book argues that they recompose firm and industry ...

Family, Law, and community

supporting the covenant

In the wake of vast social and economic changes, the nuclear family has lost its dominance, both as an ideal and in practice. Some welcome this shift, while others see civilization itself in peril - but few move beyond ideology to develop a nuanced understanding of ...

The regulatory response to the financial crisis

There are already many papers and books on the causes and course of the current financial crisis, but this is the first and, for the moment, only such book to focus on the regulatory response to it. There are two main attributes that a bank ...

Money, markets, and sovereignty

In this keenly argued book, Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds offer the most powerful defence of economic liberalism since F. A. Hayek published "The Road to Serfdom" more than sixty years ago. The authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient ...

The great financial crisis

causes and consequences

aThose of us who are dissatisfied with the analyses of the financial- economic meltdown of 2008 that attribute it to easily remediable amistakesa on the part of financial institutions, regulators, or policy- makers can learn a lot from John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoffas The ...

Fixing global finance

how to curb financial crisis in the 21st Century

'It is neither desirable nor feasible for the US to be the world's dominant borrower forever. Indeed it is absurd for the world economy's stability to depend on the willingness of the world's richest consumers to borrow ever more.'The globalisation of ...

Las instituciones económicas del capitalismo

En este trabajo se aplica el análisis del costo de transacción al estudio de diversas instituciones económicas; también se indaga en sus implicaciones en las políticas pública y laboral, así como en las regulaciones de los servicios públicos, y en las comisiones de cambios y ...

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 past and future of Central Bank cooperation

This book explores the past and future of central bank cooperation. In today's global economy, the cooperation between central banks is a key element in maintaining or restoring monetary and financial stability, thereby ensuring a smooth functioning of the international financial system. In this ...

De la economía global al desarrollo local

el alcance de la intervención de los agentes de empleo y desarrollo local

Un enfoque local del desarrollo constituye hoy día el marco en el se insertan políticas y estrategias económicas que contemplan el punto de vista social con una perspectiva del desarrollo sostenible a largo plazo. Desde este ámbito, el desarrollo local aborda temáticas muy diversas que ...

International political economy

an intellectual history

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s - when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe - and today is an essential part of both political science ...

Política económica en la España democrática

INDICE: Una revisión de las políticas económicas más recientes. Políticas sectoriales Capítulo 1. Política agraria Capítulo 2. LA Política industrial Capítulo 3. LA Innovación tecnológica en España Capítulo 4. Servicios y Política de turismo Otras políticas Capítulo 5. Política medioambiental: Objetivos e instrumentos Capítulo 6 ...

Nation-States and the multinational corporation

a political economy of foreign direct investment

What makes a country attractive to foreign investors? To what extent do conditions of governance and politics matter? This book provides the most systematic exploration to date of these crucial questions at the nexus of politics and economics. Using quantitative data and interviews with investment ...

Common Wealth

economics for a crowded planet

From one of the worlds greatest economic minds and author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The End of Poverty" comes this clear map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity, and a warning of the economic collapse that lies ahead if policies ...

Global political economy

An authoritative introduction to Global Political Economy.The book covers all bases: contemporary theory, introductions to particular issue areas, and an extended debate on globalization that reflects a variety of perspectives. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre. Student resources: Interactive timeline Web ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...