Handbook on the economics of discrimination

Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers ...

Labour market adjustments in Europe

It is now widely accepted that expansionary fiscal or monetary policies alone are unlikely to help Europe's ailing economies. Solving Europe's economic problems requires reform of the economic institutions that influence economic activity and the way the economy responds to macroeconomic shocks. This ...

Sufficient reason

volitional pragmatism and the meaning of economic institutions

In the standard analysis of economic institutions - which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations) - economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley challenges these theories, arguing instead ...

Monetary integration and dollarization

No Panacea

This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly, the book ...

Post-keynesian principles of economic policy

Post-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that ...

The Eurogroup

how a secretive circle of finance ministers shape european econommic governance

This is the first study on the work of the Eurogroup - the monthly informal meetings of the euro area's finance ministers, the Commission, and the European Central Bank. It: explains how the particular working method applied by the Eurogroup impacts on the conduct and ...

Latin America's political economy of the possible

beyond good revolutionaries and free-marketeers

The political and economic transformation is now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies. Neither socialism nor free market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America ...

Autónomos, emprendedores, economía social y su financiación

(Revista Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, Nº86, año 2006)

SUMARIO: Intorducción. Los autónomos en el mercado de trabajo español: situación, políticas y retos. Un estatuto para el fomento del trabajo autónomo. Autoempleo, autónomos y economía social en España. Mujeres emprenndedoras: capacidades distintivas y desempeño empresarial. Nevas perspectivas en los mecanismos de financiación de los ...

Indicators for urban and regional planning

the interplay of policy and methods

This book focuses on the measurement and utilisation of quantitative indicators in the urban and regional planning fields. There has been a resurgence of academic and policy interest in using indicators to inform planning, partly in response to the current government's information intensive approach ...

Innovation dynamism and economic growth

a nonlinear perspective

Contents: Preface 1. Nonlinear Dynamism of Innovation: Executive Summary Part I: Diffusion of Innovation and Economic Growth 2. Dynamics of Product Diffusion and Economic Development 3. Kondratiev Business Cycles and Innovation Dynamism 4. Sequence of Bubble, Crash and Depression 5. Trunk Innovations and Institutional Change ...

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 ...

Structural unemployment in western Europe

reasons and remedies

Leading international economists examine the different patterns and long-term trends behind persistent unemployment across Western Europe in light of recent developments in labour market theory. Structural unemployment, or persistently high levels of unemployment that do not follow the ups and downs of a typical business ...

Who controls the Internet?

illusions of a borderless world

Will cyberanarchy rule the net? And if we do find a way to regulate our cyberlife, will national borders dissolve as the Internet becomes the first global state? In this provocative new work, Jack L. Goldsmith and Tim Wu dismiss the fashionable talk of both ...

Governing environmental flows

global challenges to social theory

This title lays the foundations for a new conceptualisation of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology. Globalisation and the changing role of the nation-state call for new approaches to environmental governance and new ways to conceptualise ...

From the corn laws to free trade

interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective

The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis. The repeal of Britain's Corn Laws in 1846 - one of the most important economic policy ...

Japan's great stagnation

financial and monetary policy lessons for advanced economies

Experts on the Japanese economy examine Japan's prolonged period of economic underperformance, analyzing the ways in which the financial system, monetary policy, and international financial factors contributed to its onset and duration. After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the ...

Bubble man

Alan Greenspan and the missing 7 trillion dollars

In this eye-opening account, Peter Hartcher re-examines the achievements of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve who presided over the 1990s stock-market bubble - perhaps the biggest speculative frenzy in history - and walked away when it came crashing down, with his reputation apparently unscathed ...

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 ...

Economics, politics and budgets

the political economy of fiscal consolidations in Europe

Motivated by the recent proliferation of fiscal consolidation episodes in the advent of Monetary Union, this book explains the causes and consequences of fiscal policy in Europe. This books answers three related questions - What explains the timing of fiscal adjustments? What explains their different duration ...