Neo-liberal economic policy

critical essays

Over the past two decades there has been a prevailing shift in economic policy in many countries. This reflects the continuing rise of neo- liberalism # the doctrine that economic policy should #leave it to the market# and that governments should retreat from market intervention. This ...

The greening of markets

product competition, pollution and policy making in a duopoly

#This book is an important contribution to environmental economics and industrial organisation. It analyses environmental markets for green, i.e. environmentally friendly, products and economic policies that improve the functioning of these markets and environmental quality. The book combines rigorous, state-of-the-art theoretical economic analysis with ...

Economic policy under uncertainty

the role of truth and accountability in policy advice

Economic Policy under Uncertainty maintains that the question of truth and accountability has not received particular attention in the literature on economic methodology. It goes on to argue that pragmatic theories relate concepts of truth to the beliefs, thoughts and intentional actions of individuals, blurring ...

Insight in innovation

mannaging innovation by understanding the laws of innovation

Innovation is an ancient art, may be as old as 500,000 years, but managing innovation is a relatively young management technique, only a few decades old, and has received much less attention than other aspects of innovation such as creativity, entrepreneurship or venturing. This ...

The European Central Bank

credibility, transparency, and centralization

The adoption of the euro in 1999 by 11 member states of the European Union created a single currency area second in economic size only to the United States. The euro zone's monetary policy is now set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and ...

Los mercados del agua

El agua presenta particularidades de carácter natural que le confieren peculiaridades como recurso económico. Se trata de un bien escaso, que se obtiene de forma incierta, que tiende a reducir su renovabilidad dependiendo de los usos y no es homogéneo, por lo que debe definirse ...

Monetary policy and the german unemployment problem in Macroecomics models

Theory and evidence

Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past forty years. It shows that in recent years a convergence has taken place, with modern models embodying a Keynesian transmission mechanism, monetarist policy implication, and modeling ...

Monetary policy and macroeconomics stabilization in Latin America

The book focuses on the recent experience of Latin America economies with designing, announcing, and implementing monetary policies with different internal and external anchors. Given the often dismal track record of monetary stabilization in Latin America, it deals primarily with the conditions of the economies ...

Innovation policy in a knowledge-based economy

theory and practice

The main underlining conviction, throughout the book, is the importance of dynamical and systemic approaches to innovation policies. The first part of the book provides the theoretical background for the subsequent more empirical contributions. In the second part, a series of three papers analyse each ...

Varieties of capitalism and europeanization

national response strategies to the single european market

Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this volume bridges the gap between the rapidly unfolding scholarly debate on Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. It argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of political-economic governance and statist systems are capable of creating swift, comprehensive ...

Innovación y capacidad para emprender

diagnóstico de la situación en España y líneas de acción

La capacidad emprendedora española actual no va acompañada por una actividad innovadora destacada y así lo vienen demostrando diversos estudios realizados como Global Entrepreneurship Monitor o European Innovation Scoreboard. Ello deriva en la debilidad de las empresas creadas,su escasa capacidad de crecimiento,su limitada ...

Political power and corporate control

the new global politics of corporate governance

Corporate governance has become front page news in the United States and Europe with the collapse of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat. Once the sleepy preserve of corporate lawyers and accountants, the way corporations are run is increasingly the subject of government intervention ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro-Area

macro modelling, learning and empirics

The emergence of a new macro economy in Euro-Asia is a great challenge for academics and policy makers alike. Our book focuses on this macro economy and the monetary and fiscal policy responses. As the new environment has evolved over time, private behaviour as well ...

The fox in the Henhouse

how privatization threatens democracy

The Fox in the Henhouse" takes an in-depth look at the growing practice of privatization - what it is, what it does to our society, and how we can stop it. Privatisation is one of the most important political and economic developments of our time, affecting ...

Minimum wages and poverty

an evaluation of policy alternatives

This research investigates the impact of three equal cost alternative labor market policies on the economic well-being of low-income families and society in general at the turn of the 21st century. The principal focus is on how changes in the minimum wage, Earned Income Tax ...

La integración monetaria en los países del Este y Centro de Europa

del COMECON a la UEM

Este trabajo recoge la gran transformación de las economías del Este y Centro de Europa desde un régimen de planificación centralizada hacia su funcionamiento como economías de mercado y su inclusión en la Unión Europea, tras cumplir los criterios de Copenhague o criterios de adhesión ...

From the boardroom to the war room

America's corporate liberals and FDR's preparedness program

Between World War I and World War II, America's corporate liberals experienced a profound ideological change. In the 1920s, corporate liberals embraced company-specific solutions to economic problems. They believed that if every company, in every industry, employed advanced managerial techniques - such as granting workers ...

Imperfect knowledge and monetary policy

Based on lectures given as part of The Stone Lectures in Economics, this book discusses the problem of formulating monetary policy in practice, under the uncertain circumstances which characterize the real world. The first lecture highlights the limitations of decision rules suggested by the academic ...

Política y financiación pública del teatro

países iberoamericanos en el contexto internacional: (antecedentes, instituciones y experiencias)

Esta obra supone la segunda entrega de un conjunto de tres publicaciones que tiene como objeto analizar la política y la financiación públicas en otros tantos sectores del mundo de la cultura y de las artes: el de la cinematografía, analizado en un primer libro ...

Institutional reform, regulation and privatization

process and outcomes in infrastructure industries

Table of Contents: 1 Process and outcomes of the infrastructure reform : an evolutionary perspective by John P. M. Groenewegen and Rolf W. Kunneke 2 Deregulation : design, learning and legitimacy by Atle Midttun 3 Competition policy, networks, and the 'new economy' by Erik J. Kloosterhuis and ...