Finance, research, education and growth

African business finance and development policy

Developing countries

definitions, concepts and comparisons

Qué es el desarrollo internacional

Analytical development economics

the less developed economy revisited

El modelo de crecimiento asiático

expresión de un capitalismo sui generis

Creating cooperation

how states develop human capital in Europe

In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills, but uncertainty and mutual distrust among companies ...

State banking in Early America

a new economic history

Dollarization

Debates and policy alternatives

Monetary Unions

Theory, history, public choice

An economic analysis of the family

What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why important aspects of families have been changing in recent decades, and how families respond to, and are affected by ...

The economics of poverty and inequality

This major two-volume collection focuses on the economics of distributional equity and the way general criteria for comparisons of income-distribution can be used to inform the analysis of inequality and poverty. The issues addressed include: # the nature of general ranking rules for comparing economic states ...

Monetary regimes and inflation

history, economic and political relationships

Modern theories of money

The nature and role of money in capitalist economics

Income, wealth, and the maximum principle

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students ...

Market failure or success

Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give ...

Industrial relations

theory and practice

Applied economics and the critical realist critique

This volume examines and analyses the role of critical realism in economics and specifically how this line of thought can be applied to the real world. It contains contributions from such varying commentators as Sheila Dow, Wendy Olsen and Fred Lee. INDICE 1. Introduction Paul ...

Consumption

In this wide-ranging book, Alan Aldridge examines whether consumer society has delivered choice, freedom and prosperity, or individualism, selfishness and social exclusion. Social class and local communities appear to be in irreversible decline in the West. Job insecurity has grown, and fewer people see work ...

Classical economics and modern theory

studies in long-period analysis

The following subject areas are covered in this book: * alternative interpretations of classical economists * new growth theory * the relationship between Sraffian theory and Von Neumann * the treatment of capital in neoclassical long-period theory. This book will be of great interest to those working in the ...