EU economic governance and globalization

It is through a gradual evolution, rather by grand design, that the somewhat fragmented economic policies of the EU now appear to be heading towards a rather more robust and coherent economic governance. This text considers the following crucial question as the EU enters its ...

Towards sustainable development in industry?

reports from seven developing and transition economics

Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this volume, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia and Zimbabwe - countries which all have designated national ...

Political economy

This thought-provoking introduction to economics exposes readers to the workings of the market in a democratic state. The text explains basic economic concepts from a political perspective: how the price mechanism substitutes for central authority in determining production and allocation of goods; the use of ...

Studies in labour markets and industrial relations

Since the 1980s, Italy has undergone significant changes in the functioning of the labour market and industrial relations. This makes it an excellent case study for evaluating labour market practices and possibilities for reform. "Studies in Labour Markets and Industrial Relations" brings together leading Italian ...

Social foundations of markets, money and credit

What is the difference between money and capital? Is anti-globalization necessarily anti-money? These points and many more are debated and dealt with in "Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit". The book examines the case that the capitalist economy is permeated with non- economic relations ...

The new welfare

unemployment and social security in Europe

This volume brings together a group of leading scholars to examine issues relating to unemployment and social security in Europe, focusing on how to promote employment and how to reform social security. The crucial issue of the financing of public pension systems is also addressed ...

La innovación tecnológica en las organizaciones

El libro se divide en cuatro partes: 1º) Fundamentos de la innovación 2º) Estrategia e innovación Se analiza la innovación tecnológica en las pequeñas y medianas empresas y se presenta el concepto de alianza empresarial y su influencia en la estrategia de innovación de las ...

Volatile states

institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies

Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. Delving deeply into the historical ...

The political economy of emerging markets

actors, institutions and crisis in Latin America

This book takes a cross-disciplinary look at the financial markets of emerging markets in Latin America. The author wants to disassemble the black box that is the financial market: what are the motivations and interests of the various actors, both institutional and individual?; How do ...

Capitalism, not globalism

capital mobility, central bank independence, and the political control of the economy

While much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not fundamentally changed in the postwar period. In Capitalism, Not Globalism, William Roberts Clark challenges both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists in his assertion ...

Computationals models in political economy

Researchers are increasingly turning to computational methods to study the dynamic properties of political and economic systems. Politicians, citizens, interest groups, and organizations interact in dynamic, complex environments, and the static models that are predominant in political economy are limited in capturing fundamental features of ...

States and markets

a primer on political economy

Political economy is the study of decentralized and centralized mechanisms for allocating resources and distributing incomes: markets and states. Both markets and states can be organized and combined in a variety of ways and they jointly determine what the economy produces as well as who ...

Generational policy

In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matters. Kotlikoff discusses the incidence and measurement of generational policy, the relationship of ...

Evolution and procedures in Central Banking

This volume collects the proceedings from a conference on the evolution and practice of central banking sponsored by the Central Bank Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The articles and discussants# comments in this volume largely focus on two questions: the need for ...

The size of nations

The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the ...

The economic effects of constitutions

The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy; the book is an uncompromisingly empirical sequel to their previous theoretical analysis of economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as ...

The political economy of monetary institutions

an international organization reader

Normal;Recent analysis by political economists of monetary institution determinants in different countries has been limited by the fact that exchange rate regimes and central bank institutions are studied in isolation from each other, without examining how one institution affects the costs and benefits of ...

Tax policy and the economy, Volume 17, 2003

This NBER series presents current academic research in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysis without making specific policy recommendations. Volume 17 continues the series tradition of addressing topics that are relevant to current issues ...

La Banca Centrale Europea

La Banca Centrale Europea è ormai operativa da alcuni anni e intorno ad essa, alla sua struttura istituzionale, alle sue funzioni, agli strumenti di politica monetaria è andato sviluppandosi un articolato dibattito, che ha coinvolto sia giuristi sia economisti. Si tratta di una discussione a ...

L'ère des banques centrales

Les banques centrales évoluent... La modialisation, paradoxalement, a accru consodérablement le pouvoir et l'audience de ces institutions technocratiques, devenues des interlocuteurs majeurs des marchés. L'auter retrace les circonstances, les rèflexions et les étapes qui ont justifié et jalonné la montée en puissance des ...