Systemic transformation, trade and economic growth

developments, theoretical analysis and empirical results

Since the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEESs) have been involved in the transition process. This book compares the progress of some of these economies in transition and analyses their ...

El crecimiento ecónomico y las artes

Los paises con mayor tradición cultural obvian a menudo el estudio de la Economía de la Cultura. Este ensayo pone de manifiesto la necesidad de cubrir ese vacío. Nosólo porque el análisis de la cultura desde la perspectiva económica contribuye a mejorar la política cultural ...

Desarrollo sostenible en un mundo dinámico

Transformación de instituciones, crecimiento y calidad de vida.

El informe sobre el Desarrollo mundial 2003 examina la relación entre objetivos políticos en competencia -reducir la pobreza, mantener el crecimiento, mejorar la cohesión social y proteger el medio ambiente- en un horizonte de 50 años. El informe observa que se han identificado muchas políticas ...

Economic integration and development

has regionalism delivered for developing countries?

Questions related to the economics of regionalism became increasingly important beginning in the late 1980s, when regional groupings started to become for more popular as a tool of commercial policy. The goal of this text is to address the question of whether or not regionalism ...

Economic policy reform

the second stage

The papers and commentary collected here constitute a vital discussion of contemporary thinking on economic policy reform, in particular the difficulties that leave so much of the world seemingly mired in poverty. Distinguished contributors address issues ranging from education and privatization to exchange rates and ...

The nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This text charts development economics as it evolved from Adam Smith to "new" or endogenous growth theory. Thirlwall is critical of the latter, and its predecessor neo-classical growth theory, and tries to put back demand as a driving force in growth theory.

European responses to globalization and financial market integration

perceptions of Economic and Monetary Union in Britain, France and Germany

Description: This book investigates the perceptions of political actors towards the creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. The research is largely based on personal interviews conducted with key informants in central banks, finance ministries, employers' organizations and trade unions in Britain, France ...

Too sensational

on the choice of exchange rates regimes

In this volume, W. Max Corden presents a systematic and accessible overview of the choice of exchange rate regimes. Reviewing many types of regimes, he shows how the choice of an exchange rate regime is related to both fiscal policy and trade policy. Building on ...

Exchange rate regimes

choices and consequences

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency ...

Economics of exchange rates

In the last few decades exchange rate economics has seen a number of developments, with substantial contributions to both the theory and empirics of exchange rate determination. Important developments in econometrics and the increasingly large availability of high-quality data have also been responsible for stimulating ...

The behaviour of fiscal authorities

stabilisation, growth and institutions

Description: The behaviour of fiscal authorities and its interplay with budgetary institutions is a recent and increasingly important area of economic research, heightened by the move to single currency in Europe. This volume provides a systematic analysis of issues including the determinants of fiscal retrenchment ...

Money and Politics

That large financial contributions distort American politics and American democracy is an idea that stands as a truism in political debate. It has fired reform movements; it has inspired round after round of efforts to limit who can give to candidates and parties, how much ...

La fragilidad financiera del capitalismo

La fragilidad financiera es uno de os problemas endémicos del Capitalismo. Un problema que que no parece encontrarse en vías de solución como lo prueban las crisis bursátiles, cambiarias y bancarias de la última década, algunas de las cuales son objeto de análisis del presente ...

The politics of money

towards sustainability and economic democracy

The book opens with a review of the role of money in currnt society, an overview of the history of money creations and a critique of the main theoretical developements in economic thought. Alternative perspectives on money are then presented through a review of a ...

Monetary transmission in diverse economies

This 2002 volume explains different aspects of the transmission mechanism. It scrutinizes the relevance of practical issues such as asymmetries, recent structural changes and estimation errors using data on the US, Euro area and developing countries. Also focuses on modelling crucial aspects including productivity, the ...

Moving money

banking and finance in the industrialized world

Daniel Verdier's book is an analysis of how politics influences financial systems. He shows that differing national political institutions have led to different regulatory policies and thus different financial structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of financial politics and ...

Political pressure, rhetoric and monetary policy

lessons for the European Central Bank

Philipp Maier offers an examination of the extent to which governments and various interest groups have exerted pressure on central banks. The book looks in particular at the Deutsche Bundesbank - which acted as the blueprint for the European Central Bank (ECB) - and utilizes an original ...

Political economy

the contest of economic ideas

Political Economy looks at the competing currents of political economic thought. INDICE ECONOMIC PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS: The current context . ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: What's so Special about Capitalism . BACK TO BASICS: Classical Political Economy . THE CRITQUE OF CAPITALISM: Marxist Economics . THE IDEOLOGY OF THE MARKET: Neoclassical ...

The economics of public choice

In this fully revised second edition of a popular text, Patrick McNutt presents more ideas and challenges to all those interested in political economy and public choice. Chapter 2 looks at the economic nature of contracts and reviews the "contractual form" by interpreting the Edgeworth-Bowley ...

Too sensational

on the choice of exchange rate regimes

Most of the literature on exchange rate regimes has focused on the developed countries. Since the recent crises in emerging markets, however, attention has shifted to the choice of exchange rate regimes for developing countries, especially those that are more integrated into the world capital ...