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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Otro siglo perdido

las políticas de desarrollo en América Latina (1930-2005)

En ésta obra póstuma, el autor hace un análisis moderno de la región latinoamericana desde el punto de vista de la economía del desarrollo; "no es un libro para economistas de altos vuelos, que se interesan sólo en las etapas de posgrado, con grandes refinamientos ...

The Stability and Growth Pact

experiences and future aspects

When the Euro was introduced in the EU, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) was one of the cornerstones of the architecture of fiscal policy in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The call for a reform got momentum since many Member States of the ...

Industrialización, competitividad y desequilibrio externo en México

un enfoque macroindustrial y financiero (1929-2010)

Desde su primera aparición en 1976, esta obra se ha encargado de explicar las diversas crisis externas de México, así como las restricciones al crecimiento en este país. Como ocurrió en 1982 con el modelo de industrialización por sustitución de importaciones, su reemplazo, el modelo ...

New trends in macroeconomics

"This volume does exactly what its title says: it acquaints with 'New Trends in Macroeconomics'. More specifically, it contains eleven chapters covering different aspects of modern macroeconomics: short-run fluctuations, long-run growth, monetary economics, international finance, macroeconometrics and complex dynamics. All chapters break new grounds in ...

Economic growth and macroeconomic dynamics

recent developments in economic theory

The development of the endogenous growth model rekindled interest in growth theory. In contrast to the neo-classical model, long-run endogenous growth emerged as an equilibrium outcome, reflecting the behavior of optimizing agents in the economy. This book brings together a number of contributions in growth ...

Macroeconomía

Ejercicios de introducción a la Macroeconomía

Cuestiones básicas de macroeconomía aplicada

El diferencial de desempleo andaluz

análisis macroeconómico del mercado de trabajo andaluz en comparación con el resto de España (1980-2000)

The rise of unemployment in Europe

a keynesian approach

Ahorro, equilibrio y crecimiento

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº 182, año 2004)