Federal Banking in Brazil

policies and competitive advantages

This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the liberalization of the industry in the 1990s, have realized competitive advantages ...

Taking economics seriously

There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation ...

Sin reservas

un límite al poder absoluto

El 14 de diciembre de 2009 se quebró una relación de respeto que se había mantenido durante más de cinco años entre el banco Central y los Kirchner, cuando el Gobierno, con un decreto, decidió usar las reservas para financiar el desmedido aumento del gasto ...

Japan transformed

political change and economic restructuring

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains ...

An introduction to the chinese economy

the driving forces behind modern day China

This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The ...

Politik

el manifiesto gráfico

¿Qué es un animal político? ¿Qué significa tener color político? ¿ Nosotros trabajamos para los políticos o ellos trabajan para nosotros? ¿ Quién los controla? ¿Por qué algunos políticos se niegan a buscar soluciones conjuntas para terminar con la angustia y la desesperación de muchos? Estas son ...

Selling America short

the SEC and market contrarians in the Age of Absurdity

An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial system and the agencies who attempt to control it. During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer opened and supervised some of its most notable financial cases - investigations that took him to ...

The political economy of agricultural price distortions

Ed. Kym Anderson. Despite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms ...

Measuring and managing federal financial risk

Ed. Deborah Lucas. The U.S. government is the world's largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remains poorly understood and only partially measured. Government budgetary and financial accounting ...

Handbook of social choice and Welfare

volume two

Eds. Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen, Kotaro Suzumura. This second part of a two-volume set continues to describe economists' efforts to quantify the social decisions people necessarily make and the philosophies that those choices define. Contributors draw on lessons from philosophy, history, and other disciplines ...

Research findings in the economics of aging

Ed. David A. Wise. The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of ...

Mismeasuring our lives

why GDP doesn't add up

With a foreword by Nicolas Sarkozy. The Commission regards its report as opening a discussion rather than closing it. The report hints as issues that ought to be addressed in the context of more comprehensive research efforts". Thus reads the opening statement of the last ...

Fuentes del crecimiento y productividad en Europa y América Latina

Eds. Ariel A. Coremberg, Francisco Pérez García. Las diversas experiencias de crecimiento que han tenido lugar en Europa y América Latina y los problemas derivados de la crisis actual refuerzan la relevancia de precisar los diagnósticos sobre las fuentes de crecimiento y su papel en ...

Challenges of social cohesion in times of crisis

Euro-Latin American dialogue

Eds. M. Zupi and E. Estruch Puertas. We are living in a change of era, not an era of change. The current crisis poses challenges but is also an opportunity for Europe and Latin America. And it seems clear the way out of the crisis ...

Bienestar para todos

Trad. Enrique Tierno Galván. Esta política económica, que, contra la general oposición e incomprensión de los partidos políticos (incluido el partido del propio Erhard), los sindicatos, los empresarios, consiguió transformar en unos años a un país hundido y destrozado por la guerra en una de ...

The evolution of nordic finance

From the establishment of the first financial institutions to the latest bank rescues, this book traces the origins, development, regulation, and trajectory of the framework for capital market institutions and activities in the Nordic region. This evolution is examined from a broader comparative perspective, in ...

Multiple account benefit-cost analysis

a practical guide for the systematic evaluation of project and policy alternatives

Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit- cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that all values are complex ...

The haves and the have-nots

a brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality

One of the world's leading experts on global inequality tells the fascinating story of wealth and poverty through the ages in a series of short, quirky vignettes. Inequality is a surprisingly slippery issue because it involves not just straight comparisons of, say, two individuals ...

Researching the social economy

Eds. Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan. Researching the Social Economy is one of the first comprehensive research collections on the social economy in Canada. While the term "social economy" is used widely is Western Europe and Quebec, it has had minimal currency in English ...

Introduction to public policy

CONTENTS: Preface SECTION I WHAT IS PUBLIC POLICY? 1 Public Decision Making 3 To Snowmobile, or Not to Snowmobile? 3 1.1 Defining Public Policy 6 Policy in the Real World Bad Policy Can Be Fatal, Literally: Zimbabwe's Self-Inflicted Wounds 8 1.2 The ...