Economic systems and structures

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers.

Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals.

Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade?

An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century.

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.

Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband.

In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse.

Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms.

Case studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information-information not equally available to all parties-are the focus of this volume.

Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries draws out the underlying economics in business history by focusing on learning processes and the development of competitively valuable asymmetries.

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

This volume examines the economic problems of Arab countries following the Arab Spring.

The way in which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook.

This volume examines the economic problems of Arab countries following the Arab Spring.

This graduate textbook is a primer in macroeconomics.

Technology and globalization are uprooting and reshaping daily life.

The interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena.

This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies.

This book tells the story of an academic department that underwent rapid, wrenching changes at a time and in a place that one would not have expected them to have occurred.

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger.

An intense debate has played out in recent years regarding how to implement a so-called "e;flexicurity system"e;-a labor market reform that combines flexibility, particularly in the hiring and firing process of firms, with security in the employment and income of the workforce.

Financial crises have been pervasive for many years.

This graduate textbook is a primer in macroeconomics.

Derived from the 2001 Santa Fe Institute Conference, "e;The Economy as an Evolving Complex System III,"e; represents scholarship from the leading figures in th area of economics and complexity.

Can the ethical mission of health care survive among organizations competing for survival in the marketplace?

This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation's social institutions.

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger.

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "e;Washington Consensus:"e; the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability.

The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "e;Washington Consensus:"e; the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability.

The Pacific Rim is a dynamic and diverse economic region, containing the world's three largest economies (US, China, and Japan), as well as many of the world's fastest growing and emerging market economies.

The impact of the Great Depression on politics in the 1930s was both transformative and shocking.

By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings.

The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist economies, and that it is only strong and dynamically-changing financial regulations that can keep the damage caused by these crises within bounds.

In Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy, Janos Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism.

In Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy, Janos Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism.

In Does Capitalism Have a Future?

In Does Capitalism Have a Future?

The way in which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook.

The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist economies, and that it is only strong and dynamically-changing financial regulations that can keep the damage caused by these crises within bounds.

With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world.

The interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena.

Personalized and continuing relationships play a central role in any society.

This book reviews the experience of 14 countries with external liberalization and related policies, based on papers written by national authors following a common 0000oeconomic methodology.

Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems.

Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise, freedom of contract, free labor, free trade, and free speech.