Macroeconomics

Economic progress requires technological development, which in turn depends on a country's social capacity to acquire, assimilate, and develop new technologies.

This book illuminates the characteristics of the Japanese economy comprehensively and analyses how and why they have been changing.

The essays in this volume are concerned with interpretations and extensions, both theoretical and empirical, of the work of Keynes and Kalecki, and of Sraffa, and with the relationships between the works of these three authors.

The book examines the nature of development and diversification in the oil and gas exports, development planners have sought to implement a range of strategies for diversifying the economy in order to secure sustainable levels of growth and development.

This book traces the growth of capitalism in South East Asia between 1870 and 1941, a crucial element in understanding contemporary economic and political developments in the region.

Tackles the criticism that the European Community is an unbalanced arrangement, where the path to closer integration may involve an inequitable distribution of the benefits to large firms, rather than to the public at large, the less well off parts of the Community and those in employment.

'Written in a clear and straightforward style, and well grounded in succinct and pertinent analysis.

The book begins with an editors' introduction that provides a conceptual setting for a comparative study of the role of policy in the development of the postwar Japanese and West German economies.

The book investigates issues of policy design in open economies.

In this book Ryoshin Minami studies the last hundred years of Japan's remarkable economic growth from the Meiji period up to the present day.

We are now living in a period of disillusion in the ability of economic policy to stabilise the economy.

This book identifies that problems that China must face to develop its economy and elucidates the structural deficiencies which lay behind these problems.

This edited collection examines the emerging issues arising from increasingly globalized financial markets.

Many of the problems that have been brewing in the West European banking industry have come to the boil in the years since 1990.

This volume assembles the major papers discussed at an international workshop on poverty monitoring to evaluate poverty indicators and poverty monitoring systems.

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These new essays cover aspects of monetary theory as well as monetary policy, the prime objective being the development of intellectual tools in order to find new ways of thinking to existing and new monetary problems in an increasingly unstable world economy marked by rapid and often unexpected changes, partly caused by the disappearance of boundaries for financial transactions.

Privatising firms and liberalizing their market environment generates in Eastern Europe a variety of problems, many of which are not common to the analogous attempts in industries countries.

Provides a introduction to the principal Western financial markets and institutions, particularly those in the USA, Europe and Japan.

Building the 'New Europe' is at the core of the new international economic and political initiatives leading the world through the nineties and toward the twenty-first century.

This book focuses on taxation and economic policy making.

The book is an in-depth review of the theory and empirics of the demand for money and other financial assets.

In the 1980s, a decade of economic expansion, the rich grew richer but the poor poorer.

This innovative book provides the first detailed analysis of the increasing convergence of banking and insurance in the retail area, a trend commonly referred to as bancassurance.

This book is Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 10th World Economic Congress held in Moscow in 1992 under the auspices of the International Economic Association.

The book argues that accountants overemphasise cost and liquidation value, ignore cashflow and value to a going concern; that they would 'rather be precisely wrong than roughly right'.

'All of us need help in understanding Keynes's brilliant, but often opaque, contributions to theory and policy.

'Fisher's book will appeal to scholars interested in historical macroeconomics and the industrial revolution.

This book challenges the conventional view that monetarism is a necessary part of classical economics and shows, in an historical account of monetary controversy, that the framework upon which classical analysis is based suggests an alternative account of the inflationary process.

The US twin deficit, Western European economic integration, Eastern Europe's transition towards a market economy, the debt burden of the Less Developed Countries, the growing and deepening discrimination against the rest of the world by new homogeneous areas such as the North America free trade area, the new Europe, and Japan are the issues at the heart of global disequilibrium in the world economy.

Explains the UK economy as a macroeconomy and as a financial system, as well as examining spending, taxing and borrowing and external transactions within the economy and the labour market, and welfare and industrial policy within the UK economy.

The subject of this book is the kind of economic interaction and interdependence that has arisen among nations in the contemporary world economy, the nature and significance of the pattern of trade balances that have resulted from them, and the question of what, if anything, should be done by national governments about that pattern.

The internationalization of the German political economy in the postwar era has produced a special socio-economic and political formation which this anthology views as a 'hegemonic project'.

The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23 is a significant reappraisal of the political, social and economic problems associated with the rebirth of an independent Polish state.

Part of a series on the modern Japanese economy which explores all the major areas of Japanese economic life, this book examines the managerial hierarchies of large-scale Japanese industrial companies since their emergence.

Contains a statement of balance-of-payments accounting, and a critical appraisal of balance-of-payments adjustment theory.

This book explores two main themes.

The authors argue clearly and convincingly in this book that the debt crisis which has plagued the world economy for the past ten years is due to the inherent fragility of financial markets.

This book describes the complex of economic processes which sustains inflationary pressure in nations with severe inflation problems.

Ethical Banking analyses pressures on bank managers and others in financial services.

The objective of this present volume is to analyse the response to the developments and the consequences for the conduct of monetary policy in five industrial countries.

A text using the concept of arbitrage to value securities, that is to construct the elements of financial economics.

In these twelve essays, spanning fifteen years, Victoria Chick develops a distinctive view of macroeconomics (especially the economics of Keynes) and monetary theory.

The theme of the book is how efficient economic organisation with clearly defined property rights in the framework of a market economy has made possible the development of the South African economy.

The contributions are concerned with the theoretical and empirical analyses of fixed and flexible exchange rate systems, the role of central bank and other government policies in such systems, the prospects, workings and effects of a European Monetary System, and capital mobility and economic integration.

The current world economic crisis and its impact on Japanese capitalism contains many paradoxes.

This is the first book in several years to review the foreign policies of major Southeast Asian states and the first ever to include those frequently neglected smaller states.