Macroeconomics

What effect did the Great Recession have on innovation efficiency and the effectiveness of scarce resource management?

This edited volume presents new means of quantifying the behavioral and consequential differences between technology-based and non-technology-based nascent entrepreneurs in varied economies.

Joseph Stiglitz examines the theory behind the economic downturns that have plagued our world in recent times.

This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive.

Why do some countries' economies struggle to develop, even when they are the focus of so much research and international funding?

In this narrative history, David E.

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader theoretical level.

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history.

This unconventional book addresses the imbalance of power between countries that give and receive funds for international financial development, with particular attention to the outcomes and impacts of this imbalance on recipient countries.

In the US, retirement savings are low while risk exposure is high, thus dooming many retirees to a low standard of living.

This edited collection investigates the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion.

Hans van Zon analyzes the financialization of developed capitalism, and argues that the emergence of finance as a dominant force has contributed to the relative decline of the West.

This book explores the diversity of restructuring instruments applied to financial institutions in EU countries during the Global Financial Crisis.

This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate.

Kuroda uses quantitative measures to investigate the rice production structure and effects of agricultural policies in Japan over the second half of the 20th century.

Murtin examines the long-term causes of health improvements over the last two centuries.

With contributions from a range of expert scholars in European economics, politics and social policy, this edited collection analyses the crisis in Europe by exploring the structural asymmetries of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and European monetary integration.

A significant part of economics as we know it today is the outcome of battles that took place in the post-war years between Keynesians and monetarists.

This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.

Researchers, policymakers and commentators have long debated the patterns through which adverse shocks in a few markets may quickly spread to a range of apparently disconnected financial markets causing widespread losses and turmoil.

The state and entrepreneurs are two players that have shaped both economic activity and economic history throughout the world since the Industrial Revolution.

In this book, Radlo increases understanding of offshoring, outsourcing and international production fragmentation, and explains the impact of this phenomenon on the economies and enterprises.

Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century.

This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation.

Thomas Malthus identified a crucial tension at the heart of a market economy: While an accumulation of wealth is necessary to provide the capital investment needed to generate growth, too much accumulation will cause planned saving to exceed profitable investment, which will result in secular stagnation, a condition of low growth and underemployment of resources.

This book presents detailed case studies of the first commercial internet digital currency systems developed between 1996 and 2004.

The study of regionalism is essential as it has become a vital trend with profound regional and global impacts.

This survey of portfolio theory, from its modern origins through more sophisticated, "e;postmodern"e; incarnations, evaluates portfolio risk according to the first four moments of any statistical distribution: mean, variance, skewness, and excess kurtosis.

The financialization of the economy has brought a number of interrelated problems which have contributed to growing income and wealth inequality.

The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospectively putting a dollar figure on the value of R&D investments before they are made.

It was a part of the wisdom of mainstream economics that in the early stages of development inequality would rise but as growth persisted, it would, eventually, decline.

Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged behind.

In The Financial Crisis Reconsidered, Aronoff challenges the conventional view that reckless credit produced the US housing boom and the financial crisis, explaining how the large current account deficit, and its mercantilist origin, was a more fundamental cause.

Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussion on issues related to the size, spread and frequency of financial crises has captivated a wide variety of audiences.

This book addresses a longstanding issue that emerged fifty years ago and continues to persist- the lack of an accounting and reporting system for financial sustainability.

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this economic injustice.

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this economic injustice.

Poverty, famines, wars, and ethnic conflicts lead to large movements of refugees.

The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD.

It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline.

Why do banks collapse?

Greece's economy symbolizes in many ways the Eurozone's economic problems and divergent interests as it amasses most of the economic disadvantages characterizing the Eurozone's economy itself.

In the quarter century since its emergence from military rule and integration into the global economy, Bangladesh's economy has achieved high growth, reduced aid dependence and made remarkable improvement in social indicators while at the same time it continues to suffer from increasing inequality.

Pereira and Mattei bring contributors together in this exciting volume to further understanding about the recent Brazilian Economic Development Model and discuss the related social conditions.

Global financial markets have transformed over the past three decades - with potentially dangerous results.

This second edition explores how money 'works' in the modern economy and synthesises the key principles of Modern Money Theory, exploring macro accounting, currency regimes and exchange rates in both the USA and developing nations.

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work.

In this edited collection, Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman present a series of studies on contemporary macroeconomic issues.

With contributions from international scholars, this second volume by Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman comprises of theoretical, empirical, and policy-based chapters which carefully utilize theory and data analysis.

Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions.