Macroeconomics

Modern mainstream economics is attracting an increasing number of critics of its high degree of abstraction and lack of relevance to economic reality.

Foreign-owned firms (FoFs) can have significant implications in terms of employment, income and technology for the national economies involved.

David Howarth and Peter Loedel provide a theoretically inspired account of the creation, design and operation of the European Central Bank.

What constraints do history and the global economy place upon Africa's economic development?

What will joining the EU mean for the new Eastern member states and their economies?

Motivated by the proliferation of fiscal consolidation episodes in the advent of Monetary Union, this book explains the causes and consequences of fiscal policy in Europe, using theory and empirical evidence from the last four decades.

What are the links between things as diverse as the prices of pork bellies, interest rates, and corporate stock?

Since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, East Asia has implemented a number of initiatives designed to strengthen monetary and financial cooperation, bolstering the region's resilience to economic and financial vulnerabilities.

The US is slowly recovering from the aftermath of the burst of the 'new economy' bubble - which was one of the worst in monetary history.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to major economic policy issues in Denmark.

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This book incorporates human psychology into economic analysis.

This is the 30th anniversary edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

This book examines the economic policies available to a head of state and addresses how best to measure the success of these tools.

Today's international development financing system seems like a collection of disjointed entities that often work at cross purposes without being able to mobilize enough finance for developing countries in their efforts to reduce poverty and improve living standards.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the main factors that affected the course of the countries of South-Eastern Europe during transition, contributing, as a result, to their disappointing economic performance.

This book explores the exchange rate regime choice and the role played by the exchange rate in the economy.

Provides an insider's examination of China's economic reform and its political implications.

The book deals with economic issues related to income and wealth among individuals, regions and countries.

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth.

Can China and India continue to rank among the fastest expanding economies?

This book provides new ways of analyzing the key issues in international finance and open economy macroeconomics.

The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes.

This book argues for a new conceptual framework that analytically distinguishes between North-South monetary co-ordination, which involves an international key currency, and South-South arrangements between economies all marked by external indebtedness and the resulting macroeconomic instabilities ('original sin').

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This book deals primarily with social costs of transformation to a market economy in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

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A detailed and informed analysis of the current crisis facing the eurozone, examining the root causes and exploring the possible outcomes and uncertain future of the European Union and its currency.

The world economy is caught in a money trap.

With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth.

A detailed exploration of the influence and utility of Thomas Malthus' model of population growth and economic changes in Europe since the nineteenth century.

A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "e;ordinary"e; taxation.

The policy relevant analysis of this volume examines nearly twenty years of Zimbabwe's macroeconomic and structural adjustment experiences since independence.

The book contains a comprehensive review of all aspects of credit control: analysis and presentation for a decision; structure; monitoring; and damage limitation.

This book assesses the performance of the first Lula government (2002-06) from different perspectives including economics, politics, history and social policy.

This book is a timely reminder of the more fundamental determinants of capital accumulation and innovation.

This book presents a theoretically-based comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic consequences of fiscal policy using a popular economic model: the overlapping generations growth model.

A comprehensive picture of the effects of economic integration on industry location in less developed East Asia - particularly in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar - who pursued trade liberalization and economic integration after the 1990s.

This volume provides a rigorous and balanced perspective on the causes and implications of dollarization, and the basic policies and options to deal with it: the adaptation of the monetary and prudential frameworks, the development of local-currency substitutes, and the scope for limiting dollarization through administrative restrictions.

The author takes a fresh look at China's economic policies, development strategies and economic experiences since 1978.

This book is a systematic study of monetary policy and financial institution in China during its decentralisation- and market-oriented economic reform.

The book offers a concise account of modern Japanese economic history and the essence of postwar macroeconomic issues and policy.

'The best contemporary map available [of the British state].

Opportunities for growth and investment in Central America could well improve in the coming years, as the region's ties with the world economy grow closer.

There is now a vast and still rapidly expanding literature of scholarly studies on the Chinese experience of economic growth and systemic transformation over the past 16 years.

'Dr Kuznetsov's analysis is insightful and important.

Although the current day-to-day operations of Central Banks are subject to continuous comment and frequent criticism, their structural role within the economic system as a whole is generally accepted without much question and despite several attempts to challenge the value of the institution made by economists in recent decades.

This book examines the causes, consequences and policy significance of international capital movements and nations' external account imbalances.

Transition economies offer a test case for concepts and theories, for broader ideas and for the methods of scientific enquiry, but also for the multiplicity of ideological interpretations.

This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector and examines and documents, theoretically and empirically, the effects of government spending and taxation on personal distribution, and includes chapters investigating the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of national income.