Macroeconomics

One of the most challenging issues for the current state of global economy is a highly uneven distribution of global financial assets and liabilities.

The oft-used phrase ‘Money makes the world go round’ not only highlights the purely economic nature of money but also underscores its significant implications for politics, society, and humanity.

The recent development of endogenous growth theories has renewed the in- terest into the sources of productivity growth of the advanced industrialized economies.

In the current crisis context, capitalism is questioned by its detractors or defended by its partisans.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

Written by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow?

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

The results of macroeconomic policy are often unpredictable.

This edited collection presents an economic history of Catalonia and its economic crises, from Roman times to the political difficulties of the present day.

This textbook explains the notion of monetary union, highlighting the key concepts, procedures, and challenges involved.

This book provides readers with essential concepts from financial economics for an integrated study of the financial system and the real economy.

From Donald Trump, to Brexit and the rise of nationalist populism across Europe, what role has the media played in shaping our current political moment?

The corporate world is typically structured in silos.

How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democraticThe power to create money is foundational to the state.

This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality.

With all the rapid economic success in Japan, it is easy to forget just how insular the nation has been, and how strikingly different its trading patterns remain from those of other industrialized nations.

This book offers an alternative to perspectives of distributive justice which fail to resolve economic inequality and exacerbate social problems by ignoring the real causes of inequality.

David Ricardo (1772 - 1823) was a hugely influential British political economist and stock trader.

This lively and provocative look at the tension between economics and politics examines why so many mistakes in economic policy-making are made for political reasons and ignore the economic truths.

This book explores the micro-foundations and the macro-implications of the design of labour contracts.

The objective of this book is to provide an understanding of the economy with its nature and structure, dominance of unorganized sector, natural resources, economic and social infrastructure, demographic features, poverty, unemployment, inequality, national income, saving and investment, role of noneconomic factors, and sources of data.

Monetary policy in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries remains an understudied area; this book fills an important gap by examining monetary policy frameworks and monetary policy strategies in the region.

This book presents the ways in which three key issues of the modern world - transformation, digitalisation and sustainability - may be combined for the greater good and highlights which activities may be designed to integrate these three directly linked paths.

Why the dollar is-and will remain-the dominant global currencyThe U.

This important collection presents an authoritative selection of papers on "e;Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities"e; This publication is intent on building bridges between economics and the other social sciences.

This book explores how corruption is now widely recognized as a major "e;disease"e; which threatens not only economic development but also the foundations of societies.

In a dramatic and well-argued challenge to the prevailing wisdom, Prosperity and Public Spending, first published in 1988, contends that the failure of Keynesian economics has been due to its timidity.

As the United States continues its slow climb out of the Great Recession, it is important to focus on new directions to improve the standard of living in America.

Over the past two decades, China's robust economic performance has propelled it to the world stage.

This new textbook on the Chinese economy clearly presents all that the world's second largest economy has accomplished, as well as what work remains to be done.

This book advances our knowledge on intangibles and their role in productivity growth, presenting a unique multi-level perspective.

The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic.

The book explores the effect of financial globalization on Latin American economic policy-making.

This book, first published in 1989, assesses the existing tax and benefit systems as being beyond repair, and examines the case for integration.

In Chapter 5, William Shughart also considers the part that politics played in banking legislation during the 1930s, but he looks at the banking legislation passed in the United States.

This collection of speeches delivered by Michael Debabrata Patra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), captures the dilemmas and trepidations of conducting monetary policy in India.

This is the first part of a two-volume set on Concordian economics, a new paradigm whose core completes the Aristotelian-Aquinian project of economic justice.

Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy.

500 Ways to achieve your highest scoreFrom Basic Economic Concepts to Measurements of Economic Systems, Economic Growth and International Trade and Finance -- there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP Macroeconomics exam.

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis.

This book analyses Jamaica's ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies.

In Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health, editors Kenneth A.

During the last two decades, Vietnam has been undergoing a process of deregulating economic activities and integrating into the global economy.

Examining the global significance of the freight container, with particular emphasis on the perspectives of the US and China, Globalization Contained considers the implications of the freight container as an agent of change for the future of the global economy and global security.

These essays bring together a progression in monetary theory.