In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system.
In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort.
In this provocative work, Gerald Scully develops and empirically tests a theory about how a nation's constitutional setting affects its economic growth.
Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business, yet many entrepreneurs struggle with the pain of inconsistent revenue, leading to financial instability and, in worst cases, business closure.
Us in a World Out of Order: China, America, and the Remaking of the World is a work of long-form nonfiction that is at once a cool-eyed reckoning with political economy and the solitary memoir of one man.
In order to analyze Brazil's recent accumulation of capital in the light of its continued dependence, Peter Evans focuses on the relationships among multinational corporations, local private entrepreneurs, and state-owned enterprises that have developed in Brazil over the last decade.
In the 1970s and 1980s the countries of Latin America dealt with their similar debt problems in very different ways--ranging from militantly market-oriented approaches to massive state intervention in their economies--while their political systems headed toward either democracy or authoritarianism.
Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occurring in five peripheral countries--China, Cuba, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Nicaragua--commonly viewed as in transition to socialism.
In economics, the emergence of New Growth Theory in recent decades has directed attention to an old and important problem: what are the forces of economic growth and how can public policy enhance them?
Why we need to heed the lessons of high inflationToday's global economy, with most developed nations experiencing very low inflation, seems a world apart from the "e;Great Inflation"e; that spanned the late 1960s to early 1980s.
An interdisciplinary look at the behavioral roots of public policy from the field's leading expertsIn recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing decisions, racism, sexism, health behaviors, and voting.
At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans.
At a moment when protectionist trade policy has returned to the centre of global economic debate, America's Neglected Protectionist Tradition recovers the deep intellectual roots of that impulse - roots that stretch back to America's founding and that represent a far more sophisticated economic tradition than is commonly understood.
At a moment when protectionist trade policy has returned to the centre of global economic debate, America's Neglected Protectionist Tradition recovers the deep intellectual roots of that impulse - roots that stretch back to America's founding and that represent a far more sophisticated economic tradition than is commonly understood.
A provocative book that demystifies China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country's embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hopedWhen China embarked on its transformative journey of modernization in 1979, many believed the country's turn toward capitalism would put its totalitarian past to rest and mark the birth of a democratic, open society.
An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combinedCivil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons.
An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combinedCivil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons.
A provocative book that demystifies China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country's embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hopedWhen China embarked on its transformative journey of modernization in 1979, many believed the country's turn toward capitalism would put its totalitarian past to rest and mark the birth of a democratic, open society.
Aunque el maiz fue uno de los cultivos originarios mas importantes de America, en la actualidad su consumo en Colombia es menor que el de los productos elaborados a partir del trigo.
The Bankers' Banquet: How Development Funds Get DevouredEvery year, billions of dollars are pledged to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the very businesses that create jobs, drive innovation, and sustain local economies across Africa and the developing world.
'A gripping take on how fraud and scamming have become part of our everyday lives' Laura Whateley For decades, we have thought of scammers as rogue actors - offshore con artists or opportunistic criminals who target the elderly, the ill-informed and the vulnerable, looking to gain access to their money or their identities.
Este texto, titulado "Columnas Espartanas: Una mirada reflexiva al sistema financiero 2017-2025", es un compendio de más de ochenta columnas de opinión escritas por Enrique Marshall Rivera, exvicepresidente del Banco Central y exsuperintendente de Bancos de Chile
The largest political constituency in the United States is the care majority — the parents, daughters, sons, aunts, paid caregivers, and care recipients whose lives turn on the work of holding other people together.
Retirement Planning for the 21st Century: A Practical Guide to Financial Security, Tax Savings, and Lifetime IncomeRetirement today is more complex than ever.
Tanzania's 2025 Pre-Election Crisis: Enforced Disappearances, Judicial Deference, Digital Repression, and the Architecture of FearThis book provides a comprehensive, real-time analysis of Tanzania's political environment during the lead-up to the October 29, 2025 general election.
Tanzania 2025 Contested Elections: The Handcuffed Election, Volume 6 examines the political, legal, and institutional dynamics shaping Tanzania's pre-election environment ahead of the October 2025 general election.
This book examines the conduct of Tanzania's legal profession during the 2025 electoral cycle, with particular focus on the Public Bar Association (PBA) and its institutional rivalry with the Tanganyika Law Society (TLS).
