A History of Underdevelopment and Political Economy of Inflation in Sri Lanka
The book provides a new conceptualisation of inflation in underdeveloped economies, through Sri Lanka's historical experience. It outlines a general theory of nationalisms in their diverse manifestations across the world, within a historical perspective of capitalist development and underdevelopment. The book, therefore, seeks to capture the production mode holistically, within both its infrastructural and superstructural levels probing their interactions. The theoretical structure through which inflation is analysed synthesises the theory of unproductive labour and Marxian theory of prices of production with labour surplus theory of late Dr. S. B. D. De Silva in the context of underdevelopment. In this light, Professor David Laibman's Allocation Problem is resolved within a Marxist framework to provide an operational significance to the theory and its application. In the same vein the book also provides a new theoretical interpretation of Sri Lanka's historical development fromthe British period onwards through application of theories of capitalist development and surplus labour.
Food Supplies in the Aftermath of World War II
Originally published in 1993. This study was written in 1946 having been commissioned by a large corporation in the food industry. The insights from this thorough agricultural economics perspective even now are highly interesting.
Rethinking Value Chains
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains are being strongly promoted by international organisations, such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, but social and political backlash is mounting in a growing variety of forms. This ambitious volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to address the social and environmental imbalances of global production. Thinking creatively about how to reform the current economic system, this book will be essential reading for those interested in building sustainable alternatives at local, regional and global levels.
Private Sector Operations in 2019
This edition of Private Sector Operations--Report on Development Effectiveness reports on the performance of active projects of ADB's Private Sector Operations Department in terms of their achievement of agreed targets and expected results. It also examines the contributions of active projects to ADB's new corporate results framework, Strategy 2030, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals. This 10th edition is part of the series of reports that review the progress of ADB's Private Sector Operations Department in promoting its development effectiveness agenda.
Die Geldpolitik der Europ瓣ischen Zentralbank. Auswirkungen auf die deutschen Wirtschaftssubjekte
Der Europ瓣ischen Zentralbank (EZB) ist es gelungen, mit der Nullzinspolitik h繹chstverschuldete Staaten vor einem Bankrott zu sch羹tzen und sie mit frischem Kapital zu versorgen. Dies hat weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die deutsche Volkswirtschaft. Wie reagieren die europ瓣ischen Mitgliedsstaaten und insbesondere Deutschland auf geldpolitische ?nderungen? Welche Ziele und Strategien verfolgt die EZB und wie beeinflusst sie den Geld- und G羹termarkt? Welche Ma?nahmen hat der Bankensektor zur Risikovorsorge getroffen? Lisa Reichenbacher untersucht, wie die Europ瓣ische Zentralbank den Geldmarkt und insbesondere die deutschen Wirtschaftssubjekte beeinflusst. Dabei geht sie gezielt auf den Staatshaushalt, den Bankensektor, die Volkswirtschaft und die privaten Haushalte ein. Aus dem Inhalt: - Europ瓣ische Union; - Nullzinspolitik; - Bankensektor; - Deutscher Staatshaushalt; - Geldmarkt; - G羹termarkt
Mengerian Microeconomics
This book explores the neglected contribution of the American and English "psychological" school to economic theory, especially to the development and refinement of the Austrian school of economics. It argues that Frank Knight, Frank Fetter, Herbert Davenport, Philip Wicksteed and J.B. Clark among others improved on the original Austrian theory by Menger and Bohm-Bawerk by providing a coherent subjectivist foundation for the theories of production and distribution. They succeeded where economic theory before them failed - to develop the theories of interest, profit, wages and rents based solely on the principles of subjective value and marginal utility, eschewing the last remnants of the old cost of production models. This book represents a look at what mainstream economic theory might have looked like had the erasure of Mengerian Austrian price theory by Marshallian and Walrasian thoeries not taken place, and had the improvements and refinements of the Mengerian tradition, itself done by the Anglo-Saxon followers of Menger, been fully appropriated.
Externe Effekte durch Weltraumschrott. Eine umwelt繹konomische Betrachtung
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich VWL - Umwelt繹konomie, Note: 1,2, Hochschule Reutlingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Analyse bietet einen Einblick wie Umwelt繹konomie auf den Themenbereich Weltraumschrott angewendet werden kann. Das Thema Weltraumschrott wird 繹konomisch betrachtet, um so ein Problemverst瓣ndnis aufzubauen und konstruktive L繹sungsm繹glichkeiten vorzuschlagen. Das sich die Problematik des Weltraumschrotts in Zukunft noch verst瓣rken wird gilt unter Experten als sicher. Mit Space X oder Blue Origin dr瓣ngen sich immer mehr private Anbieter auf dem Weltraummarkt. Diese haben vor allem ein Ziel - die Kostenreduktion. In den letzten zehn Jahren hat sich die Menge des in der Erdumlaufbahn fliegende Weltraumschrott mehr als verdoppelt. Jeden Tag werden laut NASA circa ein bis zwei Tonnen Umweltschrott emittiert. Auch die European Space Agency hat das Problem erkannt und warnt vor einer erheblicher Gef瓣hrdung von Astronauten. Eine besondere Gefahr geht dabei nicht nur durch das steigende Schrottvolumen, sondern vor allem durch einen m繹glichen Schneeballeffekt aus. Dabei koaliert Weltraumschrott mit Weltraumschrott. So wird durch die Zersplitterung ein exponentiell steigender Anzahl an Schrotteilen produziert. Dies k繹nnte die staatliche und kommerzielle Nutzung des Orbits irreversibel beeintr瓣chtigen.
The Servant Economy
Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slideAmerica's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? The simple answer, that no in charge one wants to publicly acknowledge: because things are still pretty great for the people who run America. It was an accident of history, Jeff Faux explains, that after World War II the U.S. could afford a prosperous middle class, a dominant military, and a booming economic elite at the same time. For the past three decades, all three have been competing, with the middle class always losing. Soon the military will decline as well. The most plausible projections Faux explores foresee a future economy nearly devoid of production and exports, with the most profitable industries existing to solely to serve the wealthiest 1%The author's last book, The Global Class War, sold over 20,000 copies by correctly predicting the permanent decline of our debt-burdened middle class at the hands of our off-shoring executives, out of control financiers, and their friends in WashingtonSince his last book, Faux is repeatedly asked what either party will do to face these mounting crises. After looking over actual policies, proposed plans, non-partisan reports, and think tank papers, his astonishing conclusion: more of the same.
Indonesia and the Asian Development Bank
This book is a history of the partnership between Indonesia and ADB in the last five decades. Since Indonesia became a founding member of ADB in 1966, both have evolved in remarkable ways. Indonesia developed rapidly through the late 1990s yet faced a difficult time of adjustment after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998. The country has since resumed growth in the last decade. For its part, ADB has widened its activities in Indonesia, transforming from a project-oriented bank into a broad-based development institution. This effective partnership reflects Indonesia's success in working with the international community in the past 50 years.
A Europe Apart
This book combines history and political analysis of monetary integration in the European Union (EU) and discusses the main consequences of the euro on both member states' domestic politics and the EU's institutions and policies. The book is structured in three parts. In part I, historical analysis demonstrates that monetary instability and the need for international coordination in currency affairs emerged before political integration became an option. This suggests that monetary and political integration are convergent processes instead of two interconnected components of the wider European integration. Besides, the history of European monetary integration shows that many policies proposed today to face the euro and European crises had been discussed and tested in the past and that results were strictly connected to the specific conditions of the moment.Such a policy analysis-oriented approach to monetary history permits discussing with a different and innovative perspective the actual problems of monetary integration and the unmasking of misleading views of European integration widely diffused in the political debate since the end of the 2000s. Part II and part III discuss the political dimension of the European Economic and Monetary Union's (EMU) problems and the impact on member states' domestic politics. These sections consider themes such as EU institutional transformation, the new EU governance model that emerged due to the crisis, the problematic relationship between European integration and national democracy, and, finally, the role of monetary integration and opposition to the euro in feeding the growing electoral consensus in favour of populist parties. A conclusive chapter summarises the main results of this long-term analysis and answers some research questions anticipated in this book's introduction about the real nature and consequences of monetary integration.
The Reign of Anti-Logos
The concept of 'performativity' has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on people's personal lives. Although the autonomous power of representation has been studied in disciplines ranging from economics to poetics, however, it has not yet been evaluated in ethical terms. This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. It constructs a moral criticism of the performative sign in two ways: first, by identifying its rise to power as a single phenomenon manifested in various different areas; and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs. The book concludes by suggesting that earlier ethical critiques of efficacious representation might be revived in our own postmodern era.
Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I
Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and production on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas have yet not proven to be successful. This calls for innovative approaches to address the complex environmental, social, and economic interrelationships that have to be addressed in transforming to sustainable development. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I: Challenges and Development aims to explore critical global challenges and addresses how consumers, producers, the private sector, international organizations, and governments can play an active role in innovating businesses to support a transitioning towards sustainable consumption and production. The book explores different approaches and innovations to address sustainable consumption and production. It details multiple social and economic contexts to the challenges and developments towards a sustainable consumption and production. The book is of interest to economists, students, businesses, and policymakers.Chapter 14 and chapter 15 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Endogenous Growth Theory
Whereas other books on endogenous growth stress a particular aspect, such as trade or convergence, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the theoretical and empirical debates raised by modern growth theory.Advanced economies have experienced a tremendous increase in material well- being since the industrial revolution. Modern innovations such as personal computers, laser surgery, jet airplanes, and satellite communication have made us rich and transformed the way we live and work. But technological change has also brought with it a variety of social problems. It has been blamed at various times for increasing wage and income inequality, unemployment, obsolescence of physical and human capital, environmental deterioration, and prolonged recessions.To understand the contradictory effects of technological change on the economy, one must delve into structural details of the innovation process to analyze how laws, institutions, customs, and regulations affect peoples' incentive and ability to create new knowledge and profit from it. To show how this can be done, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt make use of Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction, the competitive process whereby entrepreneurs constantly seek new ideas that will render their rivals' ideas obsolete.Whereas other books on endogenous growth stress a particular aspect, such as trade or convergence, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the theoretical and empirical debates raised by modern growth theory. It develops a powerful engine of analysis that sheds light not only on economic growth per se, but on the many other phenomena that interact with growth, such as inequality, unemployment, capital accumulation, education, competition, natural resources, international trade, economic cycles, and public policy.
Die Digitalisierung der 繹ffentlichen Verwaltung
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich VWL - Innovations繹konomik, Note: 13,50 RP (gut), Fachhochschule des Bundes f羹r 繹ffentliche Verwaltung Br羹hl - Fachbereich Allgemeine Innere Verwaltung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit soll beantwortet werden, inwieweit eine gemeinsame Plattform von Bund, L瓣ndern und Kommunen - f羹r die Bereitstellung von Onlineverwaltungsdienstleistungen - dazu beitragen kann, die Digitalisierung der 繹ffentlichen Verwaltung positiv nach vorne zu bringen und somit die Nutzerakzeptanz bei B羹rgern und Unternehmen zu st瓣rken. Das Ziel der Untersuchung soll dabei in erster Linie sein, ob die seit 2009 auf den Weg gebrachten Gesetze und Initiativen, auch in Anbetracht der dadurch erhofften Effizienzsteigerung und dem Erreichen einer homogenen E-Government-Landschaft, zu einer digitalen Verwaltung der Zukunft in Deutschland f羹hren k繹nnen und Anteil haben an Deutschlands Sicherung der Zukunftsf瓣higkeit. Nicht erst seit dem Jahr 2000 und dem Start der Initiative BundOnline 2005 durch den damaligen Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schr繹der steht der Begriff E-Government f羹r die aktuelle Leitidee einer neuen und zukunftsgerichteten Verwaltung. Zum E-Government z瓣hlen alle Nutzergruppen der heutigen Informationsgesellschaft. Diese lassen sich in Government-to-Citizen (G2C), Government-to-Business (G2B), Government-to-Government (G2G) und Government-to-Employee (G2E) einteilen. Das Hauptziel der Initiative war somit die Verbesserung von Verwaltungsprozessen auf Bundesverwaltungsebene, in erster Linie durch die ?berf羹hrung von allen internetf瓣higen Dienstleistungen in das digitale Zeitalter. Durch den erfolgreichen Abschluss der Initiative zum Ende des Jahres 2005 war es gelungen die Bundesverwal-tung auf ein modernes und IT-gest羹tztes Fundament zu 羹berf羹hren. Bereits zu diesem Zeitpunkt wurde deutlich wie wichtig ein darauf aufbauendes Zusammenwirken von Bund, L瓣ndern und Kommunen f羹r eine weitere gelungene Umsetzung von Ma?nahmen
Wie entscheidend ist die Mitgliedschaft in der Eurozone f羹r den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Erfolg eines Landes?
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, L瓣nderstudien, Note: 1,7, Georg-August-Universit瓣t G繹ttingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Gr羹ndung der Europ瓣ischen Gemeinschaft f羹r Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) im Jahre 1952 war der Auftakt f羹r eine engere Zusammenarbeit auf dem europ瓣ischen Kontinent. Diese wirtschaftliche und politische Integration setzte sich 羹ber die Jahre fort. Es entstand eine engere Zusammenarbeit im Bereich der Kernenergie (EURATOM) bis hin zum Abschluss des Vertrags von Maastricht, welcher die Gr羹ndung der Europ瓣ischen Union (EU) beschloss. Eine Errichtung einer W瓣hrungsunion wurde als ein weiterer Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur tieferen wirtschaftlichen Integration und dem Aufbau eines gemeinsamen Binnenmarktes gesehen. Eine W瓣hrungsunion bezeichnet eine Gesamtheit von L瓣ndern, welche eine gemeinsame Geld- und W瓣hrungspolitik betreiben, die in der Regel durch eine gemeinsame W瓣hrung und die Erschaffung einer allein verantwortlichen Zentralbank erg瓣nzt wird. Es wurden Pl瓣ne 羹ber die Eurozone, mit dem Euro als gemeinsame W瓣hrung und der supranationalen Europ瓣ischen Zentralbank (EZB), erstellt. Es wurden jedoch auch Gegenstimmen laut, welche auf die m繹glichen Probleme einer Gemeinschaftsw瓣hrung hingewiesen haben. Diesen Gegenmeinungen zum Trotz wurde am 01.01.1999 der Euro als Buchgeld in elf europ瓣ischen L瓣ndern3 eingef羹hrt. Zu Beginn der Zusammenarbeit zeigten sich zun瓣chst vor allem die wirtschaftlichen Vorteile der neugeschaffenen W瓣hrungsunion, sodass die teilnehmenden L瓣nder durchaus positive Bilanzen ziehen konnten. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung schlossen sich mit den Jahren weitere acht Staaten der Eurozone an, prim瓣r um von den 繹konomischen Vorteilen des Wirtschaftsraumes zu profitieren. Mit Blick auf die heutige Situation in Verbindung mit den Erwartungen, welche der Eurozone noch vor wenigen Jahren entgegenbracht wurden, zeigt sich die gegenw瓣rtige Entwicklung umso ern羹chternder. Die Eurozone befindet sich in einer St
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A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world, it turns out that historical economies were much more sophisticated that we might imagine, tied together by webs of credit and financial instruments much like our modern economy.Here, Philip Coggan takes us from the ancient mountains of North Wales through Grand Central station and the great civilizations of Mesopotamia to the factories of Malaysia, showing how changes in agriculture, finance, technology, work, and demographics have driven the progress of human civilization. It's the story of how trade became broader and deeper over thousands of years; how governments have influenced economies, for good or ill; and how societies have repeatedly tried to tame, and harness, finance. More shows how, at every step of our long journey, it was the connection between people that resulted in more trade, more specialization, more freedom, and ultimately, more prosperity.
Capitalism Perverted
We all heard so much about the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-it was in the news every day for many months. Some countries, like Greece and Portugal, were nearly bankrupted, and we heard a lot about Americans losing their homes. - Do you wonder why that happened? - Do you ever wonder why none of the greedy bankers and stockbrokers are in jail? - Do you wonder what all the fuss is about with income inequality, and the furor over the 1%? And why do CEOs of large companies make so much money?! - Would you like to be able to understand which of our politicians really understand the root problems, and are willing to work on them?In this book, Wayne Armitstead describes the history that set us up for the financial crisis, who some of the players were, and what they did or didn't do that made the crisis much worse than it needed to be.Most importantly, using the lessons of the American economist Hyman Minsky, Armitstead describes the steps our governments and central bankers need to take to prevent a repeat financial crisis.
Capitalism Perverted
We all heard so much about the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-it was in the news every day for many months. Some countries, like Greece and Portugal, were nearly bankrupted, and we heard a lot about Americans losing their homes. - Do you wonder why that happened? - Do you ever wonder why none of the greedy bankers and stockbrokers are in jail? - Do you wonder what all the fuss is about with income inequality, and the furor over the 1%? And why do CEOs of large companies make so much money?! - Would you like to be able to understand which of our politicians really understand the root problems, and are willing to work on them?In this book, Wayne Armitstead describes the history that set us up for the financial crisis, who some of the players were, and what they did or didn't do that made the crisis much worse than it needed to be.Most importantly, using the lessons of the American economist Hyman Minsky, Armitstead describes the steps our governments and central bankers need to take to prevent a repeat financial crisis.
Cross-Border Interbank Contagion Risk Analysis
This Element provides a detailed overview of the structural changes in the Asia-Pacific region from the early 2000s onwards. It reviews the most relevant literature on this important topic. The following two research areas are explored: first, by deploying visual network analysis (VNA), we analyse cross-border interbank claims and liabilities of the individual countries located in the Asia-Pacific region. Such an analysis evaluates interbank exposures to systematically important banks within the specific market. The important advantage of VNA is that it allows us to examine the 'hierarchical' cross-country interbank contagion risk that seems to have been neglected in similar studies. Secondly, we evaluate the contagion risk to the individual countries spreading from the financial centres in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, New York and London. The analysis unveils links and statistical factors that could be used as a key tool for detecting the potential triggers of systemic risk.
The Development Dimension Innovation for Development Impact Lessons from the OECD Developm
This report synthesises the lessons emerging from an OECD Development Assistance Committee peer learning exercise on how innovation efforts can be strengthened, individually and collectively, to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
OECD Development Policy Tools the Role of Sovereign and Strategic Investment Funds in the
This report provides guidance on how governments can support their sovereign wealth funds in becoming climate-aligned commercial investors. The establishment of synergies between sovereign wealth funds and strategic investment funds can help scale up investments in clean-energy infrastructure.
Austrian EconomicsAn Introduction
What if economics began with people? Choice is an essential feature of the human condition. Every time we embark on a given plan of action, big or small, we make a choice. Whereas many economists model people's behavior using idealized assumptions, economists of the Austrian School don't. The Austrian School of Economics takes people as they are and constructs economic theories by examining the logical structure of the choices they make.This book explains the Austrian School's insights on a wide range of economic topics and introduces some of its key thinkers. It also explains the relationship between the Austrian School and mainstream economics and delves into the criticisms that Austrian School economists have mounted against communist and socialist economic thought.
Is Your House in Order
I have known Ronnie Johnson for many years. He is my friend, business partner, mentor, and a second father to me. Ronnie Johnson is a rare human-being. As a financial advisor, Ronnie Johnson listens attentively so as to make certain that the client's values and objectives are incorporated into their current and future life plan. The world is most definitely a better place with him in it. Ike Kutter, AIF(R) Clearview Financial Ronnie Johnson is a firm believer in the edict that there's more to people than what's in their wallets. Ronnie deals with their head and their heart, not just their wallets. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Ronnie to any of my clients or advisor students, he has the whole package. Simon Singer, CFP(R), CAP(R), RFC(R) The Advisor Consulting Group I have known Ronnie Johnson since the 8th grade. We both came from hard working families. Simply stated, we did not start at the top. I have been in the financial industry for over 45 years. I have not sought the counsel of many men. Ronnie's friendship and knowledge make him one of those who's counsel I do seek and respect. You would be wise to do the same. Terry Taylor Pass Advisors, Ltd.
A Glance at Indian Economy
This book gives a glimpse at Indian economy. Revenue status, Investment climate, Green revolution, Malnutrition and Industrial production in India are vividly discussed with relevant data.
Prevention and ContingenciesA Simple Guide to Process Management
Why is it some managers are so good at managing their teams and so good at managing individuals on their teams, yet productivity seems to lag below expectations? The likely suspect ... failure to proactively manage work processes. Workplace productivity is the by-product of many factors, but the two most important of those factors may be people and processes. We often shower managers with resources to build their people management skills yet provide little in the way of building their process management skills. This book is about balancing the scales and treating the efficacy of work processes as the natural counterpart to excellent people management. With some thoughtful attention to the way our processes are constructed and some well-placed preventative and contingent measures, all of us, with the help of our teams, can thoughtfully manage process and improve team performance. Prevention and Contingences: A Manager's Guide to Process Management is your step-by-step manual for keeping your work processes tuned-up and operating at full capacity.
Everything PeopleA New Economic System for our Future
This book is showing that people can do everything in the new economic system. It means people will be organized, create and manage their own companies (co-operatives) and own technology to manage everything in the new economic system after COVID-19. As the saying goes, "Don't let the crisis go to waste." It suggests this crisis is an opportunity and we should not let this go waste by slipping back into the same unequal and disastrous capitalist system for workers and people with corporates ruling us. People gained a good pause from the rat-race and fast-paced world and got time to reflect on their economic life. No matter what level an individual is at, 99% of the people were affected. For most of the people, their life has turned upside down. Everyone is saying "Life will never be the same again." Then what will it be?The book provides a practical way people can organize, revive the economy and democratically participate in business through co-operatives. The book also provides access to technology which can be used to support and manage organizations and co-operatives in different sectors to grow. It shows the way people can enhance their income, reduce their cost of living and help the underprivileged to have a decent life.
Recession-Proof Career Strategies After COVID
Recession-Proof Career Strategies After COVID was written by one of the world's leading economic and financial market forecasters, Jason Schenker. In the book, Schenker lays out strategic plans for individuals to achieve success even in the face of an economic downturn. The big idea of this book is to help individuals be recession-proof. This book should help the reader be recession-proof, by showing how to: - Predict the next recession with just a few clicks of your mouse- Turn the bust years into a moneymaking opportunity- Escape a doomed industry before it's too late- Keep your job long after your colleagues have been laid off- Take refuge in a safe-haven sector- Move where the money is- Safeguard your retirement- Survive a charging bull (really)
Oecd-Wirtschaftsausblick, Ausgabe 2020/1 (Kurzfassung)
In ihrem Wirtschaftsausblick analysiert die OECD zweimal j瓣hrlich die wichtigsten wirtschaftlichen Trends und die Aussichten f羹r die kommenden zwei Jahre. Der Wirtschaftsausblick liefert einen in sich stimmigen Satz von Projektionen zu gesamtwirtschaftlicher Produktion, Besch瓣ftigung, Preisentwicklung, Haushaltssalden und Leistungsbilanzen.
OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2020 Issue 1
The OECD Economic Outlook is the OECD's twice-yearly analysis of the major economic trends and prospects for the next two years. This issue includes a general assessment of the macroeconomic situation, a series of notes on the macroeconomic and structural policy issues related to the COVID-19 outbreak and a chapter summarising developments and providing projections for each individual country.
African Economic Development
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Unevenness and inequalities form a central fact of African economic experiences. This book challenges conventional wisdoms about economic performance and possible policies for economic development in African countries, using the striking variation in economic performance as a starting point. African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy highlights not only difference between countries, but also variation within countries. It focuses on issues relating to gender, class, and ethnic identity, such as neo-natal mortality, school dropout, and horticultural and agribusiness exports. Variations in these areas point to opportunities for changing perfomance, reducing reducing inequalities, learning from other policy experiences, and escaping the ties of structure and the legacies of a colonial past. African Economic Development rejects teleological illusions and Eurocentric prejudice, criticizing a range of orthodox and heterodox economists for their cavalier attitude to evidence. Instead, it shows that seeing the contradictions of capitalism for what they are - fundamental and enduring - may help policy officials protect themselves against the misleading idea that development can be expected to be a smooth, linear process, or that it would be if certain impediments were removed. Drawing on decades of research and policy experience, this book combines careful use of available evidence from a range of African countries with economic insights to make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment.
The Handbook of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful concepts to emerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until now, not been an attempt to provide a wide-ranging volume that engages with the multiple registers in which neoliberalism has evolved.The Handbook of Neoliberalism seeks to offer a wide-ranging overview of the phenomenon of neoliberalism by examining a number of ways that it has been theorized, promoted, critiqued, and put into practice in a variety of geographical locations and institutional frameworks. With contributions from over 50 leadingauthors working at institutions around the world, the volume's seven sections provide a systematic overview of neoliberalism's origins, political implications, social tensions, knowledge productions, spaces, natures and environments, and aftermaths in addressing ongoing and emerging debates. The volume aims to provide the first comprehensive overview of the field and to advance the established and emergent debates in a field that has grown exponentially over the past two decades, coinciding with the meteoric rise of neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology, state form, policy and program, and governmentality. It includes a substantive introductory chapter and will serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars alike.
Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics
This work examines theoretical issues, as well as practical developments in statistical inference related to econometric models and analysis. This work offers discussions on such areas as the function of statistics in aggregation, income inequality, poverty, health, spatial econometrics, panel and survey data, bootstrapping and time series.
Nature-Inspired Networking
"Nature-inspired" includes, roughly speaking, "bio-inspired"+"physical-inspired"+"social-inspired"+ and so on. This book contains highly original contributions about how nature is going to shape networking systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous approaches and cutting-edge solutions, which encompass three classes of major methods.
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science
The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century. 'Science' and 'innovation' are increasingly tasked with driving and reshaping a troubled global economy while also tackling multiple, overlapping global challenges, such as climate change or food security, global pandemics or energy security. But responding to these demands is made more complicated because R&I themselves are changing. Today, new global patterns of R&I are transforming the very structures, institutions and processes of science and innovation, and with it their claims about desirable futures. Our understanding of R&I needs to change accordingly.Responding to this new urgency and uncertainty, this handbook presents a pioneering selection of the growing body of literature that has emerged in recent years at the intersection of science and technology studies and political economy. The central task for this research has been to expose important but consequential misconceptions about the political economy of R&I and to build more insightful approaches. This volume therefore explores the complex interrelations between R&I (both in general and in specific fields) and political economies across a number of key dimensions from health to environment, and universities to the military.The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science offers a unique collection of texts across a range of issues in this burgeoning and important field from a global selection of top scholars. The handbook is essential reading for students interested in the political economy of science, technology and innovation. It also presents succinct and insightful summaries of the state of the art for more advanced scholars.
A Political Economy of Banking Supervision
This book examines the effect of banking on the real economy and society, focusing on banking supervision as the decisive factor in steering banking activities and determining the social outcome of the game of finance. Banking is like a cardiovascular system for our society. If it functions correctly, it allows the economy to operate smoothly. On the other hand, if it malfunctions it becomes a doomsday device. This creates an asymmetry of risks - the asymmetry between the potential dire consequences and the modest rewards of accepting those risks. Banking was one of the critical technological factors enabling the transition from the middle ages and the creation of modern society. However, while today it contributes little to economic growth, its malfunction has a profound and lasting adverse impact.The book explains why, how and what. Why is it important to keep tight supervision of the banks? How can banking supervision improve stability, not only of the financial system but also of the whole human society? What went wrong with the regulation in the past?
Handbook of Applied Econometrics and Statistical Inference
Summarizing developments and techniques in the field, this reference covers sample surveys, nonparametric analysis, hypothesis testing, time series analysis, Bayesian inference, and distribution theory for applications in statistics, economics, medicine, biology, engineering, sociology, psychology, and information technology. It supplies a geometric proof of an extended Gauss-Markov theorem, approaches for the design and implementation of sample surveys, advances in the theory of Neyman's smooth test, and methods for pre-test and biased estimation. It includes discussions ofsample size requirements for estimation in SUR models, innovative developments in nonparametric models, and more.
Game Theory
Now in its second edition, this popular textbook on game theory is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage, the thoroughness of technical explanations and the number of worked examples included. Covering non-cooperative and cooperative games, this introduction to game theory includes advanced chapters on auctions, games with incomplete information, games with vector payoffs, stable matchings and the bargaining set. This edition contains new material on stochastic games, rationalizability, and the continuity of the set of equilibrium points with respect to the data of the game. The material is presented clearly and every concept is illustrated with concrete examples from a range of disciplines. With numerous exercises, and the addition of a solution manual for instructors with this edition, the book is an extensive guide to game theory for undergraduate through graduate courses in economics, mathematics, computer science, engineering and life sciences, and will also serve as useful reference for researchers.
China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse
As the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion, China is leading the charge. The country's CO2 emissions are more than double those of the US yet its GDP is just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in solar and wind energy generation but it's building new coal-fired power plants even faster than renewables. The country's lakes, rivers and aquifers are severely polluted. Twenty percent of China's farmland has been declared too toxic to farm. Yet this 'socialist' government still prioritizes growth over the environment. Why is China's environmental crisis so much worse than 'normal' capitalism most everywhere else, and why can't China's fiercely authoritarian government suppress pollution from its own industries? Richard Smith argues China's economy is driven by extra-economic nationalist-industrialist imperatives which are more powerful than the maximization of profit. Yet both Western capitalism and China's 'communist-capitalism' are racing each other to apocalypse. He contends that nothing short of drastic industrial shutdowns and retrenchments, especially in China and the US, will suffice to slash emissions enough to save the planet - but implementing such policies without precipitating economic collapse will require a transition to ecosocialism. This book brings together environmental science, political science, economics and sociology in a uniquely comprehensive analysis that will change the debate from market meliorism to the need for radical system change.
Location-Based Management for Construction
With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling.Covering the entire process of presenting a comprehensive management system - from design, through measurement, scheduling, and visualization and control - its emphasis is on reducing cost and increasing quality.Drawing its components together into a management system, the authors not only include theory and explanations of how and why it works, but also examine and present a suite of methods for successful project implementation.Perfect as a how-to guide for researchers and advanced construction students to discover the simple application of the new techniques, and invaluable for acquiring the practical tools for planning and controlling projects.
The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics
The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics offers the first state of the art overview of the discipline of transport economics as it stands today, reflective of key research and policy. Transport is an important area of study and one which is problem rich, stimulating a great deal of debate in areas which impact on everyday lives. Much of this focuses on the practicalities of the modern-day phenomenon of mass movement and all of the issues which surround it. The discipline of economics is central to this debate, and consequently the study and application of transport economics has a chief role to play in seeking to address subjects relating to major transport issues. It can be argued that at the very heart of any transport issue or problem lies the underlying economics of the situation - understand that and you alleviate the problem.　 Featuring contributions from world-leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe, all of the chapters within this book are written from a practical perspective; theory is applied and developed using real-world examples. The book examines concepts, issues, ideas and practicalities of transport provision in five key topic areas: public transportpublic transport reformeconomic development and transport modellingtransport and the environmentfreight transport.A real strength of the book is in linking theory to practice, and hence the 'economics' that are examined in this text are not the economics of the abstract, but rather the economics of everyday living. Practical and insightful, this volume is an essential reference for any student or researcher working in all areas of transport provision, ranging from planning, appraisal, regulation and freight; and for all practitioners looking to develop their professional knowledge and who are seeking professional accreditation.
Market-Based Interest Rate Reform in China
This book reviews the process of China's interest rate reform. It is structured along three lines, namely loosening rate controls, establishing market-based interest rates, and building an effective adjustment mechanism. Also, it explores the challenges of the reform, and offers policy recommendations on how to further push the reform forward.
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900
The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the history of consumption and material culture, art history, and
Science for Policy Handbook
Science for Policy Handbook provides advice on how to bring science to the attention of policymakers. This resource is dedicated to researchers and research organizations aiming to achieve policy impacts. The book includes lessons learned along the way, advice on new skills, practices for individual researchers, elements necessary for institutional change, and knowledge areas and processes in which to invest. It puts co-creation at the centre of Science for Policy 2.0, a more integrated model of knowledge-policy relationship.
Managing Domestic and International Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Conflict Development
This book draws lessons from the story of Sri Lanka's post-conflict development in the context of a struggle for socio-political reconciliation, a turbulent world economy, and difficult internal and external political challenges. Heightened volatility in the global economy and intensifying geopolitical rivalries pose complex policy challenges for small countries embarking on post-conflict daunting challenges. To sustain peace, development needed to be broad based and inclusive. It needed to rapidly reconstruct war-devastated regions, restore macroeconomic stability, while delivering a 'peace dividend'. The book contains contributions that highlight Sri Lanka's endeavours of coping with adverse shocks, while exploiting new opportunities. It showcases how the island country had to attract capital and assistance, and support of the international community, including that of the rising Asian giants - China and India. Addressing the post-conflict challenges of sourcing development finance in a new global financial and political landscape, the book would be of interest to researchers working on post-conflict development in the context of a volatile global economy and changing aid architecture, and would also act as an important resource for policy makers.
