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)
Purchasing Power Parities and the Real Size of World EconomiesInternational Comparison Pro
Economic Development and Export Growth
Economic Development and Export Growth: A Study of Northern Rhodesia, 1920-1960 explores the economic history of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the colonial period, focusing on the key role of export growth in the region's development. Conducted under the Ford Foundation's Foreign Area Training Fellowship, the research primarily took place between 1960 and 1961, with an additional visit in 1962. The study examines the transformation of Northern Rhodesia's economy from the 1920s through the 1960s, before the country gained political independence in 1964 and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved. While the book does not address the post-independence economic changes, it provides a detailed analysis of the period leading up to Zambia's independence. It outlines the impact of the export-driven economy, driven largely by the copper industry, on the region's development and its relationship with colonial structures. The author acknowledges the historical and political context of the time but refrains from incorporating recent political shifts, as the full effects of the newly independent government's policies are yet to be understood. The study offers valuable insight into the economic history of Zambia, highlighting the role of export growth in shaping the country's economic landscape before independence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.
Resource Regimes
Resource Regimes: Natural Resources and Social Institutions by Oran R. Young explores how societies govern the use of scarce natural resources and the pivotal role of social institutions in shaping those decisions. Young begins by clarifying what counts as a natural resource: goods whose supply is constrained by nature and produced largely without human intervention, such as coal deposits, oil pools, or pristine forests. He emphasizes, however, that the line between "natural" and "man-made" resources is often blurred, with cases like reforested lands, aquaculture, or pollution control programs complicating the definition. He also underscores that some resources, like scenic landscapes or clean air, derive value precisely from being left untouched, highlighting the limits of purely utilitarian assessments. The book also examines principles of valuation, arguing that reliance on market prices is insufficient because of externalities, absent markets, and the intrinsic qualities of natural resources. Young considers utilitarian and intrinsic forms of value, as well as intergenerational concerns, stressing that current use often determines what remains for the future. Conflicts are inevitable--between present and future generations, between human welfare and nonhuman life, and between different types of use, such as logging versus recreation or oil drilling versus fisheries. At the heart of Young's thesis is the claim that institutions--markets, governments, legal systems, and cultural norms--establish which resources are valued, how they are measured, and how competing claims are reconciled. By examining these institutional regimes, the book highlights the broader philosophical and political challenges in balancing human needs, ecological integrity, and long-term sustainability. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Changing the Rules
Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania provides a comprehensive examination of Tanzania's informal economy, highlighting its critical role as both a survival mechanism and a force for political and economic change. Amid the economic crises of the 1980s, Tanzanians increasingly turned to informal activities to bridge the vast gap between formal wages and the cost of living. This shift not only redefined economic participation but also challenged the statist and socialist frameworks that had dominated Tanzania's post-independence policies. The book explores how the informal economy reshaped dependencies, strengthened grassroots initiatives, and exerted pressure on the state to adapt through liberalization and reform. The study delves into the socio-political dynamics underlying this transformation, from the emergence of new economic practices to the state's reluctant acknowledgment of these activities. By documenting the interplay between everyday resistance and policy shifts, the book reveals how informal economic strategies undermined restrictive state norms and forced significant institutional changes. Through chapters that analyze household dynamics, gendered economic roles, and shifting state-society relations, the author presents a nuanced picture of how Tanzanians redefined survival and governance. This book is essential for understanding how grassroots economic adaptations can drive systemic transformation in developing nations. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Angewandte Makro繹konomie
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen umfassenden ?berblick 羹ber volkswirtschaftliche Zusammenh瓣nge und erkl瓣rt die wichtigsten makro繹konomischen Gr繹?en auf leicht verst瓣ndliche Art und Weise. Der Leser wird in aufeinander aufbauenden Kapiteln an wichtige makro繹konomische Gr繹?en wie Inflation und die gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage herangef羹hrt. Er lernt unter anderem, wie Wirtschaftskrisen entstehen oder die Rolle und Funktionsweisen von Geld-, Kapital- und G羹term瓣rkten. Ziel ist es, dem Leser volkswirtschaftliches Wissen zu vermitteln, das er in der Unternehmenspraxis anwenden kann. Der volkswirtschaftliche Stoff wurde bewusst so ausgew瓣hlt, dass betriebswirtschaftliche Studieninhalte sinnvoll erg瓣nzt werden. Ausf羹hrliche Erkl瓣rungen und sowohl anwendungsorientierte als auch praxisbezogene Beispiele und ?bungsaufgaben machen es aber auch Nicht繹konomen leicht, die komplexen volkswirtschaftlichen Themeninhalte zu verstehen. Die zweite Auflage wurde vollst瓣ndig 羹berarbeitetund um neue Erkenntnisse und um die didaktischen Erfahrungen aus gehaltenen Makro繹konomieveranstaltungen erweitert.
Food Safety HandbookA Practical Guide for Building a Robust Food Safety Management System
The Development of Economic ThoughtTheDevelopment of Economic ThoughtAn Overview
This book provides an introduction to the development of economics from the time of the early Greeks to the mid-twentieth century. It covers the contributions of the major writers to the development of economic thought.
Competitiveness in the European Economy
Competitiveness has become a major issue in the European debate as differences in the competitive position of the member states are considered to be one of the main causes for the Euro-crisis and the macroeconomic imbalances within the Euro Area. However, there is still no consensus on the best way to measure competitiveness. This
Business and Economics of Port Management
This book is a comprehensive but concise textbook and reference for insights into the workings of port industry from the business and economics perspectives.It examines port management from various entities which include the government, port operator, shipping line, logistics companies and other port service providers.
The Russian Budget
The Russian budget process has received little detailed attention in academic literature. Here various key aspects of the formation of the federal budget, largely since Vladimir Putin began his third presidential term in 2012, are examined. It is primarily the writing of the expenditure side of the budget which is described, that is, how it is decided how much money is spent on what. While ample information is provided on budgetary outcomes, the focus is on the process: the issues faced by budget makers, the actors and institutions involved, and the formal and informal procedures that lead to outcomes. It is not the task of the volume to provide an analysis of the wisdom or effectiveness of particular budget allocations; its goal is to provide some judgement on the effectiveness of the process. Chapters are offered on the budgetary process as it relates to the two main claimants on federal budget funding, the social and defence sectors. Three chapters then examine the major locations of budgetary policy-making: the executive (at presidential and cabinet of ministers levels), the Duma, and the expert community.This book was originally published as a special issue of Post-Communist Economies.
Fostering Human Capital in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
The formation of human capital--the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lifetimes--is critical for the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Human capital contributes not only to human development and employment but also to the long-term sustainability of a diversified economic growth model that is knowledge based and private sector driven. This approach is critical, given that income from oil and gas will eventually decline and that the nature of work is evolving in response to rapid technological changes, in turn demanding new skill sets. The GCC governments have demonstrated their strong political will for this shift: four of them are among the first countries to join the World Bank's Human Capital Project--a global effort to improve investments in people as measured by the Human Capital Index. The GCC countries face four main challenges: - Low levels of basic proficiency among schoolchildren - A mismatch between education and the labor market - A relatively high rate of adult mortality and morbidity - A unique labor market, in which wages in the public sector are more generous than in the private sector and government employment of nationals is virtually guaranteed To address these challenges, this report outlines four strategies in a"whole-of-government+? approach: - Investing in high-quality early childhood development - Preparing healthier, better educated, and skilled youth for the future - Enabling greater adult labor force participation - Creating an enabling environment for human capital formation These strategies are based on best practices in other countries and feature some of the GCC countries' plans, including their national "Visions, +? to take their economies and societies further into the twenty-first century. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the GCC countries face additional challenges that may worsen some preexisting vulnerabilities and erode human capital. In response, the GCC governments have taken multiple measures to protect their populations' health and their economies. Any country's decision to reopen its economy needs to closely consider public health consequences to avoid a resurgence of infections and any further erosion of its human capital. The COVID-19 crisis underscores that the need to accelerate and improve investment in human capital has never been greater. Once the GCC countries return to a "new normal, +? they will be in a position to achieve diversified and sustainable growth by adopting, and then tailoring, the strategies presented in this report.
Au?enhandel
Dieses Buch ist ein Fach- und Grundlagenbuch des Au?enhandels. Es erl瓣utert den Ordnungsrahmen internationaler Handelsbeziehungen und gibt darauf aufbauend eine grundlegende Darstellung aller wesentlichen Teilgebiete und Zusammenh瓣nge des Au?enhandelsgesch瓣fts.Die 5. Auflage wurde vollst瓣ndig 羹berarbeitet und erweitert. Wichtige Neuerungen betreffen Weiterentwicklungen der au?enwirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen, Neuregelungen des Au?enwirtschafts- und Zollrechts, die neuen Incoterms(R) 2020 der Internationalen Handelskammer sowie Entwicklungen im elektronischen Datenaustausch 羹ber Au?enhandelsdokumente. Auch die Fragen und Aufgaben am Ende eines jeden Kapitels wurden aktualisiert.
Das Stolper-Samuelson-Theorem in der Au?enhandelstheorie. Wie wirken sich handelspolitische und protektionistische Ma?nahmen auf eine Volkswirtschaft aus?DasStolper-Samuelson-Theorem in der Au?enhande
Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich VWL - Au?enhandelstheorie, Au?enhandelspolitik, Note: 1,7, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, ehem. Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit verfolgt die Intention, ein grunds瓣tzliches Verst瓣ndnis 羹ber einfache Au?enhandelsmodelle zu schaffen und wird unter zu Zuhilfenahme des Stolper-Samuelson-Theorem zeigen, inwiefern sich handelspolitische bzw. protektionistische Ma?nahmen auf eine Volkswirtschaft auswirken. Dies ist ein erster Schritt und kann ein m繹glicher Ansatz sein, die Frage nach sinnvollem Au?enhandel zu beantworten. Der Begriff Globalisierung ist aus unserem heutigen Sprachgebrauch nicht mehr weg zu denken. Doch die sich immer weiter ausbreitende, scheinbar kaum aufzuhaltende Globalisierung wirft in unserer modernen Welt Fragen auf. Auf der einen Seite steht Globalisierung f羹r viele positive Effekte: Konsumg羹ter rund um den Globus immer verf羹gbar, bei Obst z.B. unabh瓣ngig von Jahreszeit, Klima oder Standort. Die M繹glichkeit von 羹berall Informationen zu erhalten, sowie Gesch瓣fte auf der ganzen Welt zu t瓣tigen. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es auch viele negative Effekte, welche die Globalisierung mit sich bringt: Lange Transportwege, dadurch hohe Kosten und Umweltverschmutzung. Die politische Souver瓣nit瓣t vieler Staaten nimmt immer weiter ab. F羹r Arbeitnehmer, die Angst vor mehr Arbeitslosigkeit oder f羹r die Arbeiter in den Industriel瓣ndern sinkende L繹hne. Der Au?enhandel ger瓣t seit den 90er Jahren immer weiter in Kritik und es stellt sich die Frage, ob dieser noch sinnvoll ist. Viele ?konomen der klassischen Au?enhandels-Theorie haben sich mit diesen Fragen in den letzten Jahrzehnten besch瓣ftigt.
Negotiating the Environment
This book elucidates the complexity of how participants engage in these negotiations through the various processes that take place under the auspices of the UN - primarily those related to climate, biodiversity and forest agreements.
Assetization
How the asset--anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset--meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object or an experience, a sum of money or a life form, a patent or a bodily function. A process of assetization prevails, imposing investment and return as the key rationale, and overtaking commodification and its speculative logic. Although assets can be bought and sold, the point is to get a durable economic rent from them rather than make a killing on the market. Assetization examines how assets are constructed and how a variety of things can be turned into assets, analyzing the interests, activities, skills, organizations, and relations entangled in this process.The contributors consider the assetization of knowledge, including patents, personal data, and biomedical innovation; of infrastructure, including railways and energy; of nature, including mineral deposits, agricultural seeds, and "natural capital"; and of publics, including such public goods as higher education and "monetizable social ills." Taken together, the chapters show the usefulness of assetization as an analytical tool and as an element in the critique of capitalism.ContributorsThomas Beauvisage, Kean Birch, Veit Braun, Natalia Buier, B矇atrice Cointe, Paul Robert Gilbert, Hyo Yoon Kang, Les Levidow, Kevin Mellet, Sveta Milyaeva, Fabian Muniesa, Alain Nada簿, Daniel Neyland, Victor Roy, James W. Williams
Africa and Europe: A Shared Future
After having imposed on Africa the model of the bureaucratic and centralized national state, Europe today can represent a model of integration and must offer a partnership relationship with Africa to start a Green New Deal, with the allocation of financial resources, but also technology transfers and infrastructure creation.
Optimal Currency Areas and the Euro, Volume I
This book analyses business cycles synchronization in the Euro Area (EA), one of the 3 criteria that define Optimal Currency Areas (OCAs). Even before its launch, economists questioned whether the EA has what it takes to become an OCA. The onset of the sovereign debt crisis in 2010 confirmed the challenges relating to its construction. But did the EA change over time, and what key drivers may be necessary in the future to strengthen the common currency?
Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting
This book presents a significant and original contribution, both empirically and theoretically, to the social and environmental accounting literature by studying the various features of stakeholder engagement in sustainability reporting.
Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen Subsidiarit瓣t und Solidarit瓣tDieSoziale Marktwirtschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen Subsidiarit瓣t und Solidarit瓣t
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich VWL - Makro繹konomie, allgemein, Note: 1,3, Universit瓣t Leipzig (Institut f羹r Theoretische Volkswirtschaftslehre - Makro繹konomik -), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, ob die beiden Prinzipien Subsidiarit瓣t und Solidarit瓣t tats瓣chlich eine Gefahr f羹r die Leistungsf瓣higkeit der deutschen Volkswirtschaft darstellen und damit als Gef瓣hrdungsmomente der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft betrachtet werden m羹ssen. Im Ergebnis wird festgestellt, dass das zwischen den beiden Prinzipien existierende Spannungsverh瓣ltnis keinen Zielkonflikt beinhaltet, da vielmehr die Konzeption gerade einen erfolgreichen Ausgleich dieses Konfliktes fordert. Es liegt damit kein Versagen des Konzeptes vor. Dazu werden Indikatoren aufgezeigt, welche nachweisen, dass die Grundprinzipien der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft auch ihre Erfolgsfaktoren darstellen. Bereits innerhalb der theoretischen Grundlagen existieren unterschiedliche Auffassungen 羹ber die Auspr瓣gung und Gewichtung ihrer beiden Hauptprinzipien der Subsidiarit瓣t und Solidarit瓣t. Das liegt daran, dass sich eine Vielzahl von Wissenschaftlern und Theoretikern, welche von verschiedenen geistigen Str繹mungen beeinflusst worden sind, mit der Thematik besch瓣ftigt hat. Es kann daher keine einheitliche, abgrenzbare Konzeption gefunden werden. In diesem Kontext ist es auch schwierig, die Frage zu beantworten, inwiefern die Politik das Konzept, was letztlich aus verschiedenen Ans瓣tzen entstanden ist, in die Praxis umgesetzt hat. Vielmehr spielen in der Praxis historische Bedingungen, als auch politische Beweggr羹nde eine Rolle, wie das Konzept gesehen, interpretiert und was schlie?lich davon realisiert wird. Einige Autoren behaupten, dass die Soziale Marktwirtschaft zwar umgesetzt wurde, sich jedoch nicht bew瓣hrt habe. Manche sprechen sogar von einem Konzeptionsversagen aufgrund des Spannungsfeldes zwischen Subsidiarit瓣t und Solidarit瓣t. Andere sehen die Ursache in einem Versagen d
Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance
Concerns over affordability and accountability have tended to direct focus away from the central aims of liberal learning, such as preparing minds for free inquiry and inculcating the habits of mind, practical skills, and values necessary for effective participation in civil society. The contributors to this volume seek to understand better what
Vilfredo Pareto
This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines. Bringing together the world's leading experts on Pareto, this volume underlines the enduring and contemporary relevance of Pareto's ideas on a bewilde
Worker Cooperatives in America
Worker Cooperatives in America maps the past, present, and possible futures of democratic enterprise in the United States, arguing--against the grain of corporate inevitability--that firms owned and governed by workers can address stubborn problems of unemployment, productivity, and workplace alienation. Edited by Robert Jackall and Henry M. Levin, the volume moves from vivid historical arcs--co-ops formed by striking nineteenth-century artisans, New Deal-era self-help ventures--to contemporary case studies of plywood mills, reforestation crews, and urban collectives. Across these sites, contributors probe the hard mechanics of democratic firms: capitalizing without ceding control, balancing egalitarian norms with market exigencies, rotating jobs to build skill and solidarity, and designing governance that is both participatory and effective. Empirical chapters engage Mondrag籀n as a global benchmark, report comparative productivity advantages, and show how cooperatives preserve jobs when conventional owners shutter plants. The result is a rigorous, data-grounded challenge to managerial common sense. Equally attentive to limits, the book confronts the structural headwinds co-ops face in a legal and financial ecosystem optimized for hierarchical corporations. Essays on Employee Stock Ownership Plans, membership rights, and cooperative law demystify vehicles that can either enable or erode self-management. Analyses of culture, training, and decision rules illuminate why some democracies falter while others endure. Throughout, the editors press a central question: how can enterprises reconcile internal commitments to voice and equity with external demands of competitive markets? With clear-eyed assessments and practical design lessons--revolving credit funds, representative/assembly hybrids, counter-cyclical work-sharing--this collection offers scholars, organizers, and policy makers a usable blueprint. Worker cooperatives, the contributors show, are not a panacea; they are a durable, American repertoire for linking productivity to dignity, enterprise to citizenship, and work to democracy. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
The Retail Prices Index
Chapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: The Early History of Inflation Measurement.Chapter 3: The Launch of the Index of Retail Prices.Chapter 4: Improving the Index.Chapter 5: The RPI in the Political Sphere.Chapter 6: Reviews of the RPI and the Loss of National Statistics Status.Chapter 7: The Reform of the RPI.
The Economics of Renewable Energy in the Gulf
Having long been at the center of global energy markets due to oil, the Gulf region has also stated an intent to be a leader in renewable energy. This book explores drivers for the widespread adoption of renewable energy and the impediments to success. Weighing this up, experts discuss the route forward for renewable energy in the region.
Material Cultures of Financialisation
This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation. It begins with a tight definition of financialisation in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. To locate financialisation within economic and social reproduction, of which material culture is a part, close attention is paid to the distinctive forms of financialisation arising from commodification, commodity form and commodity calculation. The differences in the extent to which, and how, these prevail are addressed through the innovative system of provision approach and its framing of material culture through use of ten distinctive attributes of such cultures, known as the 10Cs (Constructed, Construed, Conforming, Commodified, Contextual, Contradictory, Closed, Contested, Collective and Chaotic). This framing of the cultures attached to financialisation is then illustrated through case studies demonstrating the diverse ways in which shifting cultures have served to embed financialisation in our daily lives. After a discussion of the material culture of financialisation itself there are two sector examples which review financial cultures in the provision of water and housing. These are followed by considerations of financialisation in financial literacy and financial inclusion, the media and, finally, well-being. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of New Political Economy.
The New Russia
Provides full details of the many rapid changes in the Russian economy and the political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Covers the period up to 2000, offering a valuable guide to policies in the Putin era.
The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey
This volume provides a comprehensive study of Turkey's financial transformation into one of the most dynamic, if not trouble-free, emerging capitalisms. While this financial evolution has underwritten Turkey's dramatic economic growth, it has done so without ameliorating the persistently exploitative and unequal social structures that characterize neoliberalism today. This edited volume, written by an interdisciplinary range of political economists, critically examines Turkey's financial transformation, contributing to debates on the nature of peripheral financialization.Eschewing economistic interpretations, The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey underscores both the quantitative significance of exponential growth in financial flows and investments, and the qualitative importance of the state's institutional restructuring around financial imperatives. The book presents today's reality as historically rooted. By understanding the choices made under the new Republic (from 1923 onwards), one can better locate the changes launched as a newly liberalizing society (since 1980). Likewise, the decisions made in response to Turkey's 2001 financial crisis spurred a tectonic break in state-market-society financial relations. The waves of change have reached far and wide: from corporate strategies of accumulation and growth to small- and medium-sized enterprises' strategies of financial survival; from how finance has penetrated the provisioning of housing to how households have become financialized. Put together, one grasps the complexity and historicity of the power of contemporary finance. One also sees that the changes made have not been class-neutral, but have entailed elevating the interests of major capital groups, particularly financial capital, above the interests of the poor and workers in Turkey. Nor are these changes constrained to its national borders, as what transpires domestically contributes to the making of a financialized world market. Through this 'Made in Turkey' approach the contributions in this volume thus challenge dominant understandings of financialization, which are derived from the advanced capitalisms, by sharing the specificity of emerging capitalisms such as Turkey.
Redesigning Petroleum Taxation
The aim of this book is to discuss the function of the fiscal regime applicable to petroleum extraction in the UK, and the possible theoretical tools that can lend themselves via the tax laws to achieve that elusive balance between attracting investments into the upstream sector and collecting an appropriate share of the revenues in the future.
Macroeconomics, Second Edition
Many undergraduate texts treat macroeconomics as a set of distinct topics rather than as a unified body of theory and empirical findings. In contrast, this text by Alan Auerbach and Laurence Kotlikoff uses a single analytic framework--the two-period life-cycle model--to explore and connect each of the major issues in contemporary macroeconomics. The model describes the evolution of the economy over time in terms of the behavior of overlapping generations of individuals, each of whom lives for two periods: youth and old age. This versatile framework can encompass most macroeconomic schools of thought through the alteration of key assumptions. The use of one basic model also allows the authors to explore important topics not always addressed adequately in other texts; these include credit constraints, real business cycles, generational accounting, and international capital flows markets.Written in a clear, accessible style, this shortened and simplified second edition provides a systematic way to interpret macroeconomic outcomes, to understand various policy proposals, and to appreciate how individuals and firms fit into the big picture.
Sowing Market Reforms
By examining a sector of the economy that was exposed to increased imports more than four decades ago, Crumley illuminates the economic pressures, resistance, and reform that help to shape Russia's agrarian sector today.
Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy
This textbook provides future data analysts with the tools, methods, and skills needed to answer data-focused, real-life questions; to carry out data analysis; and to visualize and interpret results to support better decisions in business, economics, and public policy. Data wrangling and exploration, regression analysis, machine learning, and causal analysis are comprehensively covered, as well as when, why, and how the methods work, and how they relate to each other. As the most effective way to communicate data analysis, running case studies play a central role in this textbook. Each case starts with an industry-relevant question and answers it by using real-world data and applying the tools and methods covered in the textbook. Learning is then consolidated by 360 practice questions and 120 data exercises. Extensive online resources, including raw and cleaned data and codes for all analysis in Stata, R, and Python, can be found at www.gabors-data-analysis.com.
Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan's classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform. The study focuses on the radical legal changes "freeing" the grain trade in the 1760s, and the ensuing subsistence crisis that violently buffeted the realm and profoundly impacted French life. In the course of the analysis, Kaplan offers crucial insight into the liberal movement, the reform impulse within the government, the character of parliamentary politics, the operation of local administration, the collective attitudes and behaviour of consumers, the famine plot persuasion, the organization of the grain and flour trades, and the management of royal victualing enterprises. Anthem Press is proud to reissue this path breaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, "The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later."
China’s Economy
China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America. Multinational companies make billions of dollars in profits in China each year, while traders around the world shudder at every gyration of the country's unruly stock markets. Perhaps paradoxically, its capitalist economy is governed by an authoritarian Communist Party that shows no sign of loosening its grip. China is frequently in the news, whether because of trade disputes, the challenges of its Belt and Road initiative for global infrastructure, or its increasing military strength. China's political and technological challenges, created by a country whose political system and values differ dramatically from most of the other major world economies, creates uncertainty and even fear. China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know� is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic and political story of the last three decades. Arthur Kroeber enhances our understanding of China's changes and their implications. Among the essential questions he answers are: How did China grow so fast for so long? Can it keep growing and still solve its problems of environmental damage, fast-rising debt and rampant corruption? How long can its vibrant economy co-exist with the repressive one-party state? How do China's changes affect the rest of the world? This thoroughly revised and updated second edition includes a comprehensive discussion of the origins and development of the US-China strategic rivalry, including Trump's trade war and the race for technological supremacy. It also explores the recent changes in China's political system, reflecting Xi Jinping's emergence as the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. It includes insights on changes in China's financial sector, covering the rise and fall of the shadow banking sector, and China's increasing integration with global financial markets. And it covers China's rapid technological development and the rise of its global Internet champions such as Alibaba and Tencent.
Money and Banking
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
