Agricultural Co-Operation in the Soviet Union
Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis. It looks at the significance of farming co-operatives in Soviet agricultural planning and the work of the agricultural co-operatives.
The Communist Economic Challenge
The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and evaluates the reality of the Soviet claims that its growth was a mark of the 'inherent superiority' of its economic system over capitalism.
The Second Five-Year Plan of Development of the U.S.S.R.
The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.S.S.R. (1934) contains a summary of the achievements of the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan and the provisions of the Second Five-Year Plan.
The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform
The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.
The Impact of Soviet Shipping
The Impact of Soviet Shipping (1987) is a detailed analysis of the operations and impact of Soviet shipping. Using new data sources and drawing on discussions with Soviet shipping managers, the book provides a valuable insight into the workings of the Soviet merchant fleet.
The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North
The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North (1956) evaluates the commercial value of the route on the basis of a detailed study of the economy of the Soviet North. While the primary focus is on economic, strategic and material grounds, it looks at the non-economic motives for Soviet activity in the Arctic.
Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa
Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multisectoral and multi-stakeholder perspectives exploring challenges and opportunities for utilising digital innovations to manage and accelerate the transition to a circular plastic economy (CPE).
Balancing ACT for Brazil’s Amazonian States
Brazil's nine Amazonian states, here collectively referred to as Amaz繫nia, include some of the world's richest ecosystems, including the Amazon rainforest and parts of the Cerrado savanna and Pantanal wetlands. The region is also among Brazil's poorest socioeconomically. As a result, sustainable, inclusive development of Amaz繫nia calls for raising living standards while protecting natural forests. A Balancing Act for Brazil's Amazonian States: An Economic Memorandum explores how a recalibrated development approach can achieve these goals. In the shorter term, there is an urgent need to halt deforestation--a massive destruction of natural wealth that poses risks to the climate and economy. Amaz繫nia is Brazil's deforestation hot spot, and the Amazon rainforest is approaching tipping points into broad and permanent forest loss. Reversing the recent increase in deforestation requires stronger land and forest governance, including land regularization and more effective law enforcement. In the longer term, both Brazil and Amaz繫nia need a new growth model. This model would be anchored in productivity rather than resource extraction and it would diversify the export basket beyond commodities. A more balanced structural transformation requires the lagging urban sectors, such as manufacturing and services, to step up to promote economic growth, reduce pressure on the agricultural frontier, and generate jobs for Brazil and Amaz繫nia's largely urban populations. The public-good value of Amaz繫nia's forests could generate conservation finance linked to verifiable reductions in deforestation. Such financing would support a new development approach, combining forest protection, productivity, balanced structural transformation, sustainable production techniques (including the bioeconomy), and other measures to address the needs of Amaz繫nia's urban and rural populations. This approach must also heed the needs and interests of Amaz繫nia's traditional communities. Given both the value and the fragility of Amaz繫nia's ecosystems, coupled with considerable socioeconomic local needs, the stakes are high-for Amaz繫nia, Brazil, and the world.
Intellectual Property Statistics
Patents and other intellectual property (IP) rights are increasingly part of cross-border trade in their own rights. Patent transfers and patent licensing between inventors, investors and innovators create new business strategies of cooperation in the creation of new technology - increasing the productivity in the stock of technology assets - and efficient "distribution" of these rights. The rights bundles are then used - also increasingly - in products and services being traded cross-border, furthering economic efficiency created by this cooperative strategy. Today's international trade statistics, however, lack statistics explicitly on trade flows from ideas, based on IP rights. This book offers an idea based statistical framework to measure IP, (i.e., increasingly depends on trade in ideas) and explores ways to introduce the framework into international standards. Specifically, it offers a theory of value to measure the flows from IP and an asset view of IP to deal with allocation of resources and who owns these rights. This is then contrasted with the current way IP is treated and a "gap analysis" is used to identify what needs to change in the standards. This new framework can help develop theories, policies, practices and inform the decisions needed to better leverage the human capital formation of inventors everywhere. Praise for Intellectual Property Statistics... "In this book, Prof. Ullberg has undertaken a Herculean task - to lay out a paradigm for the collection of IP Statistics to ensure that the ... market of trade in ideas has the information and data necessary to function well. [the] volume should be viewed as a starting point, a work in progress, but an important one that could very well influence the development of this important set of data on trade in ideas. At a time when global issues ... require both new ideas and the spread of those ideas widely to help ensureboth economic growth and continued global economic convergence data that helps us monitor and evaluate what is happening in trade in ideas will be extremely valuable." - Robert Koopman, American University, Washington, DC, USA and Former Chief Economist, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Western Multinational Corporations in Latin America
This book advances the debate on socio-economic development and multinational corporations (MNCs). It provides an actor-centered perspective and develops the framework called 'Conflating Capitalisms' that allows for a better understanding of both MNC-induced institutional change in the host country and the subsequent impact on local development. The book uses the empirical case of Western MNCs in Latin America. It applies a sequential mixed-method design, including a large-scale elite survey on corporate behavior and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with local decision-makers on the institutionalization of German dual vocational training (DVT) in Brazil.The book presents strong evidence for both behavioral contradiction in the host country - with MNCs showing alien-to-the-system behavior - and subsequent actor-induced institutional change, with varied developmental impact. Additionally, the book offers novel insights into MNCs' handling of missing complementary institutions and the institutionalization process of coordinated practices in Latin America.This book appeals to scholars, students, and practitioners who are interested in advancing the field of development and MNCs.
Acceptance of Open-Banking Technology in Consumer Lending Applications
Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,0, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Department of Finance and Banking), language: English, abstract: This master thesis investigates the influencing factors on consumers' willingness to share their personal and financial information through open-banking technology in different financing and lending scenarios (e-commerce, car financing, and mortgage). To achieve this, a survey-based empirical study was conducted, covering a variety of questions regarding demographic factors as well as measured preferences and stances along the dimensions of tech-savviness, open-banking knowledge, privacy concerns and financial literacy. The analysis of over 143 survey responses shows how these factors influence and explain, to what extent and under which conditions a consumer is willing to let a company digitally take a direct look into his bank account. The gained results and insights provide a basis to define best practices and use cases for scenarios in which open-banking technology can add value to all parties involved. Since January 12th, 2016, the EU's second payment services directive (PSD2) has been in force. A key point within the PSD2 is the obligation of banks to make the information of their customers and their associated bank accounts available to third parties via standardized interfaces. A concept that is widely referred to as open-banking. One major field of application of open-banking technology lies within consumer credit application processes. The main idea is that lenders (financial institutions as well as non-financial / retail companies) can get access to the information contained in bank accounts, such as transaction history and balances, by explicit consent of the consumer. The purpose of this is to make more informed decisions as to whether or not to extend credit to the specific person in scope.
Collapse and Recovery
Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an enormous shock to mortality, economies, and daily life. But what has received insufficient attention is the impact of the pandemic on the accumulation of human capital-the health, education, and skills-of young people. How large was the setback, and how far are we still from a recovery? Collapse and Recovery estimates the impacts of the pandemic on the human capital of young children, school-age children, and youth and discusses the urgent actions needed to reverse the damage. It shows that there was a collapse of human capital and that, unless that collapse is remedied, it is a time bomb for countries. Specifically, the report documents alarming declines in cognitive and social-emotional development among young children, which could translate into a 25 percent reduction in their earnings as adults. It finds that 1 billion children in low- and middle-income countries missed at least one year of in-person schooling. And despite enormous efforts in remote learning, children did not learn during the unprecedentedly long school closures, which could reduce future lifetime earnings around the world by US$21 trillion. The report quantifies the dramatic drops in employment and skills among youth that resulted from the pandemic as well as the substantial increase in the number of youth neither employed nor enrolled in education or training. In all of these age groups, the impacts of the pandemic were consistently worse for children from poorer backgrounds. These losses call for immediate action. The good news is that evidence-based policies can recover these losses. Collapse and Recovery reviews governments' responses to the pandemic, assessing why there was a collapse in human capital accumulation, what was missing in the policy architecture to protect human capital during the crisis, and how governments can better prepare to withstand future shocks. It offers concrete policy recommendations to recover losses in human capital-programs that will end up paying for themselves in the long term. To better prepare for future shocks such as climate change and wars, the report emphasizes the need for solutions that bring health, education, and social protection programs together in an integrated human development system. If countries fail to act, the losses in human capital documented in this report will become permanent and last for multiple generations. The time to act is now.
Economic Ideas, Policy and National Culture
All human beings develop a certain view on the world. Inhabitants of the same country are likely to develop similar worldviews. The common part of these views constitutes the country's national culture. Consequently, academic economists, policymakers, and the population at large are consistently exposed to the same opinions on the preferred way of organizing an economy. This book explores the economic impacts of these shared cultural values, focusing on the economies of the United States of America, Germany, and France.These three countries broadly represent three different types of economic organization and their corresponding economic ideologies: a free market economy, a coordinated market economy, and a hierarchical market economy. The contributors to this edited volume have examined the extent to which the shared worldviews between academic economists, policymakers, and the wider population impact these economies. In particular, the chapters investigate the consequences for the design of the labor market, the financial system, competition policy, and monetary policy. The work also explores the extent to which the shared views on national culture and economic systems and policies in these countries contribute to the population's well-being overall.This book makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on comparative economics, economic policy, well-being and cultural economics.
Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions
Evaluation is increasingly important for finding sustainable solutions for the people and the planet, based on a systematic analysis of what works, for whom, and under what circumstances, and to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, as they pertain to the environment.This book explores why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accountability and learning to inform its decision-making on programming priorities, and how this leads to wiser funding decisions and better program performance on the ground. The book is based on real-life experiences of how to make evaluation count for international environmental action. Drawing upon comprehensive evaluations of the GEF, it provides unique insights from authors responsible for designing, implementing, and disseminating the findings of the evaluations. No other multilateral development or environment agency places evaluation fully at the center of their decision-making. The book outlines the trends in the global environment and the changing landscape of international environmental finance. It defines the role of the GEF and explains its institutional framework and the unique partnership that involves donor and recipient countries, multilateral development banks, UN agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and national agencies in the developing countries. Further, it provides useful pointers to other organizations wishing to enhance evidence-based decision-making for improving their relevance, performance, and impact.The book will be most suitable for graduate-level, specialized study in a variety of disciplines such as environmental and development economics, political science, international relations, geography, sociology, and social anthropology.The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Industrial Development
Industrial Development examines historical examples of how governments have attempted to build productive capabilities and promote industrial learning. . This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of capability building, industrial development and economic growth.
The International Political Economy of the Renminbi
This study provides new insights to anyone concerned with the transformation of the world monetary order, while also contributing a valuable analysis of the international politics surrounding the rise of China.　
European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought
This pioneering book brings together Western and Chinese scholars to reflect on the historical evolution of economic thought in Europe and China.
The Rural Enterprise Economy
This book offers comprehensive answers to the question of what makes up the rural enterprise economy in the contemporary business world. It addresses the competitiveness and viability, strategic management and strategic change, and marketing issues for both incumbent and start-up companies in rural regions.
Capital in the History of Accounting and Economic Thought
Starting with the first "scientific" economists such as Cantillon (1755) and Quesnay (1758) and ending with Piketty (2019), this book explores the treatment of the concept of capital in the history of accounting and economic thought.
Institutions and Chinese Economic Development
Institutions and Chinese Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Approach studies the historical relationship between institutions and economic development in China, drawing comparisons with England, Japan and other Asian economies as appropriate.
China's Innovation Economy
This book uses systems theory and evolutionary economics as a theoretical point of departure and explains why the focal point of the geopolitical stage is moving towards an alliance between China, the 14 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership countries, the countries along the new silk road, and Europe.
Technology and Women's Empowerment
This book offers the reader broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies impact women's economic and social empowerment and hence have an impact on overall welfare creation.
Institutional Change After the Great Recession
This book combines demand-led growth models and the institutionalist approach, in order to explain the macroeconomic performance of the main European countries in recent years.
Managing Knowledge, Governing Society
This insightful book examines how the policies resulting from the Neoliberal and Research and Innovation paradigms have evolved, and how they can be extended and reformed to respond to present and future environmental constraints.
Caribbean Development in the New Multipolar World Order
This book addresses the subject of critical development alternatives for Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states in a post-neoliberal, new multipolar world order based on competition and co-operation by the United States, the European Union, China and Russia for natural resources and markets.
Foreign Aid and Development in South Korea and Africa
This book compares the rapid development of South Korea over the past seventy years with selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa to assess what factors contributed to the country's success story, and why it is that countries which were comparable in the past continue to experience challenges in achieving and sustaining economic growth.
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa
This book analyses the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies, outlining a specific type of industrial policy, Frontier Industrial Policy as an instrument for transformation. The book will be of interest to researchers across Economics, Development, Postcolonial Studies and African Studies.
Base of the Pyramid Markets in Latin America
This book focuses on the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) in Latin America and examines the role of the markets in serving low-income populations as consumers, distributors and entrepreneurs. It will be of interest to managers, policy makers, students and scholars interested in Base of the Pyramid markets and their potential.
The Three Fields of Global Political Economy
The Three Fields of Global Political Economy provides a systematic and future-oriented account of global political economy dynamics since the industrial revolution and argues that major changes and conflicting processes can be understood through the concept of these three fields.
Capitalism, Development and Empowerment of Labour
The neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets. But political economy is not merely an academic issue - it is a class issue. This book forcefully argues that political economy should return to a central position in the study of the social sciences.
Macroeconomic Policy and Steady Growth in China
This book applies a new theoretical framework based on a balance sheet approach and macro-financial linkage analysis to analyse macroeconomic trends in China for 2020. Uncertainties brought about by Covid19 have necessitated a policy of steady growth.
Financialisation in Emerging Economies
Based on Marxist Political Economy, this book studies the trends towards financialisation in emerging economies, focusing on the effects of the reserve accumulation in their international and domestic spheres.
Mathematical Models and Environmental Change
This book demonstrates how mathematical models constructed in system dynamics modelling platforms, such as Vensim, can be used for long term management of environmental change.
Markets and Prosperity
Markets & Prosperity is a collection of 17 essays focused on the importance of leveraging markets, not government dictate, to solve Australia's most pressing challenges. Contributors from across both sides of the political aisle, academia, journalism, and business have come together to present bold and challenging ideas to address housing affordability, energy and climate change, childcare, higher education and tax and the size of government.In an era of higher taxes and spending and the return of industry policy, Markets & Prosperity aims to re-state the case for smaller government and sustainable economic management.Harry Stutchbury is a Management Consultant with Kearney. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Commerce and a Masters of Analytics from the University of New South Wales. He has previously worked as an adviser to State and Federal Liberal politicians.ContentsIntroduction. Harry Stutchbury1 Australia as a leader in cutting emissions and attracting investment through corporate law. Andrew Bragg 2 Revitalising the Australian childcare sector: The role of federation reform. Jane Buncle 3 Menzies and Free Trade: Lessons for Today. Georgina Downer 4 Are markets anti-social? Craig Emerson 5 The opportunity gap. Jason Falinski 6 Government by the people. Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters 7 What are you doing with my money? If you can't tell me, you don't deserve to have it. Robert Holt 8 Tilting at Windmills: Government delusion as the hero in Australia's future prosperity. Gisele Kapterian 9 We should be so lucky. Andrew Low 10 Reforming our criminal justice system. Evan Mulholland 11 Markets in publicly-funded services - the case of demand-driven university funding. Andrew Norton 12 Fixing housing policy. Aaron Patrick 13 Reforming the states. Chris Rath 14 A country with less regulation will have a smaller government. Gerard Rennick 15 Markets and prosperity Harry Stutchbury 16 A new pathway to prosperity Tom Switzer 17 Common good, not culture wars. Chaneg Torres Bibliography
Philanthropic Foundations in International Development
This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them.
Explaining Wealth Inequality
This book discusses the origins of wealth inequality and explains how societies can reform to avoid the catastrophe of inequality-induced social breakdown. It develops a theoretical and practical understanding of the principles behind the concept of ownership and of property, complete with historical examples.
Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting
Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy argues for the adoption of a CARE model: comprehensive accounting in respect of ecology.
Asia in the Global Transition to Net Zero
This report explores what a global transition to net zero could mean for Asia and the Pacific under a range of climate policy scenarios and provides recommendations. Developing Asia faces a climate policy crossroads. The region is highly vulnerable to climate change, even as it is an increasing contributor to the global climate crisis. This report models emission pathways based on commitments and pledges under the Paris Agreement and compares them with more optimal routes to net zero. It examines required transformations in the energy sector and land use and assesses socioeconomic implications. The report looks at policy costs, climate benefits, air quality co-benefits, and labor market outcomes, and discusses policies for an efficient and equitable transition.
Political Economy of Contemporary Italy
Drawing on Kaleckian and Kaldorian approaches, this book explores the reasons behind the stagnation of the Italian economy from the 1970s, and suggests policy solutions to ease the crisis.
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought.
China and Eurasia
This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations, comparing perspectives and methodologies and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on China's pivot towards Eurasia.
Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America
This book critically explores the development and resistance dynamics generated by conflicting forces of social change in Latin America. This collection offers an essential analysis of the vortex of social change currently consuming Latin America and is key reading for advanced scholars and researchers in the field.
Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance
This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the UK, drawing on the thought of Foucault and Althusser to examine the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt at a time of reorganisation or rollback of government benefits.
The Political Economy of Digital Ecosystems
Explores alternative futures for global digital ecosystems. It discusses how economic, political and social developments will shape them, as well as how these constantly evolving ecosystems shape the socio-economic context. It is distinctive because the author employs the concept of global digital ecosystems rather than the digital economy.
Economic Policy and the Covid-19 Crisis
This book offers an assessment of the different monetary and fiscal policy responses that have been implemented by national governments in major European and Asian countries faced with the Covid-19 crisis since 2020; it also deals with the case of the US experience as a benchmarking example.
Leading the Economic Risorgimento
Lombardy is today the most populated and prosperous region of Italy, and Milan is a renowned capital of art, fashion and design. During the 19th century until WWI, the region gradually became the leader in Italy's economic development and distinguished itself in the European economic landscape.
A brief history of the yuan renminbi (RMB)
The renminbi (人民币) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Its monetary unit is the yuan (元). The "people's currency" was established in 1948, like the People's Bank of China, before the founding of the regime.Proclaiming the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1893-1976) declared from the top of the walls of the Imperial City, Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tian'anmen Square, that "The Chinese People Have Stood Up". After several decades of internal challenges, the currency of the world's second largest economy has also "risen". As a unit of account in some commodity markets, as an intermediary for trade with border countries, as a store of value for a growing number of central banks in developing economies, the "people's currency" gained international recognition by joining the International Monetary Fund's basket of special drawing rights in 2016.At the heart of the monetary and geopolitical reflections of the year 2022, the Chinese currency is gradually establishing itself as one of the main currencies of a multipolar international monetary system.
Navigating Prosperity and Security in East Asia
The world's two largest economies, the United States and China, are locked in a trade war, complicating policy choices internationally. These choices are sharper for the countries of East and Southeast Asia than they are elsewhere, because the multilateral rules-based economic order on which East Asian economic integration and cooperation is built is under threat.Economic policy has never been separate from security considerations. For decades, the national security risks inherent in economic exchange have been mitigated under a US-led system that allowed the strengthening of economic ties, including between China and the rest of the world. But economics and security are increasingly entangled in a way that is damaging to both, creating a dangerous trade-off. Now, as global uncertainties grow, the risks of international exchange-rather than its benefits-are beginning to dominate the calculus for some policymakers.Against this backdrop, how can Southeast Asian countries and US allies in Asia balance their security interests and their economic interests? And how can these countries, individually and collectively, broaden their policy options and deepen economic integration? This volume investigates the domestic and international dimensions of these questions.
