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  • Contemporary Issues in Development Economics

    de Timothy Besley ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This IEA volume brings together a set of essays written by leading authors on themes relevant to the study of economic development. The book covers a range of topics many of which are relevant to policy issues. The contributors bring new insights from empirical research in a range of economies with chapters including discussions of the UN development agenda, fiscal policy in Latin America, poverty ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Pillars of Prosperity

    The Political Economics of Development Clusters

    de Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson ...
    Series series The Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures
    How nations can promote peace, prosperity, and stability through cohesive political institutions"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools ... Leer más

    $75.59 USD

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  • Inequality and Instability

    A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis

    de James K. Galbraith ...
    As Wall Street rose to dominate the U.S. economy, income and pay inequalities in America came to dance to the tune of the credit cycle. As the reach of financial markets extended across the globe, interest rates, debt, and debt crises became the dominant forces driving the rise of economic inequality almost everywhere. Thus the "super-bubble" that investor George Soros identified in rich countries ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

  • Africa

    Why Economists Get It Wrong

    de Morten Jerven ...
    Series series African Arguments
    'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    de Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Leer más

    $65.69 USD

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  • Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty

    Edición de Ashoka Mody, Catherine Pattillo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond the traditional literature on poverty, this original book deals with themes of broad interest to both ... Leer más

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  • Conflict, Political Accountability and Aid

    de Paul Collier ...
    Paul Collier’s contributions to development economics,and in regard to Africa in particular, have marked him out as one of the most influential commentators of recent times. His research has centred upon the causes and consequences of civil war, the effects of aid, and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resource-rich societies. His work has also enjoyed substantial policy impact, ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Public Choice III

    de Dennis C. Mueller ...
    This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been extensively revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. As in the previous editions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include: why the state exists, ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

    de Torben Iversen, Frances Rosenbluth ...

    $20.99 USD

  • Immigration Economics

    de George J. Borjas ...
    Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today ... Leer más

    $55.79 USD

  • The Language of Law and Economics

    A Dictionary

    de Francesco Parisi ...
    From a historical perspective, 'law and economics' constituted one of the most influential developments in legal scholarship in the twentieth century; the discipline remains today one of the dominant perspectives on the law, generating a tremendous quantity of new research and discussion. Unfortunately, one consequence of applying the analytical methods of one highly technical field to the ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Discipline in the Global Economy?

    International Finance and the End of Liberalism

    de Jakob Vestergaard ...
    Series series New Political Economy
    In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990’s. At the core of this approach is a set of standards of ‘best practice’, ranging from banking supervision to corporate governance. Vestergaard argues that although these standards are presented as ‘international’ ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD