Full Employment and Growth presents James Tobin’s unique modern Keynesian slant on the major monetary, fiscal and international policy issues of the 1990s.
Baumol’s Cost Disease is the inevitable escalation of the real costs that occur in labour-intensive industries like the arts, health care and education. The labour costs in these industries tend to increase at the same rate as other ind...
Japanese Multinationals in the Global Economy goes beyond traditional methods of research in international business by providing new simple data comparisons on the global operations of Japanese firms. A key aim of this book is to encoura...
Financing Federal Systems provides a comprehensive selection of Edward M. Gramlich’s essays, which have made a major contribution to public finance and macroeconomics over three decades.
Party-States and their Legacies in Post-Communist Transformation is a unique investigation into the construction, operation, self-destruction and transition of Hungarian politics from the 1960s to the mid- 1990s. It presents a rich pict...
Differences in technology between countries and the effect of this on trade performance have important consequences for the growth and development of countries. This book analyses the role of innovation in influencing the trade performa...
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, A. L. Bovenberg, Eric E.C. van Damme, Jarig van Sinderen
Economic Science and Practice seeks to bridge the gulf between economic theory and policy and overcome some of the problems created by the specialized nature of much economic research. A distinguished group of academic economists and ex...
This landmark book presents a critical study of the Austrian subjectivism of Menger and Mises and assesses their contribution in the light of contemporary philosophy of the human sciences. Allen Oakley lays emphasis on the subjectivism ...
Controlling Pollution in Transition Economies examines and evaluates the recent experience of implementing pollution charges and the use of environmental permits in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.
State Intervention and Business in China is a systematic study of China’s preferential economic policies. Dr. Lu and Dr. Tang present these policies in three categories, namely, the investor–oriented, the region–oriented, and the indus...
Edited by Paul Wilding, Ahmed S. Huque, Julia L.P.- W. Tao
Social Policy in Hong Kong provides for the first time a comprehensive and critical analysis of social policy in Hong Kong. It shows that Hong Kong is far from being a simple free market economy. In many areas, Hong Kong has highly de...
This book provides an evaluation of the intellectual development of Gunnar Myrdal, emphasizing his methodology, his beliefs about economics and the role of economists in modern society. Special attention is given to Gunnar Myrdal’s deve...
