This ambitious book presents a conceptual framework for an institutional approach to economic change and economic transformation. It sheds important light on two basic concepts: social complexity and interactive governance.
Macroeconomic Theory and Policy is the second collection of Richard G. Lipsey’s essays and contains material that has previously remained unpublished or has not been widely available. The book considers the macroeconomic issues of unempl...
This is a collection of articles on how the government influences the economy in order to secure re-election. The economy is steered such that unemployment and inflation are as low as possible, and the growth of real income as high as p...
These two volumes bring together key readings in the political economy of the mass media and analyse and explain the role of the media in modern society. Covering a wide spectrum of articles on media and communications over a broad peri...
The Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia were pioneers among the former Soviet republics in implementing political and economic reforms. Starting in 1988, the transition process in these three countries has been rapid and d...
Martin Myant, Frank Fleischer, Kurt Hornschild, Ruzena Vintrová, Karel Zeman, Zdenek Soucek
Successful Transformations? contrasts the recent experience of economic development in Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic. It provides a comparative up-to-date account critically assessing the transition from central planning to a f...
Edited by Christos C. Paraskevopoulos, Ricardo Grinspun, Theodore Georgakopoulos
This collection of essays is a state-of-the-art analysis of key issues confronting the European Union. Identifying European economic integration as one of the defining features of modern international economics, the authors examine many...
Growth and Economic Development shows how the different theories of growth – from the classical to the endogenous growth and Schumpeterian theories – can be brought together to develop a satisfactory explanation of the varying rates of g...
Starting with a selection of classical articles on international institutions, this book traces the evolution of regime analysis over the last two decades as a new perspective on international governance. In the process it provides a fu...
John Bristow’s wide-ranging review, based on primary sources, traces economic developments since the fall of Zhivkov in late 1989. The progress of the macroeconomy, sectoral developments, international relations, reform of the banking a...
The post-war growth of the East Asian economies is an unprecedented achievement in world economic history. The newly-industrializing countries of Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Taiwan were first to emulate Japan’s econo...
Capitalism With a Human Face is a wide-ranging collection of Samuel Brittan’s important recent essays. Specially edited to make a coherent whole, this volume covers topics ranging from utilitarianism and the ethics of self-interest, to t...
