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OECD Economic Surveys
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 72.00OECD's first (2008) survey of Indonesia's economy reviews growth performance and key policy challenges including improving the business and investment climate and improving labour market outcomes. This publication includes StatLinks, URLs linking tables and graphs to Excel ® spreadsheets containing the underlying data. more...
Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00As Japan's decade-long economic stagnation continues, there has been much analysis of the immediate macroeconomic problems that confront the Japanese economy. This book looks past the short-run challenges to the future of Japan and highlights the intermediate and longer-term issues that country faces. In this, the first book-length academic treatment... more...
The Inflation-Targeting Debate
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 37.50Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized and middle-income countries have adopted inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policymaking. As the name suggests, in such inflation-targeting regimes, the central bank is responsible for achieving a publicly announced target for the inflation rate. While the objective of... more...
The Great Depression of Debt
Wiley 2008; US$ 24.95This book takes a close look at today's economy and offers a bleak prediction for its future. However, those positioned to handle dramatic shifts in consumer spending, the mortgage industry, and the stock market are at a great advantage. Author Warren Brussee offers insight into the coming economic situation and provides steps to prepare for it. For... more...
Hoodwinked
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.00John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man, he was on the front lines both... more...
The Decline of Latin American Economies
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 45.00Latin America’s economic performance is mediocre at best, despite abundant natural resources and flourishing neighbors to the north. The perplexing question of how some of the wealthiest nations in the world in the nineteenth century are now the most crisis-prone has long puzzled economists and historians. The Decline of Latin American... more...
Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 39.00Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation brings together fourteen papers that show the importance of the interaction between tax rules and monetary policy. Based on theoretical and empirical research, these papers emphasize the importance of including explicit specifications of the tax system in such study. more...
Markets Versus Hierarchies
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Illustrates from a transaction cost perspective how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and Russia. This book exposes the devastating effects of self-interested decision making of the government officials on economic growth. more...
The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets
Wiley 2009; US$ 60.00The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it? Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about it now? In The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and... more...
OECD Economic Surveys Estonia 2009
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2009; US$ 75.00Estonia grew faster than most emerging market economies during 2000-07, but it is now in a severe recession. This first edition of OECD's periodic review of Estonia's economy includes chapters covering getting back to a sustainable growth path, fiscal policy, labour market reform, housing policy, and the the business environment. more...









