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The Bush Agenda
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99In The Bush Agenda , Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest, most aggressive implementation under George W. Bush?and Bush Agenda adherents plan for it to outlast him. Juhasz uncovers the history and key role... more...
The Effects of Taxation on Capital Accumulation
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 39.00Research on capital formation has long been a major focus of studies sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research because of the crucial role of capital accumulation in the process of economic growth. The papers in this volume examine the influence of taxes on capital formation, with specific focus on the determinants of saving and the process... more...
Under New Ownership
World Bank Publications 2005; US$ 9.99Although Chinas centrally planned economy is a little more than a shadow of its former self, the closely inter-linked reforms of the enterprise and banking sectors are still incomplete. The relative size of the state-owned enterprise sector has been much reduced, however, the sector remains the dominant borrower from the banking system and is... more...
Corporate Community Relations
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 35.00Burke challenges the current thesis that companies should act responsibly toward communities and societies. Instead, he shows that changes in society mandate that companies must develop strategies and programs that foster a reputation of trust in local communities in order that they preserve their license to operate. Burke describes strategies and... more...
The End of the Free Market
Penguin Group Inc. 2010; US$ 26.95"An essential guide to the future of the world economy." -David Smick, author of The World is Curved A number of authoritarian governments, drawn to the economic power of capitalism but wary of uncontrolled free markets, have invented something new: state capitalism. In this system, governments use markets to create wealth that... more...
Banking on the Future
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 52.50The crash of 2008 revealed that the world's central banks had failed to offset the financial imbalances that led to the crisis, and lacked the tools to respond effectively. What lessons should central banks learn from the experience, and how, in a global financial system, should cooperation between them be enhanced? Banking on the Future provides... more...
How Markets Fail
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 16.99Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work?how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society?s resources. But what about when markets... more...
Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise deals with a topic often undervalued in the past decade but which now, with the crisis of 2008-2009, calls... more...
Chipping Away at Public Debt
Wiley 2011; US$ 45.00Path-breaking research on one of the most important macroeconomic policy challenges in the post-crisis world, presented in accessible language Written and researched by a team of experts from the International Monetary Fund, other policy-making institutions, and academia, this timely book looks at fiscal adjustment plans in advanced economies, comparing... more...
Making an ASEAN-EU FTA Work for European Business
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 23.90In May 2007 the European Union and ASEAN agreed to launch negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA), and talks are ongoing on the specific design and membership, with a joint working committee being established. This book identifies the present barriers in the relations between the regions, and aims to make an ASEAN-EU FTA useful as well as understandable... more...









