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Econometric Models of the Euro-area Central Banksby G. Fagan; J. Morgan
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 40.00Provides a description of the macroeconomic models used by the European Central Bank and the euro area national central banks.This volume takes stock of the macroeconometric modelling infrastructure of the Eurosystem. It highlights the structures and features of the models used with their purposes and is for those interested in central banking. more...
Black Titanby Elizabeth Gardner Hines; Carol Jenkins
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece and grandniece, the award-winning television journalist Carol Jenkins and her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Born at a time when the bitter legacy of slavery and Reconstruction still poisoned the lives of black Americans, Gaston was determined to make a difference for himself and his people.... more...
Portfolios of the Poorby Daryl Collins; Jonathan Morduch; Stuart Rutherford; Orlanda Ruthven
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 19.95Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the first book to systematically explain how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems. The authors conducted year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. The stories of these families are often... more...
Age of Greedby Jeff Madrick
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.99A vividly told history of how greed bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping, fast-paced, and incisive, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. These stewards of American capitalism have insisted on the central and essential place of accumulated wealth through the booms, busts, and recessions of the last half century, giving rise to our current woes. In telling the stories of these politicians, economists, and financiers who declared a... more...
Thinking about Growthby Moses Abramovitz
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 42.00The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The introductory essay is an extended treatment of how economists now view the growth process and its causes. Other essays consider the contributions of capital formation, education, and the changed nature of industries and occupations. Professor Abramovitz asks why elevated incomes failed to bring the social progress and personal satisfaction that people had looked for. The final chapters in the book take up the causes of our discontent and consider whether the Welfare State has itself become an obstacle to further economic progress.The essays in this book explore the forces... more...
Dick Smith's Population Crisisby Dick Smith
Allen & Unwin 2011; US$ 14.54Dick Smith takes on the hot topic of our times, arguing that Australian and global population growth carries enormous risks, dangers that none of our political parties is prepared to address. more...
European Economyby Christopher Dent
Routledge 1997; US$ 80.00The European Economy argues that economists need a broader, worldwide base of information to accommodate the changes brought about by regionalism and globalism. more...
Downsizing of Asiaby Franç Godement; ois
Routledge 1998; US$ 64.95A tour-de-force study of the causes of the collapse of the Asian economic miracle which looks at Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore. more...
Rise Of The Rustbeltby Philip Cooke
Routledge 1995; US$ 35.95A survey and analysis of major old industrial regions - the Ruhr, South Wales, the Great Lakes and Ontario - in terms of their economic regeneration and their re-emergence as centres of thriving industrial activity of the new kind. more...
Economic Thought in Communist and Post-Communist Europeby Hans-Jurgen Wagener
Routledge 1998; US$ 180.00Written by leading east European scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging overview of fifty years of economic thinking under communist rule in Europe and during the first phase of post-communist economic transformation. more...