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Par Hugh Dalton. 2003
'Dalton has succeeded in expressing general economic concepts in simple language' The Economist. The 1971 edition of this famous textbook…
includes recent material to the general survey on the theory of taxation, other forms of public revenue, public expenditure and public debts. There are chapters on modern theories of budgetary policy and the controversial cheap money policy, pursued by the author when he was in charge of the British Treasury from 1945-1947.Par Erich Streissler. 2003
The articles in this volume were written in honour of F. A. Hayek and cover the whole scope of his…
thought. Many of the essays take as a starting point Hayek's own writings. The list of distinguished contributors include: Jacques Rueff, George Halm, Michael Polyani, Gordon Tullock, Günter Schmölders, Friedrich Lutz, Gottfried von Haberler, Frank Paish, Ludwig Lachmann, Peter Bauer, James Buchanan, Fritz Machlup and Karl Popper.Par Wilhelm Abel. 2005
Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core…
text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the orientation of economic and agricultural history. Using data on population, wages and rents from England, France, Germany and the Low Countries, and, on occasion, from Italy, Scandinavia and Poland, here Professor Abel demonstrates the striking similarity in the overall economic development for all these areas. He also analyses, the short-term fluctuations that have affected agricultural development within this economic framework, and is able to show the broad significance of the shape of the late medieval depression, the scale of the desertions of villages that accompanies it, and the implications of the sixteenth century price revolution. The book's importance lies in tracing the long-term trends that have characterized European economic development since the High Middle Ages, and as such it has made an invaluable contribution to all comparative analyses of different Western European countries since it was first published in 1980.Par Erich Schneider. 2003
This volume analyses value and equilibrium. Chapters on the decisions of household and on the theory of the firm (including…
short and long-term planning and investment) include both static and dynamic analysis.* Based on the enlarged sixth German edition this English edition contains many diagrams and an introduction to linear programming, as well as full treatment of the author's well-known theory of production.Par Angus Maddison. 2005
First published in 2005. The central issue of our times is the unequal income of nations. Its importance outweighs most…
of the domestic problems in rich countries, and the division of the world into rich and poor has become more significant than the ideological cleavage between communism and capitalism. There are twenty-five rich countries, but more than 100 countries who are in the where income range. Two-thirds of the world's population live in the latter group. This study focuses on those countries and looks at economic policy and progress.Par Doreen Warriner. 1964
This book, first published in 1939, was originally conceived as an investigation of peasant farming in Europe written in the…
years of the agricultural depression of the nineteen-thirties. It shows an immense contrast between the well-capitalized commercial peasant farming of Western Europe and the poor subsistence farming of the remotest parts of Eastern Europe; and between these two extremes a wide range of variation in standards of living and farming efficiency.Par Lars Tvede. 2001
Why do we experience business cycles? What creates them? Is it mass psychology, or phenomena in the management of business?…
Are the banks to blame or should we be looking to the unions and the politicians? Lars Tvede's story moves back in time to the Scottish gambler and financial genius, John Law, and then on to the distracted Adam Smith, the stockbroker Ricardo, the investment banker Thornton, the extrovert Schumpeter, the speculator Jay Gould and many others. The computer jugglers of the modern day, with giant networks of equations, try to solve the same questions that have attracted the attention of classical economists throughout the centuries. Throughout this volume, business cycle theories are used to explain actual events. Theoretical thinking has reflected the economist's own experiences of hyper-inflations, depressions, speculation orgies and liquidity squeezes. The reader can follow the narrative to discover how economists often thought that problems had been solved until new data changed the economic picture once again.Par Timothy M. Shaw, Jane L. Parpart, Z. A. Konczacki. 1990
First Published in 1990. Volume Two of Studies of Economic History of South Africa, looks at the Lesotho and Swaziland…
regions. The unfolding history and historiography of Southern Africa pose profound challenges for both analysis and praxis in the last decade of the twentieth century. These challenges are reflected in the range of investigations and contradictions, some of which are treated here, which together constitute an intellectual and political conjuncture. This collection of studies deals with the countries which were not included in the companion book on the economic history of the Front- Line States. Most of the space in the present volume is devoted to South Africa, primarily because of its importance to the region but also because contributions to the economic history of that country in English are very extensive as compared to the other states of Southern Africa.Par William Ashworth. 2005
This is a comprehensive account of a decisive epoch in England's economic development by a leading economic historian. 'Works of economic…
history often get bogged dwon in figures - so many machines, so much unemployment, often, too, they are histories of technology, not of economic organization. Professor Ashworth goes to the opposite extreme in a most praiseworthy way: his book is actually good to read. Though there are tables of statistics (eleven of them), the book is an essay in interpretation, not an encyclopedia; it enriches our understanding rather than adding to our knowledge.' A.J.P. Taylor. This classic book was first published in 1960.Par Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2006
First Published in 2005. This thirteen-chapter title is divided into three parts and concludes with five appendices, references, and index.…
The first part focuses on income inequality and the historical state of wages. The second begins the discussion on the driving forces of economic inequality and equilibrating factors. The third provides a model for inequality in a resource-scarce open economy with data, theory, and debate. Appropriate for economic students and those interested in British economic history.Par Dr J Richardson. 2003
This book gives a comprehensive survey of the field of Industrial Relations, focusing on general principles and problems. Illustrations are…
drawn from the practices adopted in many parts of the world such as Australia, France, Germany and the USA. Contents include chapters on the following:* Personnel Management* Training* Methods of Wage Payment* Job Evaluation* Profit-Sharing and Co-partnership* Trade Unionism* Employers' Organizations* Collective Bargaining* Wage Bases* Equal Opportunities* Conciliation and ArbitrationPar Lancelot Hogben. 2003
Encompassing the areas of economics, sociology, social biology and genetics, and drawing on studies from the UK and Australia, this…
volume charts and analyses the factors affecting population growth. Chapters include:* The international decline in fertility* The changing structure of the family* Educational opportunities* Concepts of race.Par Dilip K. Ghosh, Edgar Ortiz. 1997
This volume uses the original research of experienced contributors to explore recent changes in financial markets. Areas discussed include Latin…
America, Europe, the USA, Mexico and India. The book updates issues including: * Risk and its minimization * Business enterprise on world markets * Capital flows and capital flight * Offshore markets * Central bank interventionFirst Published in 1967. This is a series of reports on the resources, various products and industrial history of Birmingham…
and its Midland hardware district. They were collected by the local Industry Committee of the British Association in 1865. The volume gives an idea if not full details, of the extent and variety of the local trades within the radius of thirty miles of Birmingham. The coal and iron of Staffordshire, the chemical products, glass and alkalis and soap of Smethwick, the metal works from the costliest plate and jewellery down to common gilt toys, the engines and machinery exported to all parts of the world to name a few.Par Joyce Jacobsen, Adam Zeller. 2007
An important new book, bringing together into one volume many of the salient early articles in the field as well…
as important recent contributions, this reader is an examination of and response to the effects of heteronormativity on both economic outcomes and economics as a discipline. The first book to consolidate what has been published, filling a gap in the currently available literature and edited by an expert in the field, it contains a brief introductory essay; setting-out the reasons for and aims of the project, and a short section introduction; defining the topic at hand and introducing each of the key readings. This book is necessary reading for students in research areas including political economy, urban studies, economics, economic history and demographic economics.Par Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen. 2011
Nicolae Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994) is considered today as perhaps the chief founder of the transdisciplinary field today known as Ecological Economics,…
but that he defined himself as Bioeconomics. In his later years Georgescu-Roegen intended to write a book of this title that would systematize what he considered to be the most significant results of his work. This project intends to resume this project, publishing a collection of the most relevant Georgescu-Roegen essays on Bioeconomics, including previously unpublished papers.Par Vinod K. Aggarwal, Shujiro Urata. 2006
The Asia-Pacific region has witnessed a rapid rise in bilateral preferential trade agreements at the beginning of the twenty-first century.…
This trend could have potentially dramatic effects on the trading patterns of countries in the transpacific region and beyond. Some argue that these accords will spur multilateral negotiations, while others believe that they will irreparably damage the trading system. Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific examines the underlying political and economic factors driving these accords, based on a novel theoretical framework. Experts then provide overviews of political and economic trends in the region as well as detailed analysis of the trade strategies of Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Mexico. By systematically evaluating and assessing the driving forces underlying the turn to bilateral trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of this crucial phenomenon. Growing numbers of countries both in the region and elsewhere in the world are now considering further negotiation of bilateral trade accords. Understanding how these arrangements will fit or conflict with existing institutions in the Asia-Pacific and the WTO makes this book imperative reading for policy-makers and scholars.Par Clifford S. Russell. 2011
First Published in 2011.This is Volume 11 of fourteen in the library collection of Policy and Government and looks at…
the applications from public choice theory on decision making. It brings together proceedings that look seek to answer the question for the forum, which was whether public choice theory offers promise of providing a firmer foundation for applied institutional research and for institutional innovations which could contribute to the solution of some of these problems.Par Kenneth K. Kurihara. 2003
This volume represents the extension of Keynes' General Theory by a group of eminent economists. Each essay takes Keynes' work…
as a frame of reference for criticism, explorations and insights, whilst adding to the superstructure on the foundation of the General Theory. The essays also provide the necessary sense of perspective with a view to examining the Keynesian contribution to economic thought and also the limitations of Keynesian economics. The international contributors include:Dudley Dillard, Martin Bronfenbrenner, Mabel F. Timlin, William S. Vickrey, Don Patinkin, Howard R. Bowen, Gerald M. Meier, R.C.O. Matthews, Shinichi Ichimura, Anatol Murad, Lawrence R. Klein, Shigeto Tsuru, Paul P. Streeten, Lorie Tarshis and Franco Modigliani.Par Hitoshi Hirakawa, Norio Tokumaru, Kaushalesh Lal, Shampa Paul, Naoko Shinkai. 2013
This book looks at two-stage industrial cluster theory and new innovation models in view of IT-ization and servitization of products. The…
formation of industrial clusters such as export processing zones and special economic zones has been the preferred mechanism for developing countries to boost their industrial development and export performance for the last several decades. Existing literature related to Development Economics cited numerous benefits of industrial clusters and several countries have reaped such benefits. The book goes beyond formation of traditional industrial clusters. It promotes the idea of formation of two-stage clusters. The book further stresses on new innovation models. The ideas are promoted based on the empirical evidence of Chinese and Taiwanese firms in consumer electronics and automobile sectors. Finally, the book looks at firm strategies in new business environment which is dominated by servitization of industrial products. It argues for firms to integrate manufacturing and services to a great extent. To substantiate the arguments, empirical evidence comes from India, Taiwan, and Bangladesh. The study further finds evidence, perhaps for the first time that innovation and knowledge acquisition strategies are influenced not only by size of firms but also vary with market preferences.