The EU and The Eurozone Crisis

The European Union (EU) is facing a fundamental crisis, which especially affects the countries that take part in the single currency, the euro. The group is usually referred to as the eurozone, and when the ministers of finance from these countries meet they are referred to as the Euro Group. This group has its own president, currently Jean-Claude Juncker from Luxembourg. It can be seen as a su…

THE UNBOUND PROMETHEUS

When dealing with ambiguous terms, the first duty of a writer is definition. The words 'industrial revolution in small letters-usually refer to that complex of technological innovations which, by substituting machines for human skill and inanimate power for human and animal force, brings about a shift from handicraft to manufacture and, so doing, gives birth to a modern economy. In this sense…

Post Keynesian Economics

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Reforms and Economic Transformation in India

This volume, the second in the series produced by the Columbia Program on Indian Economic Policies, turns to the analysis of the reforms from a differ- ent viewpoint than the first. It takes as its starting point the fact that while the reforms have undoubtedly delivered in terms of poverty reduction and associated social objectives, the impact has not been as substantial as it has been in othe…

Corruption, good governance and economic development : contemporary analysis …

The question may be asked, why is it important to discuss good govern- ance as a prerequisite for sustainable and environmentally friendly development? The answer to the above question lies in the historical experience of failure to achieve economic growth by many countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America in the past several decades. Since the end of World War II, the economic literature o…

Making Capitalism Fit for Society

European social democracy needs to be shaken out of the defensive posture to which it has shrunk for several years now. It should not be in this position at all. Inequality is again becoming a major issue; the power of large corporations is producing a growing number of problems for consumers, workers and citizens; the neglect of collective needs is producing frightening problems of environment…

PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW

The notion ‘International Economic Law’ encompasses a complex architecture of rules governing international economic relations and transboundary economic conduct by States, international organizations, and private actors. The term essen- tially refers to the regulation of cross-border transactions in goods, services, and capital, monetary relations and the international protection of inte…

States and Markets in Hydrocarbon Sectors

Markets, technologies, and policies constantly evolve at different levels in various countries, and this has led us to analyse these aspects as the drivers of energy policies. All have a policy and regulatory impact on market structures, which further stimulates technological development. It is noteworthy that the causes of the energy transition may either stem from the state or from market for…

SocietieS Beyond oil

overall how societies are ‘energized’ is crucial for understanding how they work, how they are ‘powered’. this powering of societies depends upon systems of energy production, distribu- tion and consumption. these vary enormously, from muscle power, wood, wind, water and sun to coal, gas, oil, hydroelectric, geothermal and nuclear, from small-scale localized production to huge global …

The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence

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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design…

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Technology and Economics

The papers published in this volume commemorate Ralph Landau's many years of service to the National Academy of Engineering. Over almost two decades, Ralph Landau served the NAE as member of the council, officer of the Academy, and in a variety of capacities as a vigorous intellectual contributor to the Academy's program. Ralph Landau is an innovator who combines the characteristics of a person…

Critical analysis of scientific management

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Markets The Fulton Fish Market

This feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, D…

The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility

International capital mobility is today a concern that breeds broader social uncertainty because of unprecedented degrees of financial social- isation. Financial markets now attract a greater volume of savings than at any previous time in their history. Existing living standards are there- fore increasingly dependent upon the market environment continuing to function in the manner prescribed by…

Accession to the WTO: Part II

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Managing your SME more effectively Part II

Chapter 1: Establish your SME. Chapter 2: Set up your production. Chapter 3: Market and sell your products. Chapter 4: Support your customers. Appendix: Various policies, procedures and checklists.

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The Political Economy of Conflict in South Asia

South Asia comprises the states of Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan. It is an area of enormous opportunity, staggering diversity but also pervasive poverty and instability. Home to 1.64 billion people – roughly 24 per cent of the world’s population – South Asia is an important and emerging market that has averaged an impressive rate of re…

Economics in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

ABSTRACT: This article provides a summary of economic issues found in Atlas Shrugged. It discusses the role of individual initiative, creativity, and productivity in economic progress as illustrated in this novel. It also shows the novel’s depiction of the benefits of trade—and the destruction of exchange relationships and production that results from government intervention in the econom…

DEVELOPMENT MACROECONOMICS

Asignificant analytical literature began to develop in the early 1970s to address a succession of macroeconomic woes that afflicted developing countries. By the 1980s, this literature had reached a level of rigor and sophistication comparable to that characteristic of macroeconomic analysis for high- income countries. However, these developments were not typically reflected in standard textbook…

Economic and Financial Analysis for Criminal Justice Organizations

All organizations must have a clear notion of their vision before they may craft and implement any form of strategy. This notion of vision encapsulates the future expression of what an organization hopes to become through the passing of time. Vision represents the perception of the anticipated end state of organizational maturation over large periods of time ranging from years to decades. Visio…

The Agglomeration of the Animation Industry in East Asia

Given the dramatic advances in the transportation and information technologies that have allowed the world economy to globalize over the last few decades, experts have begun to speculate on whether the world is now “flat” (Friedman 2007) or perhaps “spiky” (Florida 2008). Previous thinkers supposed that globalization would lead to creative workers being drawn to specific cities and regi…

Microeconomics

If each of us could get all the food, clothing, and toys we want without working, no one would study economics. Unfortunately, most of the good things in life are scarce—we can’t all have as much as we want. Thus scarcity is the mother of economics. Microeconomics is the study of how individuals and firms make themselves as well off as possible in a world of scarcity and the consequences o…

Introduction to Modern Economic Growth

First and foremost, this is a book about economic growth and long-run economic development. The process of economic growth and the sources of differences in economic performance across nations are some of the most interesting, important and challenging areas in modern social science. The primary purpose of this book is to introduce graduate students to these major questions and to the theo…

Macroeconomics

You are just beginning your study of economics, but let us fast-forward to the end of your first economics course. How will your study of economics affect the way you see the world? The final exam is over. You are sitting at a restaurant table, waiting for your friends to arrive. The place is busy and loud as usual. Looking around, you see small groups of people sitting and talking animated…

Production Economics

This book is concerned with production and related economic issues. Generally speaking, production consists of the transformation of factors of production into products. The way in which the production is carried out—the production process—is outlined in Fig. 1.1. First, the factors of production (also called input) are taken to a production plant, which is where the actual production …

THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

HIS book is the outcome of an invitation by the Warden and Fellows of All Souls to deliver the Chichele Lectures for 1966. The lectures as delivered were four in number. But since then I have added three more in order to make the coverage more adequate. My objective is very limited. I concentrate solely on the history of the main propositions of the theory of development·as they would ap…