Economic Policy 6

This fifth Annual Report describes the activities of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) during the year to April 30, 2008. This period saw the completion of two evaluations, "Structural Conditi……続きを見る

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Imagine getting up in the morning and going to work for a company that, just by virtue of the fact that you work for it, you own part of. Imagine that the company’s president and other officers have……続きを見る

What happens when a major storm barrels through an area? In addition to the tragedy of loss of life and loss of property that accompanies so many of these storms, we also see shortages and cries of ……続きを見る

Presented with no charts and almost zero math, this essay provides plain language explanations for some of the most relevant economic concepts affecting our world today. For instance, it tells why, ……続きを見る

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: gut, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 56 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wo liegen die Ursa……続きを見る

The second Annual Report of the IEO summarizes the findings and recommendations of two completed evaluation projects: on the IMF’s experience with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the Pover……続きを見る

This report surveys recent works in political economy showing that trustーand civic capital more generallyーmatter for various aspects of economic well-being and presents new evidence from European ……続きを見る

Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a select……続きを見る

The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular econ……続きを見る

**USA Todaybestseller andWall Street Journal business bestseller** They say**John Maynard Keynes called gold a "barbarous relic." ***They say***there isn’t enough gold to support finance and commerc……続きを見る

We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this co-ope……続きを見る

The Federal Open Market Committee, which sets Federal Reserve policy, meets for the first time under the leadership of Chairwoman Janet Yellen, on March 18 and 19. Ms. Yellen, who took the post in F……続きを見る

To date, critical analysis of the EMU project has largely been advanced from the centre-right spectrum of British politics. Comparable questions from the centre-left have failed to find a coherent v……続きを見る

The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind ……続きを見る

Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over the past century. Following John R. Hicks’ proposal that a realistic monetary ……続きを見る

In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind agents in their behaviour, allowing ……続きを見る

With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard a……続きを見る

The period since the outbreak of the financial, economic and social crises in Europe has witnessed a renewed focus on the need to develop a more sustainable and qualitative growth model. A model whe……続きを見る

The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-mad……続きを見る

Impressive and authoritative, this essential book brings together a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought of a generation.……続きを見る

Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involv……続きを見る

In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of……続きを見る

There are competing theories to explain the reasons behind the international competitiveness of manufacturing in Asia. Analysing these different theories will bring important lessons, not just for A……続きを見る

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, m……続きを見る

While dating from post-Classical economists such as Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter, the inception of the modern field of evolutionary economics is usually dated to the early 1980s. Broadly s……続きを見る

WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Astra Taylor, author of The People's……続きを見る

How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experimentーand what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tell……続きを見る