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Rethinking the Cold War volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (383 pages)
Description
The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes' will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis. During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 291 pages)
Description
The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series has been at the forefront of analysing challenges facing the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The book examined the state of play in Asian economic integration, the region's future, and the role it might play in defending the global system that has underwritten its historic rise. Asia has the potential to stand as a bulwark against...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 289 pages) : illustrations, tables
Description
The world's developed economies are experiencing a sharp backlash against globalisation, and it appears to be contagious. Will Asia catch it next? Asia has seen spectacular growth in recent decades. It has benefited substantially from global trade, finance, openness and the rules-based international order. But much of the growth Asia has enjoyed has not been shared. It has not been inclusive growth. Inequality in Asia is among the highest in the world....
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 390 pages) : illustrations
Description
"The book discusses these important issues by focusing on China's long-term pattern of growth and employment, demographic shifts and rural-urban migration, its agricultural trade and local elections, China's banking sector reform and its fiscal sustainability, China's interaction with the international economy and global imbalances, its industrialisation and its resource and energy demand, was well as its environmental concerns."--Publisher's description...
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Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 online resource (631 pages).
Description
This book, part of the series Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, explores issues in normative economics and policy advisory practices. Edited by Erwin von Beckerath, Herbert Giersch, and Heinz Lampert, it compiles discussions from the 1962 conference in Bad Homburg. The work examines the theoretical foundations and practical applications of normative economics, emphasizing the role of economists in shaping rational policies amidst competing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
In a time of pandemics, war and climate change, fostering knowledge that transcends disciplinary boundaries is more important than ever. Economic history is one of the world's oldest interdisciplinary fields, with its prosperity dependent on connection and relevance to disciplinary behemoths economics and history. Australian Economic History is the first history of an interdisciplinary field in Australia, and the first to set the field's progress...
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Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
Der vorliegende Sammelband enthält Referate und Korreferate, die auf den Jahrestagungen 2001 und 2002 des Ausschusses für Entwicklungsländer des Vereins für Socialpolitik in Heidelberg und Berlin gehalten wurden. In den Beiträgen werden neuere Ansätze der entwicklungsökonomischen Forschung diskutiert, angewendet oder weiterentwickelt. Bei diesen Ansätzen handelt es sich vor allem um die Nutzung allgemeiner wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 304 pages : illustrations, tables
Description
"The Jingshan Report is a collection of research papers on key issues for China's financial opening, including reform of the RMB exchange rate regime, management of cross-border capital flows and financial support for the Belt and Road Initiative. Authored by leading experts in the relevant fields, the report examines the evolution, current status and problems with the financial opening policy over the past four decades, and puts forward policy recommendations...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can socialism work now when it has never worked before? In this pathbreaking book, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza argues that the socialism advanced today by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar and Elizabeth Warren is very different from the socialism of Lenin, Mao and Castro....
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)
Description
"'The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents' disputes the practical value of the shallow, all-encompassing, dogmatic, economic fundamentalism espoused by policy elites in recent public policy debates, along with their gross simplifications and sacred rules. Economics cannot provide a convincing overarching theory of government action or of social action more generally. Furthermore, mainstream economics fails to get to grips...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : color map.
Description
The slower growth of the Chinese economy in the aftermath of the pandemic has prompted the Chinese Government to adopt measures to boost domestic consumption and deepen structural reform, with the effectiveness of such policies beginning to be felt. However, China still faces challenges that will affect its growth dynamics down the track. These include the slowdown of its real estate sector, the complex internal and external environments for macroeconomic...
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Pub. Date
[2018], ©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
How can South Africa diversify its industrial sector so that it is less dependent on mineral exports, increases labour absorption and reduces unemployment? This book sheds more light on the structure of South Africa's economy, its industrial sector and inter-sectoral linkages by simulating an economic geography model of the vertical linkages type, by testing linkage strength econometrically and by analysing industrial policy's role in shaping its...





