Fedralism and economic reform

international perspectives

This collection focuses on the ways in which federalism has affected and been affected by economic reform, especially global integration. The editors and contributors focus in particular on the political economy of institutional and economic change - how the division of authority between national and subnational ...

Beyond the regulation approach

putting capitalist economies in their place

Table of Contents: 1 Early regulation approaches in retrospect and prospect 2 Fordism and post-Fordism 3 Fordism, post-Fordism and the capitalist state 4 Neo-conservative regimes and the transition to post-Fordism 5 A regulationist re-reading of East Asian newly industrializing economies : from peripheral Fordism to exportism ...

Sufficient reason

volitional pragmatism and the meaning of economic institutions

In the standard analysis of economic institutions - which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations) - economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley challenges these theories, arguing instead ...

Post-keynesian principles of economic policy

Post-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that ...

The Elgar Companion to public economics

empirical public economics

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students but ...

Procesos de Mercado

Revista Europea de Economía Política, Vol. III, Nº 21, año 2006

SUMARIO: Artículos # Enrico Colombatto: Law, Economics and the Institutional Approach to Development and Transition: towards an Evolutionary Perspective # Albert Esplugas: El monopolio de las ideas: Contra la Propiedad Intelectual # Philipp Bagus: Five Common Errors about Deflation # Ignacio de León: El Espejismo de la Eficiencia Económica ...

Institutions, development, and economic growth

Leading international economists discuss how and why institutions influence growth. This work talks about the empirical and theoretical studies that provide an overview and contribute to the current research. The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed ...

Taxation, wage bargaining, and unemployment

Why were European economies able to pursue the simultaneous commitment to full employment and welfare state expansion during the first decades of the postwar period and why did this virtuous relationship break down during recent decades? This book provides an answer to this question, by ...

Principled agents?

the political economy of good government

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own? These questions and ...

Understanding poverty

This volume presents 28 essays on poverty by some of the leading experts in the field of economics. The book is divided into three sections, beginning with an essay about how poverty is measured. The first section is about the causes of poverty and its ...

Corporate governance lessons from transition economy reforms

"Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms" explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform. To date, most sophisticated theoretical work on corporate governance has focused on advanced market economies. In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have ...

Privatizing China

inside China´s stock markets

Since the U.S. established diplomatic relations with China in 1979, the most striking development in that nation has been the evolution of its stock markets - in an economy still dominated by state ownership. The corporatization of state-owned enterprises and the listing of their shares ...

First world dreams

Mexico since 1989

Mexicans have long dreamt of the First World, and in recent times it has landed there with a thud. Under the guise of globalization, Mexico opened its borders, reformed its political system, and transformed its economy. The impacts have been paradoxical. A vibrant civil society ...

From Pinochet to the "Third Way"

neoliberalism and social transformation in Chile

INDEX: Acknowledgements.Introduction: Neoliberalism and Social Transformation. The Rise and Crisis of the Chilean. National-Developmentalist State. Chicago to the Rescue - The Emergence of Neoliberalism in Chile. Neoliberalism and Creative Destruction, 1973-1989. From Retrenchment to the 'Seven Modernisations' - The Great Transformation of Welfare Institutions. Towards a ...

La economía política de lo posible

Este libro parte de la imagen de América Latina como la tierra prometida y analiza la trama de una historia económica siempre orientada hacia paradigmas que pudieran liberar a la región de todos sus males. El autor se propone demostrar que, lejos de las utopías ...

A brief history of Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution ...

Capitalismo, globalidad y ecología cultural

hacia una economía política de la mundialización

INDICE: Prólogo. Introducción. Orientaciones teóricas y epistemológicas. Producciones mundializadas: café y olivar. Ecología política, agencias y desarrollo. ¿Para qué una economía política de la mundialización?. Bibliografía.

El rol de las instituciones en las grandes transformaciones del sector industrial en China durante la reforma económica

El objetivo principal de esta obra es analizar el impacto de las transformaciones institucionales del Estado y del mercado en el sector industrial durante la reforma económica en China, a la luz de la nueva economía institucional.

Neoliberalismo y sectores dominantes

tendencias globales y experiencias nacionales

Las transformaciones sociales que se registraron en las sociedades latinoamericanas en el último cuarto de siglo han sido concomitantes con cambios igualmente profundos en los sectores dominantes. La ruptura o debilitamiento, según los países, del modelo sustitutivo supuso, junto con la modificación de la composición ...

Los tormentos de la materia

La construcción de una Ecología Política latinoamericana nos parece una tarea de importancia estratégica crucial. No se trata de constituir un nuevo recorte disciplinario, una nueva "marca registrada" para abrir camino entre los saberes académicos ya constituidos. El proyecto de una Ecología Política latinoamericana supone ...