Japan's great stagnation

financial and monetary policy lessons for advanced economies

Experts on the Japanese economy examine Japan's prolonged period of economic underperformance, analyzing the ways in which the financial system, monetary policy, and international financial factors contributed to its onset and duration. After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the ...

The Oxford handbook of political economy

"The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science" is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...

Economics, politics and budgets

the political economy of fiscal consolidations in Europe

Motivated by the recent proliferation of fiscal consolidation episodes in the advent of Monetary Union, this book explains the causes and consequences of fiscal policy in Europe. This books answers three related questions - What explains the timing of fiscal adjustments? What explains their different duration ...

Money, financial instability and stabilization policy

Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy consists of original articles by leading Post Keynesians, Kaleckians and other heterodox economists from the developed and developing world.

Deuda externa y comercio mundial

momento de establecer vínculos

En la actualidad los países en desarrollo adeudan más de tres veces la cantidad que debían hace 25 años. El pago de la deuda absorbe la mayor parte de sus recursos que, en consecuencia, no pueden emplearse en reducir la pobreza, en mejorar la salud ...

National innovation, indicators and policy

This book takes stock of what is known about the process of innovation and its effects, and the policy interventions that influence both. It provides insights into future research required to support evidence-based policy-making and makes clear the need to take a systems approach to ...

Environmental economics and policy

Tom Tietenberg has written the ideal book for a policy-oriented course in environmental economics, accessible to both non-majors and majors. He begins with a brief introduction to the core theory, and then offers a series of self-contained policy chapters that allow professors great flexibility when ...

Innovation and incentives

Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. "Innovation and Incentives" provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be useful to ...

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 ...

The market way to riches

behind the myth

Mario Amendola and Jean-Luc Gaffard argue that all too often, markets and technology are treated as two magic words that will open the door to a wealth of riches. An increasing number of governments appear to be aiming for a pure market economy in order ...

The political future of social security in aging societies

A quantitative analysis of the political sustainability of social security reform in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US, with the suggestion that population aging will lead to more pension spending and that raising the retirement age is the most politically viable reform ...

Models of political economy

Models of Political Economy will introduce students to the basic methodology of political economics. It covers all core theories as well as new developments including: - decision theory - game theory - mechanism design - games of asymmetric information. Hannu Nurmi's text will prove to be invaluable to ...

New political economy of exchange rate policies and the enlargement of the Eurozone

This work examines the political economy of exchange-rate policies in the context of the eastward enlargement of the eurozone. The analysis shows that prospective members of the EMU are likely to pass on some of the incurred Maastricht costs of convergence to the current EMU-members ...

The group of 7/8

Part of Routledge's leading "Global Institutions Series", this book is a highly accessible, up-to-date introduction to the history, present and future of he G7/8 summits, exploring the role that the G8 plays and will play in global governance. Hugo Dobson examines the G8 ...

Influencia de las políticas medioambientales en los mercados eléctricos europeos

Dir José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga. El proceso de liberalización y desregulación en que se encuentran inmersos los mercados energéticos europeos y la creciente preocupación por el desarrollo sostenible, manifestada en la Cumbre de Estocolmo, son los factores que han llevado a replantear las políticas medioambientales ...

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 ...

Regaining Europe

an Economic Agenda for the 21st Century

The international economist Professor George Irvin argues that if the Euro is to survive, it needs to be run in a more sophisticated and flexible manner. Irvin believes that when the governing structures of the Euro were set up in the early 1990s, European governments ...

The role of policymakers in business cycle fluctuations

The book's central theme is that a policymaker's role is to enhance the public's ability to co-ordinate their price information, price expectations, and economic activities. This role is fulfilled when policymakers maintain inflation stability. Inflation persists less when an implicit or explicit ...

La Banca Centrale Europea

Nata nel 1998, dopo un lungo lavoro di preparazione e sancita formalmente nel Trattato di Maastricht, la Banca centrale europea è un organo indipendente e sovranazionale che ha lo straordinario potere di creare moneta e stabilire il tasso al quale questa viene data e presa ...

Monetary and wage policies in the Euro area

This book studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central ...