The size of nations

The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the ...

Evolution and procedures in Central Banking

This volume collects the proceedings from a conference on the evolution and practice of central banking sponsored by the Central Bank Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The articles and discussants# comments in this volume largely focus on two questions: the need for ...

The political economy of monetary institutions

an international organization reader

Normal;Recent analysis by political economists of monetary institution determinants in different countries has been limited by the fact that exchange rate regimes and central bank institutions are studied in isolation from each other, without examining how one institution affects the costs and benefits of ...

The economic effects of constitutions

The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy; the book is an uncompromisingly empirical sequel to their previous theoretical analysis of economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as ...

Tax policy and the economy, Volume 17, 2003

This NBER series presents current academic research in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysis without making specific policy recommendations. Volume 17 continues the series tradition of addressing topics that are relevant to current issues ...

L'ère des banques centrales

Les banques centrales évoluent... La modialisation, paradoxalement, a accru consodérablement le pouvoir et l'audience de ces institutions technocratiques, devenues des interlocuteurs majeurs des marchés. L'auter retrace les circonstances, les rèflexions et les étapes qui ont justifié et jalonné la montée en puissance des ...

La Banca Centrale Europea

La Banca Centrale Europea è ormai operativa da alcuni anni e intorno ad essa, alla sua struttura istituzionale, alle sue funzioni, agli strumenti di politica monetaria è andato sviluppandosi un articolato dibattito, che ha coinvolto sia giuristi sia economisti. Si tratta di una discussione a ...

L'euro, une monnaie sans politique?

Enfin un ouvrage clair, pédagogique et pas manichéen, sur l'euro et les politiques économiques menées en Europe! L'auteur traite sérieusement des arcanes du pacte de stabilité, de la BCE, du déclin démographique, etc. A conseiller à tout honnête homme (ou femme) qui s ...

European welfare production

institutional configuration and distributional outcome

European Welfare Production is of interest to researchers in quality of life research, economists and political scientists interested in welfare regimes and comparative social welfare research, and administrators in social planning and social work. The aim of this book is to identify the variation in ...

Political economy of transition and development

institutions, politics and policies

The economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe has now entered its second decade. Although the post-communist countries shared many similarities at the outset of the transition, their economic and political experiences have been strongly divergent. Some countries succeeded in stabilizing their economies ...

El entorno económico

cómo entenderlo y anticipar su evolución

El concepto de entorno económico abarca todo aquello que nos rodea y nos afecta o que puede llegar a hacerlo de algún modo. Su apreciación no es sencilla, dado que existen multitud de variables que se relacionan entre sí, cuyos cambios provocan reacciones en cadena ...

Designing inclusion

tools to raise low-end pay and employment in private enterprise

An inclusion failure has become highly visible in the advanced economies of the West. Too many able-bodied people are subject to chronic joblessness and, when employed, cannot earn a living remotely like that in the mainstream of the population. One policy response has been to ...

The emergence of entrepreneurship policy

governance, start-ups, and growth in the U.S. knowledge economy

This volume seeks to catalyze the emergence of a new field of policy studies: entrepreneurship policy. Practical experience and academic research both point to the central role of entrepreneurs in the process of economic growth and to the importance of public policy in creating the ...

Interest and prices

foundations of a theory of monetary policy

With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money- growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well ...

An evolutionary approach to social welfare

In social life, the adoption of norms and values typically help in settling potential conflicts of interest to the mutual benefit of all. While not evident immediately, social norms and values play a crucial role in the theory of social choice INDICE Part One: Evolution ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in EMU

interactions and coordination

Europe#s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is unlike any other case of monetary unification in history. Here, sovereign countries retain a large degree of fiscal autonomy while monetary policy is centralised and entrusted to an independent central bank - the European Central Bank - with a ...

Políticas y problemas sociales en la sociedad neoliberal

la otra década infame (I)

El libro presenta un análisis político-cultural del proceso público de producción de los argumentos, de las definiciones de problemas sociales y de las consecuentes #soluciones# adoptadas durante la década del #90. Es decir, de la política social entendida como la acción estatal en la que ...

Does environmental policy work?

the theory and practice of outcomes assessment

At the beginning of the 21st century, a growing struggle has arisen between those who would like to repeal existing environmental policy and those who would like to see greater environmental protection. On both sides, however, many of the arguments remain grounded in ideology. This ...

Constitutional political economy

By bringing, from a variety of divese and broadly scattered sources, papers and chapters on constitutional political economy, Stefan Voigt has not only redered a greata service to scholars working on the subject, he has at the same time documented how the issues though varied ...

Economía de las artes y política cultural

La actividad artística y cultural tiene importantes repercusiones y condicionantes económicos y sociales que atañen a los poderes públicos. El Estado debe mantener un compromiso constante a favor del arte y de la cultura, adaptándose a los cambios profundos de la sociedad.