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Cambridge University Press Global Change Regional Response
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Cambridge University Press Principles of CostBenefit Analysis for Developing Countries
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Cambridge University Press Quantitative Aspects of PostWar European Economic Growth
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Cambridge University Press Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets
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Cambridge University Press Negotiation and the Global Information Economy
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Uneven Development Thailands Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective
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Cambridge University Press The Ethics of Assistance
Book SynopsisAs globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates.Trade Review'… contributions by many of the most important authors currently writing on the topics it covers …' Ethical Perspectives'This is a useful collection of thirteen original essays by accomplished philosophers on a subject of great importance: the problem of international ethical duties, especially the duties of people in well-off countries to improve the well-being of people in poor nations.' Journal of UtilitasTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction Deen K. Chatterjee; Part I. The Ethics of Distance: 2. Outsiders: our obligation to those beyond our borders Peter Singer; 3. Moral limits on the demands of beneficence Richard J. Arneson; 4. The new problem of distance in morality F. M. Kamm; 5. Absence and the unfond heart: why people are less giving than they might be Judith Lichtenberg; Part II. Communities and Obligations: 6. Moral closeness and world community Richard W. Miller; 7. National responsibility and international justice David Miller; Part III. The Law of Peoples: 8. Women and theories of global justice: our need for new paradigms Martha Nussbaum; 9. Human rights as foreign policy imperatives Erin Kelly; 10. Human rights and the law of peoples Charles R. Beitz; Part IV. Rights, Responsibilities and Institutional Reforms: 11. Thickening convergence: human rights and cultural diversity Henry Shue; 12. Global justice: whose obligations? Onora O'Neill; 13. 'Assisting' the global poor Thomas W. Pogge.
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Cambridge University Press Growing Public Volume 1 The Story
Book SynopsisGrowing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Lindert argues that, contrary to the intuition of many economists and the ideology of many politicians, social spending has contributed to, rather than inhibited, economic growth.Trade Review'… a monumental history of two centuries of social spending …' The Economist'… an important new book …' Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek'Peter Lindert has written a dazzling book. He takes on one of the grand topics of economics - the rise of social spending-and offers us a remarkable combination of new data, historical insight, political analysis, and economic assessment. Amazingly, Lindert comes up with fresh, convincing, and important insights on issues that have been debated for decades. Two of Lindert's major conclusions are that the spread of democracy has historically played a pivotal role in the rise of social expenditures; and that social spending has not gravely weakened economic incentives and long-term economic growth, despite the drumbeat of criticisms from free-market devotees. Indeed Lindert concludes that 'the net national costs of social transfers, and of the taxes that finance them, are essentially zero'. This powerful book will be widely read and debated for many years to come.' Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University'What determines social spending, also known as public education, also known as social security, also known as taking from the rich and giving to the poor? This question is the subject of much theoretical and empirical speculation and some moderately detailed previous work. Yet this magnificent summa by Peter Lindert blows away the field. He probes the historical and comparative rise of social spending in today's OECD countries and derives many new insights into the classic themes of social spending and elite behavior, democracy, inequality, religion, and ethnic divisions. He draws out the implications of his careful analysis for the future of the Third World and First alike. A must-read for anyone interested in big government, political economy, helping the poor, or simply the fate of human societies.' William Easterly, New York University'Peter Lindert has given us a treatise on the economic and political forces driving social spending and of the effects of the welfare state that sweeps over time, over nations, and over disciplines. It is simultaneously comparative-political-economic history, demography, applied econometrics, political theory, and political economy. While few will agree with all of the often-surprising answers he gives to the most fundamental questions regarding the existence and the effects of public social welfare policies, no one will suggest that they are not bold and provocative. Growing Public is a most readable and insightful and, yes, irreverent volume that will be discussed by all concerned with these front-page issues.' Robert Haveman, John Bascom Emeritus Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison'What determines how much governments spend on health, welfare, education, and social security? What effect does this social spending have on economic growth? Peter Lindert gives new answers to these big questions, in a lucid and engagingly written book that ranges across the globe and from the eighteenth century up to the current day. His surprising finding is that social spending does not slow growth, at least in western democracies, and his gem of a book will be essential reading for historians, economists, political scientists, and modern-day policy makers.' Philip T. Hoffman, Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science, California Institute of Technology'Growing Public offers economic historians, policy analysts, development gurus, and the general public - all of whom have reason to be deeply concerned about the growth implications of fiscal policy - the most comprehensive historical and econometric examination of the essential value of public expenditures I have seen anywhere. His lens of inquiry encompasses everything from early modern European charitable activities to the apex of the late-twentieth-century welfare state, from the 'Old Poor Law' to the rise of public schooling, from old-age pensions in the west to social transfers in the developing world. By the conclusion of this tour, the reader is left with a clear view of a world in which public expenditures on human welfare not only do no harm to national growth trajectories, but one in which investment in the infrastructure of human capital formation is itself growth-enhancing. This core finding of Lindert's exhaustive research will appear radical, perhaps even heretical, to a generation trained in neo-classical economics, but he arrives at it by employing the best of the theory and methodology of that discipline. As such it will be hard to refute.' Anne E. C. McCants, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'Lindert puts forward a compelling case … his conclusions are often illuminating and controversial … Lindert has uncovered new and tougher areas of debate as much as he has helped deal a telling blow to others.' Transfer'These volumes are the output of a remarkably ambitious project by a senioe economic historian. … these volumes deserve to be very widely read. They provide a tremendous historical context for present policy debates and are full of usefully provocative claimes while also providing a wealth of detail on the evolution of social spending.' Journal of Economic InequalityTable of ContentsPart I. Overview: 1. Patterns and puzzles; 2. Findings; Part II. The Rise of Social Spending: 3. Poor relief before 1880; 4. Interpreting the patterns of early poor relief; 5. The rise of mass public schooling before 1914; 6. Public schooling in the twentieth century: what happened to American leadership?; 7. Explaining the rise of social transfers since 1880; Part III. Prospects for Social Transfers: 8. The public pension crisis; 9. Social transfers in the second and third worlds; Part IV. What Effects on Economic Growth?: 10. Keys to the free-lunch puzzle; 11. On the well-known demise of the Swedish Welfare State; 12. How the keys were made: democracy and cost control.
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Cambridge University Press Growing Public
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Cambridge University Press Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
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Cambridge University Press A World Without Walls Freedom Development Free Trade and Global Governance Author Mike Moore Oct2007
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Cambridge University Press StateDirected Development Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery
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Cambridge University Press The Third Revolution in the Chinese Countryside Trade and Development
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Cambridge University Press Class Struggle or Family Struggle
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Cambridge University Press Growing Out of the Plan
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Cambridge University Press The World Food Outlook
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Cambridge University Press East Asian Trade after the Uruguay Round
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Cambridge University Press Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin
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Cambridge University Press A House Dividing
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Cambridge University Press Privatisation Politics and Economic Performance in Hungary
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Cambridge University Press Thinking about Development
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Property Rights
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Cambridge University Press Agricultural Reform in China
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Cambridge University Press Managing Capital Flows and Exchange Rates
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Growth of Singapore
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Cambridge University Press Forging Reform in China
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Cambridge University Press Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries
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Cambridge University Press Building a Modern Financial System
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Cambridge University Press The Growth of the Italian Economy 18201960 44 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 44
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Cambridge University Press Marketization and Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Productivity Convergence Theory and Evidence Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Indonesian Economy
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Cambridge University Press Structural Adjustment Reconsidered
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Cambridge University Press The Growth of the Italian Economy 18201960
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Cambridge University Press APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism Cambridge AsiaPacific Studies
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Cambridge University Press How to Spend 50 Billion to Make the World a
Book SynopsisEdited by Bjørn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions discusses the ten most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition, migration, sanitation and clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers.Trade Review'… it is refreshing to read a book that is about a concrete action rather than simply talking.' New Statesman'… makes for good reading on subjects that I encourage all my students to reflect on.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction: what should we do first? Bjorn Lomborg; 1. Meeting the challenge of global warming William R. Cline; Opponents' views Robert Mendelsohn and Alan S. Manne; 2. Communicable diseases Anne Mills and Sam Shillcutt; Opponents' views David B. Evans and Jacques van der Gaag; 3. The challenge of reducing the global incidence of civil war Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler; Opponents' views Michael D. Intriligator and Tony Addison; 4. Towards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education Lant Pritchett; Opponents' views T. Paul Schultz and Ludger Wößmann; 5. The challenge of poor governance and corruption Susan Rose-Ackerman; Opponent's views Jens Christopher Andvig and Jean Cartier-Bresson; 6. Hunger and malnutrition Jere R. Behrman, Harold Alderman and John Hoddinott; Opponent's views Peter Svedberg and Simon Appleton; 7. Population and migration Philip Martin; Opponent's views Mark Rosenzweig and Roger Böhning; 8. The water challenge Frank Rijsberman; Opponent's views John J. Boland and Henry Vaux, Jr.; 9. Subsidies and trade barriers Kym Anderson; Opponent's views Jan Pronk and Arvind Panagariya.
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Cambridge University Press Games in Economic Development
Book SynopsisGames in Economic Development examines the roots of poverty and prosperity through the lens of elementary game theory, illustrating how patterns of human interaction can lead to vicious cycles of poverty as well as virtuous cycles of prosperity. This book shows how both social norms and carefully designed institutions can help shape the 'rules of the game', making better outcomes in a game possible for everyone involved. The book is entertaining to read, it can be accessed with little background in development economics or game theory. Its chapters explore games in natural resource use; education; coping with risk; borrowing and lending; technology adoption; governance and corruption; civil conflict; international trade; and the importance of networks, religion, and identity, illustrating concepts with numerous anecdotes from recent world events. Comes complete with an appendix, explaining the basic ideas in game theory used in the book.Trade Review'Games in Economic Development presents a unified view of the difference between the rich countries and the third world. The rich countries have institutions that counteract many different co-ordination failures that plague the third world. Bruce Wydick explains those failures theoretically, and he illustrates them beautifully with many colorful and convincing examples. Some of these are from his own experience in Guatemala. Yes, this is what economic development is all about.' George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2000, University of California at Berkeley'Drawing from a voluminous literature, this book illustrates a number of important economic concepts with simple game theory examples. The tone is student-friendly, the presentation insightful and entertaining … an excellent companion to courses in the economics of development and institutional change, and relevant reading for development practitioners.' Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University'Game theory explains how rational, far-seeing individuals left to their own devices may fail to achieve social rationality. The emergence of game theory shifted the focus of development economics from relationships of production to relationships among people. Bruce Wydick's book provides a lively introduction to the game-theoretic perspective on economic development. Telling examples explain why public school teachers in poor countries are so often absent, why deworming programs that could make everyone better off fail, why rational farmers may adopt the wrong technology, and how corruption becomes entrenched. A broad and up-to-date survey of patterns of interaction that contribute to the persistence of poverty or create an escape hatch.' Karla Hoff, Senior Research Economist, The World Bank'In Games in Economic Development, Bruce Wydick begins to bring to life the academics of game theory with the practicalities of economic development in the field. The work provides practitioners with a fresh and relevant framework for evaluating dilemmas faced in the field of economic development and comprehending options for interventions. It breaches the divide between academic theory and practical development issues in a way that sheds understanding and clarity to the discussion of the subject.' Jim Reiff, CEO - Growing Opportunity Finance (India), member of the Opportunity International Network'This a clear, engaging and thoughtful text. But in Games in Economic Development, Wydick also makes an important and controversial argument. The fundamental origins of development and underdevelopment are not to be found in variations in natural or human resources or in exploitative international economic interactions, but rather in the institutions and social norms that have facilitated economic growth in some societies and undermined it in others. Wydick makes this case primarily through the use of theoretical arguments, explaining and using the tools of simple game theory to shed light on wide range of vital questions in development economics. This is an exciting intellectual program, well-summarized in this book.' Chris Udry, Yale UniversityTable of Contents1. Economic development, interdependence, and incentives; 2. Games; 3. Development traps and coordination games; 4. Rural poverty, development, and the environment; 5. Risk, solidarity networks, and reciprocity; 6. Understanding agrarian institutions; 7. Savings, credit, and microfinance; 8. Social learning and technology adoption; 9. Property rights, governance, and corruption; 10. Conflict, violence, and development; 11. Social capital; 12. The political economy of trade and development.
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Geography of Innovation
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Cambridge University Press Everyday Politics of the World Economy
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Cambridge University Press Chinas Great Economic Transformation
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Cambridge University Press Bangladesh Politics Economy and Civil Society
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Cambridge University Press Changing Lanes in China Foreign Direct Investment Local Governments and Auto Sector Development
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Cambridge University Press Negotiation and the Global Information Economy
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Cambridge University Press Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Uneven Development
Book SynopsisWhy do some middle-income countries diversify their economies but fail to upgrade? Focusing on institutional capacities and political pressures, the book analyzes Thai development in comparison with both weaker and stronger competitors, revealing that the institutional capacities necessary for economic upgrades are political in origin.Trade Review'Rick Doner has long argued that the study of development requires a close consideration of how industries evolve. In this important new book on Thailand, he combines his deep knowledge of the country with compelling theoretical arguments about the institutional determinants of upgrading and long-run growth.' Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego'Why do some countries make transitions to higher levels of technology and economic development and others fail? Doner's important study tries to answer this question … Doner's book is a fascinating methodological encounter for he knows Thailand well while skilfully locating Thailand's development in comparative perspective. This is good area studies and good political economy. Doner's book is well-structured, remarkably logical, and theoretically sound. While the author is fluent in his theoretical perspectives, he writes about technological upgrading and economic development in an exceptionally clear manner, making the book accessible to a wide audience.' Kevin Hewison, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'This book is a tour-de-force. It tackles some of the biggest questions in comparative political economy with both innovative theorizing and rich empirical work. Whether one's interest is in the political economy of development, comparative political institutions, or the political economy of Southeast Asia, this book is a must read.' Allen Hicken, University of Michigan'This book charts exciting new directions in the study of the political economy of development. In recent decades, development stalled in a range of middle income countries, and scholars have been trying to figure out why. Doner's insightful book gives us a convincing answer. Doner first unpacks the concept of development to isolate recent challenges of upgrading and then shows how overcoming these challenges requires enhanced institutional capacity that in turn depends on a relatively rare set of political conditions. The book is a model for combining broad theory and penetrating empirical analysis. Anyone concerned with the problems of inequality, upgrading, and development in the 21st century will want to read this book.' Ben Schneider, Northwestern University'This is a landmark book. It synthesizes the large literature on structural change and upgrading, and analyses several national economies and several sectors to show what determines progress in both. The result is a model of institutional and political analysis, which combines case studies with systematic comparisons. While Thailand is the main focus, the book is directly relevant to a large number of countries which are stuck in the 'middle-income trap', whose success in breaking out of the trap is crucial for a more equal distribution of world income.' Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics'This book is spot on with explaining the political economy of economic development in Thailand. Unlike neo-classical attempts to provide a series of simple but painful steps that countries should pursue but with a framework that is neither built around an active state … nor is equipped with epistemologically sound propositions à la Washington Consensus, Doner's explication meets the requirements of theorising as his framework is testable and is substantiated with concrete evidence. … this is an outstanding book … makes a convincing contribution to explaining how developing states can pursue upgrading policies even under circumstances of external vulnerabilities. … The three empirical cases provide excellent evidence to support the illuminating framework advanced by the book. It should be a must read for government leaders, scholars and students.' Journal of Contemporary AsiaTable of Contents1. The challenge of uneven development; 2. Puzzles of Thai development in comparative perspective; 3. Development tasks, institutions, and politics; 4. Origins and consequences of Thailand's intermediate states; 5. Sugar; 6. Textiles; 7. Automobiles; 8. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africas Democracies African Studies
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Cambridge University Press Trade and Poverty Reduction in the AsiaPacific Region Case Studies and Lessons from Lowincome Communities
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Cambridge University Press Latin American Development Priorities Costs and Benefits
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