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Book SynopsisThe OECD includes the richest nations in the world. It issues recommendations on economic and social policies. Is its counsel on welfare state policies coherent? And is it followed by member states in Western Europe? These are the guiding questions of this book, which is a first to deal with such issues.The OECD and European Welfare States comprises 14 country studies considering OECD recommendations and their implementation in Western European welfare states, an analysis of the internal processes in the OECD, a theoretical introduction and a concluding comparative chapter. The overall results show a large degree of consistency in OECD analyses and recommendations, though little efficacy is revealed. The authors of this book have compiled a major contribution to the analysis of the impact of international organisations on national welfare states, widening the scope of traditional analyses of national welfare state development.This edited book will be of special interest to those researchers and graduate students in the fields of international business, welfare state policy and comparative politics. It will also appeal to policy makers concerned with the OECD or welfare state development.Trade Review'. . . thanks to Klaus Armingeon and Michelle Beyeler the discussion on the role of the OECD in welfare policy has at last found a sound empirical basis. This is a very welcome contribution to a debate that is too often characterised by big claims and little evidence. . . this volume is highly recommended to all people interested in understanding the development and reform of the welfare state.' -- Fabrizio Gilardi, Swiss Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: A Comparative Study of the OECD and European Welfare States 2. Multilateral Surveillance and the OECD: Playing the Idea Game 3. The OECD as a Scientific Authority? The OECD’s Influence on Danish Welfare Policies 4. Finland: Considering OECD Guidelines but Within National Institutional Settings 5. Norway: An Amenable Member of the OECD 6. International Organisations and Welfare States at Odds? The Case of Sweden 7. Belgium: Increasing Critique by the OECD 8. France: Moving Reluctantly in the OECD’s Direction 9. The Netherlands: How OECD Ideas are Slowly Creeping In 10. Too Many Rivals? The OECD’s Influence on German Welfare Policies 11. Little Contention: Switzerland and the OECD 12. OECD Views on Greek Welfare: Not European Enough 13. Italy’s Adaptation Under External Pressures: Whose Influence? 14. The OECD and the Reformulation of Spanish Social Policy: A Combined Search for Expansion and Rationalisation 15. Mutual Admiration? OECD Advice to the UK 16. Ireland: Disinterested Commentary, But How Effective? 17. OECD and National Welfare State Development Index

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Book SynopsisThis significant new book provides a succinct overview of the essential policy issues surrounding capital liberalization. The book compares the experiences of transition economies in Europe with those of advanced nations, allowing the reader to examine the changing international economic and financial environment within which transition countries have to liberalize.The book first deals with the critical issues concerning liberalization, including sequencing and financial market development. The authors move on to present an overview of the early liberalization experiences of advanced economies and East-Asian countries. This provides the context for a series of chapters reviewing liberalization progress in transition economies, in which international experts and senior officials analyze their own countries' experiences. The authors also emphasise the importance of financial market reform and the construction of a sound institutional framework if countries are to attract and productively use capital inflows. A stable financial system, whilst not infallible, is also crucial for minimizing the risk of financial crises of the type experienced by a number of countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The comprehensive scope of the subject matter and international contributions from a range of different perspectives will ensure this book is warmly received by academics and researchers with an interest in EU accession, transition economics and financial market reform. It will also serve as a useful guide to governments involved in capital liberalization in other parts of the world such as Latin America and Asia.Trade Review'This collection provides an excellent account of the diverging ways countries in varying parts of the world went about liberalizing capital flows. Case studies of transition countries are set against the background of more general studies analysing the Asian and Latin American experience, as well as the earlier liberalization processes in economically advanced countries. The reader gets a lively picture of the many pitfalls that beset the road to full capital liberalization and will realise that there is no single best way to liberalize. The authors strike one as unprejudiced and far from dogmatic, out to learn from experience rather than trying to impose some particular point of view.' -- Hans Visser, VU University, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Capital Account Liberalization in the Transition Phase: An Overview Part I: Policy Issues and Earlier Experiences 2. Advanced Country Experiences with Capital Account Liberalization 3. Sequencing Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Sector Stability 4. Managing Capital Account Liberalization: Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea and Thailand 5. Recent Codes-Based Liberalization in the OECD 6. Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Sector Development in Transition Countries Part II: Transition Country Experiences 7. Capital Account Liberalization in Ukraine 8. Capital Account Liberalization Experiences in Armenia 9. Capital Flows and Capital Account Liberalization in Croatia 10. The Liberalization of the Capital Account in Hungary: Experiences and Lessons 11. Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Market Reform in the Republic of Moldova 12. Capital Account Liberalization in Poland References Index

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Book SynopsisNetworks provide the foundation for the functioning of our societies and economies. Their study has had a long tradition in such fields as engineering, operations research, management science and computer science. More recently, the disciplines of finance and economics have come to be rich and fascinating sources of network-based problems and applications. This focused and refereed volume of contributions from leading international scholars provides a wealth of innovations in the study of financial and economic networks. The volume presents entirely new results: the conceptualization of the stock market as a graph, the evolution of financial systems as networks, the incorporation of electronic transactions in international finance (from a network perspective), new formalisms for the study of supply chains (as fluid models and in an network economic framework) and new applications of agent-based computational economics trade networks with intermediaries and worker-employer networks. Finally, trade networks in web-based caching are introduced. Financial applications covered include: portfolio optimization with transaction costs, integrated pension and corporate planning, evolutionary financial networks, international finance and electronic transactions as well as hedging instruments for transportation networks. Innovative approaches to economic networks are developed in the context of supply chain and distribution networks, a variety of trade (including web-based caching) networks and even worker-employer networks.A major addition to this exciting and important subject, Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks will be an invaluable resource for economists and the networks community, as well as researchers and students in computational economics and finance, operations research, management science, applied mathematics and computer science.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Financial and Economic Networks: An Overview Part I: Financial Networks 2. On Structural Properties of the Market Graph 3. Multistage Stochastic Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis with Transaction Costs 4. A Stochastic Network Approach for Integrating Pension and Corporate Financial Planning 5. Variational Inequalities for Evolutionary Financial Equilibrium 6. The Growing Importance of Networks in Finance and its Effects on Competition 7. International Financial Networks with Electronic Transactions 8. Using Financial Options to Hedge Transportation Capacity in a Deregulated Rail Industry Part II: Economic Networks 9. A Supply Chain Network Economy: Modeling and Qualitative Analysis 10. Applications of Fluid Modeling in Distribution Systems 11. An Agent-Based Evolutionary Trade Network Simulation 12. Evolution of Worker–Employer Networks and Behaviors Under Alternative Non-Employment Benefits: An Agent-Based Computational Study 13. Capacity Provision Networks: A Technology Framework and Economic Analysis of Web Cache Trading Hubs Index

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Book SynopsisMany theoretical and empirical analyses have been put forward to explain currency crises, but this book is unique in providing an extensive perspective and a comprehensive view of the field. Andre Fourcans and Raphael Franck assert that models concerning the outbreak and the propagation of currency crises share many similarities and may therefore be studied together. Theoretical developments in the currency crises literature lead to three distinct types of models. The authors focus on these first, second and third-generation models of currency crises and also discuss the role of the international financial system in preventing currency crises.Appealing to graduate students, academics and researchers in international economics, this book is a must have for those interested in learning about currency crises and the evolution of currency crises research.Trade Review'This book is a valuable contribution to the literature and it deserves the attention of those interested in the evolution of the currency crisis literature.' -- Ferda Donmez, Ankara University, TurkeyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: First-Generation Models of Currency Crises 1. Main Assumptions of First-Generation Models 2. Aspects of the Policymaker’s Behaviour 3. Extensions of First-Generation Models Part II: Second-Generation Models of Currency Crises 4. Self-fulfilling Expectations and the Outbreak of Currency Crises 5. Self-fulfilling Expectations and Currency Crisis Contagion 6. The Relevance of Second-Generation Models Part III: Third-Generation Models of Currency Crises 7. Economic Policy Tradeoffs and the Outbreak of Currency Crises 8. Deteriorated Fundamentals and Currency Crisis Contagion 9. Deteriorated Fundamentals and Speculators’ Expectations Part IV: Currency Crises and the International Financial System 10. The Spread of Currency Crises in Emerging Countries from 1997 to 1999: A Case Study 11. Currency Crises and Exchange Rate Regimes 12. The Role of International Financial Institutions References Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, The Social Institutions of Capitalism illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange.The editors bring together novel contributions from fields as diverse as economics, evolutionary game theory, contract law, business ethics, moral philosophy and anthropology to offer multifaceted but subtly intertwined perspectives on fundamental questions concerning human cooperation.This interdisciplinary book, with articles written by academics who are widely known and respected in their respective fields, will be of great value to those interested in political theory, moral philosophy and business ethics.Trade Review'Heugens, van Oosterhout and Vromen have pulled together a diverse set of ideas around a common theme, social contract theory, that provides a useful underpinning for our ideas about what makes societies work in the ways that they do. Rather than attempting to integrate ideas from scholars of game theory, contract law, organizational theory, economic philosophy and business ethics, moral, and political philosophy, they outline a common framework on which these disparate ideas all cohere. Fundamentally, the editors suggest that for a social contract to be practical and workable, we as people living in societies have to agree to the underlying values and norms within a particular social contract as rational and reasonable agents. This type of synthesis provides a helpful framework for understanding what the limits and boundaries of social contract theory are and should be useful to thinkers in all of the domains covered by the authors in the book.' -- Sandra Waddock, Boston College, US'I have read the introduction of The Social Institutions of Capitalism with great pleasure. This book about contractarian theories provides deep insights into the foundations of economic systems and organizations like firms. Fundamental questions about why individuals would accept authority, about the behavioural assumptions in modern economic theory and about the foundation of the institutional fabric of society are very profoundly discussed by leading experts in the field.' -- John Groenewegen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Social Contract Theories: E Pluribus Unum? 2. Stable Social Contracts 3. The Relational Constitution of Contractual Agreement 4. The Foundations of Trust 5. Economics and the Social Contract 6. Social Contracts, Sic et Non 7. Sources of Normativity: Reflectivity versus Social Contracting 8. Justice-Conventionalism, Justice-Platonism and the Social Contract Index

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Book SynopsisHuman Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement.In particular, the book focuses on the forces underlying long-lasting growth in East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs). Drawing from the experiences of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, it questions whether public policy can contribute to removing barriers towards accumulation of wealth, and if so, what development policy should be put in place to remedy the existing distortions or market failure problems.Theoretical and empirical analyses are also used to broach other important issues, such as: Why do some economies experience growth while others decline? What are the major determinants of long-term growth and development? Is human capital the main driving force? Does international trade play a crucial role? This book will appeal to those with an interest in development and public policy.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction: A Quick Reference to Growth Theory Part I: Human Capital 2. Market Structure and Innovation Revisited: Endogenous Productivity, Training and Market Shares 3. Human Capital Formation and Patterns of Growth with Multiple Equilibria 4. On the Relationship Between Fertility and Public Education in Different Stages of Development 5. Productivity Growth and Catch-up in Less-developed Economies Part II: Trade 6. Total Factor Productivity and the Catching-up Process 7. Indeterminacy in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of International Trade 8. Evaluating the Quantitative Effects of Import Restrictions – An Almost Neoclassical Benchmark 9. Innovation in a Shrinking World Part III: Public Policy 10. Long-run Effects of Financial Policy in an Endogenously Growing Economy 11. Credit Rationing, Public Borrowing and Endogenous Growth 12. Government Expenditure and Social Status in a Two-sector Model of Endogenous Growth 13. Economic Growth and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Taiwan: A Simultaneity Model Analysis Index

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of China since 1979 has been a hallmark in the global economy, not only in the past but also in this century. This comprehensive book provides an analytical view of the remarkable economic development of the most exciting economy in the world.China's impressive economic growth has propelled it from being one of the poorest countries in the world to becoming its third largest economy. It is a complex economy with a mix of characteristics resulting from being both a transition economy and a developing country, which also points to the challenges that it still faces. This book explains China's remarkable transformation from a centrally planned to a more market-oriented economy through examination of the institutional reforms necessary to support such marketisation and eventual global integration. Although no book will be able to be completely comprehensive given the scale of the economy and the remarkable pace of transformation over three decades, this study highlights the key areas giving an overview of the major developments in China's economy, enabling its prospects of continuing growth to be assessed.With topical discussion incorporating recent data and developments, this book will be a stimulating read for academic researchers, postgraduate students in economics, international business, Chinese and area studies, as well as anyone interested in understanding the Chinese economy.Trade Review'[T]his is a comprehensive book written in a concise and well-structured manner. . . The book is a recommended read for a wide range of academic researchers, graduate students and for anyone with a professional interest in understanding the Chinese economy.' --Blagoy Kitanov, Europe-Asia Studies'The book is a very good snapshot introduction to China and could potentially be used as a supplementary text for undergraduates in their studies on the Chinese economy or Chinese studies.' --Herb Thompson, Journal of Contemporary Asia'By examining the institutional reforms used to make the transition, Yueh provides a comprehensive and exceptionally insightful analysis of economic change in what has become the world's second biggest economy. . . Highly recommended.' --C.A. Haulman, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Economic Growth: 30 Years of Market Transition, Economic Development and Global Integration 3. Enterprises and Agriculture 4. Labour 5. Entrepreneurship 6. Banking and Finance 7. Law and Markets 8. Innovation 9. Social Coverage: Education, Pensions, Health System and Poverty 10. International Trade, Foreign Investment and the Global Economy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book unites diverse heterodox traditions in the study of endogenous money - which until now have been confined to their own academic quarters - and explores their similarities and differences from both sides of the Atlantic.Bringing together perspectives from post-Keynesians, Circuitists and the Dijon School, the book continues the tradition of Keynes's and Kalecki's analysis of a monetary production economy, emphasising the similarities between the various approaches, and expanding the analytical breadth of the theory of endogenous money. The authors open new avenues for monetary research in order to fuel a renewed interest in the nature and role of money in capitalist economies, which is, the authors argue, one of the most controversial, and therefore fascinating, areas of economics.Providing new theoretical and empirical grounds for the construction of a general, policy oriented theory of money, this thought-provoking collection will appeal to academics, researchers and students interested in monetary economics. It will also be welcomed by monetary policymakers and central bank officials.Trade Review'This is a timely book. Being on modern theories of money - essentially the study of traditions of endogenous money - it is a welcome contribution to current thinking on monetary policy. The modern central bank view on money is that the rate of interest should be manipulated by central banks to achieve an inflation target with the money supply being the "residual". Although money is in effect endogenous, there is no theory that explains its behaviour. Modern Theories of Money is a serious attempt to sharpen existing views on the issue and fill gaps in an admirable manner.' -- Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, UK and Levy Economics Institute, US'One dimension of Keynes's revolution was his insistence that money and finance must be integrated with real factors right from the start of analysis. This collection fits centrally in this tradition, as well as in the post-Keynesian approach which combines the insights of the classical political economists Marx and Sraffa with those of Keynes, Kalecki, and Pasinetti.' -- G.C. Harcourt, University of New South Wales, Australia'Contemporary orthodox economic theory notoriously lacks a viable theory of money, and hence has no means of understanding the role and significance of this key social institution within capitalism. Fortunately, there are now a number of promising heterodox theories of money that may ultimately succeed in filling the gap. Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi have provided an invaluable service to the economics profession in making available this collection of essays on modern monetary theories, including contributions by many of the most interesting writers in the field.' -- John Smithin, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Post Keynesian Monetary Approach Part II: The Theory of the Monetary Circuit Part III: The Theory of Money Emissions Part IV: Further Contributions to Monetary Analysis Index

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Book SynopsisMarket dominance - encompassing single firm dominance, overt and tacit collusion, mergers and vertical restraints - raises many complex analytical and policy issues, all of which continue to be the subject of theoretical research and policy reform. This second edition of a popular and comprehensive text extends the arguments and combines an analysis of the issues with a discussion of actual policy and case studies.This new edition addresses the recent fundamental changes in antitrust law, especially in the UK and the EU, and reviews some high profile and controversial cases such as the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger and the Microsoft monopoly. The author moves on to deal with several unresolved questions including the conflicts between trade and antitrust policy, the foreign take-over of domestic assets and extra-territorial claims made by certain countries.Market Dominance and Antitrust Policy will be of considerable value to students and scholars of economics, law and business, as well as researchers, policymakers and practitioners with an interest in competition policy and international trade.Trade Review'Overall, this volume provides a clear and thorough presentation of the issues and relevant economic theory in a rapidly evolving and important area. Highly recommended.' -- R.A. Miller, ChoiceAcclaim for the first edition: -- 'Whether for an academic or practitioner, lawyer or economist, I know of no single volume on the subject that is more comprehensive and useful than the one Utton has given us.'– C.G. Krouse, International Journal of the Economics of Business'. . . this is a very useful and informative text which provides an integrated account of the main theoretical and practical aspects of antitrust policy. It should be of value to anyone with an interest in this area of economic policy.' -- David Young, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Prefaces Part I: Analytical and Institutional Background 1. The Economic Analysis of Market Dominance 2. Market Dominance in Practice: Current Perceptions and Trends 3. The Antitrust Response: An Outline of Antitrust Policy in Europe and the United States Part II: Market Dominance: Horizontal Issues 4. The Measurement and Interpretation of Market Dominance 5. Market Conduct of Dominant Firms I 6. Market Conduct of Dominant Firms II 7. Market Dominance and Collusion 8. Horizontal Mergers and Market Dominance Part III: Market Dominance: Vertical Issues 9. Vertical Integration and Vertical Mergers 10. Market Dominance and Vertical Restraints Part IV: Priorities and Prospects for Antitrust 11. Priorities in Antitrust Policy 12. Antitrust Policy in an International Perspective References Index

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Book SynopsisAfter more than two decades of widespread hardship for most nations, what are the different paths available for them to resume steady growth and welfare? Will they actually succeed in building new growth models that meet the challenges of the present phase of internationalisation? This book attempts to answer these questions by analysing different perspectives and discussing the conditions for new national growth trajectories to emerge. The book provides conceptual tools for characterising alternative growth regimes by analysing their institutional backgrounds and political context. Unlike standard convergence theories, the authors argue that the diversity of capitalism is likely to persist as national economies adapt to the forces of globalisation. Still these national paths remain strongly conditioned by the kind of governance set up at both regional and fully international levels.The Hardship of Nations will be of great interest to undergraduates and graduates in the social sciences - economics, political sciences, sociology, geography and management - who require an overview of the debates on growth of national economies in the present stage of globalisation.Table of ContentsContents: General Introduction Benjamin Coriat, Pascal Petit and Geneviève Schméder PART I: A NEW FINANCE-LED CAPITALISM 1. The Future of Capitalism Michel Aglietta 2. The Special Position of the United States in the Finance-led Regime: How Exportable is the US Venture Capital Industry? François Chesnais 3. Moves Towards Finance-led Capitalism: The French Case Benjamin Coriat PART II: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM 4. Socio-Institutional Changes in the Post-Fordist Era Pascal Petit 5. Is the New Economy Made in America? Pascal Petit 6. To Have or to Be: A Topological Approach of the Interaction between State and Economy Bruno Théret PART III: REGIONAL PROCESSES UNDER STRAIN 7. The Institutional and Policy Weaknesses of the European Union: The Evolution of the ‘Policy Mix’ Robert Boyer 8. Disruptive Effects of Financial Deregulation: The Japanese and Korean Crises Benjamin Coriat and Patrice Geoffron 9. Argentina’s Structural Crisis Luis Miotti and Carlos Quenan 10. Convergence and Diversity in National Trajectories of Post-Socialist Transformation Bernard Chavance and Eric Magnin PART IV: GLOBAL TENSIONS 11. From the Cold War to the New International Disorder Geneviève Schméder 12. Shadow Economy and Economic Criminalisation in Transition Economies Jacques Sapir 13. Global Geography of Post-Fordism: Knowledge and Polarisation El Mouhoub Mouhoud PART V: CONCLUSION 14. Post-Fordisms in a More Globalised Capitalism Benjamin Coriat, Pascal Petit and Geneviève Schméder Index

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Book SynopsisThe use of economics to study law was pioneered by the Austrian School of Economics. The nineteenth century founders of the school believed that economics could contribute to understanding the spontaneous development of common law as well as the nature of legal rights. For this insightful research review Mario Rizzo has selected key papers from today's vibrant Austrian School, focusing on the study of property, market-chosen law, slippery-slope analysis, entrepreneurship, institutions, decentralized social knowledge, and the evolution of legal institutions.This title represents the cutting-edge Austrian contributions to economics and will be an essential reference source for both students and researchers. Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Mario J. Rizzo PART I GENERAL SURVEYS OF AUSTRIAN LAW AND ECONOMICS 1. Gregory Scott Crespi (1998), ‘Exploring the Complicationist Gambit: An Austrian Approach to the Economic Analysis of Law’ 2. Linda A. Schwartzstein (1994), ‘An Austrian Economic View of Legal Process’ 3. Christopher T. Wonnell (1986), ‘Contract Law and the Austrian School of Economics’ PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 4. Elisabeth Krecké and Carine Krecké (2007), ‘The Anti-Foundational Dilemma: Normative Implications for the Economic Analysis of Law’ 5. Elisabeth Krecké (2004), ‘Economic Analysis and Legal Pragmatism’ 6. Douglas Glen Whitman (2004), ‘Group Selection and Methodological Individualism: Compatible and Complementary’ 7. Mario J. Rizzo (1999), ‘Which Kind of Legal Order? Logical Coherence and Praxeological Coherence’ PART III PROPERTY 8. Ludwig von Mises ([1936] 1981), ‘Ownership’ 9. Jörg Guido Hülsmann (2004), ‘The A Priori Foundations of Property Economics’ 10. William Barnett II, Walter Block and Gene Callahan (2005), ‘The Paradox of Coase as a Defender of Free Markets’ 11. Israel M. Kirzner (1979), ‘Entrepreneurship, Entitlement, and Economic Justice’ PART IV MENGER, HAYEK AND COMMON LAW 12. Carl Menger ([1963] 1985), ‘The “Organic” Origin of Law and the Exact Understanding Thereof’ 13. A.I. Ogus (1989), ‘Law and Spontaneous Order: Hayek’s Contribution to Legal Theory’ 14. Todd J. Zywicki and Anthony B. Sanders (2008), ‘Posner, Hayek, and the Economic Analysis of Law’ 15. John Hasnas (2005), ‘Hayek, the Common Law, and Fluid Drive’ 16. Scott A. Beaulier, Peter J. Boettke and Christopher J. Coyne (2005), ‘Knowledge, Economics, and Coordination: Understanding Hayek’s Legal Theory’ PART V EVOLUTION AND LAW 17. Douglas Glen Whitman (1998), ‘Hayek contra Pangloss on Evolutionary Systems’ 18. Suri Ratnapala (1993), ‘The Trident Case and the Evolutionary Theory of F.A. Hayek’ 19. Suri Ratnapala (2001), ‘Eighteenth-Century Evolutionary Thought and its Relevance in the Age of Legislation’ 20. Bruce L. Benson (1989), ‘The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law’ 21. John Hasnas (2005), ‘Toward a Theory of Empirical Natural Rights’ 22. Todd J. Zywicki (2003), ‘The Rise and Fall of Efficiency in the Common Law: A Supply-Side Analysis’ 23. Douglas Glen Whitman (2000), ‘Evolution of the Common Law and the Emergence of Compromise’ Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I COMMON LAW, BALANCING, AND EFFICIENCY 1. Mario J. Rizzo (1980), ‘Law Amid Flux: The Economics of Negligence and Strict Liability in Tort’ 2. Mario J. Rizzo (1980), ‘The Mirage of Efficiency’ 3. James M. Buchanan (1969), ‘Private and Social Cost’ 4. Peter Lewin (1982), ‘Pollution Externalities: Social Cost and Strict Liability’ 5. Roy E. Cordato (1996), ‘Time Passage and the Economics of Coming to the Nuisance: Reassessing the Coasean Perspective’ 6. Mario J. Rizzo (1985), ‘Rules Versus Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Common Law’ PART II RULES 7. Richard A. Epstein (2006), ‘Intuition, Custom, and Protocol: How to Make Sound Decisions with Limited Knowledge’ 8. Douglas Glen Whitman (2009), ‘The Rules of Abstraction’ 9. Todd J. Zywicki (1998), ‘Epstein and Polanyi on Simple Rules, Complex Systems, and Decentralization’ PART III SLIPPERY SLOPE ANALYSIS 10. Mario J. Rizzo and Douglas Glen Whitman (2003), ‘The Camel’s Nose is in the Tent: Rules, Theories, and Slippery Slopes’ 11. Douglas Glen Whitman and Mario J. Rizzo (2007), ‘Paternalist Slopes’ PART IV INSTITUTIONS 12. L.M. Lachmann (1971), ‘On Institutions’ 13. Karol Boudreaux and Paul Dragos Aligica (2007), ‘The Evolutionary Path’ 14. Karol Boudreaux and Paul Dragos Aligica (2007), ‘An Intellectual Toolbox for the Creation of Property Rights’ 15. David A. Harper (2003), ‘Institutions I: Rule of Law, Property and Contract’ 16. David A. Harper (2003), ‘Institutions II: Money, Political and Legal Decentralisation and Economic Freedom’ 17. Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne and Peter T. Leeson (2007), ‘Saving Government Failure Theory from Itself: Recasting Political Economy from an Austrian Perspective’ PART V MARKET CHOSEN LAW 18. Edward Stringham (1999), ‘Market Chosen Law’ 19. Edward Stringham (2003), ‘The Extralegal Development of Securities Trading in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam’ 20. Edward Stringham (2002), ‘The Emergence of the London Stock Exchange as a Self-Policing Club’ 21. Anthony Ogus (1999), ‘Competition Between National Legal Systems: A Contribution of Economic Analysis to Comparative Law’ 22. Peter T. Leeson (2007), ‘Trading with Bandits’ 23. Peter T. Leeson (2007), ‘An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization’ PART VI MINIMIZING THE STATE 24. John Hasnas (2003), ‘Reflections on the Minimal State’ 25. Peter T. Leeson (2008), ‘Coordination Without Command: Stretching the Scope of Spontaneous Order’ 26. Peter T. Leeson (2006), ‘Efficient Anarchy’ 27. Peter T. Leeson (2008), ‘How Important is State Enforcement for Trade?’ 28. Walter Block and Thomas J. DiLorenzo (2000), ‘Is Voluntary Government Possible? A Critique of Constitutional Economics’ 29. Randall G. Holcombe (2004), ‘Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable’ PART VII DISPERSED KNOWLEDGE AND THE LIMITS OF LAW 30. Mario J. Rizzo (2005), ‘The Problem of Moral Dirigisme: A New Argument Against Moralistic Legislation’

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Book SynopsisMario 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 to reap the benefits of a benevolent technology that promises the most spectacular advances. Both markets and technology can certainly be considered essential economic factors, but which market and what technology? Is the current prevailing view of competition without restraints and privatisation at all costs actually the essence of the market? This book maintains that the dominant view mistakes the relationship between growth and technical change and, as a consequence, the role of the market in this context. The authors argue that once the issue is analysed in the proper light, the usual ingredients of the dominant policy recipe - zero inflation, balanced budgets, privatisations, deregulation of all markets, extreme flexibility - may not actually be the appropriate ones.The Market Way to Riches will appeal to academics from many branches of economics including heterodox, evolutionary and macroeconomics and those with an interest in economic growth generally. Policy makers influencing economic growth will also find much to engage them.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Market and Technology 2. Is Technology the Heart of the Matter? 3. Market and Competition 4. Paradoxes and Dilemmas 5. Walking a Feasible Path, Not Heading for the Stars 6. Market and the State References Appendix: Models and Simulations A1 The Benchmark Model A2 Macroeconomic Changes A3 Industry Changes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at some of the major themes concerning governance in the EU, namely the focus on market-friendly regulations, output legitimacy and how the requirement of efficiency is combined with the requirement of democratic accountability. The dilemma between efficiency and democratic accountability is analysed in three cases of close collaboration between public and private actors: the European satellite navigation programme (Galileo), the European Investment Bank and health policies, and the European financial market - especially the banking sector. The background to this interest in the dilemma between efficiency and democratic accountability is that this is a time when the borders between the public and private spheres are being re-evaluated, transferred and becoming more porous. The author makes a compelling case to show that authority is being shared between public and private actors, rather than power being delegated - inn contrast with the apparent mode of democratic accountability. European Public-Private Collaboration will be warmly welcomed by postgraduate students and researchers of European studies and public policy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Framework 3. European Governance – An Empirical Background 4. The Case of the European Satellite Navigation Programme 5. The Case of the European Investment Bank and Health Co-authored with Emilia Holkeri 6. The Case of the European Financial Market 7. Conclusions and Discussion References Index

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Book SynopsisAgainst the background of global market liberalization, increasing consumer awareness and concerns and the spreading of complex technology, new ways to produce, distribute and consume food are evolving. The organization of agricultural production and distribution systems need to adapt, including the development and maintenance of sustainable business relationships between farmers, food processors and grocery retailers. While agricultural value chains have been promoted for decades, more attention is needed on how to enable economic agents to develop lasting relationships and trust within value chains. Using qualitative and quantitative empirical results, Agri-food Chain Relationships offers an insight into the sustainability of current agribusiness relationships and discusses how these may be improved. Theoretical foundations for analysing agri-food chain relations are considered alongside case studies of different countries, food chains and chain stages regarding the issues of sustainable relationships and trust.Table of ContentsPART 1: Agri-food Chain Relationships - Context and Theoretical Foundations 1.1: Building Sustainable Relationships in Agri-food Chains: Challenges from Farm to Retail - Luis Miguel Albisu, Klaus Frohberg and Monika Hartmann 1.2: Collaborative Advantage, Relational Risks, Contracts and Relationship Sustainability: a Literature Review - Christian Fischer and Nikolai Reynolds 1.3: Inter-organisational Relationships in Agri-food Systems: an Integrated Transaction Cost-Network Analysis Framework - Fabio Chaddad 1.4: Behavioural Economics and the Theory of Social Structure: Relevance for Understanding Relationship Sustainability - Johannes Simons and Monika Hartmann PART 2: Empirical Evidence on Relationship Types, Relationship Sustainability, Trust and Use of Contracts 2.1: Trust and Relationship Types in Agri-food Chain Relationships in Selected European countries - Maeve Henchion, Azucena Gracia, Philip Leat and Christian Fischer 2.2: The Determinants of Relationship Type Choice and Relationship Sustainability: a European Cross-country Analysis - Christian Fischer, Monika Hartmann, Nikolai Reynolds, Philip Leat, César Revoredo-Giha, Maeve Henchion, Luis Miguel Albisu and Azucena Gracia 2.3: Enhancing the Integration of Agri-food Supply Chains: Challenges in the UK Malting Barley Supply Chain - César Revoredo-Giha and Philip Leat 2.4: From Transactions to Relationships: the Case of the Irish Beef and Pigmeat Supply Chains - Maeve Henchion and Bridin McIntyre 2.5: Inter-enterprise Relationships as Determinants for Competitiveness in the Agri-food Sector: the Spanish Wheat-to-Bread Chain - Azucena Gracia and Luis Miguel Albisu 2.6: Reviewing Relationship Sustainability in the Case of the German Wheat-to-Bread Chain - Miroslava Bavorova and Heinrich Hockmann 2.7: Vertical Relationships in the US Agri-food System: the Role of Agricultural Cooperatives - Fabio Chaddad 2.8: Guanxi and Contracts in Chinese Vegetable Supply Chains: an Empirical Investigation - Hualiang Lu, Jacques Trienekens, Onno Omta and Shuyi Feng 2.9: A Review of the Trust Situation in Agribusiness Chain Relationships in the Asia-Pacific with focus on the Philippines and Australia - Peter Batt 2.10: How Buyer-Supplier Relationships Can Create Value - the Case of the Australian Wine Industry - Lynlee Hobley and Peter Batt PART 3: Implications and Recommendations 3.1: Best Practice in Relationship Management: Recommendations for Farmers, Processors and Retailers - Jacques Trienekens, Peter Batt and Christian Fischer 3.2: Improving Agri-food Chain Relationships: the Role of Government - Klaus Frohberg, Maeve Henchion, Luis Miguel Albisu and Philip Leat 3.3: Lessons Learned: Recommendations for Future Research on Agri-food Chain Relationships - Fabio Chaddad, Hualiang Lu, Christian Fischer and Monika Hartmann

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Book SynopsisContemporary societies have more vibrant markets than past ones. Yet they are more heavily populated by private and public regulators. This book explores the features of such a regulatory capitalism, its tendencies to be cyclically crisis-ridden, ritualistic and governed through networks. New ways of thinking about resultant policy challenges are developed.At the heart of this latest work by John Braithwaite lies the insight by David Levi-Faur and Jacint Jordana that the welfare state was succeeded in the 1970s by regulatory capitalism. The book argues that this has produced stronger markets, public regulation, private regulation and hybrid private/public regulation as well as new challenges such as a more cyclical quality to crises of market and governance failure, regulatory ritualism and markets in vice. However, regulatory capitalism also creates opportunities for better design of markets in virtue such as markets in continuous improvement, privatized enforcement of regulation, open source business models, regulatory pyramids with networked escalation and meta-governance of justice.Regulatory Capitalism will be warmly welcomed by regulatory scholars in political science, sociology, history, economics, business schools and law schools as well as regulatory bureaucrats, policy thinkers in government and law and society scholars.Trade Review'In this sprawling and ambitious book John Braithwaite successfully manages to link the contemporary dynamics of macro political economy to the dynamics of citizen engagement and organisational activism at the micro intestacies of governance practices. This is no mean feat and the logic works. . .' -- Stephen Bell, The Australian Journal of Public Administration'Everyone who is puzzled by modern "regulocracy" should read this book. Short and incisive, it represents the culmination of over twenty years' work on the subject. It offers us a perceptive and wide-ranging perspective on the global development of regulatory capitalism and an important analysis of points of leverage for democrats and reformers.' -- Christopher Hood, All Souls College, Oxford, UK'It takes a great mind to produce a book that is indispensable for beginners and experts, theorists and policymakers alike. With characteristic clarity, admirable brevity, and his inimitable mix of description and prescription, John Braithwaite explains how corporations and states regulate each other in the complex global system dubbed regulatory capitalism. For Braithwaite aficionados, Regulatory Capitalism brings into focus the big picture created from years of meticulous research. For Braithwaite novices, it is a reading guide that cannot fail to inspire them to learn more.' -- Carol A. Heimer, Northwestern University, US'Reading Regulatory Capitalism is like opening your eyes. John Braithwaite brings together law, politics, and economics to give us a map and a vocabulary for the world we actually see all around us. He weaves together elements of over a decade of scholarship on the nature of the state, regulation, industrial organization, and intellectual property in an elegant, readable, and indispensable volume.' -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by David Levi-Faur Preface 1. Neoliberalism or Regulatory Capitalism? 2. The Cyclical Nature of the Challenges of Regulatory Capitalism 3. Privatized Enforcement and the Promise of Regulatory Capitalism 4. The Nodal Governance Critique of Responsive Regulation 5. Regulatory Capitalism, Business Models and the Knowledge Economy with Janet Hope and Dianne Nicol 6. Can Regulatory Ritualism be Transcended? 7. Metagovernance of Justice 8. Is Regulatory Capitalism a Good Thing? References Index

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Book SynopsisThe evolution of China's market economy is one of the most important developments in the world economy in the twenty-first century. The diverse contributors to this book provide a unique set of essays that evaluate legal, regulatory, and economic aspects of China's transition from planned to market economy. While market-oriented policy reform in China has led to substantial growth and progress since the onset of the reform period in 1979, many challenges remain. This study begins with a general survey of China's transition to a market economy and is followed by more elaborate analyses of specific sectors. The authors consider China's changing regulatory structure and the relationships of this structure to Chinese markets, developments in markets for goods, services, and production factors, changing trade patterns, and the determinants of foreign direct investment and its role in overall capital formation. They provide a comprehensive assessment of market reforms in China. In-depth yet accessible, the book will be of great value to policy makers, business planners, students and researchers concerned with China, as well as those interested in the world economy at large.Trade Review'Belton Fleisher and his colleagues have edited a usefully wide-ranging book on economic policy reform in China before the global crisis. Many excellent chapters provide lucid insights into the practical complexities of China's remarkable development path. . . this book has much to teach us. . .' -- Albert Keidel, The China Journal'The book is designed for use in a wide-range of studies on Chinese economic development, especially in market development, technology diffusion as well as education inequality. Each independent paper delivers a different research field, so it has a wide appeal. Students and scholars who are studying or conducting research on Chinese economic development will find this book of particular interest.' -- Jiandong Chen, Journal of the Asia Pacific EconomyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. China’s Transition to the Market: Progress and Challenges Nicholas C. Hope and Lawrence J. Lau 2. Impact and Significance of State-Owned Enterprise Restructuring in China Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Yang Yao 3. Antitrust in China 2006: The Problem of Incentive Compatibility Bruce M. Owen, Su Sun and Wentong Zheng 4. Property Rights and ‘Original Sin’ in China: Transaction Costs, Wealth Creation and Property Rights Infrastructure Andrew Sheng, Geng Xiao and Yuan Wang 5. Corporate Governance and Property Rights Infrastructure: The Experiences of Hong Kong and Lessons for China Andrew Sheng, Geng Xiao and Yuan Wang 6. China’s Evolving Labor Market Belton M. Fleisher and Dennis Tao Yang 7. China’s Emerging Domestic Debt Markets Pieter Bottelier 8. Incremental Reform and Distortions in China’s Product and Factor Markets Xiaobo Zhang and Kong-Yam Tan 9. China’s Emergence as the Workshop of the World Will Martin and Vlad Manole 10. China’s Emergence, Real Exchange Rates and Implications for East Asian Regional Trade and Growth David Roland-Holst 11. The Chinese Approach to Capital Inflows: Patterns and Possible Explanations Eswar S. Prasad and Shang-Jin Wei 12. Foreign Direct Investment in China and East Asia Busakorn Chantasasawat, K.C. Fung, Hitomi Iizaka and Alan Siu Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing the traditional Scandinavian welfare state model, the Nordic/Scandinavian model has recently become popular as a basic concept for shaping future approaches to European social politics. Challenging the Anglo-Saxon model(s) and the Continental model(s), the Nordic/Scandinavian model is regarded as a compromise between the two. In the context of this model, this engaging and comprehensive book presents a comparative discussion of the pursuit of innovation in the public sector.The author provides extensive examples from contemporary shifting regulatory environments in Scandinavia and argues that the importance of the Nordic/Scandinavian model path is due to its emphasis on social equality and active labour market policy. High public welfare expenses and heavy tax burden are compensated by high work productivity, low unemployment, flexible labour market, and encouraging subsidiarity policies. The outcome is 'flexicurity' which indicates that the flexible labour market's mode of functioning depends, per se, on the continuing existence of universal social security and public neighbourhood services. A fascinating read for students and scholars of public policy and European and Scandinavian studies, this book will also be of interest to civil servants and policymakers across the world.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Path Dependence and Social Models 2. The Scandinavian Welfare State Model 3. Modernizing Government 4. The Service Economy Trilemma of the Regulatory State 5. Scandinavian Subsidiarity 6. Summing up the Scandinavian/Nordic Model References Index

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Book SynopsisVery few studies have ventured to explore the shift in economic ideas that were such a critical factor in shaping and understanding the East European transition process. Paul Dragos Aligica and Anthony J. Evans have seized upon the potential that this crucial case has to illuminate the larger phenomenon of diffusion and adoption of economic ideas. Two different but related research agendas are developed: the study of the spread of 'neoliberalism' as seen from the perspective of Eastern European post-communist evolutions and the study of Eastern European transition as seen from an ideas-centered perspective.Combining a distinctive synthesis of the existing data about the spread of neoliberal economic ideas in Central and Eastern Europe with an analysis of the processes at work, the authors challenge a series of misunderstandings and myths about the spread of neoliberal economic ideas. The disputed topics include: the myth of an Eastern European rush to embrace the theories and ideas that may be considered the mark of 'market fundamentalism'; the notion that a harsh 'neoliberal dogmatism' was somehow imposed on the region from outside; the idea that the standardization and regimentation of economic thinking was a result of the spread of the Western way of doing economics; and the belief that the Eastern Europeans passively embraced this uniformity and standardization due to pressure from the Westerners.This unusual synthesis will appeal to scholars in economics, political science, communist/post-communist studies and new institutionalism, as well as policymakers.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Spread of Western Economic Ideas in Eastern Europe: An Overview 1. Economic Ideas: Demarcations and Schools of Thought 2. Western Economic Ideas and the Fragile Hegemony of Marxism: The Pre-1989 Setting 3. The Remarkable Path to Primacy of Western Economic Ideas: Change and Institutionalization after 1989 Part II: Frameworks for Analyzing and Understanding the Spread of Economic Ideas 4. Frameworks for Analysis and Interpretation: Diffusion, Marketplace of Ideas and Growth of Knowledge 5. Frameworks for Analysis and Interpretation: From Personal Commitment to Functional Rationality Part III: Facets, Themes and Cases: Diversity and Change in the Neoliberal Revolution of Ideas 6. A Test of Market Fundamentalism: Austrian Economics 7. Western Economics and Local Responses: A Closer Look 8. The Flat Tax in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Perspective 9. Neoclassical Economics, New Institutionalism and the Eastern European Economic Reform Experience Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go far beyond a limited role of the state. Recent difficulties of reforming the welfare state provide evidence that political preferences are at odds with liberal economic policy in numerous cases. This fact challenges a political conception which demands a limited state role but also claims that citizens' preferences 'as they are' should determine the content of policies. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can be brought into line with political liberalism.Drawing on an evolutionary theory of markets, Gerhard Wegner reinforces the claim that liberal economic policies are conducive to prosperity in society, but he argues that the liberal promise of prosperity does not translate into corresponding political preferences on the part of citizens. A tension between political and economic liberalism arises which lies at the centre of this book.Political Failure by Agreement will strongly appeal to postgraduate students and researchers of global governance, political theory, political economy and institutional economics.Trade Review'Gerhard Wegner provides new insight into the relation between democracies and market economies. He recognizes conflict between the two, but he doesn't propose constitutional controls over political action. Such proposals are grounded in the comparative static manipulation of equilibrium models. In contrast, Wegner advances an evolutionary theory of political economy, and uses this theory to explain how processes of societal learning might be set in motion that could expand support for market arrangements through time. This thoughtful and challenging book will repay examination by all students of political economy.' -- Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, US'In drawing particular attention to the implications of evolutionary market theory for public policy Gerhard Wegner adds a novel and instructive line of argument to the long-standing debate on the inherent tension between democratic politics and economic liberalism. His concept of "learning liberalism" addresses an important dimension of political failure that has been neglected in this debate.' -- Viktor J. Vanberg, Universitaet Freiburg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Preferences for the Welfare State as a Challenge for Economic Liberalism 2. The Liberal Model of Market Order: The Evolutionary View 3. Preferences versus Choice in Politics: A Conception of Feasible Democratic Politics 4. The Underestimation of Political Opportunity Costs 5. Learning Liberalism in the Welfare State: Reviewing Economic Liberalism References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an up-to-date study of public infrastructure in terms of the selection, procurement and delivery of projects. There is widespread acceptance that infrastructure is vital and needs increasing, yet less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. This book assesses in detail the features of various procurement options while also providing a framework for comparing their advantages and disadvantages. Drawing on international experiences and case studies, Darrin Grimsey and Mervyn Lewis consider some of the best and worst examples of public-private partnerships, new funding methods and infrastructure megaprojects. By offering a conceptual basis for infrastructure decision-making, the authors identify ways to improve infrastructure procurement processes. Focusing on urbanization as a driver of innovation in infrastructure, both the historical context and the future prospects of public infrastructure are analysed. Significantly, the book also examines China's ambitious plans to create a 'high-speed rail economy' and its Belt and Road Initiative across Asia that offers an interesting contrast to infrastructure developments in the United States and other advanced economies. Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement is an essential source of reference for academics and students of economics, public sector finance and urban infrastructure.Trade Review'The trajectories of infrastructure investment in China and the West are going in different directions. That is the focus of both the first and last chapters of this important book exploring the options available for the procurement of public infrastructures. During that discussion, Grimsey and Lewis address important questions: does public investment lead or follow economic development? What are the contributions of China's megaprojects to its fast-growing economic power? What can public-private partnerships do or not do when used in the procurement of public infrastructures? How do PPPs compare to other models of infrastructure procurement? In an ever-increasingly urbanized world, there are few more important discussions than how governments can pay for the infrastructures that make urban life possible. Grimsey and Lewis have made an important contribution to that discussion.' --Richard E. Hanley, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, New York City College of Technology, US'Today there is more public debate than ever about the state of public infrastructure and the wisdom of selecting particular options for significant investments. This timely publication by Grimsey and Lewis, building upon their earlier key contributions to this debate, is one of the very few publications to place infrastructure investment within the wider contextual financial framework in which these projects exist. The key drivers and barriers to current infrastructure investment are clearly and expertly presented and these principles are illustrated by considering the position in China and the US at opposite ends of the investment spectrum. The informed consideration of public-private partnerships, (PPPs), is welcomed. This excellent publication cuts through the emotional arguments associated with private finance for public infrastructure and demonstrates that, while not a panacea, the PPPs in certain locations, for certain projects and by certain procurement routes do have a clear role to play in infrastructure and service investment.' --Nigel Smith, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Infrastructure provision 2. Why is infrastructure of such significance? 3. The evolution of infrastructure services 4. The promise of public private partnerships 5. Implementing a partnership agenda 6. Risk analysis in procurement 7. Comparing public infrastructure procurement models 8. Choosing amongst infrastructure procurement approaches 9. The problems of large (mega) projects 10. Funding of infrastructure 11. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating book broadly addresses the emerging field of 'diversity of capitalism' from a comparative institutional approach. It explores the varied patterns for achieving coordination in different economic systems, applying them specifically to China, Japan and South Korea. These countries are of particular interest due to the fact that they are often considered to have developed their own peculiar blend of models of capitalism. The expert contributors take a common institutional approach, focusing on institutions at the macro level. They present case studies to demonstrate the diversity of institutional patterns at the advent of the 21st century, both within the East Asian region and elsewhere. Examples of stability within existing institutions are illustrated alongside examples of comprehensive institutional change. Underpinning the case studies are a set of theoretical and empirical challenges for researchers concerned with national institutional settings, path dependence and endogenous dynamics. Institutional Variety in East Asia will prove a fascinating read for academics and students with an interest in Asian studies, institutional theory, political economy and heterodox economics.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Coordination between Inertia and Dynamic Development: An Overview of Issues and Contributions Werner Pascha, Cornelia Storz and Markus Taube PART I: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND INERTIA 2. Adaptive Efficiency and Pragmatic Flexibility: Characteristics of Institutional Change in Capitalism, Chinese-style Joachim Ahrens and Patrick Jünemann 3. Tracing the Process of Property Rights Specification in China: The Case of New Technology Enterprises Marcus Conlé 4. Institutional Change and the Role of Government: Technology Policy in Japan and Korea Tim Goydke 5. Higher Education Reform in South Korea and the Transformation of University Governance Peter Mayer 6. Institutions and Organizations in Korea’s Upstream Innovation Governance: A Search for Adaptive Efficiency? Dominik F. Schlossstein PART II: PATTERNS OF COORDINATION 7. The Current State of Research on Networks in China’s Business System Johannes Meuer and Barbara Krug 8. A Different Capitalism for China? The Role of Guanxi and the Family for Chinese Economic Development Susanne Rühle 9. Patterns of Distinctive Institutional Change in Chinese Capitalism Tobias ten Brink 10. Japan’s Silver Market: Creating a New Industry under Uncertainty Cornelia Storz and Werner Pascha 11. The Role of Institutional Conditions in Japanese FDI in European Transition Economies Norifumi Kawai Index

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Book SynopsisThis book builds on the Marx-Keynes-Schumpeter (MKS) approach to understanding the evolution of capitalism. It does so by focusing on current frameworks that study macro-dynamical systems in the tradition of the Classical, the Neoclassical and the Keynesian interpretation of the working of modern capitalist economies, and of the societies that are built upon them. The distinguished authors concentrate on different paradigms of economic conjecture in terms of their applicability to labor market problems and their implications for growing capitalist economies. They present material clearly related to current macroeconomic research which goes beyond the New Consensus macroeconomics, and which can also be related to the discussion between practitioners and politicians on the reform of both financial and labor markets. A Future for Capitalism will prove a challenging and thought provoking read for heterodox economists and broad-minded mainstream macroeconomists with a special interest in alternatives to general equilibrium macroeconomics.Contents: Introduction Part I: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: The Challenge in Place 1. Real Financial Market Interactions and the Choice of Policy Measures Part II: Classical Unbalanced Growth and Social Evolution 2. Income Security within the Bounds of the Reserve Army Mechanism 3. Segmented Labor Markets and Low Income Work 4. Atypical Employment and Smooth Factor Substitution Part III: Unemployment and Welfare Issues in Models of Endogenous Growth 5. Economic Growth with an Employer of Last Resort: A Simple Model of Flexicurity Capitalism 6. Economic Policy in a Growth Model with Human Capital, Heterogenous Agents and Unemployment 7. Public Debt, Public Expenditures and Endogenous Growth with Real Wage Rigidities Part IV: The Road to Full-Employment Capitalism 8. Flexicurity: A Baseline Supply Side Model 9. Factor Substitution, Okun s Law and Gradual Wage Adjustments 10. Skill Formation, Heterogeneous Labor and Investment-driven Business Fluctuations 11. Leashing Capitalism: Monetary Fiscal Policy Measures and Labor Market Reforms Some Useful Stability Theorems References IndexTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: The Challenge in Place 1. Real–Financial Market Interactions and the Choice of Policy Measures Part II: Classical Unbalanced Growth and Social Evolution 2. Income Security within the Bounds of the Reserve Army Mechanism 3. Segmented Labor Markets and Low Income Work 4. Atypical Employment and Smooth Factor Substitution Part III: Unemployment and Welfare Issues in Models of Endogenous Growth 5. Economic Growth with an Employer of Last Resort: A Simple Model of Flexicurity Capitalism 6. Economic Policy in a Growth Model with Human Capital, Heterogenous Agents and Unemployment 7. Public Debt, Public Expenditures and Endogenous Growth with Real Wage Rigidities Part IV: The Road to Full-Employment Capitalism 8. Flexicurity: A Baseline Supply Side Model 9. Factor Substitution, Okun’s Law and Gradual Wage Adjustments 10. Skill Formation, Heterogeneous Labor and Investment-driven Business Fluctuations 11. Leashing Capitalism: Monetary–Fiscal Policy Measures and Labor Market Reforms Some Useful Stability Theorems References Index

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Book SynopsisThis major three-volume work contains key papers which reflect the innovation and imagination that has characterised the field of welfare economics during the last 50 years. The selections range from literary treatments to the most advanced mathematical presentation. However, all readers, regardless of their mathematical sophistication or methodological predilections, will find a large number of the papers interesting and worthwhile in giving an overview of the present state of welfare economics and providing guides to the literature specialities of particular interest.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction William J. Baumol and Charles A. Wilson PART I THE CRITERIA A Pareto Criterion and Compensation Principles 1. T. De Scitovszky (1941), ‘A Note on Welfare Propositions in Economics’ 2. Paul A. Samuelson (1950), ‘Evaluation of Real National Income’ 3. Vilfredo Pareto (1971), ‘Maximum Ophelimity’ B Compensation and its Shortcomings 4. Nicholas Kaldor (1939), ‘Welfare Propositions of Economics and Inter-Personal Comparisons of Utility’ 5. J.R. Hicks (1940), ‘The Valuation of Social Income’ 6. W.M. Gorman (1955), ‘The Intransitivity of Certain Criteria Used in Welfare Economics’ 7. John S. Chipman and James C. Moore (1973), ‘Aggregate Demand, Real National Income, and the Compensation Principle’ PART II FOUNDATIONS A General Treatment 8. Arnold C. Harberger (1971), ‘Three Basic Postulates for Applied Welfare Economics: An Interpretive Essay’ 9. Martin S. Feldstein (1972), ‘Distributional Equity and the Optimal Structure of Public Prices’ 10. Robin W. Boadway (1974), ‘The Welfare Foundations of Cost–Benefit Analysis’ B Tools for Welfare Measurement: Single Consumer and Producer 11. J.R. Hicks (1943), ‘The Four Consumer’s Surpluses’ 12. E.J. Mishan (1959), ‘Communications: Rent as a Measure of Welfare Change’ 13. Robert D. Willig (1976), ‘Consumer’s Surplus Without Apology’ 14. Ezra J. Mishan (1977), ‘The Plain Truth About Consumer Surplus’ 15. Alan Randall and John R. Stoll (1980), ‘Consumer’s Surplus in Commodity Space’ PART III MANY-CONSUMER ECONOMIES A Aggregation of Welfare 16. Lord Robbins (1984), ‘Richard T. Ely Lecture: Economics and Political Economy’ and ‘The Significance of Economic Science’ 17. Abram Burk (1938), ‘A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics’ 18. Paul A. Samuelson (1956), ‘Social Indifference Curves’ B Does Addition of Consumers’ and Producers’ Surpluses Add Up? 19. James E. Anderson (1974), ‘A Note on Welfare Surpluses and Gains From Trade in General Equilibrium’ 20. Richard Schmalensee (1976), ‘Another Look at the Social Valuation of Input Price Changes’ 21. Richard E. Just and Darrell L. Hueth (1979), ‘Welfare Measures in a Multimarket Framework’ 22. Neil Bruce and Richard G. Harris (1982), ‘Cost–Benefit Criteria and the Compensation Principle in Evaluating Small Projects’ PART IV CHOICE BETWEEN MARKET AND NON-MARKET ALLOCATION MECHANISMS 23. Clive Bull and Janusz A. Ordover (1987), ‘Market Structure and Optimal Management Organizations’ 24. R.H. Coase (1937), ‘The Nature of the Firm’ 25. Kenneth J. Arrow (1970), ‘The Organization of Economic Activity: Issues Pertinent to the Choice of Market Versus Nonmarket Allocation’ 26. Raaj Kumar Sah and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1986), ‘The Architecture of Economic Systems: Hierarchies and Polyarchies’ 27. Oskar Lange (1936-1937), ‘On the Economic Theory of Socialism’ 28. A.P. Lerner (1936-1937), ‘A Note on Socialist Economics’ PART V SECOND BEST ANALYSIS 30. Richard G. Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster (1997), ‘The General Theory of Second Best’ 31. Otto A. Davis and Andrew B. Whinston (1965), ‘Welfare Economics and the Theory of Second Best’ 32. Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole (1996), ‘Creating Competition Through Interconnection: Theory and Practice’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction and Preface by the editors to all three volumes appears in volume I PART I VIRTUES OF THE MARKET MECHANISM 1. Vilfredo Pareto (1972), excerpt from Manual of Political Economy 2. E. Barone (1935), ‘The Ministry of Production in the Collectivist State’ 3. A.C. Pigou, M.A. (1952), ‘Rates of Return and the Values of Marginal Private Net Products’ PART II PERFECT COMPETITION: THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREMS OF WELFARE ECONOMICS A Basic Analysis and Results 4. Oscar Lange (1942), ‘The Foundations of Welfare Economics’ 5. Kenneth J. Arrow (1951), ‘An Extension of the Basic Theorems of Classical Welfare Economics’ 6. Tjalling C. Koopmans (1957), ‘Allocation of Resources and the Price System’ 7. Gerard Debreu (1959/1987), ‘Optimum’ B Application to Intertemporal Setting 8. Paul A. Samuelson (1958), ‘An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest With or Without the Social Contrivance of Money’ 9. David Cass (1972), ‘On Capital Overaccumulation in the Aggregative, Neoclassical Model of Economic Growth: A Complete Characterization’ 10. K.J. Arrow (1964), ‘The Role of Securities in the Optimal Allocation of Risk-bearing’ 11. Oliver D. Hart (1975), ‘On the Optimality of Equilibrium when the Market Structure is Incomplete’ 12. Joseph E. Stiglitz (1982), ‘The Inefficiency of the Stock Market Equilibrium’ 13. John D. Geanakoplos and Heraklis M. Polemarchakis (1986), ‘Existence, Regularity, and Constrained Suboptimality of Competitive Allocations when the Asset Market is Incomplete’ PART III PUBLIC GOODS, EXTERNALITIES AND SCALE ECONOMIES A The Broad Issues 14. Francis M. Bator (1958), ‘The Anatomy of Market Failure’ B Externalities, Scale Economies and Nonconvexities 16. A.C. Pigou, M.A. (1912), ‘Hindrances to Equality of Marginal Net Products Due to Divergence Between Marginal Social Net Product and Marginal Private Net Product’ 17. Alfred Marshall (1920), excerpt from ‘Industrial Organization, Continued. Division of Labour. The Influence of Machinery’ and ‘Limitations of the Use of Statical Assumptions in Regard to Increasing Return’ 18. J.H. Clapham (1922), ‘Of Empty Economic Boxes’ 19. Donald J. Brown and Geoffrey Heal (1979), ‘Equity, Efficiency and Increasing Returns’ 20. William J. Baumol (1979), ‘Quasi Optimality: The Price We Must Pay for a Price System’ PART IV MONOPOLY AND IMPERFECT COMPETITION A General 21. A.C. Pigou, M.A. (1952), ‘Simple Monopoly’ and ‘Discriminating Monopoly’ 22. Joan Robinson (1972), ‘Comparisons of Monopoly and Competitive Output’ 23. Edward Chamberlin (1938), ‘Pure and Monopolistic Competition Compared’ 24. Michael Spence (1976), ‘Product Selection, Fixed Costs, and Monopolistic Competition’ B Social Costs of Monopoly 25. Arnold C. Harberger (1954), ‘Monopoly and Resource Allocation’ 26. Richard A. Posner (1975), ‘The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation’ 27. Gordon Tullock (1980), ‘Efficient Rent Seeking’ 28. Franklin M. Fisher (1985), ‘The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation: Posner Reconsidered’ PART V ASYMMETRIC AND IMPERFECT INFORMATION 29. George A. Akerlof (1970), ‘The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism’ 30. Mark V. Pauly (1974), ‘Overinsurance and Public Provision of Insurance: The Roles of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection’ 31. Charles A. Wilson (1979), ‘Equilibrium and Adverse Selection’ 32. Richard Arnott and Joseph Stiglitz (1990), ‘The Welfare Economics of Moral Hazard’ PART VI UNCERTAINTY 33. Frederick V. Waugh (1944), ‘Does the Consumer Benefit from Price Instability?’ 34. Walter Y. Oi (1961), ‘The Desirability of Price Instability Under Perfect Competition’ 35. Paul A. Samuelson (1972), ‘The Consumer Does Benefit From Feasible Price Stability’ 36. Stephen J. Turnovsky, Haim Shalit and Andrew Schmitz (1980), ‘Consumer’s Surplus, Price Instability, and Consumer Welfare’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction and preface by the editors to all three volumes appears in volume I PART I EXTERNALITIES AND PIGOUVIAN TAXATION 1. A.C. Pigou, M.A. (1952), excerpt from ‘Divergences Between Marginal Social Net Product and Marginal Private Net Product’ 2. J.E. Meade (1952), ‘External Economies and Diseconomies in Competitive Situation’ 3. R.H. Coase (1960), ‘The Problem of Social Cost’ 4. James M. Buchanan and Wm. Craig Stubblebine (1962), ‘Externality’ 5. William J. Baumol (1972), ‘On Taxation and the Control of Externalities’ 6. Martin L. Weitzman (1974), ‘Prices vs. Quantities’ 7. J.A. Ordover and R.D. Willig (1979), ‘The Role of Information in Designing Social Policy Towards Externalities’ 8. Dennis W. Carlton and Glenn C. Loury (1980), ‘The Limitations of Pigouvian Taxes as a Long-Run Remedy for Externalities’ PART II RAMSEY PRICING 9. F.P. Ramsey (1927), ‘A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation’ 10. M. Boiteux (1971), ‘On the Management of Public Monopolies Subject to Budgetary Constraints’ 11. William J. Baumol and David F. Bradford (1970), ‘Optimal Departures From Marginal Cost Pricing’ 12. Peter A. Diamond and James A. Mirrlees (1971), ‘Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency’ 13. Peter A. Diamond and James A. Mirrlees (1971), ‘Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules’ PART III PREDATORY PRICING 14. Phillip Areeda and Donald F. Turner (1975), ‘Predatory Pricing and Related Practices Under Section 2 of the Sherman Act’ 15. Janusz A. Ordover and Robert D. Willig (1981), ‘An Economic Definition of Predation: Pricing and Product Innovation’ 16. William J. Baumol (1996), ‘Predation and the Logic of the Average Variable Cost Test’ PART IV REGULATION OF PRICES A Traditional Regulation 17. Harvey Averch and Leland L. Johnson (1962), ‘Behavior of the Firm Under Regulatory Constraint’ 18. Alfred E. Kahn (1989), ‘The Traditional Issues in the Pricing of Public Utility Services’ B Efficient Regulation, Stand-alone Cost Ceilings, and Price Caps 19. Harold Demsetz (1968), ‘Why Regulate Utilities?’ 20. Ingo Vogelsang and Jörg Finsinger (1979), ‘A Regulatory Adjustment Process for Optimal Pricing by Multiproduct Monopoly Firms’ 21. William J. Baumol (1982), ‘Productivity Incentive Clauses and Rate Adjustment for Inflation’ 22. Stephen C. Littlechild (1983), Regulation of British Telecommunications’ Profitability 23. William J. Baumol and Robert D. Willig (1986), ‘Contestability: Developments Since the Book’ 24. Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole (1990), ‘The Regulation of Multiproduct Firms – Part I: Theory’ and ‘The Regulation of Multiproduct Firms – Part II: Applications to Competitive Environments and Policy Analysis’ C Pricing of Bottleneck Inputs 25. Robert D. Willig (1979), ‘The Theory of Network Access Pricing’ 26. William J. Baumol (1999), ‘Having Your Cake: How to Preserve Universal-Service Cross Subsidies While Facilitating Competitive Entry’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisCapitalism With a Human Face is a carefully edited selection of Samuel Brittan’s most important recent essays. It covers topics ranging from utilitarianism and the ethics of self-interest, to the principles of macroeconomic policy and how to price people into work without throwing them into poverty. The book will be controversial, for the individualistic ethic, which it is so fashionable to attack, is not merely defended but celebrated. This collection will be of special interest both to readers of Samuel Brittan’s articles who would like a more extended treatment and those new to his work. A notable feature is a specially written introduction explaining how the author came to take up political economy and how he arrived at the positions elaborated in this book.Trade Review’Any society with aspirations to egalitarianism would long since have abolished Samuel Brittan. He writes the best weekly economics column, elegant in style and provocative in content. He covers a range of subjects to a depth that should shame those of us who can cope only by concentrating on a narrow topic. He finds time to attend seminars where, inevitably, he asks the penetrating questions the speaker most dreads. He writes important books. He manages to display in the course of a few minutes more courage in challenging those to whom he might look for favours than most of us can summon in a lifetime. He is that rare British creature: an intellectual.’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Footfalls in the Memory (Intellectual Autobiography) Part I: Political Economy Part II: Keynes and Hayek Part III: Jobs, Inflation and Economic Management Part IV: Problems and Policies Part V: Capitalism with a Human Face Finale: Some Presumptions of Economic Liberalism

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Book SynopsisThe industrialized economies of the world have experienced a considerable diversity of economic experience since the shocks of the 1970s. The authors of this major study assess the institutional determinants of economic performance in a comparative analysis of OECD economies. They focus in particular on the role played by corporatist arrangements in such countries as Austria and the Scandinavian states. Corporatism and Economic Performance argues that economists often have a narrow view of the scope and function of corporatism, focusing on the extent to which collective bargaining is centralized, and ignoring the important role of durable, consensual policy making arrangements. The record of the corporatist economies is assessed and considerable evidence is found to show that they have borne the burden of economic adjustment over the last twenty years in a less inegalitarian way than other OECD economies, with lower rates of unemployment and greater economic stability. In an increasingly integrated world economy, the future prospects for corporatism look uncertain, although there is still a strong economic case for corporatist institutions. This book sheds new light on corporatism as a complex and multidimensional entity, examining the rationale, scope, performance and future prospects of corporatist institutions.Trade Review'This book provides a thoughtful and extremely accessible re-assessment of the economic theory on which corporatist policies have been based. . . . the authors have drawn widely on the relevant economics and political science literature. -- Mark Wickham-Jones, Political StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: An Overview of Economic Performance in Corporatist and Liberal Economies 2. Institutions and Economic Performance 3. Corporatism, Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment 4. The Political Economy of Durable Compromise 5. Growth, Competitiveness and Income Distribution 6. Corporatism and Macroeconomic Policy 7. Conclusion: Problems and Prospects

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Book SynopsisThe end of the cold war has created a new and unprecedented type of mixed economy in Eastern Europe. This innovative up-to-date book questions whether the former Eastern block countries will follow the path of West European mixed economies, or if a quite different economic system will emerge.Mixed Economies in Europe presents new work by distinguished authors who offer an evolutionary perspective on the dynamics of mixed economies. In so doing, they provide a unique, policy-orientated assessment of the formation and transformation of mixed economies in both Eastern and Western Europe. In particular, they emphasise the importance of institutional arrangements and regulatory frameworks.The book shows that the liberalization of markets, both within and between European countries has led, in many cases, to a divergence of economic performance across regions and is likely to continue to do so in the future. This raises policy considerations for the EC and its constituent governments which have not, as yet, been adequately addressed.Trade Review’This book gives a good overview of the diversity of the current research agenda of evolutionary economics.’- X. De Vanssay, Journal of European IntegrationTable of ContentsIntroduction - evolutionary perspectives, John Foster and Wolfgang Blaas. Part 1 Justifying an institutionalist approach to the mixed economy: commodity variation and the evolution of money - a place for the state?, Geoffrey M. Hodgson; agent, context and innovation - a saussurian view of markets, Bart Nooteboom. Part 2 Privatization, de-regulation and re-regulation: ownership and control - lessons for privatization - a case study of the Austrian industries corporation, Kurt Bayer; economic reforms and the evo.ution of enterprise in Hungary and Poland, Maria Lissowska and Wim Swaan. Part 3 The political economy of mixed economy emergence in Europe: the transition from command to market economies - preliminary lessons and conclusions, Kazimierz Laski; the post-socialist transformation process - systemic vacuum, search processes, contradictions, Jerzy Hausner and Klaus Nielsen; in search of a new economic role of the state in the post-socialist countries, Andrzej Wojtyna; need satisfaction as a measure of human welfare, Ian Gough and Len Doyal. Part 4 European economic convergence or divergence?: technological capability and international trade performance - a comparative analysis of Eastern and Western European countries, Paolo Guerrieri; core-periphery inequalities in European integration, East and West, Andrew Tylecote; an evolutionary approach to why growth rates differ, Bart Verspagen.

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Book SynopsisFor more than 20 years, William Lazonick has been one of the world's leading analysts of the dynamics of industrial development and change in international economic leadership. This impressive volume presents a coherent selection of Professor Lazonick's most important work on industrial development in Britain and the United States.The first part of the book contains articles on the decline of the British economy, including a recent summary of the debates on the British cotton textile industry and international competition. The second part focuses on labour, management and technology in the rise and recent decline of the US economy, and includes an up-to-date summary essay on organizational capabilities in American industry. Professor Lazonick's essays make historical analysis relevant to the present and put economic analysis back in touch with evolving reality. This approach, together with his unique combination of historical, statistical and theoretical methodologies, will ensure that this volume proves invaluable to economists and historians alike.Trade Review'This is a timely useful collection of Professor Lazonick's principal articles on those related themes in economic history to which he has devoted his considerable scholarly abilities and his stimulating search for originality.'

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Book SynopsisMax Weber, recognized as one of the world's most important sociologists, saw his life's work as nothing less than the comparative analysis of world civilizations. Above all, he was fascinated by the differing historical paths traced by Western civilization and the civilizations of the East. In his famous essay, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, he addressed the forces behind that dramatic and enormous transformation of human life and society known as the Industrial Revolution. Weber's thesis proposes a causal link between the forces of the 'protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' that lay behind the Industrial Revolution.This important book offers a sophisticated analysis of Weber's key concepts and an in-depth study as to their formulation in the early modern period. Michael Lessnoff proposes an original and essential distinction between the protestant 'work' and 'profit' ethics and examines the logical relation between them. He looks at Adam Smith's work on the relation between morals and capitalism, comparing Smith's 'spirit of capitalism' to Weber's. Lessnoff also considers the significance of the 'protestant ethic' in the modern world. As one of the first books of its kind to offer a complex analysis of the Weber thesis and using a large body of previously neglected evidence, The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic will be welcomed by historians of religion and economics and by all sociologists.Trade Review'Lessnoff's book is recommended to all who are seeking a short and carefully constructed tour guide into Weber's remarkable piece of intellectual history.' -- William N. Parker, Journal of Economic HistoryTable of ContentsWhat the Weber thesis is, and what it is not; the pre-Reformation background; Weber's primary Protestant ethic - the work ethic; Weber's secondary Protestant ethic - the profit ethic; the Westminster Assembly's "Shorter Catechism" and its sources; the spirit of capitalism and the Protestant ethic; postscript on the modern world. Appendices: the Glasgow city motto - an epitome of the Weber thesis?; list of Protestant catechisms that discuss the Decalogue's commandment against stealing.

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Book SynopsisEconomic Theory and Capitalist Society is a collection of Shigeto Tsuru's most important essays written over the period of the past 60 years in the fields of general economic theory, development and environmental economics, and Marxian political economy. Professor Tsuru has been a leading critic of the major tenets of modern economic theory and has been credited in particular for his comparative studies of aggregate concepts, such as those of Quesnay, Keynes and Marx. Essentially an institutionalist, the author reviews the methodological significance of Marx's contribution, taking up in detail the latter's unique concept of the 'fetishism of commodities' and discussing the relevance of Marxian methodology to the analysis of present-day capitalism. The author's critique of the fundamental equation of growth accounting developed by Robert Solow, 'Effects of Technology on Productivity', is one of a number of theoretical papers included in this volume. It also features a series of important essays on environmental economics which the author, as a founder of the Japanese environmental movement, has written over the past half century.This collection of key articles by one of the most distinguished Japanese economists will be welcomed by students and practitioners in the fields of institutional and radical economics, environmental economics and the history of economic thought. The volume also includes an autobiographical essay which explains the development of Professor Tsuru's thought, his education at Harvard in the 1930s and his experience of post-war Japan. The Economic Development of Modern Japan, the second volume of Shigeto Tsuru's selected essays, is also published by Edward Elgar.Trade Review'Shigeto Tsuru has been the bridge between mainstream economics and Japanese Marxist thought. Ten years at Harvard and a key player in the post war MacArthur Administration, he was Schumpeter's personal assistant and a recognized expert on Keynes and Marx. Tsuru's collected papers are a testament no one interested in Japanese intellectuals should miss.' -- Paul A. Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'. . . a highly original work of scholarship which will be immensely appreciated. . . . this is a most welcome and timely publication.' -- Ali Shamsavari, Economic Journal'In all, this volume records a remarkable intellectual and personal odyssey and will serve as a valuable introduction to Tsuru's work.' -- Anthony Brewer, The Manchester School'. . . a volume which demonstrates the enormous intellectual debt of western economics to Japan theorists such as Shigeto Tsuru.' -- Mark Gray, Asia Pacific Business ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: autobiographical. Part 1 General theory: Keynes versus Marx - the methodology of aggregates; on reproduction schemes; the effects of technology on productivity; the place of GNP; a note on capital/output ratio; towards a new political economy. Part 2 On development: the applicability and limitations of economic development theory; merits and demerits of the mixed economy in economic development - lessons from India's experience. Part 3 On Marxian economics: an aspect of Marx's methodology in economics - "The Fetishism of Commodities"; Marx's tableau economique and "Underconsumption" theory; Marx and the analysis of capitalism - a new stage on the basic contradiction?; Mr Dobbs and Marx's theory of value. Part 4 On environment: environmental pollution control in Japan; "North-South" relations on environment; energy policy and environmental considerations. Part 5 Miscellaneous essays: dialogue between Denis Diderot and Karl Marx; on the Soviet concept of national income; political economy of disarmament; economics of institutions or institutional economics.

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Book SynopsisStrategic Choice and Path-Dependency in Post-Socialism focuses on the distinctive institutional legacies of state socialism and their impact on the transformation of Poland, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia. Strategic dilemmas and problems of institutional design involved in the transition from state socialism to democratic and market-orientated societies are also addressed in this ground breaking volume.A distinguished group of scholars from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the West, addresses the transformation process from the institutional and evolutionary perspectives in political economy and the social sciences. The first part presents six essays by Western scholars reflecting on institutional design, strategic dilemmas, path-dependency, and the dynamics of post-socialism with a general relevance to the transformation process. The remaining papers provide detailed, contemporary analyses of the transformation of Poland, Hungary, and the former Czechoslovakia respectively. Each part covers the same broad set of themes so that the reader obtains an insightful and authoritative overview of the problems of institutional design, strategic dilemmas and path dependency.This strong combination of theoretically informed comparative analysis with up-to-date case studies, drawing on several years' experience of the countries discussed, will ensure that this major new volume will be welcomed by students and researchers interested in Eastern and Central Europe, comparative economics, politics and sociology.Trade Review'. . . is a stimulating and provocative book. . .' -- Martin Myant, The Economic Journal'. . . it results in a useful collection which begins to lay the basis for a better understanding of interest group dynamics in post-communist economies.'– George Blazyca, Europe-Asia StudiesTable of ContentsPart 1 Institutional design, stategic dilemmas, and the dynamics of post-Socialist transformations: designing institutions for East European transitions, Claus Offe; not by design - the myth of designer capitalism in Eastern Europe, David Stark; reflections on the fiscal crisis of post-Communist states, John L. Campbell; alternative scenarios for Central Europe, Hans van Zon. Part 2 Institutional dynamics of the transition in Poland: the free market of a social contract as bases for systemic transformation, Tadeusz Kowalik; financial crisis of the post-Socialist state - the Polish case, Stanislaw Owsiak; from corporatism to ... corporatism - the transformation of interest representation in Poland, Jan Gorniak and Jaroslaw Jerschina. Part 3 Institutional dynamics of the transition in Czechoslovakia: transition to a market economy in the former Czechoslovakia, Jan Adam; transformation of the Czech and Slovak economies 1990-1992 - design, problems, costs, Pavel Mertlik; can the Czech Republic develop a negotiated economy?, Ludek Rychetnik. Part 4 Institutional dynamics of the transition in Hungary: reforming alliances - labour, management and state bureaucracy in Hungary's economic transformation, Laszlo Bruszt; centralization, re-nationalization and redistribution - government's role in changing Hungary's ownership structure, Eva Viszka; post-Socialist transformation in Hungary? entering a second stage?, Judit Habuda.

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Book SynopsisThis five-volume collection (with individual volumes available separately) provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation approach to capitalism and its crisis-tendencies. Edited by a major British contributor to the approach, the collection includes not only key theoretical and empirical works from leading French regulationists but also representative work from other regulation schools and scholars. It also includes major critiques of the approach. Topics covered include regulationist approaches to the labour process, accumulation regimes (especially Fordism and post-Fordism), modes of social regulation, forms of state intervention, and the crisis tendencies of capitalism. Contributions cover different periods and different countries as well as different sectors and the changing global economy as a whole. The set includes both pioneer works and recent theoretical innovations and also explores the links between regulationism and other approaches, such as institutionalism, radical geography, critical discourse analysis, and feminism. This collection will be an essential reference work in institutional and evolutionary economics, in radical political economy, and in all social science disciplines concerned with capitalism and its crisis-tendencies.Trade Review‘Regulation Theory and the Crisis of Capitalism provides a comprehensive survey of the relevant literature on the topic. The collection is an essential reference wok in critical political economy. It is a more than useful starting point for those who wish to combine sociological analysis with a sound theoretical notion of contemporary capitalism.’Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: The Parisian Regulation School Acknowledgements Series Preface Bob Jessop Introduction Bob Jessop PART I BACKGROUND AND GENERAL PRESENTATION 1. Alain Lipietz (1987), ‘Rebel Sons: the Regulation School – An Interview with Alain Lipietz conducted by Jane Jenson’ 2. Robert Boyer (1990), ‘Introduction to the English-Language Edition’ 3. Alain Lipietz (1993), ‘From Althusserianism to "Regulation Theory"’ PART II SOME EARLY WORKS 4. Michel Aglietta (1978), ‘Phases of US Capital Expansion’ 5. Mike Davis (1978), ‘"Fordism" in Crisis: A Review of Michael Aglietta’s "Régulation et crises: L’expérience des États-unis"’ 6. Robert Boyer (1979), ‘Wage Formation in Historical Perspective: The French Experience’ 7. Robert Delorme (1984), ‘A New View on the Economic Theory of the State: A Case Study of France’ 8. Alain Lipietz (1982), ‘Towards Global Fordism?’ 9. Alain Lipietz (1988), ‘Accumulation, Crises, and Ways Out: Some Methodological Reflections on the Concept of "Regulation"’ 10. Alain Noël (1987), ‘Accumulation, Regulation, and Social Change: An Essay on French Political Economy’ PART III COMMENTARIES AND CRITIQUES 11. Michel De Vroey (1984), ‘A Regulation Approach Interpretation of Contemporary Crisis’ 12. Richard Barbrook (1990), ‘Mistranslations: Lipietz in London and Paris’ 13. Robert Brenner and Mark Glick (1991), ‘The Regulation Approach: Theory and History’ 14. Robert Albritton (1995), ‘Regulation Theory: A Critique’ 15. Adam Tickell and Jamie A. Peck (1992), ‘Accumulation, Regulation and the Geographies of Post-Fordism: Missing Links in Regulationist Research’ Name Index Volume II: European and American Perspectives on Regulation Acknowledgements Series Preface Bob Jessop Introduction Bob Jessop PART I THE GRENOBLE SCHOOL 1. Gerard Destanne de Bernis (1990), ‘On a Marxist Theory of Regulation’ 2. Gerard Destanne de Bernis (1988), ‘Propositions for an Analysis of the Crisis’ PART II SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF ACCUMULATION 3. David M. Gordon (1980), ‘Stages of Accumulation and Long Economic Cycles’ 4. Michael Reich (1997), ‘Social Structure of Accumulation Theory: Retrospect and Prospect’ PART III THE AMSTERDAM SCHOOL 5. Kees van der Pijl (1989), ‘Ruling Classes, Hegemony, and the State System: Theoretical and Historical Considerations’ 6. Henk Overbeek (1989), ‘British Capitalism at the Crossroads’ PART IV THE GERMAN REGULATION APPROACH 7. Joachim Hirsch (1990), ‘Regulation Theory and Historical-Materialistic Social Theory. Remarks on a Shaky Yet Necessary Relationship’ 8. Josef Esser and Joachim Hirsch (1989), ‘The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a "Postfordist" Regional and Urban Structure’ 9. Juergen Haeusler and Joachim Hirsch (1989), ‘Political Regulation: The Crisis of Fordism and the Transformation of the Party System in West Germany’ PART V NORDIC MODELS 10. Lars Mjøset (1987), ‘Nordic Economic Policies in the 1970s and 1980s’ 11. Lars Mjøset (1992), ‘The Nordic Model Never Existed, but Does it Have a Future?’ PART VI COMMENTARIES AND CRITIQUES 12. Bob Jessop (1990), ‘Regulation Theories in Retrospect and Prospect’ 13. David M. Kotz (1990), ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Theory of Regulation and the Social Structure of Accumulation Theory’ 14. Werner Bonefeld (1994), ‘Aglietta in England: Bob Jessop’s Contribution to the Regulation Approach’ 15. Colin Hay (1994), ‘Werner in Wunderland, or Notes on a Marxism Beyond Pessimism and False Optimism’ 16. Michael J. Webber and David L. Rigby (1996), ‘Competing Theories of Postwar Growth and Change’ Name Index Volume III: Regulationist Perspectives on Fordism and Post-Fordism Acknowledgements Series Preface Bob Jessop Introduction Bob Jessop PART I INTRODUCTION TO KEY ISSUES AND APPROACHES 1. Mark J. Elam (1990), ‘Puzzling Out the Postfordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions’ 2. Bob Jessop (1992), ‘Fordism and Post-Fordism: A Critical Reformulation’ PART II THE ORIGINS OF THE FORDIST LABOUR PROCESS 3. Carl H.A. Dassbach (1991), ‘The Origins of Fordism: The Introduction of Mass Production and the Five-Dollar Wage’ 4. Bruce Pietrykowski (1995), ‘Fordism at Ford: Spatial Decentralization and Labor Segmentation at the Ford Motor Company, 1920–1950’ 5. Anson G. Rabinbach (1993), ‘Science, Work, and Worktime’ PART III THE CRISIS OF FORDISM 6. Robert Boyer (1987), ‘Labour Flexibilities: Many Forms, Uncertain Effects’ 7. Annemieke J.M. Roobeek (1987), ‘The Crisis in Fordism and the Rise of a New Technological Paradigm’ 8. Robert Boyer (1991), ‘The Eighties: The Search for Alternatives to Fordism’ 9. Andrew Glyn (1990), ‘Productivity and the Crisis of Fordism’ 10. Karel Williams, Tony Cutler, John Williams and Colin Haslam (1987), ‘The End of Mass Production?’ PART IV BEYOND FORDISM TO ...? 11. Horst Kern and Michael Schuman (1989), ‘New Concepts of Production in West German Plants’ 12. Michael Schumann (1998), ‘New Concepts of Production and Productivity’ 13. Heidi Gottfried (1995), ‘Developing Neo-Fordism: A Comparative Perspective’ 14. Stephen Wood (1993), ‘The Japanization of Fordism’ 15. Knuth Dohse, Ulrich Jürgens and Thomas Malsch (1985) ‘From "Fordism" to "Toyotism"? The Social Organization of the Labor Process in the Japanese Automobile Industry’ 16. Danièle Leborgne and Alain Lipietz (1992), ‘Conceptual Fallacies and Open Questions on Post-Fordism’ 17. Gaëtan Tremblay (1995), ‘The Information Society: From Fordism to Gatesism’ 18. Sean Digiovanna (1996), ‘Industrial Districts and Regional Economic Development: A Regulation Approach’ PART V GENERAL REVIEWS 19. Andrew Sayer (1989), ‘Postfordism in Question’ 20. Fiorenza Belussi and Francesco Garibaldo (1996), ‘Variety of Pattern of the Post-Fordist Economy: Why are the "Old Times" Still with Us and the "New Times" Yet to Come?’ 21. Jamie Gough (1992), ‘Where’s the Value in "Post-Fordism"?’ 22. Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin (1992), ‘Flexible Specialization versus Post-Fordism: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications’ Name Index Volume IV: Country Studies Acknowledgements Series Preface Bob Jessop Introduction Bob Jessop PART I NORTH AMERICA 1. Victor D. Lippit (1997), ‘The Reconstruction of a Social Structure of Accumulation in the United States’ 2. Jane Jenson (1990), ‘Representations in Crisis: The Roots of Canada’s Permeable Fordism’ PART II EUROPE 3. Otto Holman (1987–88), ‘Semiperipheral Fordism in Southern Europe: The National and International Context of Socialist-led Governments in Spain, Portugal, and Greece, in Historical Perspective’ 4. Miguel Martinez Lucio and Paul Blyton (1995), ‘Constructing the Post-Fordist State? The Politics of Labour Market Flexibility in Spain’ 5. Bob Jessop (1989), ‘Conservative Regimes and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Cases of Great Britain and West Germany’ 6. Jamie A. Peck and Adam Tickell (1992), ‘Local Modes of Social Regulation? Regulation Theory, Thatcherism and Uneven Development’ 7. Winfried Ruigrok and Rob van Tulder (1996), ‘The Price of Diversity: Rival Concepts of Control as a Barrier to an EU Industrial Strategy’ PART III SOUTH AFRICA 8. Nicoli Nattrass (1992), ‘Profitability: The Soft Underbelly of South African Regulation/SSA Analysis’ 9. Christian M. Rogerson (1991), ‘Beyond Racial Fordism: Restructuring Industry in the "New" South Africa’ PART IV JAPAN 10. Martin Kenney and Richard Florida (1988), ‘Beyond Mass Production: Production and the Labor Process in Japan’ 11. Benjamin Coriat (1993), ‘Neither Pre- nor Post-Fordism: An Original and New Way of Managing the Labour Process’ 12. Tatsuo Naruse (1991), ‘Taylorism and Fordism in Japan’ 13. J.A. Peck and Y. Miyamachi (1993/1994), ‘What’s Ford Got To Do With It? Regulation Theory and Japanese Capitalism’ PART V OTHER EAST ASIAN SOCIETIES 14. Alice H. Amsden (1990), ‘Third World Industrialization: "Global Fordism" or a New Model?’ 15. Ngai-Ling Sum (1998), ‘Theorizing Export-Oriented Economic Development in East Asian Newly-Industrializing Countries: A Regulationist Perspective’ 16. Seongjin Jeong (1997), ‘The Social Structure of Accumulation in South Korea: Upgrading or Crumbling?’ PART VI SOCIALISM AND POST-SOCIALISM 17. Robert Boyer (1995), ‘The Great Transformation of Eastern Europe: A "Regulationist" Perspective’ 18. Adrian Smith and Adam Swain (1998), ‘Regulating and Institutionalising Capitalisms: The Micro-foundations of Transformation in Eastern and Central Europe’ 19. Ulrich Voskamp and Volker Wittke (1991), ‘Industrial Restructuring in the Former German Democratic Republic (GDR): Barriers to Adaptive Reform Become Downward Development Spirals’ Name Index Volume V: Developments and Extensions Acknowledgements Series Preface Bob Jessop Introduction Bob Jessop PART I RECENT THEORETICAL INNOVATIONS 1. Robert Salais and Michael Storper (1992), ‘The Four "Worlds" of Contemporary Industry’ 2. John Wilkinson (1997), ‘A New Paradigm for Economic Analysis? Recent Convergences in French Social Science and an Exploration of the Convention Theory Approach with a Consideration of its Application to the Analysis of the Agrofood System’ 3. Joe Painter (1997), ‘Regulation, Regime, and Practice in Urban Politics’ PART II SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITY POLITICS 4. Margit Mayer and Roland Roth (1995), ‘New Social Movements and the Transformation to Post-Fordist Society’ 5. George Steinmetz (1994), ‘Regulation Theory, Post-Marxism, and the New Social Movements’ 6. Jane Jenson (1991), ‘Thinking (a Feminist) History: The Regulation Approach as Theatre’ PART III SPACE AND SCALE 7. Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw and Patricia Wilson (1988), ‘Spatial Responses to Fordist and Post-Fordist Accumulation and Regulation’ 8. Chris Collinge (1999), ‘Self-organisation of Society by Scale: A Spatial Reworking of Social Regulation Theory’ 9. Erik Swyngedouw (1997), ‘Neither Global Nor Local: "Glocalization" and the Politics of Scale’ PART IV CITIES 10. Pierre Filion (1995), ‘Fordism, Post-Fordism and Urban Policy-Making: Urban Renewal in a Medium-Size Canadian City’ 11. Myung-Rae Cho (1997), ‘Flexibilization Through Metropolis: The Case of Postfordist Seoul, Korea’ 12. Neil Brenner (1999), ‘Globalisation as Reterritorialisation: The Re-scaling of Urban Governance in the European Union’ PART V GLOBALISATION 13. David M. Gordon (1988), ‘The Global Economy: New Edifice or Crumbling Foundations?’ 14. Harriet Friedmann (1991), ‘New Wines, New Bottles: The Regulation of Capital on a World Scale’ 15. Bob Jessop (1999), ‘Reflections on Globalisation and its (Il)logic(s)’ PART VI SOME EMERGING ISSUES 16. Alfredo C. Robles, Jr. (1995), ‘Global Governance and Political Economy: German and French Perspectives’ 17. Bob Jessop (1995), ‘The Regulation Approach, Governance and Post-Fordism: Alternative Perspectives on Economic and Political Change?’ 18. Mary Nolan (1990), ‘"Housework Made Easy": The Taylorized Housewife in Weimar Germany’s Rationalized Economy’ 19. Philip Arestis and Eleni Paliginis (1995), ‘Fordism, Post-Fordism and Gender’ 20. Alain Lipietz (1996), ‘Geography, Ecology, Democracy’ PART VII RECENT REVIEWS 21. Bob Jessop (1997), ‘Twenty Years of the (Parisian) Regulation Approach: The Paradox of Success and Failure at Home and Abroad’ 22. Gordon MacLeod (1997), ‘Globalizing Parisian Thought-waves: Recent Advances in the Study of Social Regulation, Discourse, Politics, Discourse and Space’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first comprehensive and accessible account of the evolution of exchange rate regimes in the twentieth century. It presents a chronological, non-technical history and in doing so manages to link the past with the present to shed new light on the merits of different exchange rate systems.Since the golden age before the First World War, the international monetary system has experienced several changes in exchange rate regimes, alternating between fixed and floating rate systems interspersed with managed or dirty floats. The authors examine and assess the evolution of exchange rate regimes since the First World War to the present day. They discuss the forces that have brought about change in order to determine how different regimes affected the economic environment. They consider the merits or otherwise of the respective regimes and assess the evidence and arguments for and against fixed and floating exchange rate systems.Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century provides a coherent and manageable analysis of a complex subject. It will prove invaluable to both undergraduates and postgraduates studying economic history, international economics and international studies.Trade Review'This book provides an accessible survey of the substantial literature that has now accumulated on exchange-rate regimes in the twentieth century . . . a welcome addition to the literature.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. The Restoration of Monetary Stability in the 1920s 2. The New Gold Standard and its Disintegration 3. Life after Gold: Currency Regimes of the 1930s 4. The Bretton Woods Era 5. The Aftermath of Bretton Woods 6. The Evolution of the European Monetary System 7. Do Monetary Systems Matter? References Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, privatisation has been a key policy instrument in the move to more market-based economic systems in all parts of the developing world. Privatisation, however, has not necessarily been accompanied by an increase in market competition. In recent years, many public utilities have been privatised as monopolies and in addition regulatory systems have been developed to restrict their market power and protect the interests of consumers. These authoritative volumes bring together a collection of important papers that have shed new theoretical and empirical insights into privatisation and regulation and have provided new policy perspectives in relation to developing countries. Privatisation in Developing Countries will appeal to policymakers and researchers at the forefront of economic policy debates in developing countries.Trade Review’These volumes not only serve as essential reference works for students but also contain thought-provoking articles on the chosen themes.’Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction PART I PRIVATISATION AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 1. Nicholas Kaldor (1980), ‘Public or Private Enterprise – the Issues to be Considered’ 2. Leroy P. Jones and Edward S. Mason (1982), ‘Role of Economic Factors in Determining the Size and Structure of the Public-Enterprise Sector in Less-Developed Countries with Mixed Economies’ 3. World Bank (1983), ‘Managing State-Owned Enterprises’ 4. Mahmood A. Ayub and Sven O. Hegstad (1987), ‘Management of Public Industrial Enterprises’ 5. John F. Coburn and Lawrence H. Wortzel (1986), ‘The Problem of Public Enterprise in Developing Countries: Is Privatization the Solution?’ 6. Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (1988), ‘Privatisation in Less Developed Countries: An Overview’ 7. Nicolas Van De Walle (1989), ‘Privatization in Developing Countries: A Review of the Issues’ 8. William Glade (1989), ‘Privatization in Rent-Seeking Societies’ 9. Heidi Vernon-Wortzel and Lawrence H. Wortzel (1989), ‘Privatization: Not the Only Answer’ 10. David Heald (1990), ‘The Relevance of Privatization to Developing Economies’ 11. Jose Edgardo Campos and Hadi Salehi Esfahani (1996), ‘Why and When Do Governments Initiate Public Enterprise Reform?’ PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRIVATISATION 12. Yair Aharoni (1982), ‘State-Owned Enterprise: An Agent Without a Principal’ 13. John Vickers and George Yarrow (1988), ‘Ownership and Incentives’ 14. John Vickers and George Yarrow (1988), ‘Competitive Forces’ 15. Carl Shapiro and Robert D. Willig (1990), ‘Economic Rationales for the Scope of Privatization’ 16. Dieter Bös and Wolfgang Peters (1991), ‘A Principal-Agent Approach on Manager Effort and Control in Privatized and Public Firms’ 17. Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1996), ‘A Theory of Privatisation’ 18. Stephen Martin and David Parker (1997), ‘Privatisation: The Conceptual Framework’ 19. George Yarrow (1999), ‘A Theory of Privatization, or Why Bureaucrats are Still in Business’ PART III REGULATION THEORY AND POLICY 20. David E.M. Sappington and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1987), ‘Information and Regulation’ 21. Robert D. Willig (1993), ‘Public versus Regulated Private Enterprise’ 22. Leroy P. Jones (1993), ‘Appropriate Regulatory Technology: The Interplay of Economic and Institutional Conditions’ PART IV COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES 23. Robert Millward and David M. Parker (1983), ‘Public and Private Enterprise: Comparative Behaviour and Relative Efficiency’ 24. Yair Aharoni (1986), ‘Measuring the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises’ 25. Peter Nunnenkamp (1986), ‘State Enterprises in Developing Countries’ 26. Robert Millward (1988), ‘Measured Sources of Inefficiency in the Performance of Private and Public Enterprises in LDCs’ Name Index Volume II: Acknowledgements • An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in volume I PART I POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF PRIVATISATION 1. Henry Bienen and John Waterbury (1989), ‘The Political Economy of Privatization in Developing Countries’ 2. Paul Cook and Martin Minogue (1990), ‘Waiting for Privatization in Developing Countries: Towards the Integration of Economic and Non-Economic Explanations’ 3. Mary M. Shirley (1997), ‘The Economics and Politics of Government Ownership’ 4. Paul Cook (1997), ‘Privatization, Public Enterprise Reform and the World Bank: Has “Bureaucrats in Business” Got It Right?’ PART II EXPERIENCE WITH REGULATION 5. Brian Levy and Pablo T. Spiller (1993), ‘Regulation, Institutions, and Committment in Telecommunications: A Comparative Analysis of Five Country Studies’ 6. Björn Wellenius and Peter A. Stern (1994), ‘Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector: Background, Overview, and Lessons’ PART III RESULTS OF PRIVATISATION 7. Richard Hemming and Ali M. Mansoor (1988), ‘Privatization and Public Enterprises’ 8. Ali Mansoor (1988), ‘The Fiscal Impact of Privatisation’ 9. Ahmed Galal, Leroy Jones, Pankaj Tandon and Ingo Vogelsang (1994), ‘Divestiture: Questions and Answers’ 10. Christopher Adam (1994), ‘Privatization and Structural Adjustment in Africa’ 11. Frank Sader (1995), ‘Privatizing Public Enterprises and Foreign Investment in Developing Countries, 1988–93’ 12. Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (1995), ‘Privatisation Policy and Performance’ 13. Armando Castelar Pinheiro and Ben Ross Schneider (1995), ‘The Fiscal Impact of Privatisation in Latin America’ 14. V. Bhaskar and Mushtaq Khan (1995), ‘Privatization and Employment: A Study of the Jute Industry in Bangladesh’ 15. Patrick Plane (1997), ‘Privatization and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation from a Sample of Developing Market Economies’ 16. Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (1998), ‘Privatization, Employment and Social Protection in Developing Countries’ 17. Sunita Kikeri (1998), ‘Privatization and Labor: What Happens to Workers When Governments Divest?’ 18. Narjess Boubakri and Jean-Claude Cosset (1998), ‘The Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms: Evidence from Developing Countries’ 19. William L. Megginson, Robert C. Nash and Matthias Van Randenborgh (1994), ‘The Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms: An International Empirical Analysis’ PART IV LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE 20. Colin Kirkpatrick (1988), ‘The UK Privatisation Model: Is it Transferable to Developing Countries?’ 21. Sunita Kikeri, John Nellis and Mary Shirley (1994), ‘Privatization: Lessons from Market Economies’ 22. Paul Bennell (1997), ‘Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the 1990s’ 23. C.C. White and A. Bhatia (1998), ‘Assessing Privatization Programs in Africa’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis important and original dictionary presents for the first time in an easily accessible form a wide range of terms and concepts used in free-market economics. It includes entries on theories of the market economy, as well as empirical studies of economic freedom and informative biographies of free-market economists. Standard dictionaries in economics often omit many terms used in free-market economics, and also place a different interpretation on some terms and concepts, such as 'intervention', 'regulation', 'ownership and 'public goods'. In addition, they often do not include references on important and controversial topics such as free banking. This Dictionary includes definitive entries that are not covered elsewhere, as well as explaining key terms and concepts from the Austrian, Chicago, Virginia Public Choice, Law and Economics and Georgists schools of thought. It also incorporates the essential points of a particular topic, concept or term used in law, finance and classical liberal philosophy as well as many basic terms used in economics. Sorted alphabetically, with extensive cross-referencing this dictionary provides concise and clear definitions of common as well as less well known concepts used in free-market economics.This Dictionary will be an essential source of reference for all those in the public choice and Austrian schools as well as those with an interest in free-market economics.Trade Review'The dictionary is sorted alphabetically with extensive cross-referencing. A solid bibliography of source materials is also provided. This book is valuable to the student of economics and to the professor as well. Librarians will love it too for the short concise definitions.'

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Book SynopsisSuccessful Transformations? contrasts the recent experience of economic development in Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic. It provides a comparative up-to-date account critically assessing the transition from central planning to a free market economy. The book highlights the very different paths that these two economies have taken. Eastern Germany has been absorbed almost entirely into the political and economic framework of West Germany. In contrast the Czech Republic - which is widely acclaimed to have made the speediest transition - has from the outset adopted an independent line. The book illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of these two different paths and addresses the key question as to whether the relative success of these two economies can point to a special policy regime which might aid economic transition in other former communist countries.Trade Review'Taken together, the eight chapters are an extremely good account of these two experiences, show clear strengths and weaknesses of the transition processes, and present facts enough to be open to a wide readership. Some interesting points are put forward and the authors offer guidance on transitional tactics.' -- Bruno S. Sergi, KyklosTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The East German Transformation 1. East Germany’s Way 2. The Role of the Treuhandanstalt 3. East Germany’s New Firms Part II: The Economic Transformation in the Czech Republic 4. Stability Before Growth? 5. An Incomplete Transformation? 6. Transforming Czech Enterprises 7. The Restructuring of Industry Part III: Conclusion 8. Towards Sustainable Growth?

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Book SynopsisThis highly original new book examines the scientific status of economics from the perspective of practising economists. It studies how they evaluate their theories, the relationship between those theories and the phenomena they are intended to represent, and the philosophy, methodology and scientific credentials of economics. It examines the tension between economics as the logic of rational choice and as a predictive science, that is reason and reality respectively.It surveys the five most influential schools of thought in the methodology of economics, with special emphasis on theory appraisal: logical positivism, instrumentalism, a priorism, scientific realism and rhetorical analysis. Professor Fox assesses the extent to which economists have followed the precepts and consequences of their methodological position. He extends the discussion to consider the purpose of such economic inquiry, the scope of application and the appropriate structure of economic theory, as the legitimate sources of economic knowledge. In conclusion he argues that a resolution of existing and emerging methodological controversies in economics must begin with a better understanding of the various voices within the discipline.Intended as an introduction to the major schools of thought in economics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of economics, philosophy and economic methodology.Trade Review'Economists are producers of economic knowledge. But what is the relation of that knowledge to the object of inquiry and to the mode of analysis? The status of a statement of knowledge depends on the positions economists accept in such matters. But economists have quite different perceptions of both the object of inquiry and their mode(s) of analysis. Glenn Fox presents the issues and the positions involved in these matters in a rich and lucid manner. His book is a superb introduction to methodological issues for the beginner and a suggestive review for the specialist.' -- Warren J. Samuels, Michigan State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Is there a Crisis in Economics? 2. How do Economists Know What They Know? 3. What is Methodology? 4. Economics as Positivism and Falsificationism 5. Economics as Prediction 6. Economics as Deduction 7. Economics as Realism 8. Economics as Conversation and Rhetoric 9. Is Economics a Science? Index

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Book SynopsisSince 1986 Laos has been engaged in radical reform designed to transform its repressed socialist economy into a market economy open to international trade and investment.The Economics of Transition in Laos analyses the successes and failures of economic transition in the context of the institutional and political constraints faced by the reform process. It focuses on the change from a socialist economic system to a market-orientated system, and the transfer from subsistence to market agriculture. Special attention is given to the integration of Laos into the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The author shows that this integration into ASEAN is likely to be an important determining factor in the transformation of Laos into a successful market economy.This authoritative book, the first of its kind, will prove essential reading to social scientists concerned with Southeast Asia, transition or development issues, and to all those interested in contemporary Indochina.Trade Review'This book provides the reader with an intelligent and clear overview of the Lao economy in the past 20 years, and is the only book I know of dedicated to purely economic questions.' -- Grant Evans, Journal of Agrarian Change'. . . Bourdet's work is a most useful and scholarly addition to the literature on Laos.'– Paul Reddicliffe, Asian AffairsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Reforming Laos’ Economic System: The First Venture 1986–1990 3. Rural Reforms and Agricultural Productivity 4. Macroeconomic Evaluation of Laos’ Transition Mix 5. Fiscal Policy in Transition 6. Labour Market Adjustment 7. The Regional Dimension References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Russian labour market has been hailed by some economists as being 'perfectly flexible' because Russia has achieved enormous employment restructuring with minimal unemployment, and by others as plagued by rigidities since pay structures have been frozen, inequality has increased and job creation has been negligible. Such disagreements reflect both the lack of serious research on the formation of a labour market in Russia and the lack of theoretical agreement as to what constitutes a labour market.Simon Clarke addresses these empirical and theoretical issues on the basis of statistical survey and case study data collected within the framework of a large-scale collaborative research programme on the restructuring of labour and employment in Russia. The book reviews the historical context, the statistical data and the theoretical issues before proceeding to a detailed analysis of the development of the labour market in the interaction of the labour market strategies of employers and employees.The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia will be of interest to scholars of transition studies and labour economics, industrial relations specialists and sociologists of labour.Trade Review'Rich in documentation and precise in analysis. . . this volume will. . . engage the labour specialist and inform the interested Russian generalist as well.' -- Walter D. Connor, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia? 2. The Russian Labour Market 3. Management Employment Strategy 4. The Motivation of Workers and the Russian Labour Market 5. Labour Market Behaviour: How do People Get Their Jobs? 6. Appendix: Sources of Data on Income and Employment References Index

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Book SynopsisPrivatization is now a universal practice and is the result of a set of interrelated factors, all of which are explored in this collection. Privatization has also become an academic industry, generating a vast outpouring of books and articles.This authoritative two volume collection, which includes a new introduction by the editors, concentrates on the public policy of privatization, and explores its dimensions by presenting key theoretical and empirical articles. The volumes are also clearly interdisciplinary, bringing together for the first time articles informed by political science, economics and sociology.The collection will be invaluable for both practitioners and academics, especially those involved in the study of applied economics, public policy and political science.Trade Review'This is a very impressive collection of articles on the extent of privatisation, the reasons for privatising put forward by its proponents, the theoretical issues raised, its political and institutional dimensions, and its impact in economic and political terms. Taken from a very wide range of journals, the papers provide a comprehensive coverage of an important topic.' -- Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Methods, Techniques and Types 1. Lucas J. Wilson (1998), ‘Privatisations in 1996: Another Record Year’ 2. OECD (1997), ‘Privatisation: Recent Trends’ 3. Stephen Young (1986), ‘The Nature of Privatisation in Britain, 1979–85’ 4. Kostas Lavdas (1996), ‘The Political Economy of Privatization in Southern Europe’ 5. Jan Winiecki (1992), ‘Major Privatization Differences between East and West’ 6. Thomas J. Hyclak and Arthur E. King (1994), ‘The Privatisation Experience in Eastern Europe’ 7. Ira W. Lieberman (1997), ‘Introduction: Mass Privatization in Comparative Perspective’ 8. Simon Commander and Tony Killick (1988), ‘Privatisation in Developing Countries: A Survey of the Issues’ 9. Shaoguang Wang (1994), ‘The Compatibility of Public Ownership and the Market Economy: A Great Debate in China’ Part II: Reasons and Rationalizations 10. John Moore ([1983]1986), ‘Why Privatise?’ 11. Carl Shapiro and Robert D. Willig (1990), ‘Economic Rationales for the Scope of Privatization’ 12. Cento Veljanovski (with Mark Bentley) (1987), ‘Property Rights and Industrial Performance’ 13. Louis De Alessi (1987), ‘Property Rights and Privatization’ 14. Dieter Bös and Wolfgang Peters (1991), ‘A Principal-Agent Approach on Manager Effort and Control in Privatized and Public Firms’ 15. Piotr Jasinski (1992), ‘The Transfer and Redefinition of Property Rights: Theoretical Analysis of Transferring Property Rights and Transformational Privatisation in the Post-STEs’ 16. Jonathan Bradley (1996), ‘Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: Models and Ideologies’ Part III: The Political Dimensions 17. Steve H. Hanke and Stephen J.K. Walters (1990), ‘Privatization and Public Choice: Lessons for the LDCs’ 18. David Stark (1994), ‘Path Dependence and Privatization Strategies in East-Central Europe’ 19. Pierre Guislain (1997), ‘Privatization and Basic Legal Norms’ 20. Douglass C. North (1992), ‘Privatization, Incentives, and Economic Performance’ 21. Jeremy J. Richardson, William A. Maloney and Wolfgang Rüdig (1992), ‘The Dynamics of Policy Change: Lobbying and Water Privatization’ 22. Ellen M. Pint (1990), ‘Nationalization and Privatization: A Rational-Choice Perspective on Efficiency’ 23. Patrick Dunleavy (1986), ‘Explaining the Privatization Boom: Public Choice Versus Radical Approaches’ 24. Carles Boix (1997), ‘Privatizing the Public Business Sector in the Eighties: Economic Performance, Partisan Responses and Divided Governments’ Name Index Volume II Part I: The Political Dimensions 1. Harvey B. Feigenbaum and Jeffrey R. Henig (1994), ‘The Political Underpinnings of Privatization: A Typology’ 2. Roland Czada (1996), ‘The Treuhandanstalt and the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism’ 3. Pierre Guislain (1997), ‘Institutional Framework for Privatization’ 4. Constance Squires Meaney (1995), ‘Foreign Experts, Capitalists, and Competing Agendas: Privatization in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary’ 5. Alex Danso (1992), ‘Privatization of State Owned Enterprises in Africa: The Case of Ghana’ 6. Nicholas Buttle (1996), ‘Privatization and Ethics’ 7. Gawdat Bahgat (1993), ‘Privatization and Democratization in the Arab World: Is There a Connection?’ 8. Michael McFaul (1995), ‘State Power, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Privatization in Russia’ 9. Pita Ogaba Agbese (1992), ‘Moral Economy and the Expansion of the Privatisation Constituency in Nigeria’ Part II: The Impact 10. Yair Aharoni (1991), ‘On Measuring the Success of Privatization’ 11. Giandomenico Majone (1994), ‘Paradoxes of Privatization and Deregulation’ 12. Dieter Bös (1991), ‘Arguments on Privatization’ 13. William L. Megginson, Robert C. Nash and Matthias van Randenborgh (1996), ‘The Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms: An International Empirical Analysis’ 14. Anthony E. Boardman and Aidan R. Vining (1989), ‘Ownership and Performance in Competitive Environments: A Comparison of the Performance of Private, Mixed, and State-Owned Enterprises’ 15. Gladstone Hutchinson (1991), ‘Efficiency Gains Through Privatization of UK Industries’ 16. Werner Baer (1994), ‘Privatisation in Latin America’ 17. Geisa Maria Rocha (1994), ‘Redefining the Role of the Bourgeoisie in Dependent Capitalist Development: Privatization and Liberalization in Brazil’ 18. Mary M. Shirley (1994), ‘Privatization in Latin America: Lessons for Transitional Europe’ 19. Nazih N. Ayubi (1992), ‘Political Correlates of Privatization Programs in the Middle East’ 20. Yudit Kiss (1994), ‘Privatization Paradoxes in East Central Europe’ 21. Vincent Wright (1995), ‘Industrial and Banking Privatization in Western Europe: Some Public Policy Paradoxes’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the financialization of capital. The geographical diffusion of market relations has continued and with it the dominance of capital in all realms of social reproduction. In charting this change, the book offers an alternative view of contemporary capitalism.It has been suggested that we are entering a new phase where the 'globalization' of economic activities is fully achieved, where 'post-Fordist' regulation has overcome the crisis of Keynesian capitalism, and where the dominant tendency is towards the 'end of work'. In contrast to this view, the authors of this book argue that current internationalization is not a structure, but a contradictory process and that new patterns in the division of labour while successful in increasing the pressure over workers have not been able to supersede Fordism entirely. They conclude that the slow growth of the economies, caused by neoliberal economic policies, is a crucial factor in explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour.Trade Review'This book swims against the current of orthodox assertions and offers a realistic theoretical analysis that supports labor's emancipation.' -- Stavros D. Mavroudeas, Review of Political EconomyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. After Fordism, What? Capitalism at the End of the Century 2. Structural Unemployment in the Crisis of the Late Twentieth Century 3. Which Europe Do We Need Now? Which can we get? 4. Britain under ‘New Labour’ 5. The Euro and Europe’s Labour 6. The Accumulation Process in Japan and East Asia as Compared with the Role of Germany in European Post-war Growth 7. Historical Notes on the Rise and Fall of Fordism and Flexible Accumulation in the United States 8. Lean Production in North America 9. Management-by-Stress and Skilled Work 10. Is Technical Change the Cause of Unemployment? 11. Intensive and Extensive Investment, Employment and Working Time in the European Union 12. The Transformation of the Italian Labour Market 13. Changing Patterns in the Division of Labour and in the Segmentation of the Labour Force Index

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Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century, rivalry existed between centrally planned and capitalist solutions to the problems of economic stability and growth. This changed in the 1990s. In that same decade, the period of rapid growth of the Japanese economy came to an end and by the close of the century, the American model of capitalism was seen as the only possible option.Modern capitalism has achieved spectacular rates of innovation and growth but the system is still menaced by financial crises and economic recessions. Furthermore, there is an unacknowledged diversity of capitalist systems. Contributors to this volume argue that to understand capitalism in evolution, this diversity of systems and approaches must be taken into account and their individual evolutions analysed.This book represents a major understanding of the evolution of capitalism in the twenty first century and brings together a distinguished group of experts with perspectives from America, Europe and Japan.Trade Review'. . . this collection will be useful to economic and business historians in reminding them that capitalism is not a monolithic and unvarying economic system.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: General Theoretical Perspectives Part II: Theoretical Perspectives on Varieties of Capitalism Part III: Global Paths of Capitalist Development Index

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Book SynopsisAgricultural politics and policy retain a central place in the politics of advanced industrial societies. Governments in most countries continue to subsidise agricultural production and regulate markets for farm commodities. The growth of concern about the environmental impact of agriculture has added a new dimension to the sector's politics. Tensions between the US and the EU over the protection of agriculture remain a major feature. New Zealand offers an interesting example of an experiment with deregulated and liberalised agriculture, while Japanese agriculture continues to be highly protected. All these topics are covered in this two volume set, which brings together the best writing on the subject from leading agricultural economists, political scientists and rural sociologists from across the world.Trade Review'This large collection of forty-eight articles is extremely useful for specialists in agricultural policy and showcases the strengths in this literature. It provides convenient access to a wealth of information on agricultural policy and the factors driving its development, particularly within Europe. . . . The strength of this collection is its disciplinary breadth. The editors have selected articles from economics, sociology, public administration, political science, and public policy journals.' -- Elizabeth Moore, Canadian Public AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Agricultural Policy in Western Europe Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I Theoretical Perspectives 1. Johan F.M. Swinnen (1994), ‘A Positive Theory of Agricultural Protection’ 2. Grant Jordan, William A. Maloney and Andrew M. McLaughlin (1994), ‘Characterizing Agricultural Policy-making’ 3. Martin J. Smith (1989), ‘Changing Agendas and Policy Communities: Agricultural Issues in the 1930s and 1980s’ 4. John T.S. Keeler (1981), ‘Corporatism and Official Union Hegemony: The Case of French Agricultural Syndicalism’ 5. Neil Collins (1995), ‘Agricultural Policy Networks of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland’ 6. Martin J. Smith (1991), ‘From Policy Community to Issue Network: Salmonella in Eggs and the New Politics of Food’ 7. William D. Coleman, Grace D. Skogstad and Michael M. Atkinson (1997), ‘Paradigm Shifts and Policy Networks: Cumulative Change in Agriculture’ 8. Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael (1989), ‘Agriculture and the State System: The Rise and Decline of National Agricultures, 1870 to the Present’ Part II The Common Agricultural Policy and the Politics of Reform 9. Rosemary Fennell (1985), ‘A Reconsideration of the Objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy’ 10. Alan Swinbank (1989), ‘The Common Agricultural Policy and the Politics of European Decision Making’ 11. Eduardo Moyano Estrada (1995), ‘Farmers’ Unions and the Restructuring of European Agriculture’ 12. Alan Swinbank (1993), ‘CAP Reform, 1992’ 13. H. Wayne Moyer (1993), ‘The European Community and the GATT Uruguay Round: Preserving the Common Agricultural Policy at All Costs’ 14. Wyn Grant (1995), ‘The Limits of Common Agricultural Policy Reform and the Option of Denationalization’ 15. John T.S. Keeler (1996), ‘Agricultural Power in the European Community: Explaining the Fate of CAP and GATT Negotiations’ 16. L.P. Mahé and T.L. Roe (1996), ‘The Political Economy of Reforming the 1992 CAP Reform,’ 17. Douglas Webber (1998), ‘High Midnight in Brussels: An Analysis of the September 1993 Council Meeting on the GATT Uruguay Round’ Part III National Perspectives on Agricultural Reform 18. Paul J. Epstein (1997), ‘Beyond Policy Community: French Agriculture and the GATT’ 19. William James Adams (1999), ‘The Political Economy of Agriculture in France’s Fifth Republic’ 20. Carsten Daugbjerg (1997), ‘Policy Networks and Agricultural Policy Reforms: Explaining Deregulation in Sweden and Re-Regulation in the European Community’ 21. S. von Cramon-Taubadel (1993), ‘The Reform of the CAP from a German Perspective’ 22. Enrico Capo (1995), ‘Transformation and Development in Italian Rural Society’ 23. Andrew Fearne (1991), ‘The Administration of EC Agricultural Policies by National Agencies’ Name Index Volume II: Agricultural Policy in Global Perspective Part I Agricultural Trade and the Liberalization Trend 1. T.E. Josling (1993), ‘Agriculture in a World of Trading Blocs’ 2. David Blandford and Joe Dewbre (1994), ‘Structural Adjustment and Learning to Live Without Subsidies in OECD Countries’ 3. Robert Paarlberg (1997), ‘Agricultural Policy Reform and the Uruguay Round: Synergistic Linkage in a Two-Level Game’ 4. Judith Goldstein (1989), ‘The Impact of Ideas on Trade Policy: The Origins of U.S. Agricultural and Manufacturing Policies’ Part II The Challenge of Agricultural Reform: Three Case Studies A The United States 5. Kenneth Finegold (1981), ‘From Agrarianism to Adjustment: The Political Origins of New Deal Agricultural Policy’ 6. Gregory Hooks (1990), ‘From an Autonomous to a Captured State Agency: The Decline of the New Deal in Agriculture’ 7. Bruce L. Gardner (1996), ‘The Federal Government in Farm Commodity Markets: Recent Reform Efforts in a Long-Term Context’ 8. Robert Paarlberg and David Orden (1996), ‘Explaining U.S. Farm Policy in 1996 and Beyond: Changes in Party Control and Changing Market Conditions’ 9. William D. Coleman, Michael M. Atkinson and Eric Montpetit (1997), ‘Against the Odds: Retrenchment in Agriculture in France and the United States’ B New Zealand 10. Paul Cloke (1989), ‘State Deregulation and New Zealand’s Agricultural Sector’ 11. Warren E. Johnston and Gerald A.G. Frengley (1994), ‘Economic Adjustments and Changes in Financial Viability of the Farming Sector: The New Zealand Experience’ 12. Ron A. Sandrey and Grant M. Scobie (1994), ‘Changing International Competitiveness and Trade: Recent Experience in New Zealand Agriculture’ 13. Bruce L. Gardner (1994), ‘Liberalization in New Zealand Agriculture: Discussion’ 14. F.G. Scrimgeour and E.C. Pasour, Jr. (1996), ‘A Public Choice Perspective on Agricultural Policy Reform: Implications of the New Zealand Experience’ C Japan 15. Aurelia George (1991), ‘The Politics of Interest Representation in the Japanese Diet: The Case of Agriculture’ 16. Aurelia George Mulgan (1997), ‘The Role of Foreign Pressure (Gaiatsu) in Japan’s Agricultural Trade Liberalization’ 17. Robert L. Paarlberg (1990), ‘The Upside-Down World of US–Japanese Agricultural Trade’ 18. Yamaji Susumu (1979), ‘The Unsung Mainstays (2): Agriculture’ 19. Karel van Wolferen (1989), ‘The System at Work in Rural Japan’ Part III Agro-Environmental Policy 20. David Baldock (1992), ‘The Polluter Pays Principle and Its Relevance to Agricultural Policy in European Countries’ 21. Pieter Glasbergen (1992), ‘Agro-Environmental Policy: Trapped in an Iron Law? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Pollution Control in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France’ 22. Jaap Frouws and Jan van Tatenhove (1993), ‘Agriculture, Environment and the State: The Development of Agro-Environmental Policy-Making in the Netherlands’ 23. Karl Bruckmeier and Parto Teherani-Krönner (1992), ‘Farmers and Environmental Regulation: Experiences in the Federal Republic of Germany’ 24. Torben Bager and Jet Proost (1997), ‘Voluntary Regulation and Farmers’ Environmental Behaviour in Denmark and The Netherlands’ 25. Reidar Almås (1994), ‘The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Policy Cycles: from Planned Economy to Green Liberalism’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisSubregional economic cooperation has been an important yet relatively unexplored aspect of the quest by central and eastern European states to make the transition from integration in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance to full EU membership.Martin Dangerfield provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of what has clearly been the most important initiative in this respect - the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). He examines the origins, aims, objectives and structure of CEFTA as well as assessing the main results of the cooperation so far. Analysis is included on both the economic and political impact of CEFTA and its role as a pre-accession instrument to the EU. Martin Dangerfield discusses integration-deepening in the CEFTA context, the debate over institutionalization and the CEFTA enlargement process. The final part of the book examines the future viability of CEFTA in the context of the process of eastward expansion of the EU.This book will be a valuable addition to the existing literature in the area, appealing to academics and researchers in European and transition studies.Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgements Chronology Introduction 1. Socialist Economic Integration 2. Integration Strategies in Post-communist Europe 3. CEFTA: Aims and Objectives, Structure, Content and Implementation 4. CEFTA and Reintegration of Central and Eastern Europe 5. Issues and Controversies in CEFTA Cooperation 6. European Union Enlargement and the Future of CEFTA 7. Conclusion Appendices Appendix 1: Extracts from the CEFTA Treaty Appendix 2: Activities of CEFTA Joint Committee and CEFTA Summit in 1997 Appendix 3: Summary Assessment, Conclusions and Recommendations for the Improvement of Cooperation Appendix 4: The Customs Union Between the Czech Republic and Slovakia Appendix 5: Statistical Tables Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis substantial book examines key economic, political and social aspects of Malaysia at the turn of the new century. It covers the years of rapid growth and dramatic structural change leading up to the 1997 financial crisis, and the subsequent adjustments which enabled the economy to resume its vigorous advance. The authors critically address affirmative action policies aiming to help Malays enter the modern economy and make income distribution more equitable while reducing poverty. They look at case studies of persisting poverty amidst economic progress, and also scrutinize the development of East Malaysia with its special problems away from the centre of power in Kuala Lumpur. The authors review the direction of politics after Prime Minister Mahathir, as well as exploring Malaysia's foreign, education, and labour policies. They canvass the idea of a 'new Malay' better adapted to modern society, investigate the position of the Chinese, examine the struggle for women's rights within the religious framework of Islam, and discuss the contributions of Malaysian NGOs to ongoing changes. They finally draw together crucial issues facing Malaysia in the 21st century.The contributors, who are leading scholars in their spheres, have produced a wide ranging and comprehensive guide to the economy and society of Malaysia. This book will be of great value and interest to students and scholars of Asian economics, development and social studies.Trade Review'. . . a welcome addition to the otherwise scanty literature on the Malaysian economy. Useful for academic, research, and professional collections on economic development in general and Southeast Asia in particular.' -- J.S. Uppal, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: General Part II: Economics and Income Distribution Part III: Politics and Other Aspects Part IV: Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThe people of the Middle East face puzzling political realities as they enter the new millennium. Robust Western-style democracies have not yet emerged in the Middle East, yet at the same time, many Middle Eastern countries have experienced an important increase in political liberties in the last two decades.Economic Development and Political Reform addresses critical trends in the Middle Eastern political economy in the 1980s and 1990s and builds upon the cross-regional political science literature concerning political and economic reforms in the developing world. The book argues that external capital has had a decisive impact on economic and political development in the region.The author focuses mainly on Turkey, Morocco, Egypt and Kuwait and also considers important developments in other Middle Eastern countries. He demonstrates that Middle Eastern states lacking substantial exogenous revenues - including oil and foreign aid - have experienced severe fiscal crises and have been forced to pursue neo-liberal economic strategies. By contrast, those states with greater exogenous resources have undergone milder economic crises and developed more populist economic models.Providing new theoretical perspectives on Third World political and economic reform, this innovative volume will be of particular interest to political economists, international governmental and developmental organizations, international financial institutions and non-governmental organizations in this region.Trade Review'For those readers who have pondered the question of why, despite external economic aid and revenues from hydrocarbons, many Middle Eastern countries have seen little progress in either economic liberalization or democratization since the 1980s, this book offers an insightful thesis. A number of recent international events, most notably the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and the resulting war on terrorism, make a number of Bradley Louis Glasser's arguments worth reviewing. Glasser wrote this book prior to these events; however, the author gives the audience an important lesson in understanding what happens in countries where entrenched poor public policies result in failed political, economic, and social reforms. . . This is a solid and thought-provoking volume for those in the field of emerging markets and Middle Eastern studies, along with policymakers.' -- Helen El Mallakh, The Journal of Energy and Development'Bradley Glasser makes a very important contribution to the literature on Middle Eastern political economy by recasting the core concepts of the rentier state literature. This literature suggests that access to exogenous rents can militate against political liberalization and democratization. Glasser suggests that this is both mistaken and simplistic, as regimes such as those in Egypt or Kuwait in the 1980s used exogenous rents to create political openings that favour populist coalitions and non-class actors. In contrast states that lack exogenous rents such as Turkey and Morocco relied on centre right alliances comprising bourgeois groups which support the neo-liberalization promoted by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Glasser produces convincing evidence for his hypotheses in this book, which deserves to be widely read by political economists and other social scientists, especially those specializing in Middle Eastern studies.' -- Rodney Wilson, University of Durham, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Understanding the Impact of Exogenous Revenues on Political and Economic Reforms 2. The Quest for Economic Heterodoxy in the Middle East 3. The Relationship between Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: A Narrative Political Economy 4. Electoral Controls and Alliances: The Position of the Business Elite and the Center-right in the Parliament 5. Foreign Aid and Reform: The Diverging Paths of Egypt and Jordan in the 1990s 6. Distinctive Development Trajectories in the Middle East Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative three volume set brings together the most important published papers on the economic analysis of corruption and illegal markets. It ranges from theoretical issues explaining the nature of corruption to analogies between governments regulating legal markets and organised crime ruling over illegal markets. Particular attention is paid to the effects of standard public policies, such as standard controls or quality standards, on the development of shadow and illegal markets, and consequently on the incentives to invest in bribery and extortion. The book highlights the consequences of corruption both for the efficiency of a market system and on the long run growth of the economy with special reference to developing countries.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Volume I: Part I: Corruption and Allocation of Resources 1. Jeans Christopher Andvig (1991), ‘The Economics of Corruption: A Survey’ 2. Jens Chr. Andvig and Karl Ove Moene (1990), ‘How Corruption May Corrupt’ 3. Francis T. Lui (1985), ‘An Equilibrium Queuing Model of Bribery’ 4. Susan Rose-Ackerman (1975), ‘The Economics of Corruption’ 5. Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1993), ‘Corruption’ 6. Mehmet Bac (1996), ‘Corruption and Supervision Costs in Hierarchies’ 7. Mehmet Bac (1996), ‘Corruption, Supervision, and the Structure of Hierarchies’ Part II: Corruption and Game Theory 8. Paul J. Beck and Michael W. Maher (1986), ‘A Comparison of Bribery and Bidding in Thin Markets’ 9. Olivier Cadot (1987), ‘Corruption as a Gamble’ 10. Leonard Kleinrock (1967), ‘Optimum Bribing for Queue Position’ 11. Da-Hsiang Donald Lien (1986), ‘A Note on Competitive Bribery Games’ 12. Da-Hsiang Donald Lien (1987), ‘Asymmetric Information in Competitive Bribery Games’ 13. Jean Tirole (1996), ‘A Theory of Collective Reputations (With Applications to the Persistence of Corruption and to Firm Quality)’ Part III: Corruption, Bureaucracy and Public Intervention 14. Edward C. Banfield (1975), ‘Corruption as a Feature of Governmental Organization’ 15. Bruce L. Benson and John Baden (1985), ‘The Political Economy of Governmental Corruption: The Logic of Underground Government’ 16. Parkash Chander and Louis Wilde (1992), ‘Corruption in Tax Administration’ 17. Frank Flatters and W. Bentley Macleod (1995), ‘Administrative Corruption and Taxation’ 18. Melanie Manion (1996), ‘Corruption by Design: Bribery in Chinese Enterprise Licensing’ and ‘Correction to “Corruption by Design”’ 19. S. Rottenberg (1960), ‘A Theory of Corruption in Trade Unions’ 20. Barbara N. Sands (1990), ‘Decentralizing an Economy: The Role of Bureaucratic Corruption in China’s Economic Reforms’ 21. Robert Wade (1985), ‘The Market for Public Office: Why the Indian State Is Not Better at Development’ Part IV: The Social Costs of Corruption 22. P. Bardhan (1997), ‘Corruption and Development: A Review of Issues’ 23. Michael Beenstock (1979), ‘Corruption and Development’ 24. Arye L. Hilman and Eliakim Katz (1987), ‘Hierarchical Structure and the Social Costs of Bribes and Transfers’ 25. Mushtaq H. Khan (1996), ‘The Efficiency Implications of Corruption’ 26. Da-Hsiang Donald Lien (1990), ‘Corruption and Allocation Efficiency’ 27. Leong H. Liew (1992), ‘Corruption as a Form of Insurance’ 28. Oskar Kurer (1993), ‘Clientelism, Corruption, and the Allocation of Resources’ Part V: Corruption, Development and Growth 29. M.S. Alam (1990), ‘Some Economic Costs of Corruption in LDC’s’ 30. M.S. Alam (1995), ‘A Theory of Limits on Corruption and Some Applications’ 31. N. Vijay Jagannathan (1986), ‘Corruption, Delivery Systems, and Property Rights’ 32. Omotunde E.G. Johnson (1975), ‘An Economic Analysis of Corrupt Government, with Special Application to Less Developed Countries’ 33. John Macrae (1992), ‘Underdevelopment and the Economics of Corruption: A Game Theory Approach’ 34. Paolo Mauro (1995), ‘Corruption and Growth’ 35. Oluwole Owoye and Ibrahim Bendardaf (1996), ‘The Macroeconomic Analysis of the Effects of Corruption on Economic Growth of Developing Economies’ 36. Salim Rashid (1981), ‘Public Utilities in Egalitarian LDC’s: The Role of Bribery in Achieving Pareto Efficiency’ Name Index Volume II: Part I: Productive and Destructive Economic Activities 1. Jagdish N. Bhagwati (1982), ‘Directly Unproductive Profit-Seeking (DUP) Activities’ 2. William J. Baumol (1990), ‘Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive’ 3. Herschel I. Grossman and Suk JaeNoh (1990), ‘A Theory of Kleptocracy With Probabilistic Survival and Reputation’ 4. Herschel I. Grossman and Minseong Kim (1995), ‘Swords or Plowshares? A Theory of the Security of Claims to Property’ 5. Jack Hirschleifer (1991), ‘The Paradox of Power’ 6. Anne O. Krueger (1974), ‘The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society’ 7. Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Schleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1993), ‘Why is Rent-seeking so Costly to Growth?’ 8. Stergios Skaperdas (1992), ‘Cooperation, Conflict, and Power in the Absence of Property Rights’ Part II: The Economic Theory of Illegal Activities 9. Gary S. Becker (1968), ‘Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach’ 10. Michael K. Block and Robert C. Lind (1975), ‘Crime and Punishment Reconsidered’ 11. M.K. Block and J.M. Heineke (1975), ‘A Labor Theoretic Analysis of the Criminal Choice’ 12. Samuel Cameron (1988), ‘The Economics of Crime Deterrence: A Survey of Theory and Evidence’ 13. William T. Dickens (1986), ‘Crime and Punishment Again: The Economic Approach with a Psychological Twist’ 14. Isaac Ehrlich (1973), ‘Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation’ 15. Isaac Ehrlich (1996), ‘Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses’ 16. Richard B. Freeman (1996), ‘Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About It?’ 17. Stephan M. Panther (1995), ‘The Economics of Crime and Criminal Law: An Antithesis to Sociological Theories?’ Part III: Law Enforcement and Deterrence Policies 18. Gary S. Becker and George J. Stigler (1974), ‘Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers’ 19. John R. Lott, Jr. and Russell D. Roberts (1989), ‘Why Comply: One Sided Enforcement of Price Controls and Victimless Crime Laws’ 20. Arun S. Malik (1990), ‘Avoidance, Screening and Optimum Enforcement’ 21. A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell (1992), ‘Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Magnitude and Probability of Fines’ 22. Steven Shavell (1991), ‘Specific versus General Enforcement of Law’ 23. George J. Stigler (1970), ‘The Optimum Enforcement of Laws’ Part IV: Deterrence Policies Against Corruption 24. Kaushik Basu, Sudipto Bhattacharya and Ajit Mishra (1992), ‘Notes on Bribery and the Control of Corruption’ 25. Timothy Besley and John McLaren (1993), ‘Taxes and Bribery: the Role of Wage Incentives’ 26. Roger Bowles and Nuno Garoupa (1997), ‘Casual Police Corruption and the Economics of Crime’ 27. Francis T. Lui (1986), ‘A Dynamic Model of Corruption Deterrence’ 28. D. Mookherjee and I.P.L. Png (1995), ‘Corruptible Law Enforcers: How Should They Be Compensated?’ 29. Eric Rasmusen and J. Mark Ramseyer (1994), ‘Cheap Bribes and the Corruption Ban: A Coordination Game Among Rational Legislators’ Name Index Volume III: Part I: The Underground Economy 1. Bruno Contini (1981), ‘Labor Market Segmentation and the Development of the Parallel Economy – The Italian Experience’ 2. Arne Jon Isachsen and Steinar Strøm (1980), ‘The Hidden Economy: The Labor Market and Tax Evasion’ 3. Edgar L. Feige (1994), ‘The Underground Economy and the Currency Enigma’ 4. Bruno S. Frey and Werner W. Pommerehne (1984), ‘The Hidden Economy: State and Prospects for Measurement’ 5. P. Reuter (1984), ‘The Economic Significance of Illegal Markets in the United States: Some Observations’ 6. Friedrich Schneider (1994), ‘Can the Shadow Economy be Reduced Through Major Tax Reforms? An Empirical Investigation for Austria’ 7. Vito Tanzi (1983), ‘The Underground Economy in the United States: Annual Estimates, 1930–80’ Part II: Victimless Activities and Illegal Markets 8. Jagdish N. Bhagwati (1981), ‘Alternative Theories of Illegal Trade: Economic Consequences and Statistical Detection’ 9. Christopher S. Koper and Peter Reuter (1996), ‘Suppressing Illegal Gun Markets: Lessons from Drug Enforcement’ 10. Mary E. Lovely and Douglas R. Nelson (1994), ‘Illegal Trade and Endogenous Tariff Formation’ 11. Harold C. Nathan (1980), ‘Economic Analysis of Usury Laws’ 12. Chris Paul and Al Wilhite (1994), ‘Illegal Markets and the Social Costs of Rent-Seeking’ 13. Richard L. Peterson (1983), ‘Usury Laws and Consumer Credit: A Note’ 14. Marie Thursby, Richard Jensen and Jerry Thursby (1991), ‘Smuggling, Camouflaging, and Market Structure’ 15. Daniel J. Villegas (1989), ‘The Impact of Usury Ceilings on Consumer Credit’ 16. Rodney T. Smith (1976), ‘The Legal and Illegal Markets for Taxed Goods: Pure Theory and an Application to State Government Taxation of Distilled Spirits’ 17. John D. Wolken and Frank J. Navratil (1981), ‘The Economic Impact of the Federal Credit Union Usury Ceiling’ Part III: The Economics of the Organized Crime 18. Diego Gambetta (1988), ‘Fragments of an Economic Theory of the Mafia’ 19. William P. Jennings (1984), ‘A Note on the Economics of the Organized Crime’ 20. Riccardo Marselli and Marco Vannini (1997), ‘Estimating a Crime Equation in the Presence of Organized Crime: Evidence from Italy’ 21. Thomas C. Schelling (1967), ‘Economics and Criminal Enterprise’ 22. Thomas C. Schelling (1971), ‘What Is the Business of the Organized Crime?’ Part IV: The Market for Drugs and Public Policy 23. Susan L. Averett and Harold M. Hochman (1994), ‘Addictive Behavior and Public Policy’ 24. Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman and Kevin M. Murphy (1991), ‘Rational Addiction and the Effects of Price on Consumption’ 25. Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy (1988), ‘A Theory of Rational Addiction’ 26. Roger D. Blair and Ronald J. Vogel (1973), ‘Heroin Addiction and Urban Crime’ 27. Billy J. Eatherly (1974), ‘Drug-Law Enforcement: Should We Arrest Pushers or Users?’ 28. John Holahan (1973), ‘The Economics of Control of the Illegal Supply of Heroin’ 29. John R. Lott, Jr. (1992), ‘An Attempt at Measuring the Total Monetary Penalty from Drug Convinctions: The Importance of an Individual's Reputation’ 30. Richard B. McKenzie (1991), ‘Rational Addiction, Lagged Demands and the Efficiency of Excise Taxes: Revisions of Standard Theory’ 31. Mark H. Moore (1973), ‘Policies To Achieve Discrimination on the Effective Price of Heroin’ 32. Peter Reuter (1988), ‘Quantity Illusions and Paradoxes of Drug Interdiction: Federal Intervention into Vice Policy’ 33. Simon Rottenberg (1968), ‘The Clandestine Distribution of Heroin, Its Discovery and Suppression’ 34. George J. Stigler and Gary S. Becker (1977), ‘De Gustibus non Est Disputandum’ 35. Michael D. White and William A. Luksetich (1983), ‘Heroin: Price Elasticity and Enforcement Strategies’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisMajority rules are generally unstable and not binding for future voters, and so are insufficient for the required security of a market economy. In this challenging book, Peter Moser argues that stability can be achieved by democratic political institutions limiting the influence of majorities.Peter Moser examines the contribution to stable policy choices of a wide range of political institutions including constitutional rules, the organizational structure of legislatures and administrative and judicial procedures. He contributes new insights about the importance of decision rules in democracies by combining theory with empirical studies. He analyses legislative procedures in the US, the European Union and Switzerland, tests a novel explanation for central bank independence, discusses the implications of political decision rules for regulatory behavior, and provides a concise survey of recent critical research on democratic institutions.This book will be particularly welcomed by public choice scholars as well as other economists and political scientists interested in the role of democratic institutions.Trade Review'. . . a rich introduction to the spatial voting literature and to comparative institutional analysis - as well as a cogent statement that, indeed, institutions matter. . . . The book is notable in its eclecticism and thoroughness; it will have the rare appeal to both political scientists and economists in both Europe and America. Moreover, the exposition is careful and the mechanics of spatial social choice analysis are made clear, so it is suitable for some applied classroom use.' -- Edward J. LOpez, Public Choice'The Political Economy of Democratic Institutions provides a first rate insight into the area of economic analysis of democratic institutions with respect to their policy choices and regulatory behaviour. The book not only provides intriguing insights for anyone interested in the political economy of democratic institutions it also, and more importantly, lays out what appears to be a promising research agenda for analysts of public policy in general.' -- Friedrich Schneider, University of Linz, Austria'The public choice literature has for many years been dominated by North American scholars with a natural interest in North American political institutions. This interesting book is a welcome break with this tradition. It nicely applies the tools of public choice to analyse the consequences of several different types of political institutions in Europe. The book combines rigour and relevance, and should be of interest for scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.' -- Dennis C. Mueller, Universitat Wien, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Legislative Institutions and Public Policy: A Survey of the Literature 2. Collective Decisions under Simple Majority Rules 3. Institutional Constraints and Stability 4. Legislative Institutions and Policy Choices: Selected Applications Part II: Institutions and Stability: Checks and Balances in the Swiss Political System 5. A Model of Legislative Decisions 6. A Model of Constitutional Decisions 7. Uncertainty and Interest Groups Part III: Institutions and Policy Choice: The Conditional Influence of the European Parliament 8. Strategic Interactions in Legislative Procedures in the European Union 9. Case Study on Car Emission Standards Part IV: Institutions and Regulatory Behavior: Checks and Balances as a Prerequisite for Independent Central Banks 10. Legislative Choice of the Monetary Institution 11. Legislative Structure and Central Bank Independence Epilogue: Markets, Checks and Balances, and Commitments References Index

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Book SynopsisFinance, Governance and Economic Performance in Pacific and South East Asia focuses on key aspects of government policy, financial systems and their links to the economic miracle in Pacific and South East Asia. It also considers the financial crises that have affected those economies and their economic progress. The contributors examine the success of governance in the form of government involvement with the macroeconomy and with the deregulation of markets. Attention is drawn not only to the need for further liberalisation, but also the need to introduce regulatory structures to produce orderly markets.The book includes contributions on financial market opening in developing countries, the impact of FDI on the economic growth of the ASEAN economies, governance, human capital, labour and endogenous growth in Asia Pacific and lessons from the financial crisis as well as an overview of finance, development and growth.This book will be welcomed by those interested in financial economics and reform, the recent Asian crisis, and growth and development in the region.Trade Review'. . . this is an interesting and valuable collection of papers that addresses a highly topical area of research. The quality of writing is high in the main and the econometric methodology and models transparent. The appendices to many of the empirical chapters provide detailed information about data sources as well as model results. The book should be required reading for researchers and graduate students in this field, and the review papers provide valuable teaching material. It will be especially useful for those concerned with the contribution of governance structures to economic performance, financial crises and the still-disputed relationship between growth and financial liberalization.' -- Jenifer Piesse, Asia Pacific Business ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Finance, Development and Growth: An Overview 3. Economic Development, Financial Development and Liberalization: Taiwan, 1960–95 4. Financial Market Opening in Developing Countries 5. Japanese Financial Markets in Turmoil: Liberalization and Consequences 6. Bank–Firm Relationships and Corporate Governance in Japan: Evidence for the 1960s to the 1990s 7. The Performance of Taiwan’s Financial Sector 8. Financial Reform and Asian Turmoil: Taiwan’s Experience 9. Thailand’s Financial Revolution and the 1997 Crisis 10. Currency Hedging in Asian Equity Markets 11. Lessons from the Financial Crisis in Pacific and South East Asia 12. Good Governance and Financial Sector Reform 13. Governance, Human Capital, Labour and Endogenous Growth in Asia–Pacific: A Comparative Study 14. Productivity Growth Analysis in the Dynamic Production Function for Selected Asian Countries 15. The Impact of FDI on the Economic Growth of the ASEAN-5 Economies, 1970–94: A Comparative Dynamic Multiplier Analysis from a Small Model, with Emphasis on Liberalization 16. Investment, Finance and Firms’ Objectives: Implications for the Recent Experience of South East Asian Economies Index

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