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Book SynopsisIn this significant new book, Bruna Ingrao and Claudio Sardoni emphasize the crucial importance of considering credit/debt relations and financial markets for a comprehensive understanding of the world in which we live. The book offers both a thorough historical and theoretical reconstruction of how 20th century macroeconomics got (or did not get) to grips with the interactions between banks and financial markets, and the 'real' economy. The book is split into two distinct and thematic parts to expose the different attitudes to banks and finance before and after the Great Depression of the 1930s. Part I explores the period from the turn of the 20th century to the late 1930s, when many important economists devoted great attention to banks and credit relations in their explanations of the working of market economies. Part II discusses the post-war period up until the modern day, when banks and financial markets ceased to be a major concern of mainstream macroeconomics. The 2007-8 crisis gave rise to a renewed interest in credit relations, but many problems inherited from the past still remain open. The authors stress, in particular, the implications of the uneasy, if not impossible, coexistence of the endeavour to set macroeconomics within the framework of general equilibrium theory with the attempt to develop the analysis of the monetary and financial features of actual economies. Macroeconomists will greatly benefit from this timely book as it examines the historical evolution of the discipline, pointing out the major factors that have largely prevented the development of satisfactory analyses of the interrelations of credit, finance and the macroeconomy. Those involved in current economic policy debates will also benefit from the lessons offered in this book.Trade Review'Financial markets are terribly important in a modern economy. Yet, economists have mostly preferred to approach money from highly simplified perspectives that shunt the complexities of finance to one side. Still, from time to time, economists have tried to grasp the nettle. Ingrao and Sardoni provide a highly readable historical account of those efforts to integrate banking and finance into macroeconomic theory, which illuminates both why the problem is a difficult one and why it is important.' --Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University, US'By historically analysing the ways in which macroeconomic theories have conceptualized the role of banks and financial markets, this book solves the puzzle of why mainstream macroeconomics puts the financial system in the background even though it has expanded enormously in its complex interaction with the real side of the economy.' --Mario Amendola, University of Rome, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: PART I From the 1920s to the early postwar period 1. Introduction 2. Banks and the quantity theory: Wicksell and Fisher 3. Money and banking in the process of change: Schumpeter and Robertson 4. Banks, debt and deflation in the Great Depression 5. Keynes on banks in A Treatise, The General Theory and after 6. Further discussions and criticisms of Keynes’s General Theory PART II From the Neoclassical Synthesis to New Keynesian Economics 7. Finance in macroeconomics in the post-war years: The neoclassical synthesis 8. The Monetarist counter-revolution: from the ‘resuscitation’ to the disappearance of money 9. Credit and finance in today mainstream 10. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisForeign Exchange Constraint and Developing Economies addresses the complex nature of foreign exchange constraint for macroeconomic and social development. The book collects expertise and perspectives from a diverse set of contributions. Using a combination of innovative theoretical and empirical approaches, the book suggests several analytical frameworks to help advance academic research and policy work on foreign exchange and sustainable development.Chapters explore how trends in exchange rates, currency dynamics and international capital markets impact development models of primarily small open economies. The problems of global capital flows affected by the COVID-19 pandemic are also reviewed. The book presents analyses of both country-level and regional patterns and discusses broader implications for emerging markets. Exploring urgent questions for academic and policy agendas, this will be an important read for economists and researchers working on the topics of economic development, international economics, open economy, exchange rate management, sovereign debt, central banking, and monetary policy. Applied economists and policymakers will also find this a meaningful resource.Trade Review‘Most emerging and developing economies face a persistent foreign exchange gap. Holding foreign exchange reserves, even in large amounts, does not eradicate the gap that essentially produces persistently foreign exchange constrained economies. This book is a very helpful collection of chapters that elucidates the various manifestations for the foreign exchange constraint. It covers a wide number of important topics such as capital flows, foreign debt, exchange rate policy, the role of MNCs, financial crisis, and others. The collection will be very helpful to researchers and policymakers.’ -- Tarron Khemraj, New College of Florida, US‘With the Ukraine crisis fueling inflation, rising interest rates and soaring debt-burdens, this timely volume brings together diverse approaches spanning theoretical models, empirical investigations, and policy analyses to address the challenges posed by volatile capital flows, deteriorating exchange-rates and the impact of COVID-19 to EMDCs in a world in flux.’ -- Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University, US‘The chapters in Professor Gevorkyan’s edited book are a reminder that the external constraint is essentially a foreign exchange one, and that the post-Bretton Woods institutions are ill designed to help developing countries cope with the volatility of international capital flows. This is a timely and relevant collection of papers that should be required reading for all the experts in international financial issues.’ -- Matías Vernengo, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, US‘After more than 2 decades of work in developing countries, realizing the many ways conventional modern macroeconomics education misses the main challenges that are actually faced by their policymakers, I am delighted to see the relevant topics for growth and macroeconomic stability in developing economies make a comeback. Aleksandr Gevorkyan and the authors that joined him in this fine treatment of the issues need to be congratulated and encouraged to continue deepening this most-relevant research and policy analysis program.’ -- João Farinha Fernandes, Asian Development BankTable of ContentsForeword by Barry Eichengreen Preface and acknowledgements PART I: CAPITAL MARKETS 1. Foreign exchange constraint and select developing economies: insights from the Caucasus and Central Asia Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan 2. Domestic sovereign yields puzzle in 2020: falling yields amid a large fiscal shock in emerging markets Hayk Avetisyan, Viacheslav Ilin, and Dmitry Yakovlev 3. Wealth composition, valuation effect and upstream capital flows Uthman M. Baqais 4. Non-financial corporations as financial intermediaries and their macroeconomic implications: an empirical analysis for Latin America Claudia de Camino, Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Cecilia Vera PART II: CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE RATE 5. Currency relationships over time: a network analysis and case study of Mexico Georgia Bush, Serafin Martínez-Jaramillo, Luis O. L. Escobar-Farfán and Erwin Flores-Tamés 6. On the limits of real exchange-rate targeting under foreign exchange constraint Eduardo F. Bastian 7. Optimal foreign exchange reserves in small open economies: the case of the Caribbean Dave Seerattan 8. Two sides of a currency crisis in emerging economies: economic and behavioural side of currency risk derivatives Elżbieta Kubińska, Joanna Wyrobek, Łukasz Faryj and Anna Macko 9. Real exchange rate, demand growth and labour productivity: a growth model of cumulative and circular causation Hugo C. Iasco-Pereira, Fabrício J. Missio, Frederico G. Jayme Jr and Douglas Alencar PART III: COVID-19 AND OPEN ECONOMY 10. Capital flows and emerging market economies since the global financial crisis Otaviano Canuto 11. The Lebanese banking crisis: an exploration of the impaired banking system Samar Issa Index

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Book SynopsisThis book advances Post-Keynesian Institutional economics, an integrative tradition - inspired by keen economic observers such as John Kenneth Galbraith, Joan Robinson, and Hyman Minsky - that bridges Institutional and Post Keynesian economics. The tradition proved its worth by addressing the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, as well as by analyzing long-term trends accompanying the evolution of investor-driven (“money manager”) capitalism, including financialization, spreading worker insecurity, and rising inequality. This Modern Guide begins with the history and contours of Post-Keynesian Institutionalism, and then breaks new ground, extending recent analyses of contemporary economic problems, sharpening concepts and methods, sketching new theories, and synthesizing ideas across research traditions. Written by leading scholars, this authoritative collection identifies policy-relevant frontiers—on matters ranging from social capital and economic democracy to feminism and environmental sustainability—thereby setting an ambitious agenda for further Post-Keynesian Institutionalist research.In addition to being useful as a statement of current Post-Keynesian Institutionalist issues and research, the book serves as both a valuable reference volume and a source of material appropriate for course adoption for undergraduate and graduate students. Policymakers and policy analysts dissatisfied with the status quo should also find the book of interest. It will likely be especially relevant to those concerned with financial instability, worker insecurity, and inequality, problems that in recent years have had considerable economic and political consequences.Trade Review‘Charles Whalen and his contributors have distilled the core strengths of Post Keynesian, Evolutionary, and Institutionalist economics into a state-of-the-art review of Post-Keynesian Institutionalism. This book makes the strongest case for placing that tradition in the contemporary arsenal of scholars of economics and political economy.’ -- Anastasia Nesvetailova, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Switzerland‘In A Modern Guide to Post-Keynesian Institutional Economics, Charles Whalen assembles the valuable insights of a generation of Institutional economists whose research, in sharp contrast to Neoclassical orthodoxy, reveals how the real-world economic system actually evolves, operates, and performs.’ -- William Lazonick, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US‘This Modern Guide offers a smart collection of essays on the intersection of economic growth, wealth and debt inequality, and financial stability, with plenty of attention to Hyman Minsky’s warning that institutions matter. Well-edited with great tables and graphics.’ -- Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research, US‘Minsky always insisted that his theory was an elaboration of the evolution of the “financial structure,” while most only consider his idea of financial instability. This book is especially welcome as an elaboration of the idea of the evolving financial structure and how its institutions not only support economic expansion, but also produce financial instability.’ -- Jan Kregel, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to the history, contours, and frontiers of Post-Keynesian Institutional economics 2 Charles J. Whalen PART II MONEY MANAGER CAPITALISM 2 The transition from managerial to money manager capitalism: the role of risk and its distribution 36 David A. Zalewski 3 Financialization and employment: a Post-Keynesian Institutionalist understanding of the transnational corporation under money manager capitalism 59 Avraham I. Baranes 4 Money manager capitalism and the coronavirus pandemic 89 Yan Liang and Charles J. Whalen 5 Wealth inequality, household debt, and macroeconomic instability 121 Christian E. Weller and Emek Karakilic 6 Labor-market institutions matter: inequality, wage policy, and worker well-being 144 Oren M. Levin-Waldman PART III CONCEPTS AND METHODS 7 Social capital and public policy: the role of civil society in transforming the state 173 Asimina Christoforou 8 Constructing an economically democratic society in the former Soviet Union: Post-Keynesian Institutionalist insights in historical perspective 194 Anna Klimina 9 A Post-Keynesian Institutionalist perspective from Latin America: the monetary circuit across stages of development 216 Alicia Girón 10 What do economists really mean? Post-Keynesian Institutionalists as economic translators 230 Timothy A. Wunder 11 Stock-flow consistent macroeconomic modeling and Post-Keynesian Institutionalism 253 Marc Lavoie PART IV THEORIES AND SYNTHESES 12 The market for labor in Post-Keynesian Institutionalism: a theoretical framework 274 Eduardo Fernández-Huerga 13 The cyclical evolution of financial regulation: a theoretical explanation 299 Samba Diop 14 From Public Choice to Minskyan collective action: the case for macro rationality-based financial regulation 322 Faruk Ülgen 15 Women’s work and its conceptualization in Post-Keynesian Institutionalism 339 Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz 16 Toward real sustainability: incorporating insight from Ecological economics into Post-Keynesian Institutionalism 359 Charles J. Whalen Index

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Book SynopsisThis engaging book assesses the statistical need for using particular ranking systems to compare the status of nations. With an overarching focus on human development, environmental performance and corruption, it carefully maps out some of the main processes associated with the ranking of countries.Centrally, Stephen Morse explores challenges associated with using index-based rankings for countries. Examining international ranking systems such as the Human Development Index and Corruption Perception Index, the book considers what they tell us about the world and whether there may be alternatives to these ranking techniques. It provides an important contemporary view on ranking systems by analysing not only how they are reported by traditional sources of media, but also by social media.Ranking Nations will be a significant read for economics, development studies and human geography researchers and academics. Its accessible written style will also benefit policy actors and decision makers that make use of index-based rankings.Table of ContentsContents: Preface: competition and motivation 1 A curious obsession with ranking 2 Three windows on humanity: development, corruption and environmental performance 3 Ranking nations with indices: why and how? 4 Exploring country rankings 5 Moving the goalposts: impact of changing index methodology on country rank 6 Read all about it: media reporting of country ranks 7 Closing thoughts: to rank or not to rank? References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book presents a nuanced investigation into the idiosyncrasies of the supermultiplier model, examining its application to residential investment, exports and fiscal policy. It offers an accessible introduction to this growth model, hypothesising that it is one of the cornerstones of modern macroeconomics. By highlighting what this unique model adds to other heterodox systems that share common elements, such as structural growth models, this insightful book strengthens the current theoretical understanding of the new macroeconomics. Utilising important case studies such as open and decarbonised economies to encapsulate key messages gained from the study of this model, it fully acknowledges that the supermultiplier is still a work in progress and may be developed further. The Supermultiplier will be hugely influential for finance and economics graduate students focusing on an alternative macroeconomics approach. It will also appeal to academics within the same fields searching for a model that permits direct application within spreadsheets.Trade Review‘The Supermultiplier is a wonderful and much-needed book. It is wonderful because it is thoughtful, scholarly and well-written and it is much-needed because it takes the ideas, theories and models of the Post-Keynesian movement in today's economics and develops their implications for policy and social development, centring the analysis on the idea of the supermultiplier. The result is an excellent piece of economic writing: highly readable, yet deeply thoughtful.’ -- Edward J. Nell, The New School, US‘This is an excellent book that offers a new perspective on macroeconomics by utilising the theoretical tools of modern contributions based on the surplus approach. Dejuán admirably and didactically links various topics around the supermultiplier as a unifying concept to capture the permanent state of things. Therefore, this book is indispensable for understanding the current economy and tackling economic policy.’ -- Josep M. Bricall, University of Barcelona, Spain‘Finally, a thorough discussion on the supermultiplier has arrived. This is an important book that examines many aspects of the supermultiplier. It is a well-researched, well-documented and well-written book, arriving at a time when the topic is gaining prominence across all heterodox approaches. Indeed, all heterodox economists will find much to agree with in this book, which potentially can unite many heterodox voices. It deserves to be in the hands of all those interested in the future development of heterodox economics.’ -- Louis-Philippe Rochon, Laurentian University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to The Supermultiplier: a cornerstone of the new macroeconomics 2. Demand-constrained systems and the supermultiplier in the history of economic thought 3. The supply side of the SM model: the warranted rate of growth 4. The demand side: the nucleus of the SM model 5. The financial side: endogenous money and the supermultipliercum-finance 6. The public sector: the SM of fiscal and monetary policies 7. The open economy: exports-led growth and balance of payment constraint in the SM model 8. Distribution, inflation, and growth in the SM model 9. Technical change and the structure of production in the SM growth model 10. A disaggregated SM in an input–output setting: application to the decarbonisation process 11. Key ideas and messages from the SM model References Index

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Book SynopsisTom Palley has made a significant contribution to understanding the meaning and significance of neoliberalism. This chronicle collects some of his best work to explain how global adoption of neoliberal policies over the past thirty years has increased income inequality and created tendencies to stagnation.The book explores the impact of neoliberal policies on the US, Europe, and global economy. It shows how the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession were predictable outcomes of the neoliberal policy experiment, as is the emergence of global "race to the bottom" competition. It also explains how Europe's economic fragility is connected to the neoliberal design of the euro. Neoliberalism creates a particular variety of capitalism. It is a political choice. That means society is tacitly engaged in a "war of ideas", the outcome of which will determine our future political economic trajectory.Students, scholars, and readers in economics and political science will find this rich collection illuminating in their efforts to better understand the policy matrix that currently dominates the political landscape.Trade Review‘Tom Palley is a lighthouse – bright, clear, solid and unshakable – in his warnings over many years against the perils of neoclassical economics and neoliberal policy.’ -- James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface viii 1 Introduction: Neoliberalism as a Variety of Capitalism 1 PART I THE UNITED STATES 2 ‘Economic Contradictions Coming Home to Roost? Does the U.S. Economy Face a Long-Term Aggregate Demand Generation Problem?’, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 25 (1), Fall, 2002, 9–32 10 3 ‘The Questionable Legacy of Alan Greenspan’, Challenge, 48 (6), November/ December, 2005, 17–31 34 4 ‘The Fallacy of the Revised Bretton Woods Hypothesis: Why Today’s Global Financial System is Unsustainable and Suggestions for a Replacement’, International Journal of Political Economy, 36 (4), Winter, 2007–2008, 36–52 49 5 ‘The U.S. Economy after Bush’, Challenge, 51 (6), November/December, 2008, 26–37 66 6 ‘America’s Exhausted Paradigm: Macroeconomic Causes of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession’, New School Economic Review, 4 (1), 2010, 15–43 78 7 ‘The US Economy: Explaining Stagnation and Why it Will Persist’, in A. Gallas, H. Herr, F. Hoffer and C. Scherrer (eds), Combatting Inequality: The Global North and South, Chapter 8, London: Routledge, 2016, 113–31 107 PART II EUROPE 8 ‘Europe’s Crisis Without End: The Consequences of Neoliberalism’, Contributions to Political Economy, 32, 2013, 29–50 127 9 ‘The European Monetary Union Needs a Government Banker’, Challenge, 54 (4), July/August, 2011, 5–21 149 10 ‘Fixing the Euro’s Original Sins: The Monetary–Fiscal Architecture and Monetary Policy Conduct’, Real-World Economics Review, 81, September, 2017, 1–12 166 PART III THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 11 ‘Capital Mobility and the Threat to American Prosperity’, Challenge, 37 (6), November/December, 1994, 31, 34–9 179 12 ‘The Free Trade Debate: A Left Keynesian Gaze’, Social Research, 61 (2), Summer, 1994, 379–94 186 vi Neoliberalism and the Road to Inequality and Stagnation 13 ‘The Economics of Globalization: Problems and Policy Responses’, in Toward Reducing Unemployment, 5th Plenary Session, Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 1999, 202–216 [originally 185–205] 202 14 ‘Developing the Domestic Market’, Challenge, 49 (6), November/December, 2006, 20–34 217 15 ‘The Rise and Fall of Export-led Growth’, Investigación Económica, LXXI (280), April–June, 2012, 141–61 232 16 ‘A Labor Perspective on Globalization’, Internationale Politik und Gessellschaft (International Politics and Society), April, 2009, 22–39 253 17 ‘Labor in the Global Economy: The Globalization Clock’, Dollars & Sense, May/June, 2006, 12–13. Revised in 2018 and republished as ‘The Globalization Clock’, Article 7.1 in Real World Globalization, 19th edition, edited by Armağan Gezici, Elizabeth T. Henderson, Jeannette Mitchell, Jawied Nawabi, and the Dollars and Sense Collective, Economic Affairs Bureau Inc., December 2020, 177–9 271 PART IV THE WAR OF IDEAS 18 ‘After the Bust: The Outlook for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy’, Real-World Economics Review, 49, March, 2009, 22–35 275 19 ‘The War of Ideas: A Comparison of the U.S. and Europe’, with Gustav A. Horn in Restoring Shared Prosperity: A Policy Agenda From Leading Keynesian Economists, CreateSpace.com, 2013, 289–93 [originally 7–14] 289 20 ‘Inequality and Stagnation by Policy Design: Mainstream Denialism and its Dangerous Political Consequences’, Challenge, 62 (2), 2019, 128–43 294 Index

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Book SynopsisOlivier Blanchard, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is author of one of the most important standard macroeconomics textbooks, which is used throughout the world. Endorsed by Blanchard himself, Anti-Blanchard Macroeconomics critically analyzes prevailing economic theory and policy in comparison with alternative approaches. This thoroughly revised edition represents a field of research that has developed through intense theoretical debates, continual empirical testing and the resultant disputes about economic policy.Emiliano Brancaccio and Andrea Califano succinctly explore the relationship between theoretical models and economic policies, providing readers with examples and empirical exercises, and showing how the conclusions of different theories can be empirically tested. This updated second edition examines the links between the issues at the core of macroeconomic debate, including economic growth, economic crises, labour market reforms, government debt sustainability, the behaviour of central banks and the stock market, among many others.Key features: Contains an analysis of the economic policies, consequences and theories surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic Examines the connection between contemporary issues in world politics, economic theory and policymaking It overcomes the typical contradiction between the opportunity to offer students a preliminary mainstream education and the need to nurture rather than crush their critical spirit It helps students to understand that economics is not a discipline that changes in a smooth, linear manner but, on the contrary, represents a dynamic field of research that develops through intense theoretical debate and continual empirical testing, and is shaped by the resultant disputes concerning economic policy Includes the typescript of a lively and informative debate between Emiliano Brancaccio and Olivier Blanchard, together with comparative economic policy examples. Trade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘When Emiliano asked me to endorse Anti-Blanchard Macroeconomics, I was a bit taken aback. You can guess why. But I agree with him that we should always question our assumptions, confront them with the facts, and be open to change if the facts dictate it. Questions such as whether we can expect the economy to return to health by itself, whether recessions have permanent adverse effects, whether the interest rate channel of monetary policy works, are essential ones. For the time being, I stand by the conclusions of my textbook, but I am happy and indeed eager to see them challenged.’ -- Olivier J. BlanchardTable of ContentsContents: Presentation to the first edition Mauro Gallegati Preface to the first edition Robert Skidelsky 1. Introduction 2, Blanchard’s AS–AD model 3. The alternative model 4. Blanchard’s “new approach”: the IS–LM–PC model 5. The competing approaches: theory and policy Appendix 1 Labour flexibility and unemployment Appendix 2 Contractionary fiscal policy and fiscal multipliers Appendix 3 On the pandemic trade-off between health and production Index

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Book SynopsisPiero Ferri expertly broadens the analysis of the canonical growth cycle approach by presenting a Minsky–Harrod model, examining how the relationship between income distribution, growth and unemployment becomes increasingly complex. Exploring this new technique to generate a process of growth, based not only on history but disequilibrium, he investigates the current income distribution debate further and the challenges it faces. Written in a succinct yet comprehensive style, Piero Ferri begins by addressing the basic principles, followed by an in-depth look at growth cycle models and how the Minsky–Harrod integrated model would help to unravel the current complexities. The empirical analysis reaches insightful conclusions by justifying the existence of a variety of results and by studying the distributive loop in a dynamic context which is prone to instability. Teachers of macroeconomics and scholars will find this an invaluable read and will benefit from the practical study and results. Researchers interested in labour economics and political economy will also find this a thought-provoking book.Trade Review‘In this book, Professor Ferri extends his formidable research on macroeconomic dynamics into a broad analysis of how income distribution affects aggregate outcomes. He develops creative insights to both synthesize a wide range of existing research and break new ground.’ -- Steven Fazzari, Washington University, St. Louis, US‘Piero Ferri thinks big, focusing on the nexus of income distribution, growth and unemployment that has been at the centre of economic thinking since the inception of the discipline. Ferri makes Harrod, Kaldor and Goodwin meet Minsky in an original and penetrating synthesis. The aggregate macroeconomic setting he brilliantly masters throughout the book generates a wide range of dynamic outcomes and provides invaluable insights especially for macroeconomists exploring the economy as a complex evolving system.’ -- Domenico Delli Gatti, Catholic University in Milan, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Income Distribution, Growth and Unemployment PART I THE BASICS 2. The lexicon of short-run static analysis 3. The political economy of income distribution 4. Elementary tools for dynamics PART II INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN GROWTH CYCLE MODELS 5. The Goodwin classical approach 6. The Kaleckian‒post-Keynesian (KPK) models 7. Financial aspects: a Minskyan perspective 8. Harrod and instability PART III A GENERALIZED MODEL 9. A workhorse model 10. Growth and unemployment 11. Technological change, income distribution and unemployment 12. The wage‒price spiral in an integrated model PART IV TOWARDS COMPLEX DYNAMICS 13. A meta-model of income distribution 14. Income distribution, inequality and debt 15. The financial instability hypothesis, income distribution and complex dynamics PART V CONCLUDING REMARKS 16 Final considerations References Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an up-to-date account of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) with contributions from the world’s leading experts, each chapter offers new insights on the topic, building upon MMT’s established body of work. This innovative book analyses key economic issues from a wide set of regions including the UK, Europe and the Global South, addressing previous concerns that MMT is too US-focused.Alongside ground-breaking research written by MMT’s original developers and leading academics, the book also includes contributions from economic historians and public policy campaigners, highlighting how MMT contributes to challenging neoliberalism and the hegemony of mainstream macroeconomics. Offering an examination of the existing legal, institutional and policy framework which governs the UK Exchequer in particular, it examines how the central claims of MMT map onto the financial activities of the UK government.This will be key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate economics students, as well as more advanced scholars of the discipline, particularly for those looking into theories of finance, money and banking. It will also have a wider appeal across the social sciences, including politics and sociology students.Trade Review‘This is a fascinating, eclectic group of professional papers in which the reader may explore both the first principles of Modern Monetary Theory and many institutional and historical details that lend weight to the conceptual framework. This book is a landmark in the development of MMT, a boon for “useful” economists -- and a profound challenge to all the others.’ -- James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin, US‘This book brings together insights from MMT scholars from all over the world, examining the economy of the UK as well as the global economy and providing us with much needed insights about how to manage our economies.’ -- Dirk Ehnts, Fachhochschule Magedburrg-Stendal, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiii Phil Armstrong Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers xvii Sara Holland, Claire Jackson-Prior and Prue Plumridge 1 How does the government spend? A functional model of the UK Exchequer 1 Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye and Neil Wilson 2 Credit and the Exchequer since the Restoration 41 Richard Tye 3 Sovereign nations face resource constraints, not financial constraints 67 Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray 4 A framework for the analysis of the price level and inflation 87 Warren Mosler 5 The external economy 94 William Mitchell 6 Modern Monetary Theory, the United Kingdom and pound sterling 125 John T. Harvey 7 The Eurozone and Brexit 152 Stuart Medina Miltimore and William Mitchell 8 Modern Monetary Theory as post-neoliberal economics: the role ofmethodology-philosophy 182 Phil Armstrong and Jamie Morgan 9 Tax as a hygiene factor: setting UK taxation policy using Modern Monetary Theory 207 Neil Wilson 10 Checklist of an employment guarantee programme: the Plan Jefes de Hogar from Argentina revisited 20 years later 226 Daniel Kostzer 11 Three lessons from government spending and the postpandemic recovery 253 Pavlina R. Tcherneva 12 MMT and public policy in the United Kingdom 263 Deborah Harrington and Jessica Ormerod Postscript: thoughts on MMT’s insights 289 L. Randall Wray Index

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Book SynopsisCOVID-19 and other recent crises have proved the need to review the state-of-play and implement robust institutional frameworks in the complex, heterogenous and decentralised European supervisory architecture. This insightful book outlines what can be done to innovate the current set-up in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, BigTech and crypto assets.Revisiting the debate on financial sector oversight in Europe, a range of highly acclaimed international academics and influential policymakers discuss the scope of institutional arrangements. Chapters examine how the architecture of European financial supervision currently works, analysing the trends in banking supervision design and the influence that recent financial and economic crises have exerted. Providing a rare insight into the role that central banks play in the supervisory set-up, their accountability and democratic legitimacy, the book also considers the ways that macro- and micro-prudential and monetary policies interact. Gleaning lessons from the FinTech revolution and the COVID-19 crisis, the book ultimately concludes by seeking a path for optimal architecture for European financial supervision.With invaluable industry insights, this cutting-edge book will prove vital to academics in the field of financial economics and financial regulation, alongside policymakers looking to transform their current supervisory architecture.Trade Review‘This volume provides a comprehensive and indispensable opportunity to take stock of the achievements and challenges of European banking supervision after the momentous reforms of the early 2010s, and on the related debates about financial supervisory architecture. While the complexity may at times appear dizzying, it is an important story whose policy lessons have relevance well beyond the boundaries of the euro area and European Union.’ -- Nicolas Véron, Bruegel, Belgium and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Central Banks and Supervisory Architecture in Europe 1 Robert Holzmann and Fernando Restoy PART I TRENDS IN EUROPEAN BANKING SUPERVISION DESIGN 2 The puzzle of Europe’s banking union: progress and missing pieces 14 Thorsten Beck 3 Supervisory architecture in the EU: where should we go from here? 21 Fernando Restoy 4 The architecture of supervision and prudential policy 34 Angela Maddaloni and Alessandro Scopelliti 5 Trends in European banking supervision design: is there a path to an optimal architecture for financial supervision in the EU? 49 Luís Silva Morais PART II THE ROLE OF CENTRAL BANKS (I): ASPECTS OF MONETARY AND MACROPRUDENTIAL POLICY INTERACTION 6 Can macroprudential tools ensure financial stability? 62 Anne Epaulard 7 The interaction of monetary and financial tasks in different central bank structures 71 Aerdt Houben, Jan Kakes and Annelie Petersen 8 Monetary and macroprudential policies: a troubled marriage 83 Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul 9 The architecture of macroprudential policy: delegation and coordination 96 Charles Bean 10 Governance of financial sector policies in an era of climate change 108 Daniel C. Hardy PART III THE ROLE OF CENTRAL BANKS (II): MICROPRUDENTIAL SUPERVISION AND FINANCIAL STABILITY 11 Entrusting central banks with microprudential supervision: implications for financial stability 122 Anca Maria Podpiera 12 Is this time different? Synergies between ECB’s tasks 135 Karin Hobelsberger, Christoffer Kok and Francesco Paolo Mongelli 13 Money, supervision, and financial stability: a money-credit constitution entrusted to independent but constrained central banks 156 Paul Tucker 14 Politicians, central banks and macroprudential supervision 170 Donato Masciandaro PART IV THE FINTECH REVOLUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMAL SUPERVISORY ARCHITECTURE 15 Regulating and supervising BigTech in finance 181 José Manuel González-Páramo 16 The emerging autonomy–stability choice for stablecoins 194 Maarten R. C. van Oordt PART V LESSONS FROM THE COVID-19 CRISIS FOR THE OPTIMAL SUPERVISORY ARCHITECTURE 17 Some lessons from COVID-19 for the EU financial framework 206 Ignazio Angeloni 18 Central banks as emergency actors: implications for governance arrangements 218 David Archer Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on core topics of economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic: changes in socio-cultural relationships, behavioural patterns and psychological attitudes governing human interaction, and government policies to stabilize the Indian economy and contribute to sustainable growth.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book explores the measurement and consequences of financialisation, as well as its driving forces, to take a fresh look at reconciling the twin concepts of financialisation and financial development. Imad Moosa provides a critical review of these two separate strands – the individual measures of economic development and financialisation – on the grounds that they are inadequate to represent a multi-dimensional process.Introducing a new composite measure encompassing the means of payment and asset ownership as well as conventional indicators, Moosa expertly investigates the economic, political and social consequences of financialisation. Identifying the driving forces of financialisation, he concludes that there is a requirement to reverse the current trend using more than just legislation and regulation to secure a sound and stable economy. This innovative book will be a fascinating and informative read for academics and research students of financial economics, regulation and economic sociology. Policy makers and politicians engaged in financial regulation will find the suggested insights into achieving future financial stability thought-provoking.Trade Review‘People in the finance industry have long advocated the benefits of financialisation. However, the detrimental effects that the other productive sectors in an economy wither away are often overlooked. This book presents the ugly and detrimental consequences of financialisation – something that is rarely discussed in the financial world. For any person interested in finance, this book is essential reading.’ -- George Tawadros, Winona State University, US‘With the ongoing decline of neoliberalism and the massive economic inequality it has produced, this highly accessible book is absolutely timely. It is compulsory reading for policy makers and all those demanding more government control over the running of economies and a reduction in the burgeoning artificial practice of making money out of money.’ -- Greg Bailey, La Trobe University, Australia‘Imad A. Moosa comprehensively addresses the “financialisation” literature and financialisation in practice – its history, incidence, causes and effects, ranging over grand narrative to fine detail, commanding technical and discursive contributions, and the economic and the social. It is a compelling starting point for anyone concerned with the defining characteristic of our age.’ -- Ben Fine, SOAS, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Conceptual issues and preliminary observations 2. Financial development: concept and measurement 3. The economic effects of financial development 4. From financial development to financialisation 5. The driving forces of financialisation 6. Financialisation, neoliberalism and globalisation 7. Financialisation, financial instability and financial crises 8. The economic effects of financialisation 9. The political and social effects of financialisation 10. Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting an in-depth overview of the foundations and developments of post-Keynesian macroeconomics since Kalecki and Keynes, this timely book develops a comprehensive post-Keynesian macroeconomic model with the respective macroeconomic policy mix for achieving non-inflationary full employment. The different versions of the model for closed and open economies are concerned with the key areas of macroeconomics, such as full employment, constant inflation and external balance. Eckhard Hein expertly illustrates how to embed these post-Keynesian macroeconomics and macroeconomic policies into the post-Keynesian research programme more generally, whilst also providing a review of its methods and historical roots. Furthermore, the book links post-Keynesian short-run macroeconomics to long-run distribution and growth theories. Finally, it applies these theoretical approaches to the current research on macroeconomic regimes and regime changes within finance-dominated capitalism and on the macroeconomic challenges of the ecological crisis and of the required socio-ecological transformation. This book will be a crucial read for academics and graduate students interested in post-Keynesian macroeconomics. Providing a thought-provoking alternative to orthodox economic policies, this will also be of interest to policy advisers and politicians.Trade Review‘Macroeconomics After Kalecki and Keynes has certainly achieved the task that Eckhard Hein had set for himself, that is, to provide “a comprehensive and teachable post-Keynesian macroeconomic model, which includes the main features of post-Keynesian macroeconomics and from which a full macroeconomic policy mix for monetary policy, fiscal policy and wage or incomes policies can be derived” (Hein, p. ix). The book is a remarkable achievement.’ -- Review of Political Economy (ROPE)‘At a time when conventional macroeconomic theories and policies have visibly failed to promote sustainable and equitable economic growth, Eckhard Hein’s brilliant new book provides the most lucid synthesis to date of a comprehensive and progressive alternative: the post-Keynesian approach. Hein builds a complete short-run macro model connecting money, credit, output, inflation and the balance of payments, which he deftly applies to construct an alternative policy paradigm for stabilizing prices while maintaining full employment and external balance. The author then uses this foundation as a springboard to explore advanced issues about long-run growth, income distribution, financial instability, policy-induced stagnation and ecological sustainability. Hein’s clear presentation and persuasive analysis will make this volume an indispensable reference for university students, professional economists and economic policy makers for years to come.’ -- Robert A. Blecker, American University, Washington DC, US‘Macroeconomics After Keynes and Kalecki is a tour de force. It systematically theorizes the short-term outcomes and required policy responses on which macro instruction – and student interest in the field – typically focuses, linking this analysis to longer-term growth dynamics and associated concerns with financialization and ecological sustainability. The book will be of lasting value to all serious students of macroeconomics.’ -- Mark Setterfield, New School for Social Research, New York, US‘This book provides a great guide to the vibrancy of post Keynesian macroeconomic analysis in the traditions of Kalecki and Keynes. Particularly welcome is that Eckhard Hein shows how post-Keynesian macroeconomic analyses has developed to incorporate issues of inequality and gender, and contributes to the studies of financialisation and confronting the major ecological issues.’ -- Malcolm Sawyer, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Introduction to post-Keynesian economics: methods, history and current state 3. The principle of effective demand, money, credit and finance: Marx, Kalecki, Keynes and the monetary circuit school 4. Post-Keynesian constant price macroeconomic models 5. Post-Keynesian macroeconomic models with conflict inflation 6. A post-Keynesian co-ordinated macroeconomic policy mix 7. From short-run macroeconomics to long-run distribution and growth: a systematic comparison of different paradigms and approaches 8. Macroeconomic demand and growth regimes in finance-dominated capitalism, stagnation tendencies and the macroeconomic policy regimes 9. Facing ecological constraints: implications and challenges for short- and long-run macroeconomic stability and macroeconomic policies 10. Perspectives for post-Keynesian economics Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers a concise summary of new developmentalism, exploring this in the context of both heterodox economics and political economy. It adopts a historical–structural method that is critical of orthodox or Neoclassical Economics. Luis Carlos Bresser-Pereira delves into the roots of new developmentalism from the quasi-stagnation of middle-income countries, covering how it developed from Marxian economics, post-Keynesian economics and Classical Structuralism.Innovative in its approach and coverage, Bresser-Pereira first introduces the method and the schools relevant to new developmentalism, before moving on to look at how it can revolutionise political economy, economics and growth economics. Chapters explore the capitalist revolution, the phases of capitalist development and class coalitions, micro- and macro-economics, and the importance of the exchange rate in determining investment and growth. The book concludes with a forward-looking synopsis of the ways in which new developmentalism is both green and social.This will be a critical read for heterodox economics students and scholars, as well as economics students more widely. Its practical implications will also make this an invigorating read for economists looking to better understand new developmentalism and its potential impacts.Trade Review‘This is the fruit of decades of not only thinking and reading but of the author's experience as a public servant. Ranging from an overview of development thinking to detailed policy proposals, it offers several deeply illuminating analyses and clear-headed, realistic, prescriptions. A magnum opus.’ -- Adam Przeworski, New York University, US‘New Developmentalism will – or should – become a landmark in the literature about economic development. The book places ND in explicit contrast to several other approaches to economics, including neoclassical, Post-Keynesian, and Classical Structuralism – both in abstract terms and in the political-economy conditions in which each became widely accepted, for a time. In particular, ND explains why Latin American countries have quasi-stagnated since the 1980s, while East Asian countries have continued to grow fast. One of the key elements, under-stressed in other approaches, is the managed exchange rate.’ -- Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to New Developmentalism 1 The method and the schools 2 The developmental schools and anti-imperialism 3 The capitalist revolution and the developmental state 4 Forms and phases of capitalist development 5 New developmentalism’s microeconomics 6 Macroeconomics and austerity 7 The interest rate 8 Inflation and the limitations of economics 9 The profit rate and the wage rate 10 Determining the exchange rate 11 Growth and stagnation 12 Policy of current account deficit 13 Foreign exchange, investment and growth 14 The Dutch disease and its neutralization 15 Green and social References

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Book SynopsisAs businesses, consumers, and investors make key financial decisions amid Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), there is the danger that many might freeze investment projects and hiring, leading to contractions of the economy. These are evident in the Indian economy as a whole and specifically in Indian stock markets indices such as the BSE Sensex and Nifty 50, import and export figures, T-bills, FDI, FPI, and GDP. In this important and timely work, Ghosh and Bagchi examine variables and phenomenon from April 2003 to January 2022, encompassing: • The global financial recession period (December 2007 to June 2009) • The pre-recession period (April 2003 to November 2007) • The post-recession along with pre-COVID-19 period (July 2009 to February 2020) • The COVID-19 period (March 2020 to January 2022) • The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Period (September 2021 to July 2022) This is essential reading for scholars and practitioners dealing with Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) in the Indian context, and in macro-economics at large.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) in the Indian Context Chapter 3. Macro-Economic Indicators and Indian Stock Markets: An Overview Chapter 4. Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Indian Economy and Stock Markets in Times of Covid-19 crisis Chapter 5. Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on the Indian Economy Chapter 6. Empirical Data Analysis and Findings of the Study Chapter 7. Conclusions and Recommendations

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Book SynopsisASEAN economies have much insight to offer the world, from investor behaviour during COVID-19, and deep-rooted attitudes towards risk and corruption, to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through the gender perspective. The authors examine complex and pressing issues, including: competing models of risk reporting, the effect of corporate governance on the Indonesian stock market, and the influence of stakeholders in influencing the level of disruptive innovation disclosure in 15 countries around the world. ISETE-33B gives fresh insight into financial and economic issues in ASEAN countries, written by authors from diverse backgrounds. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the financial evolution of these fast-moving economies.Table of ContentsChapter 1. A Bibliometric Analysis on Risk Reporting: A Systematic Literature Review; Yeni Priatnasari, Djoko Suhardjanto, Agung Nur Probohudono, and Setyaningtas Honggowati Chapter 2. Financial Performance and Corporate Governance: Its Effect on Market Performance; Nur Imamah, Saparila Worokinasih, Zeni Firdayani, and Jung-Hua Hung Chapter 3. Disruptive Innovation Disclosure Practices and Application of Stakeholder Theory; Indrian Supheni, Djoko Suhardjanto, Rahmawati, and Agung Nur Probohudono Chapter 4. The Prospect and Volatility of Stock Prices of Aviation Business; Ernie Hendrawaty, Rialdi Azhar, and Fajrin Satria Dwi Kesumah Chapter 5. Financial Performance and Ownership Structure: Influence on Firm Value through Leverage; Harmono Harmono, Sugeng Haryanto, Grahita Chandrarin, and Prihat Assih Chapter 6. Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in Gender Mainstreaming through the Gender and Development Perspective; Izza Mafruhah and Indah Susilowati Chapter 7. Institutional Ownership, Dividend Policy, Debt Policy, and Risk: An Analysis of Simultaneous Equation; St. Ibrah Mustafa Kamal and Eduardus Tandelilin Chapter 8. Investor Behavior During Covid-19 Pandemic: Do They Herding?; Firda Nosita and Rifqi Amrulloh Chapter 9. CO2 Emissions, Population, Tourism, Oil Consumption, and Corruption: Evidence from ASEAN 5 Developing Countries; Winny Perwithosuci, Izza Mafruhah, Evi Gravitiani, and Tamat Sarmidi Chapter 10. Capital, Liquidity, Profitability and Credit Risk Nexus: A Panel VAR Study on Selected Developing Countries; Mochammad Doddy Ariefianto and Irwan Trinugroho Chapter 11. VaR Model for Managing Market Risk of Portfolio; Firman Pribadi, Arni Surwanti, and Wen-Chung Shih

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Book SynopsisVolume 46 of Advances in Econometrics presents essays in honor of Subhal Kumbhakar. His influence on the applied productivity and efficiency profession is legion, as evidenced by his voluminous body of research, must read textbook and attendance at sessions where he is presenting or his work is featured.Subal's oeuvre continues to grow, his ability to move the applied econometric and productivity literature forward never stalling and his charismatic smile always there to cheer up colleagues and friends on a gloomy day. It is the editor's distinct privilege to gather this collection of papers that honors Subal's many accomplishments, drawing further attention to the various areas of scholarship that he has touched.Advances in Econometrics publishes original scholarly econometrics papers with the intention of expanding the use of developed and emerging econometric techniques by disseminating ideas on the theory and practice of econometrics throughout th

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging set of papers deals with crucial questions in economic theory, economic policy and economic history. The papers help explain why economic performance deteriorated dramatically in the West over the past three decades as the ''Golden Age'' of capitalism after World War II was replaced by global neoliberal capitalism. They show that theoretical frameworks rooted in the radical and heterodox traditions can explain this evolution and the current global economic and financial crisis, something mainstream theories cannot do. Topics include but are not limited to: methodology: a critique of ''positivism'' is used to explain why mainstream reliance on fairy-tale assumptions should be replaced by realistic assumption sets as argued by Marx and Keynes Marx, Keynes and Minsky on financial market instability versus mainstream theories of ''efficient'' financial markets how Keynes's assumption that the future is unknowable revolutionized not only macro theory but the micro theory of agent choice as well structural causes of the current global financial crisis how innovative theories of competition, globalization, capital investment and financialization inspired by Marx, Keynes and Schumpeter can be used to explain the crisis tendencies of neoliberal capitalism the influence of class conflict on economic policy, including in the current ''austerity'' regimes. The papers in this book should be of interest to most economists and can be used in both graduate and upper level undergraduate courses. Many of these papers are accessible to anyone who reads the business press.Trade ReviewThis is a marvelous collection of essays of Jim Crotty. They are a joy to read, and provide contributions a plenty for analysing and understanding the evolution of capitalism through globalization and financialization, and developing theories alternative to the mainstream based on realistic assumptions.' --Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds, UK'No one has written with greater clarity and insight about economic theory and capitalist dynamics in the past three decades than James Crotty. This collection, assembling his best papers in one place, is a must-have for established and aspirational political economists alike. There is wisdom on every page.' --Gary Dymski, Leeds University Business School, UK'At a time when mainstream economics is being questioned across the world for its lack of relevance and inability to explain observed reality, James Crotty's work comes as a welcome reminder of how economics can be both relevant and insightful. This body of work spanning more than four decades is still fresh and topical, and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand contemporary capitalism.' --Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IndiaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: METHODOLOGY AND THEORY AS IF REALITY MATTERED: FRIEDMAN VS. KEYNES, MARX AND MINSKY 1. The Realism of Assumptions Does Matter: Why Keynes-Minsky Theory Must Replace Efficient Market Theory as the Guide to Financial Regulation Policy 2. Are Keynesian Uncertainty and Macrotheory Compatible? Conventional Decision Making, Institutional Structures and Conditional Stability in Keynesian Macromodels 3. The Centrality of Money, Credit and Financial Intermediation in Marx’s Crisis Theory: An Interpretation of Marx’s Methodology PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE GREAT FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2007-2008 4. If Financial Market Competition is Intense, Why are Financial Firm Profits so High?: Reflections on the Current “Golden Age” of Finance 5. Structural Causes of the Global Financial Crisis: A Critical Assessment of the “New Financial Architecture” 6. How Bonus-Driven “Rainmaker” Financial Firms Enrich Top Employees, Destroy Shareholder Value and Create Systemic Financial Instability PART III: KEYNES, THE “KEYNESIANS” AND “NEW KEYNESIANS” ON INVESTMENT THEORY 7. Is New Keynesian Investment Theory Really “Keynesian”?: Reflections on Fazzari and Variato 8. Owner-Manager Conflict and Financial Theories of Investment Instability: A Critical Assessment of Keynes, Tobin and Minsky PART IV: COMPETITION, GLOBALIZATION, ACCUMULATION AND FINANCIALIZATION IN THE SPIRIT OF MARX, SCHUMPETER AND KEYNES 9. Rethinking Marxian Investment Theory: Keynes-Minsky Instability, Competitive Regime Shifts and Coerced Investment 10. Core Industries, Coercive Competition and the Structural Contradictions of Global Neoliberalism 11. The Neoliberal Paradox: The Impact of Destructive Product Market Competition and Modern Financial Markets on Nonfinancial Corporation Performance in the Neoliberal Era PART V: RADICAL THEORY, CLASS CONFLICT AND POLICY IN THE US AND ABROAD 12. Was Keynes a Corporatist?: Keynes’s Radical Views on Industrial Policy and Macro Policy in the 1920s 13. Class Conflict and Macropolicy: The Political Business Cycle 14. The Great Austerity War in the US: What Caused the US Deficit Crisis and Who Should Pay to Fix It? 15. Was IMF-Imposed Economic Regime Change in South Korea Justified: The Political Economy of the IMF Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book sets out a shrewd and comprehensive policy programme, for both 'microeconomic' supply-side settings of tax and regulatory systems, and 'macroeconomic' policies for fiscal and monetary policies to regulate demand and support the supply-side growth agenda. Explaining the numerous benefits of free trade after Britain's exit from the EU, and challenging the anti-Brexit argument, Patrick Minford builds on his extensive research into economic modelling to quantify the effects of Brexit and propose policies for the aftermath. Laying out an agenda for replacing social interventionist EU regulation with a robust free market framework, Minford proposes a radical tax reform programme to broaden the tax base and flatten marginal rates. This incisive book looks to the future of the UK beyond Brexit, addressing the effects of coronavirus and proposing an avenue of policies for recovery.Featuring key empirical analysis and insightful arguments, this book will be crucial reading for economists and policymakers investigating and overseeing the future of UK economic policy. It will also benefit scholars of economics and political economy, particularly those interested in tax reform programmes.Trade Review'Brexit offers the UK the opportunity to shake off the shackles of its EU past and rejuvenate its economy. In this book, Patrick Minford and David Meenagh set out the reforms needed - deregulation, free trade, and fiscal and monetary reform - to make Brexit a success. More markets, less government. UK policymakers should adopt After Brexit, What Next? as their canonical text.' -- Kevin Dowd, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction and summary PART I RESTORING BRITAIN’S COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH FREE TRADE AND REFORMS OF THE TAX AND REGULATORY SYSTEM 2. The trade effects of Brexit on the UK economy 3. The costs of EU regulation 4. An agenda for tax reform PART II SUPPORTING BRITAIN’S ECONOMY THROUGH FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY 5. Fiscal and monetary policy for the post-Brexit world 6. Reforming monetary policy for a normal future 7. Fiscal rules and the new fiscal programme 8. Public spending within the new fiscal programme 9. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book sets out a shrewd and comprehensive policy programme, for both 'microeconomic' supply-side settings of tax and regulatory systems, and 'macroeconomic' policies for fiscal and monetary policies to regulate demand and support the supply-side growth agenda. Explaining the numerous benefits of free trade after Britain's exit from the EU, and challenging the anti-Brexit argument, Patrick Minford builds on his extensive research into economic modelling to quantify the effects of Brexit and propose policies for the aftermath. Laying out an agenda for replacing social interventionist EU regulation with a robust free market framework, Minford proposes a radical tax reform programme to broaden the tax base and flatten marginal rates. This incisive book looks to the future of the UK beyond Brexit, addressing the effects of coronavirus and proposing an avenue of policies for recovery.Featuring key empirical analysis and insightful arguments, this book will be crucial reading for economists and policymakers investigating and overseeing the future of UK economic policy. It will also benefit scholars of economics and political economy, particularly those interested in tax reform programmes.Trade Review'Brexit offers the UK the opportunity to shake off the shackles of its EU past and rejuvenate its economy. In this book, Patrick Minford and David Meenagh set out the reforms needed - deregulation, free trade, and fiscal and monetary reform - to make Brexit a success. More markets, less government. UK policymakers should adopt After Brexit, What Next? as their canonical text.' -- Kevin Dowd, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction and summary PART I RESTORING BRITAIN’S COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH FREE TRADE AND REFORMS OF THE TAX AND REGULATORY SYSTEM 2. The trade effects of Brexit on the UK economy 3. The costs of EU regulation 4. An agenda for tax reform PART II SUPPORTING BRITAIN’S ECONOMY THROUGH FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY 5. Fiscal and monetary policy for the post-Brexit world 6. Reforming monetary policy for a normal future 7. Fiscal rules and the new fiscal programme 8. Public spending within the new fiscal programme 9. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThe rapid integration of global governments, businesses and capital has faced a dramatic and often hostile backlash in recent years. As populist agendas worldwide gain momentum, Deglobalization 2.0 explores the key drivers of reactionary movements. From the 'Make America Great Again' movement in the US, to Continental European populism, Peter van Bergeijk explains the critical catalysts of anti-globalization sentiment. Through a historical lens, this book draws out similarities and differences between contemporary developments and the economic crises of the 1930s, offering a unique understanding of the political and economic drivers of deglobalization. Focusing on wealth inequality, social uncertainty and international competition for economic supremacy, van Bergeijk examines and offers answers for the lacunae in the globalization debate. Provocative, insightful and accessible, this book confronts the deglobalization issue as a matter of real urgency and is thus vital reading for policy makers and managers working in international affairs and economic relations. It also offers guidance for academics in international economics and relations moving into the uncharted territory of deglobalization processes.Trade Review'This is an insightful and thought-provoking book that ranges widely in its analysis of deglobalization. All students of the international economy should read the latest work of this well-respected economist.' --Andrew K. Rose, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Spoilers 2. Setting the stage 3. Deglobalization is not new! 4. What drives deglobalization? 5. Is deglobalization good or bad? 6. The future of deglobalization References Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a new and comprehensive overview of important topics and orientations in the anthropological study of economic life, this invigorating third edition of A Handbook of Economic Anthropology addresses key changes in the decade since the previous edition in people’s economic lives and environments, as well as in intellectual interest among scholars.The Handbook contains diverse reflections on the economic turmoil of 2008 and the austerity that followed. Containing 35 newly commissioned chapters from important scholars in the field, it covers the nature of work and the changing ways people think about it, as stable jobs give way to short term work and the platform economy, as well as the expansion of the financial sector and efforts to control it. Chapters further explore social reproduction, the maintenance and regeneration of households and social relations over time, as well as the increasing concern with value, morality and ethics, both as things that motivate people and as policy orientations.This will be a critical read for academic anthropologists looking for a state-of-the-art and thorough reference work for this key area of the discipline. Economic sociologists and geographers, as well as heterodox economists will also benefit from the broad range of empirical work and theoretical standpoints explored.Trade Review‘A Handbook of Economic Anthropology accomplishes that rare feat of surveying the state-of-the-art in the field while also pushing the boundaries of research with new ideas and interpretations. The essays are compelling in their own right, but together they provide a comprehensive look at economic anthropology today and point the way for future work.’ -- Edward F Fischer, Vanderbilt University, US, and author of The Good Life‘James Carrier’s Handbook has established itself as an indispensable resource for economic anthropologists in the 21st century. The contributions assembled in this third edition make it as informative and innovative as its two predecessors.’ -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing economic anthropology 1 James G. Carrier PART I ORIENTATIONS 2 Marx and political economy 10 Don Robotham 3 Polanyi and social economy 24 Barry L. Isaac 4 Mauss and the gift 35 Andrew Sanchez 5 Community and economy: economy’s base 45 Stephen Gudeman 6 Provisioning and the household 56 Susana Narotzky PART II ELEMENTS 7 Natural resources: the twice-hidden abode of economic processes 72 Jaume Franquesa 8 Property 85 David Sneath 9 Production 98 Rebecca Prentice 10 Labour 110 Charlotte Bruckermann 11 Circulation and its forms 121 Maxim Bolt 12 Markets 136 Mark Busse 13 Consumption 149 Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Aaron C. Delgaty 14 Waste: the first and final frontier 162 Jacob Doherty PART III INTEGRATIONS 15 Gender: feminist perspectives and economic anthropology 176 Victoria Goddard and Frances Pine 16 Environment and economy: Great divide to great acceleration 191 Eric Hirsch 17 Ritual, rationality and intersections between economy and religion 204 Simon Coleman 18 Kinship and economy 216 Lale Yalçın-Heckmann 19 Migration 227 İbrahim Sirkeci and Armağan Teke Lloyd 20 Morality 239 Irene Sabaté Muriel 21 Archaeology and markets 251 Douglas K. Smit PART IV ISSUES 22 Economic ethicising 266 Stefanie Mauksch 23 The good life 277 Matthew Doyle 24 Emerging varieties of work 289 Ivan Rajković 25 Anthropology’s brief (?) obsession with neoliberalism 303 Thomas Dunk 26 Global inequality 316 Jason Hickel 27 Underlying transfers 331 Anthony J. Pickles 28 Mass mobilisations 341 Ida Susser 29 Business 353 Greg Urban 30 Commodity chains 368 André Thiemann 31 Instability 379 Donald M. Nonini 32 Anthropology with or without Home 392 Andreas Streinzer 33 Activist anthropology 406 Katharina Bodirsky PART V AFTER THE CRISIS 34 The nature of the crisis 420 Nathan Coben 35 Society is debt 433 Anush Kapadia 36 Financialisation 447 Richard H. Robbins 37 Austerity 461 Theodore Powers 38 Financial regulation 473 Daniel Seabra Lopes 39 Alternative economies 487 Patrick O’Hare 40 After the revolutions: incremental change in contemporary economics 500 Michael Blim Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book investigates the political and economic transformation that has taken place over the past three decades in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Through an examination of both the successes and shortcomings of post communist reform and the challenges ahead for the region, it explores the topical issues of economic transition and integration, highlighting important lessons to be learned. Featuring contributions from both top academics and experienced policymakers, 30 Years of Transition in Europe first discusses the process of transition in CESEE from a historical perspective, analysing the impacts of differing approaches on economic and monetary policy, the role of central banks and the speed of reform in various countries of the region. Chapters also compare CESEE transformations to emerging economies in Asia, and examine contemporary concerns around financial and monetary stability, as well as exploring the long-term determinants of economic growth such as digitalization, climate change and demographic trends. Economists, central bankers, and policymakers in the banking sector and other international financial organizations will find this book an enlightening read. It will also be useful for academics in economics and politics with a particular interest in emerging European economies and European integration.Trade Review‘I highly recommend the scholars and observers of contemporary world to take a look at this book, not in a pick-and-match manner by chapters, but the volume as a whole.’ -- Tom Hashimoto, Eurasian Geography and EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I A historic transformation: heterogeneity in CESEE in a changing global context 1 Looking back on 30 years of transition – and looking 30 years ahead Robert Holzmann 2 1989: the year of the great ambivalence Anton Pelinka 3 The price of unity: the transformation of Germany and Eastern Europe after 1989 Philipp Ther PART II A central banker’s view on monetary policy during transition 4 Monetary policy challenges during transition: the case of Serbia Jorgovanka Tabaković and Ana Ivković 5 Monetary milestones of the past 30 years: the Czech National Bank’s view Jiří Rusnok 6 Croatia – from hyperinflation to the road to the euro area Boris Vujčić and Katja Gattin Turkalj PART III Modes of transition: the impact of different economic policy approaches 7 Ten lessons from thirty years of post-communist economic transformation Anders Åslund 8 The impact of different transition patterns and approaches on economic development in EU-CEE11, Russia and Ukraine Marina Gruševaja 9 Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe’s reunion with Europe Andrzej Sławiński PART IV Lessons from three decades of catching-up in Asia 10 Catching-up in Central and Eastern Europe and East Asia – commonalities and differences Michael A. Landesmann 11 Chinese multinationals in East Central Europe: structural, institutional or political considerations? Ágnes Szunomár PART V Challenges for CESEE’s near future: monetary and financial stability 12 Did macroprudential policies play a role in stabilizing the credit and capital flow cycle in CESEE? Markus Eller, Helene Schuberth and Lukas Vashold 13 30 years of monetary and exchange rate regimes in Central and Eastern Europe: what has changed, and what is next? Johannes Wiegand PART VI The future of CESEE: the impact of megatrends 14 At the start of a new leadership of the European Commission and the European Central Bank: where is the place of Central and Eastern Europe? Martin Selmayr 15 Will the EU overcome the East-West divide? Ada Ámon 16 Demographic change in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: trends, determinants and challenges Tomáš Sobotka and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz 17 The demographic challenge of Eastern Europe and potential policy options Mario Holzner Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book focuses on the impact of home countries on the international competitiveness of transnational corporations (TNCs). It seeks to explain the geographic concentration of the most internationally competitive TNCs in a single or very few countries, and their uneven performance at these concentration points. The theoretical framework for this analysis is based on a link between the location advantages of countries and the ownership advantages of firms.The book focuses on professional service TNCs as the competitive advantages of these firms are based entirely on intangible, often mobile assets, and they thus provide a striking illustration for the ways in which such assets shape the competitiveness of firms.Analyses of TNCs in several professional service industries based in various countries reveal the dynamic balance between the home and the foreign countries in which the TNCs operate, as well as the combination of country- and firm-specific attributes in shaping the competitiveness of TNCs and the subsequent patterns of global competition.The Origins of the International Competitiveness of Firms extends our knowledge of the determinants of the international competitiveness of TNCs, and will be of interest to scholars and students of international business and business strategy, and to those working in the fields of international competition, trade and investment.Trade Review'. . . her [Nachum's] book is an important addition to the literature on foreign direct investments.' -- Y. Aharoni, Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift fur NationalokonomieTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The National Origin of the Ownership Advantages of Firms 3. The Impact of Home Countries on the Ownership Advantages of Firms 4. Ownership Advantages and Competitiveness 5. The Strength and Sustainability of the Impact of Home Countries on the Competitiveness of Firms 6. The Impact of Home versus Foreign Countries on the Competitiveness of Firms 7. FDI and the Impact of Home Countries on the Competitiveness of Firms 8. The Limitations of the Impact of Home Countries on the Competitiveness of Firms and the Role of Individual Firms 9. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisPrivatization investment funds are the key feature of mass privatization programmes in transitional economies. This book offers a thorough survey of mass privatization programmes in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia, supported with extensive empirical analysis. The study of 'top-down' privatization funds in Poland and 'bottom-up' funds in the Czech Republic and Slovenia offers different solutions to the problem of how to improve the governance of privatization funds. The authors argue that the institutional structure of closed-end investment companies and open-end mutual funds has not provided the right incentives to maximize the value for the shareholders. In addition too many regulations are in place in underdeveloped markets to protect new shareholders unaccustomed to exercising their ownership rights. Instead, the authors argue that they need to promote adjustment in fund portfolios and ownership structures in order to spur the development of capital markets and effective mechanisms of corporate governance.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Governance of Privatization Funds in the Czech Republic 2. The Governance of Privatization Funds in Poland 3. The Governance of Privatization Funds in Slovenia Part I: The Role of Privatization Funds in Privatization and Post-Privatization Part II: Transformation of Privatization Funds Part III: Management Companies and Issues of Governance of Privatization Funds Part IV: The Governance of Privatization Funds with Special Reference to the Role of Supervisory Boards 4. The Impact of Privatization Funds on Corporate Governance in Mass Privatization Schemes: the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia 5. The Governance of Privatization Funds: Open Issues and Policy Recommendations References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisForeign capital has played a fundamental role in China's development and economic reconstruction during the past two decades. China is now the world's second largest host for foreign direct investment, outside the United States. This important new book, by a distinguished group of contributors, offers insights into the impact of foreign investment on China's growth and regional economic development. The book features: an examination of China's investment policy an analysis of the most recent industrial surveys case studies from selected regions applications of modern econometric techniques to data on foreign direct investment in China Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in China will be of interest to those working in the areas of international business, finance and international economics as well as Asian development and Chinese economic studies.Trade Review'Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in China is an edited compilation of nine papers (plus an introduction), most of which were presented in July 1997 at an international conference on the economics of Greater China. The papers will be of interest primarily to academic economists and policymakers. . .' -- Roger Strange, Asia Pacific Business Review'This edited book examines an important area of China's foreign economic relations - namely, the contribution foreign direct investment (FDI) has made to economic growth in China. . . . The book is a valuable addition to the literature on China's science and industry policies.' -- Cong Cao, The China Journal'The hallmark of the book is the analysis of Chinese national data using a variety of techniques . . . the book is attractively produced. Edward Elgar continues to provide a great service in publishing books on transition economies with good empirical work . . . contributing to our knowledge of what is happening in the 30 formerly centrally planned economies.' -- Richard Pomfret, Journal of Comparative EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. FDI and Economic Growth: An Introduction Part I: Foreign Direct Investment in the Chinese Economy 2. Foreign Investment Policy, Contribution and Performance 3. Foreign Capital Stock and its Determinants 4. The Performance of FDI Part II: Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Economic Growth 5. The Impact of FDI and Trade 6. FDI, Trade and Transfer Pricing 7. Causality Between FDI and Economic Growth Part III: Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Economies 8. Changing Patterns of FDI in Shanghai 9. FDI and Industrial Restructuring in Xiamen 10. FDI and Economic Development in Guangdong Index

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Book SynopsisIncome distribution is one of the most important issues related to social change and is a central question in public policy. Despite this, income distribution is often neglected by mainstream economics. This important book seeks to rectify this by presenting a number of heterodox approaches to income distribution.The book approaches the subject from a variety of different schools of thought and focuses on some of the broader topics within income distribution as well as its significance for national policy. It addresses the social order of society as dictated by income, as well as institutional arrangements and their impact on income distribution theory and policy. The authors discuss current thinking as well as considering empirical findings on income distribution and how these are affected by different stages of economic development. The Economics of Income Distribution will be welcomed by economists, sociologists and political scientists interested in public policy issues relating to income distribution.Trade Review'. . . this is a good read for any economist with an interest in distribution. Given the diversity of views presented and topics covered, there will almost certainly be something to provoke your anger or reinforce your preconceptions about distribution.' -- James Peach, Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Economics of Income Distribution: Heterodox Approaches. An Introduction 2. Bronfenbrenner Revisited 3. An Institutionalist Approach to Income Distribution 4. Beyond Income Distribution: An Entitlement Systems Approach to the Acquirement Problem 5. Deflation and Distribution: Austerity Policies in Britain in the 1920s 6. Income Distribution in the Transition: Some Reflections and Some Evidence 7. Income Distribution and Environmental Policy Instruments 8. Looking Back Index

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Book SynopsisThis important and timely book examines how corporate governance has and should be developed in China to meet the challenges of enterprise and financial reform. It highlights key economic, social and political issues that China has to confront in order to transform the state owned industrial enterprises into a competitive and modern corporate sector.On Kit Tam critically appraises the main analytical frameworks and models of corporate governance in industrialized countries. He then assesses China's development in terms of current Western debates in relation to the role, function and evolution of corporate governance arrangements. He examines how the Chinese government has adopted a top-down approach combined with a market based Anglo-American model. The author also presents surveys of company directors, managers and supervisors reporting the current environment and analyses the choices available in the light of China's particular problems. He concludes with suggestions for a model of corporate governance in China.This book will be welcomed by economists and those interested in management studies, Chinese reform, international business, Asian studies, industrial organization and business strategy.Trade Review'. . . this is a well reasoned account giving an insightful perspective on changes taking place within corporate China. It eloquently situates China's reforms within the international debate on corporate governance, providing coherent arguments backed by new empirical findings.' -- Norbert Kaldun, Allianz Global Risk Report'The Development of Corporate Governance in China is a timely and well-written book. It elegantly situates China's corporate governance reforms in an international context and provides coherent argument backed by new empirical findings. It is a must read for anyone interested in the economic reform of China's vast state sector.' -- Christopher A. McNally, The China Journal'. . . a useful first step for scholars, students, and practitioners outside China interested in corporate governance inside China.' -- Mike W. Peng, Academy of Management Executive'The Development of Corporate Governance in China examines how the development of corporate governance matters in China's economic development and enterprise reform. It provides a penetrating study of the major corporate governance issues encountered in the country's reform process. Set firmly against the realities of China and relevant international experiences, the book shows the pitfalls of China's approach to corporate development and suggests an alternative model. Its analysis is balanced and full of insights into the working of the emerging corporate sector. It is the first major book on the subject with comprehensive survey data. Anyone interested in the future of China's economic and corporate development would find the book rewarding and worthwhile.' -- Y.Y. Kueh, Lingnan University, Hong Kong'This is an extremely timely and valuable book. The future of corporate governance has been under keen debate in China and crucial decisions are currently being taken. Professor Tam's book succinctly analyses the background and theoretical issues and discusses how the dilemma might be resolved. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Chinese business, economics or organization.' -- Christopher Howe, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Corporate Governance and the Creation of Modern Corporations in China 3. Models of Corporate Governance: Theoretical Approaches and an International Comparison 4. Corporate Governance Issues Relating to China 5. An Analysis of Corporate Governance Arrangements in Chinese Public Companies 6. Current Practices and Problems in China’s Corporate Governance 7. Future Development of Corporate Governance for Chinese Companies Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisThe successful macroeconomic stabilization in Central and Eastern European countries has encouraged inflows of foreign capital badly needed to promote economic development. Strikingly, these countries have found capital inflows in their various forms to be a mixed blessing, threatening the macroeconomic balance that they have recently achieved. These countries have learned that it is not easy to continue to attract foreign capital and simultaneously to reduce its adverse effects on inflation, the exchange rate and the current account, and to contain disturbances resulting from reversals of the flows. This book investigates recent experiences in Central and Eastern Europe and contrasts it with that of Latin America and East Asia, and suggests appropriate policies and lessons to be learned. The authors conclude that many features of, and policy dilemmas faced by, formerly centrally planned economies in Europe are similar to those in other emerging economies. However, certain unique characteristics such as data limitations and the fragility of the banking and financial systems, compound the problems faced by policy makers in Central and Eastern Europe.This book will prove invaluable to policymakers and scholars interested in and responsible for international finance in transition economies.Trade Review'. . . an excellent piece of comparative economic policy analysis of individual countries in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe facing similar, but not identical, problems. . . . This book provides a first comparative analysis of financial inflows for transition economies. The problem will be a continuing one and the lessons to be gained from these country studies are important for economists both in the policy making and academic communities. Each study provides a solid foundation for future research on the individual countries or the region as a whole.' -- David M. Kemme, Journal of Comparative EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Background: Capital Inflow Episodes and Their Lessons in Asia and Latin America 1. Macroeconomic Policy Issues Raised by Capital Inflows 2. Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits 3. Capital Inflows to Asia: The Role of Monetary Policy 4. The Effectiveness of Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence from Chile Part II: Recent Experience in More Advanced Transition Countries 5. Capital Inflows to Hungary and Accompanying Policy Responses, 1995–1996 6. Financial Inflows to Poland, 1990–1996 7. Capital Inflows to the Baltic States, 1992–1996 8. Financial Flows to a Small Open Economy: The Case of Slovenia Summary Index

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Book SynopsisUnder growing pressure from within and outside their economies, countries around the world have recently embarked upon wide-ranging programmes of financial reform. This major Handbook provides country studies of the latest developments in financial reform in a selection of both developed and developing countries from Western Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia, written by acknowledged experts in their fields. The outcome is an up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive account of the current world-wide attempt to refashion the way in which the financial services industry (and especially the banking sector) is regulated and supervised. The contributors find that programmes of reform have embraced all or most of the following elements: central bank reform changes in the legal operating environment and market pressures for mergers consolidation demutualisation supervisory reform measures such as the introduction of explicit deposit insurance schemes. This comprehensive reference work contains a wealth of up-to-date knowledge, presented in an accessible manner and with a standardised format. It will be of interest to scholars of central banking and international banking reforms as well as policymakers, legislators, practitioners and organisations from the banking world.Trade Review'The editor did an excellent job in editing this Handbook. . . each chapter gives a very clear and highly informative account of how each country struggles during a crisis and manages to reform their financial industry, as well as the supervision that goes alongside it. What makes this Handbook great reading is the formula followed almost faithfully by all the contributors of the book.' -- Michael Ong, Journal of Financial Regulation and ComplianceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Financial Reform in Australia 2. Price Stabilization, the Banking Crisis and Financial Reform in Brazil 3. Financial Reform in Canada: Past, Present and Future 4. Financial System Reform in China 5. Financial Reform in Germany 6. Financial Reform in Hong Kong 7. Financial Reform in Italy 8. Financial Reform in Japan 9. Financial Sector Reforms in Singapore 10. Financial Reform in Thailand 11. Financial Reform in the UK 12. Financial Sector Reform in Vietnam Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book focuses on the economic consequences of structural reform policies in the economies at the cutting edge of reform: Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway. The contributors examine policies aimed at improving the underlying path of growth, employment and saving-investment balances of the economy and apply state of the art methods to measure and model structural reforms. They examine the areas of competition policy, regulation of entry barriers, non-tariff trade barriers and employment protection rules as well as the quality of education and training, the efficiency of various public sector agencies and labour supply effects of care for children and the elderly. Special attention is paid to two 'success stories': New Zealand's 'Kiwi-model' and the Dutch 'Polder-model'. The book provides a welcome addition to the scarce evidence on both the costs and the benefits of structural reform and identifies the policy problems and the analytical issues at stake.This book will be indispensable to policymakers and academics with an interest in structural reform and macroeconomic policy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Structural Reform: The Issues Part I: Experiences with Structural Reform 2. Reform and Experience in New Zealand 3. The Policy Experience of Structural Reform in the Netherlands 4. Structural Reform in the Netherlands and New Zealand: Two Roads to Success? Part II: Modelling Structural Reform 5. Gains from Improved Sectoral Efficiency in Norway 6. A Dynamic CGE Analysis of the Danish 1993 Tax Reform Act Part III: Measuring Structural Reform 7. A Miracle or Not? Recent Trends in the Growth Performance of the Dutch Economy 8. Productivity, Wage Moderation, and Specificity in Factor Inputs Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the long absence of a satisfactory theory of macroeconomics. Keynesian theory is not consistent with rational self-interest, but neo-classical economics is unable to explain economic volatility and the trade cycle. Athol Fitzgibbons critiques the leading macroeconomic theories, which he believes are unduly mechanistic because they are incompatible with non-quantitative knowledge.The author sketches the intellectual history of partial knowledge and judgement so far as these relate to macroeconomics, and rejects the claims that Keynes recanted the analysis of practical reason in his Treatise on Probability. Fitzgibbons's theme is the possibility of a new synthesis of Keynes and the neoclassical system. This stresses financial rationality, but it also recognizes that there is an element of indeterminacy in both government policies and the movements of the market.Trade Review'The Nature of Macroeconomics is a short but adventurous book that punches well above its weight . . . As part of a growing literature that identifies methodological issues as central to any appreciation of macroeconomic debate, and which seeks to under-labor for a more relevant useful - indeed, more scientific - macroeconomics, Fitzgibbons' book is to be warmly welcomed.' -- Mark Setterfield, Review of Social Economy'Fitzgibbons examines the foundations of macroeconomic theory and policy and develops an insightful discussion of important issues, especially the state of knowledge of both market participants and policymakers . . . The Nature of Macroeconomics is clearly a book that contributes to the growth of our own partial knowledge.' -- David Dequech, Review of Political Economy'Athol Fitzgibbons's book distils the main lesson of the debates on Keynes over the last 25 years: that macroeconomics has to be based on a theory of knowledge consistent with the way life is lived, where decisions are made in the face of imperfect knowledge. All existing theory (including, he argues, the General Theory) assumes either perfect knowledge or complete ignorance. He shows us why this has happened, and suggests a way out. It is a brave, knowledgeable and important book.' -- Victoria Chick, University College London, UK'A well-written, well-argued discussion of the foundations of macro. If you are unfamiliar with the arguments that macro is not, and cannot be, a traditional science, then this book is definitely worth reading.' -- David Colander, Middlebury College, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: The Economics of Indeterminacy 1. The Crisis in the Keynesian System 2. Indeterminate Decisions 3. Uncertainty and Decisions Part II: A Critique of Macroeconomics 4. Macroeconomic Theories 5. The Theory of Macroeconomic Policy Part III: Economics and Practical Reason 6. Keynes and the Intellectual Context 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 1990's the first encouraging results on GDP growth combined with the fulfilment of international requirements led many to believe that Albania was a 'shining star' in Central and Eastern Europe. But in 1997 this progress was reversed by unprecedented institutional, political and social turmoil leading to a spiral of violence and chaos.This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the different factors behind the 1997 political, economic and social upheaval in Albania. It shows that the crisis was both predictable and complex, and not simply a matter of a disgruntled population attempting to regain their money. Using extensive and detailed evidence Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead identifies the major reasons for the growing discontent and final explosion: - the increase in unemployment, collapse of industrial production, inefficiency of the banking system, limitations and drawbacks of foreign investment, failure of mass privatization, falling living standards, and rising poverty. He examines the consequences of the crisis at the enterprise level, by region, sector, industry and property form using a unique survey of over 1,000 enterprises. In conclusion he offers a series of policy recommendations with a view to regenerating production whilst avoiding a new social explosion in a destroyed economy, weakened by political instability and the conflict in Kosovo.This unique book will be essential reading for all academics working in the area of transition as well as policymakers from international organizations involved in transition economies.Trade Review'. . . a comprehensive and timely overview of one of the least known and least understood of the transition economies, Albania . . . the book is an excellent overview of events in Albania during the past decade. It assembles an impressive range of data and other information about Albania and presents in a very accessible manner. The surveys, in particular, provide a wealth of useful information and can be very helpful in shaping future policies. The author presents the main arguments in a very clear and cogent manner . . . I hope and expect that this valuable book will do much to stimulate further debate and research about Albania.' -- Peter Sanfey, Journal of Comparative Economics'This book provides an analysis of economic developments in Albania since 1990, with particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social collapse of 1997. It is, on the whole, an excellent, thoroughly researched book . . . this is far and away the finest book on the Albanian economy in the 1990s to have appeared thus far.' -- Adi Schnytzer, Slavic Review'Albania in Crisis will be of great interest not only to those international organizations and experts working on the reconstruction of Albania, but also to other policymakers in the region, and to anybody with a professional, academic or general interest in the "transition".' -- Elizabeth Goodson, International Labour Review'One of the most comprehensive economic analyses on Albania. Based on personal experience, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead's book is an excellent alternative approach to the Albanian 1997 crisis explanation. It represents a deep insight into the social problems of a poor but still promising country. Surveys and the enormous work with data are a great help in designing sustainable policies for recovery and growth . . . it will be an excellent addition to the scarce literature on Albania.' -- Marta Muco, Bank of Albania, Albania'During the early 1990s the Albanian economic performance was often lauded as one of the success stories on the path to systematic transformation and its policies as worthy of emulation by other countries in transition. The astonishing reversal in economic fortunes that followed and the accompanying social conflicts have led some to question that optimism and the general relevance of orthodox prescriptions. But this book - which is informed by extensive field work and findings from a large enterprise-level data set - is the first to provide a critical, comprehensive account and analysis of the Albanian experience. The volume - and especially its provocative findings - will be of considerable interest to social scientists and policymakers who are interested in promoting sustainable reform in former communist countries.' -- Derek C. Jones, James L. Ferguson Professor of Economics, Hamilton College, US'This is a riveting, first-hand, unique account of the spectacular rise and fall of the Albanian economy in transition. From a good observation point (ILO) and on the strength of a large scale enquiry into over 1,000 enterprises over three years, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead helps us understand the 1997 reversal and crisis, which was not just unleashed by the banking pyramid's collapse but was predictably rooted in the fragility of earlier achievements and their large-scale social costs. The book is of very great value not only to country specialists but to anybody with a professional, academic or general interest in the "transition".' -- D. Mario Nuti, University of Rome 'La Sapienza' , Italy and London Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Assessment: The Reasons for the Crisis 1. The Apparent Rapid Success of the Balkan Tiger 2. The Profound Crisis in Industry 3. Difficulties in Emerging Services 4. The Missing Pillar: The Inadequacy of the Banking System 5. The Unemployment Shock 6. Impoverishment Wages and Incomes 7. The Avoidance of Social Dialogue and Participation 8. The Failure of the Mass Privatisation Programme 9. Limitations and Drawbacks of Foreign Capital 10. The Collapse of the Albanian Pyramid Part II: Prospects: Albania after the Storm 11. The Extent of the Destruction 12. A Halt to Economic Activity 13. Macroeconomic Indicators Moving Backwards 14. The Social Abyss 15. Reviving Production Forces 16. Reviving Life Forces Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe timeliness of this book is beyond question. Since the crisis erupted in Thailand in mid-1997 and spread, with varying degrees of severity, to the rest of Asia, the export-led industrialization strategy that has driven economic growth in East and Southeast Asia over the last 50 years has come into question. Is this model still applicable to latecomers such as Vietnam?The Asian financial crisis has highlighted the dangers of implementing export-oriented industrialization through government subsidies and protection. This book finds that the strategy followed by the Asian economies in the last half-decade remains a valid model for Vietnam. In order to avoid grave damage to its financial institutions, the strategy needs to be implemented in conjunction with the development of a sound financial system and a robust private sector.Based on a detailed analysis of the causes and nature of the Asian financial crisis as well as the Vietnamese economy, this book concludes that it is unlikely that Vietnam will face a banking and currency crisis in the short term, but Vietnam could be plagued by balance of payments difficulties for some time to come unless major structural reforms are undertaken soon.This timely book will be of great use to Asian studies scholars and those interested in the role of the financial sector in economic management and development.Trade Review'Can Vietnam make it? Is the crisis likely to spread and make the transition still more difficult, if not impossible?. . . This is a well documented and timely case study, raising almost all relevant issues of development. The book helps us to understand what is really at stake. It has succeeded in bringing together significant contributions and discussions on the big issues and important lessons can be derived for the future of Vietnam. . . . There are on the whole enough reasons for believing that Vietnam may be on the right track. But a 'strategic vision' would indeed seem to be needed.' -- Jacques De Bandt, Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, FranceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Vietnam and the Region 1. Crisis in Asia and Vietnam’s Economic Policy Response 2. Needed: A Strategic Vision for Setting Reform Priorities in Vietnam Part II: The Asian Financial Crisis and Vietnam 3. Asia’s Financial Crisis: Lessons and Implications for Vietnam 4. Current and Capital Account Liberalisation: Issues Facing Indonesia 5. Paradise Lost: The Pernicious Impact of Exchange Rate Policy on Indonesia’s Banking System 6. Dollarisation and Financial Sector Developments in Vietnam 7. Borrower Transaction Costs and Segmented Markets: A Study of the Rural Credit Market in Vietnam Part III: East Asian Export-Oriented Industrialisation and Vietnam’s Strategic Directions 8. Industrialisation in ASEAN: Some Analytical and Policy Lessons 9. Developing with Foreign Investment: What Can Vietnam Learn from Malaysia? 10. Experiences in the Region and Private Sector Incentives in Vietnam 11. Implications for Vietnam of Rural Industrialisation in China 12. Market Reform and Vietnamese Agriculture References Index

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Book SynopsisThe horizontalist perspective is an extension of the post-Keynesian approach, that has hitherto focused on a theory of credit and money. This book extends horizontalism beyond its traditional boundaries and makes it consistent with the post-Keynesian theories of output and the open economy.The authors compare and contrast the horizontalist position with various orthodox and non-orthodox views on money. They argue that horizontalism is perfectly compatible with liquidity preference, credit constraints, and a flexible interest-rate mark-up, and address recent developments in banking that reinforce the validity of a horizontal schedule of credit-money. The overall intention is to place horizontalism within the current heterodox tradition as a general theory of the creation of money that is consistent with the post-Keynesian view on macroeconomic policy.Credit, Interest Rates and the Open Economy is essential reading for those who wish to expand their theoretical understanding of international financial issues and will be of great interest to those involved in macroeconomics, money and banking and radical economics.Trade Review'This is a very pleasant volume on credit, interest rates, and the open economy. It would be useful to anyone interested in gaining knowledge of the major issues in the horizontalist interpretation of the endogenous money hypothesis.' -- Giuseppe Fontana, Eastern Economic Journal'This book should be on the reading list of every graduate course in monetary economics. The distinguished contributors not only examine and discuss the nature of money and the conduct of monetary policy in a modern credit economy, but also take an historical perspective through the writings of Cassel, Wicksell, Sraffa and Hicks, as well as Keynes and Kaldor, and extend the theory of money endogeneity (or "horizontalism") to the open economy and economic growth. Interested readers have a feast before them.' -- A.P. Thirlwall, University of Kent at Canterbury, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface: Anthony Thirlwall Introduction Part I: Setting the Record Straight 1. Some Reflections on Endogenous Money 2. Horizontalism Part II: Debates on Horizontalism 3. Money without Scarcity 4. Money Endogeneity and Monetary Non-Neutrality 5. Horizontalism and New Keynesian Economics Part III: Horizontalism and History of Thought Issues 6. The German Balance of Payments School and the Latin American Neo-Structuralists 7. Horizontalism and Inflation Accommodation 8. Notes on Hicks on Money and Monetary Theory 9. Bank Creation of Money and Endogenous Money Supply as the Outcome of the Evolution of the Banking System Part IV: Horizontalism and the Open Economy 10. The Reflux Mechanism and the Open Economy 11. Monetary Autonomy and Financial Integration 12. Foreign Exchange, Interest and Prices Index

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Book SynopsisSince the demise of communism, Russia has become increasingly disparate. Some regions have grown in strength while others have been less successful. This book examines regional patterns of economic change in Russia by addressing questions such as: Is Russia a single economic area? Why are regional economic inequalities increasing? Are there significant regional differences in the economic regime? What influence do leaders have in their own regions, and on federal economic policies? To what extent do central policymakers affect regional outcomes? How are Russian regions affected by their new openness to foreign trade and investment? Based on research carried out by an international and interdisciplinary group of experts, this book analyses case studies from eight regions as well as testing hypotheses on data for the 77 main administrative regions. It will be of immense value to academics, those working for government and non-government agencies, and business people.Trade Review'Members of the geographic community and the broader community of scholars and policymakers interested in economic transition will find this volume useful. . . . worthwhile for both regional specialists and those more generally interested in economic transition.' -- Beth Mitchneck, The Professional Geographer'Overall, the book is very well written. Its analyses are based upon a broad range of research techniques, but the findings are stated simply; the researchers delve into the vastness of multi-dimensional problems, yet the conclusions are succinct; the language is lucid and the style is polished. It is actually quite amazing how neatly this enormous wealth of information fits in a ten-chapter volume. I enjoyed reading it, and I know many others will too. The book is remarkable in many aspects and has a lot to offer to the inquisitive reader.' -- Nani Boyce, Papers in Regional ScienceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Russia’s Regions in the ‘Triple Transition’ 3. Regional Dynamics of Economic Restructuring Across Russia 4. Demographic Responses to Regional Economic Change 5. Federal Government Responses to Regional Economic Change 6. St Petersburg and Kostroma 7. Samara and Krasnodar 8. Irkutsk and Sakhalin 9. Kaliningrad and Primorskiy Kray 10. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisRegulatory regimes appear wherever market economies exist and whenever there is competition for limited resources. However, the rationale of public regulation of markets, as well as the mechanisms that characterise regulatory regimes, is not well understood. The State, Regulation and the Economy illustrates how economic theory, whether positive or normative, is not convincing in explaining the complex interactions between the state and the market. Instead, the book examines regulation and state intervention from an institutional and historical perspective. Utilising empirical evidence from Scandinavia and the US, the authors argue that the form and content of state interventionism is strongly influenced by historical and path dependent factors, and go on to propose an approach which illuminates the role of specific historical events in forming regulatory policy. Various aspects of regulation are discussed with reference to infrastructure and network industries, one of the few areas in the economy where the role of the state has changed dramatically during the past two decades. The authors believe that the fast changing attitudes and policies towards regulation might be better understood by applying a longer time horizon combined with analysis based on new institutional economics.Scholars of economics, business administration, economic history and political science, as well as those wishing to gain a greater insight into the historical dimension of regulation, will find this an original and valuable book.Trade Review'. . . this book is a collection of well written, very interesting and informative essays that should be valuable to scholars and professional practitioners in the fields of economic history and political science.' -- Fredrik Wilander, Scandinavian Economic History Review'This collection of papers provides important and refreshing context to today's issues, reminding us that the debate over effective regulation is not new and that today's regulations have historical roots . . . Overall, The State, Regulation and the Economy provides a thoughtful collection of papers that give good historical context to contemporary regulatory issues. It reminds us that today's regulations have historical roots that not only help explain why regulations look the way they do, but also that the historical evolution of regulation can help us understand issues facing regulatory policy today.' -- Scott Wallsten, The Journal of Economic History'Occasionally . . . studies come along that take seriously the charge that historians perform genuinely historical studies, in which early events can endure and have lasting impacts on future outcomes (so-called path dependence). The State Regulation and the Economy is an ambitious foray into this area . . . The State, Regulation and the Economy is an excellent volume which I very much enjoyed reading. It is a productive collaboration of practitioners of different disciplines, and provides much useful information and interpretation of the long-term regulatory experiences of two quite different economies. The editors are to be commended for attempting to fill an important gap in the literature on comparative institutional change.' -- Mark Kanazawa, EH.NetTable of ContentsContents: 1. Private Actors, Policy Regulation and the Role of History: An Introduction Part I: General Aspects of Regulation and Institution Decision Making 2. Information Distortion by Politicians and Constituent Groups in Promoting Regulatory Transfers 3. Bursting Through State Limits 4. Origins of the Myth of Neo-Liberalism 5. Taxation, Redistribution and Regulation 6. The Role of Path Dependence in the History of Regulation Part II: Sweden as a Role Model of a Regulated Economy 7. Introduction 8. Compensating the Periphery 9. The State and Regulatory Orders in Early European Civil Aviation 10. Liberalization and Control 11. From Informal Practice to Formal Policy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis modern and comprehensive book offers a broad survey of economic growth theory, with special emphasis on the impact of natural resources on long-term development. The book begins with the standard growth models of the 1950s and 1960s and extends its analysis to the so-called 'new' growth theory, in which the long-term growth rate of an economy becomes an endogenous variable. The impact of positive spillovers, human capital formation, public services and innovation on the growth process are carefully studied. Using models and empirical illustration, the author evaluates to what extent growth theory is able to explain the huge international differences in living standards prevailing in the world today. The theoretical foundation is then used to consider the issue of sustainable growth under stricter environmental regulation. Growth Theory and Sustainable Development shows that the understanding of growth theory is an important key to predict the sustainability of long-term development, making it required reading for students of economic development and environmental economics.Trade Review'Bretschger's book is useful for readers who have a relatively short time to digest essential ideas of modern development of neo-classical and endogenous growth theories and to bridge the gap between economic sustainability and environmental issues. . . Growth Theory and Sustainable Development is a meaningful addition to the growth economics and environmental economics literatures. The author surveys comprehensively the impact of positive spillovers, human capital formation, public services, and innovation on the growth process.' -- H. Park, Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie'This is a very impressive volume destined to become a standard treatise in the latest attempts to combine growth theory with the issue of sustainable development.' -- G.K. Shaw, The Economic Journal'Bretschger's pioneering textbook shows that endogenous growth theory provides a powerful framework for the analysis of sustainable development. It illustrates clearly and simply how the new theory can be used to bring diverse social, institutional and environmental factors back into mainstream economics.' -- Peter Howitt, Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Long-Term Development in Perspective 2. Early Approaches to Formal Growth Theory 3. The Neo-Classical Growth Model 4. Intertemporal Optimisation 5. Positive Spillovers 6. Endogenous Growth with Different Capital Stocks 7. Research and Development 8. Open Economy 9. Extensions 10. Sustainable Development 11. Natural Resources 12. Achieving Sustainability Index

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Book SynopsisThis major book presents an objective and penetrating economic analysis of stabilization and reform in Eastern Europe, combined with a compassionate plea for individual rights and solidarity.Janos Kornai - one of the most famous Hungarian economists of his generation - focuses on two main issues: first, the problems of stabilization and adjustment, which are painful but necessary conditions of sustainable growth and second, the reform of the 'premature welfare state' of Eastern European countries, which is disproportionately large in relation to the resources available and which was hitherto managed in a highly centralized, bureaucratic and paternalistic way.Struggle and Hope goes beyond most other books on the transition process by placing considerable emphasis on the understanding of the ethical implications and the historical roots of each problem, and also the political conditions and consequences of change. Although economic efficiency is extremely important, it is not the exclusive criterion; ethical principles of individual sovereignty and solidarity must also receive particular attention.Professor Kornai's insightful analysis will become required reading for all those concerned with the process of post-socialist transition.Trade Review'. . . he [the author] presents an interesting and original analysis of the transition to a post-socialist economy. . . . The book presents an illuminating analysis of the macroeconomic and social policy options in the process of change from a centrally planned, socialist economy to one based on the market and private enterprise.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Eliminating the Shortage Economy: a General Analysis and Examination of Developments in Hungary 2. Lasting Growth as Top Priority: Macroeconomic Tensions and Government Economic Policy in Hungary 3. A Steep Road: an Interview by László Zsolt Szabó on the Stabilization Programme 4. The Dilemmas of Hungarian Economic Policy: An analysis of the Stabilization Programme 5. Paying the Bill for Goulash Communism: Hungarian Development and Macro Stabilization in a Political-Economy Perspective 6. Adjustment without Recession: A Case Study of Hungarian Stabilization 7. The Responsibility of the Individual and Society: An Interview by Mihály Laki on Social Issues 8. The Citizen and the State: Reform of the Welfare System Index

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Book SynopsisMacroeconomic analysis has undergone profound and controversial changes during the past twenty-five years and, as such, economists have developed and evolved their approaches to the discipline. Reflections on the Development of Modern Macroeconomics presents a collection of eight original essays, from leading scholars, each of which focuses on an important issue relating to these developments.These accessible, reflective surveys include: to stabilize or not to stabilize: is that the question? Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane the rhetoric and methodology of modern macroeconomics Roger Backhouse how relevant is Keynesian economics today? Keith Shaw what remains of the monetarist counter-revolution? Thomas Mayer macroeconomics: before and after rational expectations Patrick Minford the ups and downs of modern business cycle theory Cillian Ryan and Andrew Mullineux the role of imperfect competition in new Keynesian economics Huw Dixon politics and the macroeconomy: endogenous politicians and aggregate instability Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane This book will attract a wide readership among intermediate undergraduates, as well as postgraduates and lecturers in the fields of macroeconomics and the history of economic thought.Trade Review'An eclectic, insightful collection on the development of modern macroeconomics.' -- David C. Colander, Middlebury College, US'This is a superb book providing a comprehensive, authoritative and lucid coverage of today's macroeconomic debates. It is a welcome addition for both students and their teachers.'– Peter M. Jackson, University of Leicester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. To Stabilize or not to Stabilize: Is that the Question? (B. Snowdon, H.R. Vane) 2. The Rhetoric and Methodology of Modern Macroeconomics (R.E. Backhouse) 3. How Relevant is Keynesian Economics Today? (G.K. Shaw) 4. What Remains of the Monetarist Counter-Revolution? (T. Mayer) 5. Macroeconomics: Before and After Rational Expectations (P. Minford) 6. The Ups and Downs of Modern Business Cycle Theory (C. Ryan, A.W. Mullineux) 7. The Role of Imperfect Competition in New Keynesian Economics (H.D. Dixon) 8. Politics and the Macroeconomy: Endogenous Politicians and Aggregate Instability (B. Snowdon, H.R. Vane)

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Book SynopsisThis important book provides fascinating insights into the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics. The reader's imagination is instantly captured, and the subject matter brought alive, through conversations with fourteen leading economists including five Nobel Laureates. These interviews shed new light on the controversies witnessed in the field of macroeconomic theory and policy, the way macroeconomics is taught and the history and methodology of macroeconomic research. Their illuminating and contrasting discussions provide students and scholars alike with a unique, highly accessible and enjoyable way to explore the ever-changing landscape of modern macroeconomics.The major economists featured in this book are:Alberto Alesina Olivier Blanchard Mark Blaug Robert W. Clower David C. Colander Milton Friedman Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Gregory Mankiw Franco Modigliani Edward N. Prescott Paul C. Romer Robert M. Solow John B. Taylor James TobinTrade Review'. . . all the interviews are worth reading.' -- Economic Affairs'. . . these interviews, and the introduction of the editors, make for good reading and provide an interesting overview of the development of macroeconomics during the last decades.' -- Ivo Maes, Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management'The interviews are informative and a delight to read. This is not the first enterprise of this sort for Snowdon and Vane, and their experience shows. So does their knowledge of the macroeconomics literature. The questions were prepared with skill to prompt the subjects to reflect on their own work and the work of their contemporaries in light of macroeconomics before and after the peaks of their influence.' -- J. Daniel Hammond, Journal of the History of Economic Thought'These conversations are valuable on many levels. The more or less casual reader with a general sense for the issues and interest in the subject might read them for enjoyment. The student struggling to construct a coherent picture in time for exams will find them of tremendous value. And I suspect that many professional economists will learn a great deal about every area but their own and perhaps even something about that.' -- James Forder, The Business Economist'More than fifteen years after I tried to find out what macroeconomists were up to in my book Conversations with Economists I wanted to go back to these economists to hear from them what has happened since then. There is no need to do that anymore here is the update. I am surprised to find out how similar the thinking has remained in some ways but also how rapidly the field has been changing in other ways, how more technical economics has become and how the issue of growth has come to dominate the agenda. These conversations are chock full of information and interesting tidbits, and provide a surprising and insightful view of the current state in macroeconomics. They should be mandatory reading to all students of economics and on top of the reading list of anyone who is interested in what is going on in macroeconomics.' -- Arjo Klamer, Erasmus University, The Netherlands'This book looks behind the now prevalent and sanitised text book portrayals of macroeconomics and introduces the reader to the theoretical and ideological controversies which lie at the heart of the subject. A very clear introductory extended essay by the authors, which sets the scene is followed by a delightful, thought provoking and engaging set of conversations with some of the principal agenda setters of macroeconomic research. This book is for those who wish to gain a sense of excitement of the modern macroeconomic research agenda. It might even encourage them to read some economics.' -- Peter M. Jackson, University of Leicester, UK'This collection amounts to a great deal more than a series of entertaining conversations, though entertaining they certainly are. Snowdon and Vane provide their readers with a thoughtful introductory essay outlining the development of macroeconomics since the 1930s, and the themes that they deal with there occur and re-occur throughout their interviews, bringing considerable unity to the book as a whole. In Snowdon and Vane's view, macroeconomics is a serious subject that deals with substantive questions of great social importance, and its progress depends on vigorous and open debate among competing points of view. Student readers, of whom there ought to be many, will get from this book a sense of the infectious excitement that marks such debate, and even the most jaded of their teachers will be reminded of why, when all is said and done, there is no subject more worthwhile than economics.' -- David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, Canada'Interviewing leading economists provides an effective way to comprehend the matrix in which their formal contributions arise. In providing these interviews Snowdon and Vane have performed a valuable service both for advanced students and professional economists.' -- Thomas Mayer, University of California, Davis, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Interpreting Modern Macroeconomics: From Tobin to Romer 2. James Tobin 3. N. Gregory Mankiw 4. Milton Friedman 5. Robert E. Lucas Jr 6. Alberto Alesina 7. Robert W. Clower 8. John B. Taylor 9. David C. Colander 10. Olivier Blanchard 11. Franco Modigliani 12. Edward C. Prescott 13. Robert M. Solow 14. Paul M. Romer 15. Mark Blaug References Index

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Book SynopsisA new international standard of national accounts is being implemented worldwide under the auspices of the United Nations. The New National Accounts is an authoritative introduction to this new system and provides a comprehensive explanation, with illustrative data, of the accounts and accounting concepts that all countries will use in the future. The book assumes no previous knowledge of either economics or national accounting. Beginning with an overview of the entire structure of the new system of accounts, both for flow transactions and their derived balancing items and also for stocks of economic assets and liabilities, Dudley Jackson explains the system's main balancing item - gross value added - and its relation to gross domestic product, to final expenditures, to primary incomes and to transfer payments. The book concludes by explaining the accumulation accounts and the resulting 'wealth of the nation' as recorded in the new system's balance sheets.The New National Accounts will be essential reading for both students and practitioners concerned with macroeconomics, economic policy, national accounting and comparative studies of the economic performance of advanced and developing countries.Trade Review'It was a pleasure to read this book and to review it . . . this is a standalone book and an excellent introduction to national accounts . . . I recommend its reading with enthusiasm.' -- Kishori Lal, Economic Systems Research'Readers with a background in the subject will find the topics covered in the volume familiar. Others will find it a good place to begin. All will find thorough coverage of national income accounting with many illustrations using data from the UK and Australia.' -- E.L. Whalen, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Economy and the Sequence of Accounts 2. Gross Value Added and Gross Domestic Product 3. Final Expenditure and Gross Domestic Product 4. Taxes on Products and the Valuation of Gross Domestic Product 5. External Transactions, the Balance of Primary Incomes and Gross National Income 6. General Government, Households and Disposable Income 7. Gross Saving and the Accumulation of Assets Index

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Book SynopsisThe Economics of Demand-Led Growth is a collection of specially written essays that develop and apply the theory of demand-led growth.Long-run growth is usually portrayed as a supply-determined process. The contributions to this volume, however, are rooted in the theory of demand-led growth. In addition to general discussions of the role of demand in the long-run, the volume contains essays in the Kaldorian and Kaleckian traditions, and a section on the relationship between demand-led growth and structural change. The conclusion reached is that current neglect of the role of demand in analyses of long-run growth is unwarranted. This book will prove indispensable to academic economists and graduate students in economics for its contributions to the field of macrodynamics and, in particular, its development of non-neoclassical approaches to macrodynamics.Trade Review'Demand-led growth theories call our attention to the powerful effects of factors usually neglected by neoclassical growth economics, including income distribution, institutions, structural change, history, path dependency and demand management policy. . . Setterfield's Demand-led Growth provides a useful introduction to this literature. It should be on the syllabus of graduate macroeconomics courses; most of the essays are suitable for advanced undergraduates as well.' -- Christopher J. Niggle, Review of Political Economy'As Keynes noted 65 years ago, the "great puzzle of effective demand" disappeared from economics for a century between Malthus and Keynes. It has recently been in danger of disappearing again. These lucid essays help assure that it will not. They ably summarize growth theory from the demand-side perspective, and in particular, they highlight for a new generation the continuing vital importance of Nicholas Kaldor's ideas.' -- James K. Galbraith, University of Texas, Austin, USTable of ContentsContents 1 Introduction: a dissenter’s view of the development of growth theory and the importance of demand-led growth Mark Setterfield PART ONE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN THE THEORY OF DEMAND-LED GROWTH 2 Keynesian macroeconomics and the theory of economic growth: putting aggregate demand back in the picture Thomas I. Palley 3 The exogeneity of investment: from systemic laws of accumulation and growth to effective demand conditions Joseph Halevi and RŽduane Taouil 4 Growth and fluctuations in the USA: a demand-oriented explanation H. Sonmez Atesoglu PART TWO KALDORIAN MODELS OF DEMAND-LED GROWTH 5 A neo-Kaldorian perspective on the rise and decline of the Golden Age Mark Setterfield and John Cornwall 6 The role of the balance of payments in economic growth J.S.L. McCombie and Mark Roberts 7 Pitfalls in the theory of growth: an application to the balanceof-payments-constrained growth model Thomas I. Palley PART THREE KALECKIAN MODELS OF DEMAND-LED GROWTH 8 Distribution, demand and growth in neo-Kaleckian macro-models Robert A. Blecker 9 Longer-run aspects of Kaleckian macroeconomics Tracy Mott 10 The Kaleckian growth model with target return pricing and conflict inflation Marc Lavoie 11 Conflict, inflation, distribution and terms of trade in the Kaleckian model Mario Cassetti PART FOUR TRAVERSE ANALYSIS AND DEMAND-LED GROWTH 12 A model of Kaldorian traverse: cumulative causation, structural change and evolutionary hysteresis Mark Setterfield PART FIVE STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND DEMAND-LED GROWTH 13 Endogenous demand in the theory of transformational growth George Argyrous 14 Notes on the transformational growth of demand Edward J. Nell 15 Is a biased technological change fuelling dualism? Pascal Petit and Luc Soete Index

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Book SynopsisThe globalisation of the world economy is one of the major concepts of our time and is likely to influence thinking and policy making well into the 21st century. Although officially welcomed as a major contribution to world welfare it is held by many to be responsible for low wages and mass unemployment. This book questions the seemingly inevitable progress of globalisation and the role of the state as a powerless institution in a globalised economy. Issues discussed include: trade liberalisation and the role of the World Trade Organisation in providing global responses to global issues the globalisation of finance; in particular the integration of capital markets the role of EMU in limiting the social protection level in member states< the effect of globalisation on the structure of the modern nation-state a challenge to the conventional image of globalisation, which is viewed as being far less widespread than we are led to believe This book will be of interest to scholars of the international economics, international political economy and international finance.Trade Review'Each of the chapters is rigorous in its accumulation of evidence and thoughtful in its application of analysis.' -- Ben Rosamond, DemocratizationTable of ContentsContents: Globalisation and the Nation-State: An Introduction 1. Globalisation of International Trade and Investment 2. Globalisation of Financial Markets 3. Globalisation, Competitiveness, Unemployment and Social Protection Co-ordination 4. Reconstructing the Political in a Globalising World: States, Institutions, Actors and Governance 5. The Tyranny of Globalisation: Myth or Reality? Index

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Book SynopsisNational Accounting and Capital presents definitive solutions to current problems in national accounting practice. Professor Hartwick deals expertly with problems in accounting natural capital, financial capital and skills capital and communicates his solutions in specially designed national accounting tables or matrices. Key issues discussed include: new developments in the theory of green national accounting, particularly the place of natural resource stocks in the national accounts the relationship between dollar valued net national product and sustainable income an extension of standard treatments of capital, (buildings, machines, etc.), in the national accounts to deal with natural resources, human capital, and financial capital, (equities of banks and other firms and loans from banks to firms) the sustainability of the current path of an economy the role of capital gains on 'new' types of capital in the expression for net national product In addition, Professor Hartwick indicates how to deal with certain long-standing issues involving services to banks in the national accounts. The accounts are always expressed in a national accounting matrix and this makes for consistency in style. He wishes to persuade readers of the value of this approach.This book will be of immense use to scholars of national and environmental accounting and practitioners in government statistical agencies, the UN, the World Bank and the IMF.Trade Review'The book is an important contribution to the strictly neoclassical approach to analysing and calculating national income.' -- Michael Harris, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'. . . an impressive volume that will be essential reference for anyone interested in the construction of consistent national accounts, and for those whose concerns are broader and relate, for example, to the ways in which we might measure notions of "sustainable development". . . Hartwick's analysis is challenging and the result of a huge intellectual effort that has done much to change the way we look at our national accounts. National accountants will want to study this volume. Environmental economists will benefit enormously from its welfare analysis.' -- David Pearce, The Economic Journal'In this ten-chapter monograph, Professor Hartwick undertakes the difficult but important task of analyzing national accounting. In so doing, he expands the existing literature by addressing issues such as the incorporation of heterogeneous capital - both man-made and natural - and financial services into national accounts, the simultaneous accounting for net national product (NNP) and Net national income (NNI), and welfare dimensions and the greening of national accounts. . . . The extensive use of the Hamiltonian methodological approach in a number of alternative models, the questions posed regarding issues such as the treatment of leisure and labor services in the home, and non-linearities and multiplicity of equilibria, make this monograph extremely useful for researchers both in national accounting and in environmental and resource economics and could provide a stimulating starting point for further research in the economic and ecological view of sustainability.' -- Anastasios Xepapadeas, Journal of Economic Literature'This is an authoritative, path-breaking treatise on national accounting and capital. It will prove extremely useful for researchers and applied economists.' -- Ngo van Long, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The National Accounts and Capital 2. Integrating Financial-Capital Accounts of Firms into the National Accounts 3. Welfare Considerations in National Accounting 4. Exhaustible Resources 5. Renewable Resources 6. Green National Accounting for an Economy with a Free Access Distortion 7. International Trade 8. Labor, Leisure and Human Capital 9. Technical Change 10. Recapitulation and Questions about Implementation Index

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Book SynopsisThe search for the key to economic growth has proved elusive and contentious. This book uses new empirical evidence to propose an integrated approach for achieving strong industrial and technological capabilities to form the basis for regional and national economic development.The authors use the experiences of countries in Europe and Latin America to show that socio-technical constituencies play a fundamental role in innovation based economic development at both a regional and national level. By blending insights from the industrial cluster and national innovation system approaches with the socio-technical constituencies approach, the authors successfully integrate long standing debates such as agency structure and micro-meso-macro analysis. The work is based both on a theoretical effort to build a new framework for economic growth, and on a number of concrete experiences from a number of countries in Europe and Latin America.Knowledge Flows in National Systems of Innovation will prove essential reading for scholars of innovation, technology and economic development.Table of ContentsContents: Prologue: Alfonso Molina 1. Introduction: The Meso-Foundations of National Innovation Systems Part I: Theoretical Contributions 2. National Systems of Innovation, Industrial Clusters and Constituency-building in Scotland’s Electronics Industry 3. Systems of Innovation, Knowledge and Networks Part II: Regional Industrial Clusters and Sociotechnical Constituencies in Europe and Latin America 4. Constituency-building in the Development of the City of Rome’s Telematics Strategy 5. The Role of the University in Constituency-building for Industrial and Territorial Innovation 6. University–enterprise Linkages in the Area of Biotechnology 7. The Role of the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Scientific and Productive Cluster in the Cuban Innovative Activity Part III: Policy Making for Constituency-building in Europe and Latin America 8. Policy Making for Constituency-building in Mexico 9. Industrial Policy of Providing Support to Clusters 10. Policies and Shared Values in the Promotion of Competitiveness Index

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Book SynopsisThis updated and fully revised second edition provides a comprehensive examination of issues of paramount importance for Southeast Asian economies including: the economic implications of the 1997 Asian crisis for both older and newer members of ASEAN the role of government and FDI in ASEAN economic growth and development trade patterns with the US, Japan and the EU and the economic implications of China's accession to the WTO for ASEAN countries the environmental consequences of industrialisation and growth the emergence of economic growth triangles and their contribution to ASEAN growth and regional cooperation the prospects and challenges of ASEAN economic cooperation before and after the crisis and the key challenges facing ASEAN member countries in the aftermath of the crisis. This is a timely and topical book. The Economies of Southeast Asia, Second Edition will continue to be a valuable and essential text for courses on Asian studies and economics, development economics and comparative economic systems in both the East and West.Trade Review'The book is well written and well structured, mixing country-specific analysis with cross-sectional analysis. It provides an extensive examination of issues of paramount importance for the South East Asian economies and, therefore, should interest academia and policymakers whose interests relate to regionalism and development in East Asia. The author has cleverly included useful suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a useful index at the end of the book. A paperback edition of over 300 pages costing £19.95 is not only value for money, but affordable as well.' -- Anthony Bende-Nabende, Asia Pacific Business Review'. . . for those seeking a fairly comprehensive mainstream account of the key issues faced by ASEAN (post-1997-98 financial crisis), this book nicely fills the order. Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections.' -- S.J. Gabriel, Choice'This timely publication is essential reading for those wanting not only to understand the background to the 1997/98 Asian crisis but also to reach conclusions about the sustainability of recovery in Southeast Asia's economies. It is packed full of relevant detail on intra-regional trade and ASEANs wider trade and investment opportunities. In particular it will inform the important debate on whether regional economic blocs are building blocks or stumbling blocks toward global free trade.' -- Roger Sandilands, University of Strathclyde, UKAcclaim for the first edition:'. . . this book is a useful introduction to the complexities of the development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies within the context of the development of ASEAN itself.' -- Ahmad D. Habir, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContents: Preface An Overview Part I: ASEAN Economic Development and Cooperation Before the Crisis Part II: ASEAN External Economic Relations Part III: The 1997 Asian Crisis and its Aftermath Part IV: Future ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Challenges Appendix Bibliography Index

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