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Cambridge University Press How a Ledger Became a Central Bank
Book SynopsisA quantitative history of the Bank of Amsterdam, a dominant central bank for much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book should interest monetary economists, scholars of central bank history, and historians of the Dutch Republic.Trade Review'Stephen Quinn and Will Roberds have written a remarkable book on the world's first true central bank and its first true international currency. Their newly unearthed history sheds much light on the past, but also the future, of the international monetary and financial system.' Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley'Using a superb combination of expert financial economics and meticulous historical research, Quinn and Roberds explain how the world's first central bank worked. Their analysis breaks new ground by showing how modern central banking principles already guided eighteenth-century finance. The book is of equally great interest to central banking theorists and economic historians.' Joost Jonker, University of Amsterdam'Based on an impressive amount of archival work and a deep understanding of modern finance, this book opens up a world of monetary operations previously unknown to even the most accomplished scholars of Dutch economic history.' Oscar Gelderblom, University of Antwerp'Unlike many researchers who ignored or misrepresented the evolution of central banking before 1800, Stephen Quinn and Will Roberds have contributed groundbreaking studies in this field for at least twenty years. Their work has also transformed my own understanding of the origins of central bank money, payments, and money market operations. For many years to come, How a Ledger Became a Central Bank will be the reference work not only on the financial and monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam, but also for any other in-depth study of early central banking.' Ulrich Bindseil, European Central Bank'Who should own and operate a ledger and how different ledgers should be connected are hot topics today. In this remarkable book, Quinn and Roberds teach us how most of the problems that modern banks and central banks were designed, or were evolved, to solve are as old as the hills. Their book is full of examples of how public and private interests fostered trial-and-error processes that adapted, improved, and invented technologies and contracts. The detective work underlying the authors' stories is fascinating. As I read parts of this book, I find myself gathering insights about modern arrangements ranging from US repo markets to paying interest on reserves to cryptocurrency platforms to interoperability issues across those platforms.' Thomas J. Sargent, Hoover Institution, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents1. Similar yet different?; 2. The world of the bank; 3. Coins in eighteenth-century Amsterdam; 4. First steps, 1609–1659; 5. Emergence of the receipt system, 1660–1710; 6. Metal in motion: the mechanics of receipts; 7. Two banks and one money, 1711–1791; 8. Prussia's debasement during the Seven Years War: the role of the Bank; 9. The bank's place in central bank history.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Case Against Socialism
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HarperCollins The Injustice of Place
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HarperCollins No One Is SelfMade
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Connect 1semester Access Card for Microeconomics
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Microeconomics
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£172.00
Penguin Putnam Inc The Great Degeneration How Institutions Decay and
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective futureWhat causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions—the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail—are degenerating. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes the causes of this stagnation and its profound consequences for the future of the West. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency—and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic
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The University of Chicago Press Risk Topography Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling
Book SynopsisHelps you explore the possibilities for advancing macroeconomic modeling in order to achieve more accurate measurement. This book includes essays that focus on the development of models capable of highlighting the vulnerabilities that have never been systematically measured before.
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The University of Chicago Press Improving the Measurement of Consumer
Book SynopsisOffers a review of the methodologies for collecting consumer expenditure data. This book includes chapters that highlight the range of different objectives that expenditure surveys may satisfy, compare the data available from consumer expenditure surveys with that available from other sources, and more.
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The University of Chicago Press Business Cycles
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The University of Chicago Press Business Cycles 8
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The University of Chicago Press Education Skills and Technical Change
Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can human capital accumulation in the United States keep pace with the evolving demands placed on it, and how can the workforce of tomorrow acquire the skills and competencies that are most in demand?Education, Skills, and Technical Change explores various facets of these questions and provides an overview of educational attainment in the United States and the channels through which labor force skills and education affect GDP growth. Contributors to this volume focus on a range of educational and training institutions and bring new data to bear on how we understand the role of college and vocational education and the size and nature of the skills gap. This work links a range of research areassuch as growth accounting, skill development, higher edu
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MIT Press Ltd Modern Macroeconomics The MIT Press
Book SynopsisA textbook that approaches modern macroeconomics through its microeconomic foundations, with an emphasis on financial market connections and policy applications.The modern study and analysis of macroeconomics begins by considering how microeconomic units—consumers and firms—make decisions, and then investigates how these choices interact to yield economy-wide outcomes. This innovative textbook takes this “modern” approach, teaching macroeconomics through its microeconomic foundations. It does so by adopting the representative agent paradigm. By modeling the representative consumer and the representative firm, students will learn to describe macroeconomic outcomes and consider the effects of macroeconomic policies. Unique in its coverage of monopolistic competition, financial markets, and the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy, Modern Macroeconomics is suitable for use in intermediate undergraduate, advanced undergradu
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MIT Press Ltd Evolution or Revolution Rethinking Macroeconomic
Book SynopsisLeading economists discuss post-financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability.The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment of the role of macroeconomic policy. Should the financial crisis and the Great Recession lead to yet another major reassessment, to another intellectual revolution? Will it? If so, what form should it, or will it, take? These are the questions taken up in this book, in a series of contributions by policymakers and academics. The contributors discuss the complex role of the financial sector, the relative roles of monetary and fiscal policy, the limits of monetary policy to address financial stability, the need for fiscal policy to play a more active role in stabilization, and
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MIT Press Ltd Big Ideas in Macroeconomics A Nontechnical View
Book SynopsisAn accessible description of modern macroeconomics, and a defense of its policy relevance.Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya draws a truer picture, offering a nontechnical description of prominent ideas and models in macroeconomics, and arguing for their value as interpretive tools as well as their policy relevance. Athreya deliberately leaves out the technical machinery, providing an essential guide to the sometimes abstract ideas that drive macroeconomists' research and practical policy advice.Athreya describes the main approach to macroeconomic model construction, the foundational Walrasian general-equilibrium framework, and its modern version, the Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie (ADM) model. In the heart of the book, Athreya shows how the Walrasian approach shapes and unifies much of m
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MIT Press Ltd Macroeconomics
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The 21st Century EconomyA Beginners Guide
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, accessible guide to understanding today's global economy, from the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy. While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream media alike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumer may find baffling. In his latest book, Randy Charles Epping uses compelling narratives and insightful analogies to clearly and concisely explain the rapidly changing way business is done in the twenty-first century, without a single chart or graph. Epping defines key ideas and commonly used words and phrases like carbon footprint, WTO, economy of scale, NAFTA, and outsourcing. He also illustrates how central banks help navigate global crises and drive the global economy, discusses the benefits of Green Economics, shows how trade wars can be avoided, and explains the virtual economy, where multimillion dollar transactions take place in the blink of an eye. Complete with 89
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Market Unbound
Book SynopsisA road map for the future of the world market "Bryan has emerged as an influential voice on regulatory issues. "--The New York Times The world is on the verge of the most sweeping economic changes since the Industrial Revolution.Table of ContentsGlobal Capital Revolution. MARKET UNBOUND. Market Unbound. Hunting for Woolly Mammoths. Trees Don't Grow in the Sky. Approaching Absolute Zero. UNLEASHING GLOBAL CAPITALISM. Prosperity or Devastation? Superconductivity. Heroes to Lead Us (Not Politicians). CAPTURING THE OPPORTUNITY. The Unfettered, Unrelenting Search for Profit. Leading a Corporation in a Superconductive World. Buy Stocks, Shun Bonds. Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Market. About the Authors. Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Labyrinths of Prosperity
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The University of Michigan Press Savings and Bequests
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Financial Integration and Real Activity
Book SynopsisGlobalization, financial deregulation, a single European currency . . . this book examines what all these changes mean for the world economy.
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The University of Michigan Press Social Inequality
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The University of Michigan Press International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent
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The University of Michigan Press Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s
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Penguin Young Readers How to Listen When Markets Speak
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Harvard University Press Growth
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Pluto Press From the Local to the Global
Book SynopsisA completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbookTrade Review'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested in the issues that underpin poverty and injustice at local and global levels. It combines accessible, informative writing on the most essential international development issues' -- Marina Sitrin, author of They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with Dario Azzellini, Verso, 2014) and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books, 2012).'Of global value to a radically changing world. It is essentially a survey of all the issues that affect the global South and shape the global North' -- Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions 1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey 2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth Part II: The Economics of Development 3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren 4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn 5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide Part III: Development Policy 6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby 7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann 8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello 9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera 10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker Part IV: Regional Development 11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck 12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil 13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan 14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga Part V: Human Development 15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard 16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann Notes on Contributors Index
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Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. Cartoon Introduction to Economics Vol Two
Book SynopsisExplains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country and, indeed, the planet. This title explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how economies grow and why economies collapse. It also illustrates the basics of the labour market and unemployment, inflation and debt, what the GDP is and what it measures, and more.
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Random House USA Inc The Only Game in Town Central Banks Instability
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • Updated, with a new chapter and author’s note“The one economic book you must read now . . . If you want to understand [our] bifurcated world and where it’s headed, there is no better interpreter than Mohamed El-Erian.”—TimeOur current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road: One path leads to renewed growth, prosperity, and financial stability, the other to recession and market disorder.In The Only Game in Town, El-Erian casts his gaze toward the fu
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Across the Great Divide
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Reflections on Allan H Meltzers Contributions to
Book SynopsisAllan H. Meltzer (1928-2017), a leading monetary economist of the twentieth century, is memorialized in eleven essays by prominent economists. Among his achievements, Meltzer transformed the field of central banking and dissected the economic disasters of the 1930s and late 2000s, as well as the avoidance of disaster in the 1970s.Trade ReviewThe world of economics and its application to good public policy will miss the wise council and forceful insights delivered in clear and concise terms for six decades by Allan H. Meltzer." — Stuart G. Hofman, National Association for Business Economics
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Strategies for Monetary Policy
Book SynopsisAs the Federal Reserve System conducts its latest review of the strategies, tools, and communication practices it deploys to pursue its dual-mandate goals of maximum employment and price stability, this book emerges as an especially timely volume. It examines key policy issues, offering perspectives on US monetary policy tools and instruments.
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Russell Sage Foundation Debating the American Dream
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Not Stated Economic Growth
Book SynopsisWhy are some countries rich and others poor? This leading text introduces students to the latest theoretical tools, data, and insights underlying this pivotal question. By showing how empirical evidence relates to new and old theoretical ideas, Economic Growth provides students with a complete introduction to the discipline and the latest research.In addition to thorough updates to the data throughout the book, this fourth edition responds to new research in the field since the last edition. Major changes include: new material on labor's share of income updated material on health and education updated material on the impact of trade on productivity a heavily revised chapter on government, including an expanded section on legacy effects of colonialism a heavily revised chapter on income inequality, including an expanded section on mobility a heavily revised chapter on culture, including an expanded section on persistent
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McGraw-Hill Education Loose Leaf for Macroeconomics Brief Edition
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McGraw-Hill Education LooseLeaf for Macroeconomics
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McGraw-Hill Education Macroeconomics Connect Access Card
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McGraw-Hill Companies LooseLeaf for Principles of Macroeconomics a
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OM Book Service Loose Leaf for Macroeconomics
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OM Book Service LooseLeaf the Macroeconomy Today
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McGraw-Hill Companies Loose Leaf for Macroeconomics
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Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S. Macroeconomics
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WW Norton & Co People Power and Profits Progressive Capitalism
Book SynopsisA Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.
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W. W. Norton & Company Introduction to Economic Growth
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Worth Publishers Krugmans Macroeconomics for AP
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PublicAffairs Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the
Book SynopsisEdible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom. Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. It shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: when we understand it, we can adapt and improve it—and better understand our world.
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Trine Day The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis
Book SynopsisExposing perceived fault lines in our banking and financial systems and explaining how unemployment could be cut in half in two years and worldwide prosperity restored, this book argues the existence of exotic energy sources to replace fossil fuels and consequently recommends an immediate end to fracking and offshore drilling for oil. It further urges an immediate worldwide mobilization to replace the energy source in every car, truck, tractor, ship, airplane, and house on Earth in seven years in a desperate effort to save the planet from further overheating. The book blasts government secrecy, and more than 65 years of supposed lies and disinformation, and demands full disclosure of what they know about visitors from other realms and their technology and the extent of their collaboration, including any treaties that may have been signed by them. With more than 65 years of participation in and observation of political and economic systems—beginning with the Great Depression, extending through World War II, the postwar era of hope for a better life, the Cold War, the subjugation of democracy by oligarchy, and the subtle but continuous militarization of America—Paul T. Hellyer analyzes what he believes has gone wrong with the world and its economy and suggests radical measures to introduce a universal culture of peace and cooperation.
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Paths International Ltd China's Economy Amid New Challenges: Exploration
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of some recent of the best articles by China Economist and it represents top Chinese economists major research outcomes and opinions on economic matters, status and trends from various perspectives. Some work with China’s highest academic research institutes and policy consultation agencies, while others work with related agencies and universities. Hence, this book largely reflects the key concerns and efforts of economic research institutes, policy advisory agencies, regulatory policy research departments and universities on China’s economy.From the launching of reform and opening-up in 1978 to the dawn of the 21st century, China has been transformed from a self-enclosed, planned economy to a market-based one, and the country has integrated itself into the international community. China wishes to look beyond its border and engage in equal-footed dialogue with its partners and competitors. With China’s rapid emergence and great achievements, other countries increasingly want to learn more about this “mysterious oriental country” and the miraculous changes taking place here. However, we have also found that abroad, the public, high-ranking officials and even media and academia may not have a clear picture of China. Chinese scholars views on their country and beyond are not well understood by foreign scholars, not to mention people in the street, and overseas officials and scholars do not appreciate China’s realities. Legitimate claims and well intentioned expressions from China are often misunderstood or distorted by the media, and it seems that the world is unprepared for a changing China. China needs to know itself and the outside world, and the world needs to have a closer look at China as well. Research on the China phenomenon and its implications has become topical around the world. Hence, developing diversified channels and platforms of communication is necessary both in China and the outside world.In this book, which includes dozens of articles written by Chinese economists and researchers, authors wish to tell the world a truth: Although China has become the world’s second largest economy, its GDP per capita is very low. China remains a developing country, and development is its top priority and the basis for all welfare programs. The rights of development are basic human rights upon which China cannot waiver. Development is the best gift China has to offer to the world. Meanwhile, Chinese scholars should also recognize that China must deepen reform and expand opening-up, balance efficiency with fair income distribution, use resources in more efficient, refined and clean ways, and challenge its enterprises to assume more social responsibilities. Only in this way can China complete its historic transition from a developing country to a mature, modernized country.Table of Contents Part One: Macro economy Chapter 1 “Middle-Income Trap” and “High-Income Wall” : Challenges and Opportunities to China, by Liu Shijin et al Chapter 2 Don’t Overlook GDP and Investment: An Analysis of China’s Current Economic Trend, by Liu Shucheng Chapter 3 How Long Can China’s Economy Keep Growing? By Zhang Jun Chapter 4 How China Can Avoid the “Middle-Income Trap”,by Ma Xiaohe Part Two: Institution & Mechanism Chapter 5 The Contribution of Marketization to China’s Economic Growth, by Fan Gang et al Chapter 6 China’s Marketization since WTO Accession, by Li Xiaoxi Chapter 7 Shifting to a Market-Based Wage-Setting Mechanism for Low-Skilled Labor: Macro economic Effects, by Yang Ruilong et a Chapter 8 Regulation or Property Rights: The Effect of China’s Coal Mine Shutdown Policy on Work Safety, by Bai Chong’en et al Chapter 9 A Modeling Analysis of Local Governments Competing in Offering Subsidies to Attract Investment: the Cause of Industrial Overcapacity, by Jiang Feitao et al Part Three: Government Policy Chapter 10 China’s Sovereign Balance Sheet and Its Risk Assessment, by Li Yang et al Chapter 11 China’s Monetary Policy Instruments (2001-2010): Paradox, Analysis and Suggestions, by Wang Guogang Chapter 12 China’s Regional Policy Scenarios for 2011-2015 Period, by Wei Houkai et al Chapter 13 Developing Secondary Industry to Drive China’s Future Growth, by Jin Bei Chapter 14 Domestic Demand-based Economic Globalization: Strategic Choice for China to Profit from the Second Wave of Globalization, by Liu Zhibiao Part Four: Industrial Development Chapter 15 China’s Industries in the Beginning of Its 12th Five-Year Plan Period, by Jin Bei Chapter 16 Relying on Secondary Industry to Drive National Policy and Reinvigorate China’s Economy, by Huang Qunhui Chapter 17 Recalculating the Significance of Secondary and Tertiary Industries for Industrial Restructuring: Truth and Myth, by Li Gang et al Chapter 18 Technology Gaps, Resource Allocation and Economic Growth of Large Late starting Countries, by Ouyang Yao et al
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