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The Euro and Its Central Bank: Getting United after the Union
by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

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The Power of Positive Criticism
by Hendrie Weisinger

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Publisher: American Management Association
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 1999-10
Sales Rank: 82023
ISBN / ASIN: 0814404839
EAN: 9780814404836
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: American Management Association
Studio: American Management Association
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Here's some invaluable, hands-on guidance on a very touchy subject. Some people just can't take criticism. And some people just can't give it--not in a positive, motivating, mutually beneficial manner, anyway. That's too bad, because criticism is essential to many aspects of business, such as performance appraisals, quality control, and team functioning, to name a few.

This empowering book helps readers take the sting out of criticism--and transform it from a destructive, demoralizing disaster into an energizing, educating experience that builds relationships and increases individual and organizational success.

Using real-life scenarios and the author's 21 tips to positive criticism, readers will learn to: Think of criticism as a positive thing * Become strategic criticizers and develop their skill in using the power of positive criticism * Stay cool, calm, and collected when giving or getting criticism * Criticize their boss--without getting fired, and more.




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Date: 2007-03-02 Rating: 3
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Good Book

I liked this book; it provides helpful suggestions for dealing with criticism in mainly business environments. However, I found "Criticism Management" by Randy Garner to more effectively handle criticism situations in both work and home. Both books offer great insight; however Garner's text offers some great quotes, great learning tools, and a section that hit me personally---dealing with criticism at home.



Date: 2001-04-20 Rating: 4
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A Good Read!

Hendrie Davis Weisinger is simple, clear and very focused as he applies recent "emotional intelligence" techniques to the specific area of criticism, and helps the reader think of criticism as a valuable, vital tool, and not just a necessary evil. The tips in this self-improvement book push the reader toward greater self-awareness, a major element of emotional intelligence. The suggestions are elemental, most of them are easy to implement and even the hardest ones to enact require only a modest time commitment. The book's message is consistent to the point of repetition, though its simple language gives it real power. We [...] recommend this book to anyone who gives or receives criticism, which is to say, everyone. In particular, if you are a manager, an executive and or supervisor who deals with difficult personalities, here's how to tell them what you need them to know.



Date: 1999-10-31 Rating: 5
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A delightful commentary on how to take and give criticism.

Dr. Weisinger has done it again. He has taken an emotionally charged issue and, through anecdotes and plain speaking, made criticism something that one ought to embrace. I loved it, and immediately refered it to 49 of my closest friends, as well as my HR Director.

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A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
by Robert W. Dimand (Editor), Mary Ann Dimand (Editor), Evelyn L. Forget (Editor)

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 520
Publication Date: 2001-01
Sales Rank: 3544333
ISBN / ASIN: 1852789646
EAN: 9781852789640
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This major original reference work includes over one hundred specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women's analysis of economic issues and participation in the discipline of economics. In addition to those who wrote in English, some notable Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish women economists are included. This book will transform widely-held views about the past role of women in economics, and will stimulate further research in this exciting but underdeveloped field. It is dedicated to the memory of Michèle Pujol, a pioneer in the field.

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The World Trade Organization in the New Global Economy: Trade and Investment Issues in the New Millennium Round
by Saint Mary's University

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2001-12-30
Sales Rank: 4732937
ISBN / ASIN: 1840645075
EAN: 9781840645071
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Despite the disruption of the multilateral trade talks in Seattle in December 1999, the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in this far reaching book. The distinguished contributors combine several analytical approaches for a comprehensive assessment of the trends, problems and opportunities demanding attention in international trade negotiations.

The authors discuss the principle items on the agenda for a renewed round of WTO talks, and also examine issues concerning the treatment of foreign direct investment, urging trade policymakers to adopt measures that will enhance flows of such investment, as these contribute to trade expansion. US, European and Japanese interests and perspectives are considered. The authors believe that cooperative management of international trade and investment issues could introduce greater harmony in the world trading system and overcome fears about the disruptive consequences of increased market openness. The self appointed roles of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) are examined, with emphasis on the primary responsibilities of governments as representatives of their nations.

By bringing together the extensive results of research by economists, international management experts and political scientists, this book will be of immense worth to trade policymakers, policy research institutes, consulting firms, and academic communities. Of particular value will be the volume's discussions of international competition policy problems.

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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.
by Kenneth Pomeranz


Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages: 392
Publication Date: 2001-12-03
Sales Rank: 123791
ISBN / ASIN: 0691090106
EAN: 9780691090108
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Studio: Princeton University Press
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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade.

Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths.

Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths--paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.

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Cardiovascular Health Care Economics (Contemporary Cardiology)
by William S. Weintraub

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Publisher: Humana Press
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2003-06-15
Sales Rank: 1751284
ISBN / ASIN: 0896038742
EAN: 9780896038745
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An illuminating and timely synthesis of methodological and clinical studies showing how medical costs can be established, how the value of clinical outcomes can be assessed, and how difficult choices can be rationally made. The methodological chapters review the conceptual and practical issues involved in estimating and interpreting health care costs, making health status and utility assessments, and statistically analyzing cost-effectiveness and clinical trials. The clinical chapters apply these methods to the major clinical areas of cardiology-primary prevention of coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndromes, angioplasty vs coronary bypass surgery, CABG vs medicine, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and cardiac surgery. Additional chapters consider the use of economic studies for policy purposes and the future of Medicare under a balanced budget in an aging America.

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Economic Theory of Teams (Cowles Foundation Monograph)
by Jacob Marschak, Roy Radner
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Number Of Pages: 358
Publication Date: 1972-02-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0300012799
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780300012798
Binding: Hardcover

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The Role of Industrial Development in the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
by United Nations Industrial Development Organization


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The Internationalisation of Antitrust Policy
by Maher M. Dabbah

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 346
Publication Date: 2003-11-10
Sales Rank: 1898752
ISBN / ASIN: 0521820790
EAN: 9780521820790
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Maher Dabbah draws on the decisional practice of relevant legal and political bodies to provide a clear and original discussion of the internationalization of antitrust policy. He examines the experiences of the E.C. and the U.S. to highlight the concepts and ideas associated with antitrust law and practice. The book concludes by predicting potential developments, and suggesting a new approach to the internationalization of antitrust policy. It will interest antitrust officials, as well as international organizations, business people, academics, researchers and policy-makers involved in antitrust law and policy.



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The internationalisation of antitrust policy is a topic of great contemporary significance and debate. Dr Dabbah provides an enquiry that is at once clearly-stated, original and empirical, setting out the relevant issues in the context of law, economics and politics. He draws on the decisional practice of antitrust authorities, actions and statements of political bodies, as well as the decisions of law courts. Providing a detailed examination of the experiences of the European Community and the United States, Dr Dabbah includes a comprehensive examination of central concepts and ideas related to antitrust law and practice. The book concludes by looking forward to potential developments in the landscape, and suggests a new approach to the internationalisation of antitrust policy. This will be of interest to antitrust officials, as well as international organisations, members of the business community, academics, researchers and policy-makers who are involved in antitrust law and policy.
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The Political Economy of International Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec
by Daniel L. M. Kennedy (Editor), James D. Southwick (Editor)


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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 710
Publication Date: 2002-06-10
Sales Rank: 1460812
ISBN / ASIN: 0521813190
EAN: 9780521813198
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In this volume, international experts from law, economics, and political science provide in-depth analysis of international trade issues. Attorneys, economists, and political scientists adopt an approach which considers WTO legal institutions as functioning in unexpected ways due to the political and economic conditions of their international environment. Topics include the constitutional dimensions of international trade law, adding and restructuring existing subjects, the legal relations between developed and developing countries, and the operation of the WTO dispute settle procedure. This will be an essential volume for professionals and academics involved with international trade policy.



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International experts from law, economics and political science provide in-depth analysis of international trade issues. Attorneys, economists, and political scientists adopt a common viewpoint, entitled 'transcending the ostensible'. This approach directs particular attention to the possibility that WTO legal institutions, like other international legal institutions, will function in unexpected ways due to the political and economic conditions of the international environment in which they have been created, and in which they operate. A range of trade problems are considered here. Topics include the constitutional dimensions of international trade law, adding new subjects and restructuring existing subjects to international trade law, the legal relations between developed and developing countries, and the operation of the WTO dispute settlement procedure. This will be an essential volume for professionals and academics involved with international trade policy.

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The Political Economy of New Slavery (Palgrave Texts in International Political Economy)
by Christien van den Anker (Editor)

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-03-18
Sales Rank: 753459
ISBN / ASIN: 1403915237
EAN: 9781403915238
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This book examines the role of globalization and local factors in the increase of contemporary slavery and possible ways forward in legislation, policy-making, NGO campaigns and research. Specific proposals for improvement of international and national law as well as victim support measures are discussed and perspectives on economic development and social change are evaluated for their use in combating slavery. Reparations for slavery in the past are analyzed as a possible aid in raising awareness and increased pressure on government to take full responsibility for ending slavery

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The Political Economy of Poland's Transition: New Firms and Reform Governments (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by John E. Jackson, Jacek Klich, Krystyna Poznanska,


Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2005-06-06
Sales Rank: 1800332
ISBN / ASIN: 0521838959
EAN: 9780521838955
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In the time span of a two-term US presidency, Poland went from an authoritarian one-party state with a faltering centrally planned economy to become a relatively stable multiparty democracy and a market economy with one of the highest GDP growth rates in Europe. A central feature of these economic and political reforms is a high rate of entry of new, domestically owned firms. This book uses detailed economic and political data to examine how these new firms contributed to the Polish transition. The authors test propositions about why some regions have more new firms than others and how the success of these new firms contributed to political constituencies that supported economically liberal parties. The book concludes by contrasting the Polish with the experiences of other transitional countries.

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The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation
by Maurice Mullard


Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: 2004-08-01
Sales Rank: 1383027
ISBN / ASIN: 1843765799
EAN: 9781843765790
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This book deals with the nature of contemporary globalization. Maurice Mullard shows that globalization is not an inescapable, unstoppable process somehow beyond human control, rather that it represents, and is being shaped by, a series of deliberate policy choices and policy decisions. The emphasis of this fascinating work is on how these policy choices are creating new forms of economic inequalities and also political elites that distort the democratic process.

The mapping of winners and losers goes beyond the usual analysis of the rich North versus the poor South, by including an examination of the widening inequalities in the North and the emergence of new elites in the South. Policies of privatization and liberalization of water and electricity create new political elites. The author reveals the shift in the North towards multi-national corporations with their emphasis on profits and stock market prices, while at the same time incomes for most employees have either stagnated or actually declined. The standard discourse on globalization and market flexibility often blurs the issues of declining trade union influence and corporations moving to countries offering lower labor costs. Maurice Mullard herein attempts to rectify this imbalance.

The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation is interdisciplinary and will therefore be relevant for academics and researchers of politics, social policy, public policy and economics. Scholars involved in globalization will find this book to be a major contribution to the ongoing debate

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The Politics Of Regulation: Institutions and Regulatory Reforms for the Age of Governance (The Crc Series on Competition, Regulation and Development)
by Jacint Jordana and David Levi-Faur (editors)

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2004-07-01
Sales Rank: 229740
ISBN / ASIN: 1843764644
EAN: 9781843764649
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This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of different and fresh perspectives to examine this area.

The contributors to this volume analyze how regulatory regimes that were once peculiar to the US and a few industries have, in recent years, come to define the best practice of governance over the world capitalist economy and over numerous social and economic sectors. They go on to suggest various explanations for the expansion of regulatory institutions, addressing some of the most critical problems and offering new methodological techniques to enable further study. The contributions also provide distinct cross-national and cross-sectoral comparative approaches, and emphasize the changes in the economic and social context of regulation and the implications of these developments on the rise of the regulatory state. These changes, together with the general advance in the study of regulation, undoubtedly demand a re-evaluation of the theory of regulation, its methodologies and scope of application.

This book is a perceptive investigation of recent evolutions in the manner and extent of governance through regulation. Scholars and students of comparative politics, public policy, regulation theory, institutional economics and political sociology will find it to be essential reading. It will also prove a valuable source of reference for those working or dealing with regulatory authorities and for business managers in private industries and services operating under a regulatory framework

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The Politics of Justification: Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 (Amsterdam University Press - Changing Welfare States)
by Christoffer Green-Pedersen

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Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Sales Rank: 2614806
ISBN / ASIN: 9053565906
EAN: 9789053565902
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Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Green-Pedersen shows, such consensus emerged in the mid-1980s, allowing the government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments; in Denmark, consensus did not emerge until the Social Democratic Party re-entered government in 1993, leading to less welfare-state retrenchment than in the Netherlands.
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The Rise Of The Market: Critical Essays On The Political Economy Of Neo-Liberalism
by Philip Arestis (Editor), Malcolm C. Sawyer (Editor)

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 233
Publication Date: 2004-12-04
Sales Rank: 2853813
ISBN / ASIN: 1843767252
EAN: 9781843767251
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This book of essays, which are revised and updated versions of contributions which have already appeared in the International Papers in Political Economy, seek to contribute to a development of political economy and the analysis of neo-liberalism.
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books)
by Robert B. Reich

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Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded
by Thomas Sowell
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Publisher: Basic Books
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2003-12
Sales Rank: 30345
ISBN / ASIN: 0465081452
EAN: 9780465081455
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Basic Economics has been written with the thought that learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience, but also an enjoyable one.

This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also become more internationalized by including economic problems from more countries around the world, because the basic principles of economics are not confined by national borders. While most chapter titles remain the same, their contents have changed considerably, reflecting the experiences of many different peoples and cultures.

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The Savings and Loan Crisis:: Lessons from a Regulatory Failure (The Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth)
by James R. Barth (Editor), S. Trimbath (Editor), Glenn Yago (Editor)

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The Savings and Loan Crisis: Lessons from a Regulatory Failure sets the record straight about what actually happened to our banking institutions in the 1980s. As is documented by the highly respected and diverse group of former regulators, scholars and practitioners contributing to this book, the collapse of this industry was caused by a confluence of adverse economic conditions and misguided regulatory decisions. Poorly designed deposit insurance, faulty supervision, and restrictions on investments prevented savings and loans from adapting to a changing financial marketplace. Unable to use financial innovations, savings and loans could not hedge interest rate and credit risks. These factors blocked portfolio diversification and lay at the root of the crisis.
The savings and loan crisis was an accident, but it was an avoidable one. Most of the factors responsible for causing and exacerbating the industry's problems were preventable, as is made clear in this volume.

This book also provides an insider's view of the transformation of the financial services industry in the United States since the 1980s: how the managers and owners make decisions about product offerings and investments; how the regulators monitor performance and enforce the rules; and how Congress and the Administration influence and are influenced by the financial services industry.

Lastly, it focuses attention on the lessons that should have been learned from this difficult period in the history of U.S. banking, and that should help prevent future banking crises everywhere.

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Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy: Explaining U.S. International Policy-Making After Bretton Woods (Suny Series in Global Politics)
by Jennifer Sterling-Folker

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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: 2002-01
Sales Rank: 2881170
ISBN / ASIN: 0791452085
EAN: 9780791452080
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Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Argues the state and not markets should be the center of analysis when attempting to expalin international cooperation.

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Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes (Ohlin Lectures)
by W. Max Corden

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Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Sales Rank: 941746
ISBN / ASIN: 0262532697
EAN: 9780262532693
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Most of the literature on exchange rate regimes has focused on the developed countries. Since the recent crises in emerging markets, however, attention has shifted to the choice of exchange rate regimes for developing countries, especially those that are more integrated into the world capital markets. In Too Sensational, W. Max Corden presents a systematic and accessible overview of the choice of exchange rate regimes. Reviewing many types of regimes, he shows how the choice of an exchange rate regime is related to both fiscal policy and trade policy.

Building on the theory of optimum currency areas, Corden develops an analytic framework of three approaches (nominal anchor, real targets, and exchange rate stability) and three polar exchange rate regimes (absolutely fixed, pure floating, and fixed but adjustable). He considers all other regimes to be mixtures of two or three of the polar regimes.

Beginning with theory and later turning to case studies of countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Corden focuses on how economies react to negative and positive shocks under various exchange rate regimes. He examines in particular the Asian and Latin American currency crises of the 1990s. He concludes that although "too sensational" crises have discredited fixed but adjustable regimes, the extremes of absolutely fixed regimes or pure floating regimes need not be chosen.

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Transnational Corporations And International Production: Concepts, Theories And Effects
by Grazia Ietto-Gillies

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 252
Publication Date: 2005-05-05
Sales Rank: 977478
ISBN / ASIN: 1845422554
EAN: 9781845422554
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This unique textbook provides a comprehensive critical analysis of modern theories, concepts and effects relating to transnational corporations and international production. Its user-friendly presentation includes boxes to highlight key concepts as well as suggestions for further reading.

The text begins with a clear and concise discussion of basic concepts, and goes on to examine various theoretical approaches, topics and authors including:

• Hymer, Vernon, Knickerbocker, Aliber, Dunning, Cantwell, Cowling and Sugden

• the Internalisation Theory, the Scandinavian School, and the New Trade Theory approaches

• Pre-WWII Marxist and neoclassical approaches to international investment.

Finally, Grazia Ietto-Gillies deals with methodological issues in the assessment of effects as well as with specific effects on performance, labor, international trade and the balance of payments.

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Understanding the Dynamics of a Knowledge Economy (Studies in Evolutionary Political Economy Series)
by Wilfred Dolfsma (Editor), Luc Soete (Editor)

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 263
Publication Date: 2006-06-06
Sales Rank: 2225721
ISBN / ASIN: 1845423070
EAN: 9781845423070
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The 'knowledge economy' is a concept commonly deemed too ambiguous and elusive to hold any significance in current economic debate. This valuable new book seeks to refute that myth. Presenting an important collection of views, from a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume visibly demonstrates that knowledge and information are a prime resource in driving the dynamics of an economy.

It is argued that in order to understand the knowledge economy a diverse set of insights and approaches are required, which shed new and striking light on the roots of present-day economic dynamics. Using both theoretical and empirical material, this interdisciplinary collection offers a range of micro and macro perspectives. It draws on a variety of scientific backgrounds, and uses and develops a number of different methodologies, some of which may not be familiar in mainstream economics. The approaches adopted by historians, economists, systems theorists, management scholars and geographers which are explored in this book are central to encouraging a new and practical way forward in reading the dynamics of the knowledge economy.

In offering these key insights, this important volume makes an invaluable contribution to the lively debate surrounding the knowledge economy. An essential read for economists, this book will also find widespread appeal amongst scholars of management, cultural studies and geography
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What Has Happened To The Quality Of Life In The Advanced Industrialized Nations? (In Association With the Levy Economics Institute)
by Edward N. Wolff (Editor)

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2004-07-04
Sales Rank: 1853012
ISBN / ASIN: 1843761939
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Throughout the 1990s the US expanded its lead over other advanced industrial nations in terms of conventionally measured per capita income. However, it is not clear that welfare levels in America have grown concomitantly with per capita income, or that Americans are necessarily better off than citizens of other advanced countries. The contributors to this volume investigate to what extent welfare has increased in the United States over the postwar period and provide a rigorous examination of both conventional measures of the standard of living, as well as more inclusive indices.

The chapters cover such topics as: race, home ownership and family structure; the status of children; the consumer price index; a historical perspective on the standard of living; worker rights and labor strength in advanced economies. In addition, they explore two economic systems delivering the goods - the free enterprise system of the United States and the European social welfare state. They then present international comparisons and highlight the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two systems.

This provocative and accessible volume answers the intriguing question posed by the title and will be of interest to economists, sociologists, policymakers and policy analysts, as well as students of these fields

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What Has Happened To The Quality Of Life In The Advanced Industrialized Nations? (In Association With the Levy Economics Institute)
by Edward N. Wolff (Editor)

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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2004-07-04
Sales Rank: 1853012
ISBN / ASIN: 1843761939
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Throughout the 1990s the US expanded its lead over other advanced industrial nations in terms of conventionally measured per capita income. However, it is not clear that welfare levels in America have grown concomitantly with per capita income, or that Americans are necessarily better off than citizens of other advanced countries. The contributors to this volume investigate to what extent welfare has increased in the United States over the postwar period and provide a rigorous examination of both conventional measures of the standard of living, as well as more inclusive indices.

The chapters cover such topics as: race, home ownership and family structure; the status of children; the consumer price index; a historical perspective on the standard of living; worker rights and labor strength in advanced economies. In addition, they explore two economic systems delivering the goods - the free enterprise system of the United States and the European social welfare state. They then present international comparisons and highlight the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two systems.

This provocative and accessible volume answers the intriguing question posed by the title and will be of interest to economists, sociologists, policymakers and policy analysts, as well as students of these fields

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