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  • On Understanding Russia

    by F. James ...
    Series series Heritage
    As an outstanding educator and economist, Dr. F. Cyril James is particularly well qualified to observe modern Russia, and to comment upon it for Western readers. While he disclaims any right to speak with authority on the basis of his recent tour, the reader will quickly realize that he was actually given exceptional opportunities to see Soviet life, economy, and education – visiting some places ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Canada in a Changing World Economy

    by Harry Johnson ...
    Series series Heritage
    The echoes of Laurier's remarks about Canada and the twentieth century are taking a long time to fade away. It is one of the purposes of Professor Johnson's Alan B. Plaunt Lectures (given at Carleton University in 1962) to silence them, for they can prove dangerous and misleading—like a siren song—in the formulation of Canadian economic policy at this time. The success of the Common Market, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fiscal Adjustment and Economic Development

    A Case Study of Nova Scotia

    Series series Heritage
    This study is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of fiscal adjustment between a province or a state and its municipalities–a pressing problem throughout Canada and the United States and in many other countries in view of the great disparities in the revenue-raising capacity of municipalities, their limited tax bases, and the pressure on them to provide higher levels of public services. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Leader and a Laggard

    Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario

    by Roy George ...
    Series series Heritage
    Advanced countries in all parts of the world are concerned with the geographical unevenness of their development. Canada's preoccupation is with the Atlantic provinces, and for years government departments and agencies have tried to improve the region's economy. However, the evidence suggests that the economic gap between the Atlantic provinces and the rest of Canada has remained remarkably ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Regional Aspects of Canada's Economic Growth

    by Alan G. Green ...
    Series series Heritage
    Regional disparities in income have been an important part of the growth of experience of most nation states. Canada is no exception. In a large country, thinly populated and having a wide diversity of resources, cultures, and locational advantages, it is only natural to expect the existence of dissimilar levels of economic performance. In fact, just this diversity of physical and human ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Regulation by Municipal Licensing

    Series series Heritage
    Municipal licensing serves a variety of regulatory purposes such as consumer protection and public health and safety. The municipal licensing power is delegated from the provincial government, up to the present, municipalities have been restricted to enumerated, specific powers, and the result has been the growth of a disorganized and unwieldy accumulation of bylaws, many of which conflict or are ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways?

    Regulatory Reform and the Japanese Economy

    Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years. Now, in the midst of a financial crisis that engulfs all of Asia, pressures on the Japanese government for substantial reform--coming from both inside and outside forces--are stronger than ever.But is Japan actually making the changes necessary to reduce market controls, encourage competition, and create new ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Counting for Nothing

    What Men Value and What Women are Worth

    Series series Heritage
    Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development consultant, writer, and goat farmer, isolates the gender bias that exists in the current ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Chile

    The Great Transformation

    Chile is frequently cited as a remarkable success story of neoliberal economic restructuring. In fact, countries around the world are encouraged to follow the Chilean model so that they can reap the extraordinary benefits of rapid growth and expanding export markets associated with the drastic economic reform in Chile. But the Chilean experience is extremely complicated and contradictory.The ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Key to the Asian Miracle

    Making Shared Growth Credible

    "Easily the most informed and comprehensive analysis to date on how and why East Asian countries have achieved sustained high economic growth rates, [this book] substantially advances our understanding of the key interactions between the governors and governed in the development process. Students and practitioners alike will be referring to Campos and Root's series of excellent case studies for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America

    Chile, Argentina, and Mexico

    In the 1980s and 1990s, nations throughout Latin America experienced the dual transformations of market liberalizing reforms and democratization. Since then, perhaps no issue has been more controversial among those who study the region than the exact nature of the relationship between these two processes. Bringing a much-needed comparative perspective to the discussion, Judith Teichman examines ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy

    Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi

    Edited by K. Vela Velupillai ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond Malinvaud. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Financing Higher Education

    Answers from the UK

    This topical volume tells the story of the UK debate on financing higher education, illustrating a head-on collision between the economic imperatives of student loans and regulated market forces, and the political imperative of 'free' higher education. In telling the story of the partnership of an economist and a political professional, the book offers lessons about both policy design and the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Systemic Changes in the German and Japanese Economies

    Convergence and Differentiation as a Dual Challenge

    Edited by Werner Pascha ...
    Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. A major conclusion of several papers is that the forces of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics

    The British Connection in French Classicism

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    This book explores the perceived paradigmatic conflict within British classical economics between the so called 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. Samuel Hollander provides the reader with extensive evidence, utilizing all editions of Say's main texts and his lesser-known writings in order to demonstrate his adherence to much of Ricardian theory.This ... Read more

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  • Environment, Inequality and Collective Action

    Series series Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy
    Efficiency is the hallmark of environmental economics, and though economists are concerned with the environment, primarily because it challenges the efficiency of competitive markets, until now, limited attention has been paid to distributional issues. This excellent collection of essays identifies and addresses key issues surrounding the inequality-environment relationship such as:* Does ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Globalization and Self-Determination

    Is the Nation-State Under Siege?

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO - that imperil state sovereignty from 'outside' the nation state. The second threat emanates ... Read more

    $64.99 USD $44.99 USD

  • New Voices on Adam Smith

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    In recent years, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in Adam Smith. As a consequence, a large number of PhD dissertations on Smith have been written by international scholars - in different languages, and in many diverse disciplines, including economics, women’s studies, philosophy, science studies, political theory and english literature: diversity which has enriched the area of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda of the WTO

    Edited by Pitou van Dijck, Gerrit Faber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The Doha Development Agenda held the promise of substantial gains for developing countries. However, the realization of these gains is far from obvious: the interests of various groups of countries differ greatly and technical complexities have hampered further progress since the very start of the negotiations.Against the background of the agenda of the present trade negotiations of the World ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization

    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy ... Read more

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  • Dimensions of Comparative Politics

    by P. Rathod ...
    Designed primarily as an introductory textbook for Graduate and Post-Graduate students offering comparative politics as a compulsory course, the book provides a lucid and up-to-date presentation of the dimensions of the comparative politics—Constitutionalism, Political System, Basic Concepts, Ideology and Change, Comparative Organs of the Governments, Electoral Systems, etc.,br> Key Features• ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Fast Food/Slow Food

    The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

    Edited by Richard Wilk ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Economics, Ethics and the Market

    Introduction and Applications

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics in the evaluation of the market. The reader will gain insight into:The ethical and methodological strategy of economics and criticism of the core assumptions that underpin the economic defence of free market operation.The characteristics of different ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Haunting the Knowledge Economy

    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more.It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those ... Read more

    $56.99 USD