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  • Central Bank Regulation and the Financial Crisis

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Miao Han ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The respective legal frameworks that control central banks are shaped by whether they are market oriented or government controlled. However such stark distinction between these two categories has been challenged in view of the varying styles of crisis management demonstrated by different central banks during the crisis. This book uses comparative analysis to investigate how the global financial ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Inequality

    What Can Be Done?

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane ...
    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • How They Got Away With It

    White Collar Criminals and the Financial Meltdown

    Edited by Susan Will, Stephen Handelman, David C. Brotherton, , Ph.D. ...
    A team of scholars with backgrounds in criminology, sociology, economics, business, government regulation, and law examine the historical, social, and cultural causes of the 2008 economic crisis. Essays probe the workings of the toxic subprime loan industry, the role of external auditors, the consequences of Wall Street deregulation, the manipulations of alpha hedge fund managers, and the "Ponzi ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Financialization of Housing

    A political economy approach

    by Manuel B. Aalbers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Due to the financialization of housing in today’s market, housing risks are increasingly becoming financial risks. Financialization refers to the increasing dominance of financial actors, markets, practices, measurements and narratives. It also refers to the resulting structural transformation of economies, firms, states and households. This book asserts the centrality of housing to the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Inequality and Fiscal Policy

    by Benedict Mr. Clements, Ruud Mooij, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Michael Mr. Keen ...
    The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda. The challenge for many governments is to address concerns over rising inequality while simultaneously promoting economic efficiency and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Understanding Institutional Shareholder Activism

    A Comparative Study of the UK and China

    by Bo Gong ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Corporate Law
    Institutional shareholder participation has long been considered as vital to good corporate governance yet its potential does not seem to have been realized. The recent banking crisis exposed the passivity of some institutional shareholders, many of whom appear to have chosen to sell their stakes in the banks rather than intervene or challenge the board when they realized the strategies followed ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Comparative Takeover Regulation

    Global and Asian Perspectives

    Edited by Umakanth Varottil, Wai Yee Wan ...
    While Western economies generally display dispersed shareholding in listed companies, Asian economies commonly have concentrated shareholding also in publicly listed companies. The principal analysis in Comparative Takeover Regulation relates to the role of takeover regulation in different economies. In the Asian context, the nature of takeover regulation may necessitate a different approach, with ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Sweden's Welfare State: Can the Bumblebee Keep Flying?

    by Subhash Mr. Thakur, Valerie Ms. Cerra, Balázs Mr. Horváth, Michael Mr. Keen ...
    Sweden has long been viewed as epitomizing a particular approach to economic and social policy. To its advocates, the Swedish welfare state builds on a strong social consensus favoring extensive state intervention to ensure a high quality of life for all Swedes. To its critics, the Swedish system is marked by excessive government intervention and attendant inefficiencies. These contrasting views ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Fixing the Future

    How Canada's Usually Fractious Governments Worked Together to Rescue the Canada Pension Plan

    by Bruce Little ...
    In 1993, most Canadians believed that big government deficits were permanent and that the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) was in such deep trouble that younger Canadians would never collect a retirement pension. They believed too that Canada's politicians were incapable of dealing with either problem. Yet by 1998, both were essentially solved.While the deficit battles have been recounted many times, the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Global Governance and Financial Crises

    Edited by Meghnad Desai, Yahia Said ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The editors of this book have pulled together a collection of chapters that review the spate of financial crises that have occurred in recent years starting with Mexico in 1994 and moving on to more recent crises in Turkey and Argentina. With impressive contributors such as Douglas Gale, Gabriel Palma and Andrew Gamble, the book is a timely and aut ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Primer on Property Tax

    Administration and Policy

    Edited by William J. McCluskey, Gary C. Cornia, Lawrence C. Walters ...
    'The chapters in this book explore in detail the choices regarding both the structure and administration of the property tax, drawing on the extensive knowledge the authors have acquired in studying property taxes around the world. The chapters provide a wide-ranging treatment of the design choices and administrative tasks, both in terms of the breadth of design options and administrative tasks ... Read more

    $121.00 USD