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  • Services and Employment

    Explaining the U.S.-European Gap

    Edited by Mary Gregory, Ronald Schettkat, Wiemer Salverda ...
    Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation. Drawing on the findings of a two-year research project that examined data from France, Germany, the ... Read more

    $95.09 USD

  • The Flow Analysis of Labour Markets

    Edited by Ronald Schettkat ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Well-functioning labour markets are a precondition for economic development. In order to function smoothly the market needs to be able to adjust effectively and quickly to new developments. An understanding and analysis of adjustment processes within labour markets is therefore essential for economic theory and policy proposals. This study discusse ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance

    Comparative Views on the US and German Economies

    Edited by Friedrich Buttler, Wolfgang Franz, Ronald Schettkat, David Soskice ...
    Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance produces an in-depth analysis of the functioning of various labor market institutions in both the USA and Germany. Particular emphasis is given to the substantial differences between the US and Germany in the ways important areas are regulated. The authors show that the impact of institutions on economic performance is ambivalent. They argue ... Read more

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    Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi ...
    In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—the most widely used measure of economic activity—is a reliable ... Read more

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  • Economists and the Powerful

    Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards

    by Norbert Häring, Niall Douglas ...
    “Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on an array of empirical and theoretical studies by a series of distinguished economists, this book reveals a stark and unpleasant truth: that the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency

    by Jens Forssbaeck, Lars Oxelheim ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In recent years, the term 'transparency' has emerged as one of the most popular and keenly-touted concepts around. In the economic-political debate, the principle of transparency is often advocated as a prerequisite for accountability, legitimacy, policy efficiency, and good governance, as well as a universal remedy against corruption, corporate and political scandals, financial crises, and a host ... Read more

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  • Fixing the Root Bug

    The Simple Hack for a Growth-Independent, Fair and Sustainable Market Economy 2.0

    by Tuure Parkkinen, Tuukka Pykäläinen, Matias Piiparinen ...
    What if our economic system – like a faulty operating system – had a little bug that was making it unsustainable economically, socially and environmentally? This cross-disciplinary work questions taken-for-granted assumptions and presents the Root Bug hypothesis If we got supply to actually meet demand in the labor market on the individual level and if we eliminated private monopolies (most ... Read more

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  • Democratic Governance and Economic Performance

    How Accountability Can Go Too Far in Politics, Law, and Business

    by Dino Falaschetti ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Conventional wisdom warns that unaccountable political and business agents can enrich a few at the expense of many. But logically extending this wisdom implies that associated principals – voters, consumers, shareholders – will favor themselves over the greater good when ‘rules of the game’ instead create too much accountability. Democratic Governance and Economic Performance rigorously develops ... Read more

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  • The Future of Financial Regulation

    Edited by Iain G MacNeil, Professor Justin O'Brien ...
    The Future of Financial Regulation is an edited collection of papers presented at a major conference at the University of Glasgow in spring 2009, co-sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council World Economy and Finance Programme and the the Australian Research Council Governance Research Network. It draws together a variety of different perspectives on the international financial crisis ... Read more

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  • The Value of Everything

    Making and Taking in the Global Economy

    by Mariana Mazzucato ...
    The award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation“A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits.” —Martin Wolf,<... ... Read more

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  • Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?

    by Steve Keen ...
    Series series The Future of Capitalism
    The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found. Less than a year later, the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression erupted.In this explosive book, Steve Keen, one of the very few ... Read more

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  • Budgetary Policy Modelling

    Public Expenditures

    Edited by Pantelis Capros, Daniele Meulders ...
    Series series Routledge New International Studies in Economic Modelling
    The focus of this volume is on the European context of public budget policy and a variety of different approaches are used - theoretical modelling, econometrics and applied general equilibrium modelling. Empirical evidence and case studies of European countries are contained in all the papers.The papers cover the four general themes of public budget policy:* economic stabilization, in view of the ... Read more

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