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  • Oil Wars

    Edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl, Yahia Said ...
    Are oil-rich countries prone to war? And, if so, why? There is a widely held belief that contemporary wars are motivated by the desire of great powers like the United States or Russia to control precious oil resources and to ensure energy security.This book argues that the main reason why oil-rich countries are prone to war is because of the character of their society and economy. Sectarian groups ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $105.80 CAD

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    Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

    Edited by Olivier Blanchard, David Romer, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment.The crisis and the weak recovery that has ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Development

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    by Ha-Joon Chang, Ilene Grabel ...
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    There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. Many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain within the international development policy establishment. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel confront this neoliberal development model head-on by combining devastating economic critique with an array of ... Read more

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  • Stability with Growth

    Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development

    by Joseph Stiglitz, Shari Spiegel, Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, Deepak Nayyar, José Antonio Ocampo ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series
    There is growing dissatisfaction with the economic policies advocated by the IMF and other international financial institutions - policies that have often resulted in stagnating growth, crises, and recessions for client countries. This book presents an alternative to "Washington Consensus" neo-liberal economic policies by showing that both macro-economic and liberalization policy must be sensitive ... Read more

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  • Against the Consensus

    Reflections on the Great Recession

    by Justin Yifu Lin ...
    In June 2008, Justin Yifu Lin was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank, right before the eruption of the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Drawing on experience from his privileged position, Lin offers unique reflections on the cause of the crisis, why it was so serious and widespread, and its likely evolution. Arguing that conventional theories provide ... Read more

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  • Urbanization And Growth

    by Buckley Robert M.; Clarke Annez Patricia; Spence Michael ...
    • Why is productivity higher in cities? • Does urbanization cause growth or does growth cause urbanization? • Do countries achieve rapid growth or high incomes without urbanization? • How can policy makers reap the benefits of urbanization without paying too high a cost? • Does supporting urbanization imply neglecting rural areas? • Why do so few governments welcome urbanization? • What should ... Read more

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  • Emerging Capital Markets And Globalization: The Latin American Experience

    by De la Torre Augusto; Schmukler Sergio ...
    Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Washington Consensus Reconsidered

    Towards a New Global Governance

    Edited by Narcís Serra, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
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    This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Covering a wide range of issues from macro-stabilization to trade and the ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Globalization and Inequality

    by Elhanan Helpman ...
    One of the world’s leading experts on international trade explains that we must look beyond globalization to explain rising inequality.Globalization is not the primary cause of rising inequality. This may come as a surprise. Inequality within nations has risen steadily in recent decades, at a time when countries around the world have eased restrictions on the movement of goods, capital, and labor. ... Read more

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