- An Introduction to Sustainable Development
- Peter Rogers
- Kazi F. Jalal
- John A. Boyd
- An Introduction to Sustainable Development presents the concept and practice of sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This textbook examines the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable development by focusing on changing patterns of consumption, production, and distribution of resources.
- Paperback 2006
- The Business of Lobbying in China
- Scott Kennedy
- Based on over 300 in-depth interviews with company executives, business association representatives, and government officials, this study identifies a wide range of national economic policies influenced by lobbying, including taxes, technical standards, and intellectual property rights. These findings have significant implications for how we think about Chinese politics and economics, as well as government-business relations in general.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- China's Trapped Transition
- Minxin Pei
- In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party's reform strategy--pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule. Combining powerful insights with empirical research, China's Trapped Transition offers a provocative assessment of China's future as a great power.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Competition Policy for Small Market Economies
- Michal S. Gal
- Michal Gal's thorough analysis shows the effects of market size on competition policy, ranging from rules of thumb to more general policy prescriptions, such as goals and remedial tools. Competition policy in small economies is becoming increasingly important, since the number of small jurisdictions adopting such policy is rapidly growing. Gal's focus extends beyond domestic competition policy to the evaluation of the current trend toward the worldwide harmonization of policies.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Corporate State and the Broker State
- Robert F. Burk
- The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.
- Hardcover 1990
- Globalization and the Rural Environment
- Otto T. Solbrig, Editor
- Robert Paarlberg, Editor
- Francesco Di Castri, Editor
- Organized by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment, this interdisciplinary volume examines the impact of a variety of new technological, social, and economic trends on the rural environment.
- Paperback 2001
- Governing the Global Economy
- Ethan Kapstein
- No area has become more global in its operations, more volatile, and thus more difficult to monitor and control than international banking. In this book, the international banker and political economist Ethan Kapstein explores the actions that governments have taken to cope with the economic and political consequences associated with the globalization of international finance.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Land Taxation in Imperial China, 1750-1911
- Yeh-Chien Wang
- Hardcover 1974
- Losing Time
- Otis Graham
- What should the United States have done when the nation saw its industries rapidly becoming globally uncompetitive? What reforms do we need now? Graham proposes an explicit if minimalist approach by the federal government that would pull together and reform our de facto industrial policies in order to equip the United States with the institutional capacity to formulate industrial interventions guided by continuous learning, strategic vision, and bipartisan participation by both labor and management.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- The Making of the New Deal
- Katie Louchheim, Editor
- Frank Freidel
- With historical notes by Jonathan Dembo
- Hardcover 1983 / Paperback
- Managed Care and Monopoly Power
- Deborah Haas-Wilson
- As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase in health care costs is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals, as the health care sector undergoes reorganization and consolidation. There are two tools to limit the growth of monopoly power: government regulation and antitrust policy. In this timely book, Deborah Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of the antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of the antitrust laws in health care markets, Haas-Wilson provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.
- Hardcover 2003
- Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America
- Edited by Cynthia Sanborn
- Edited by Felipe Portocarrero
- Foreword by John H. Coatsworth
- Latin America is a profoundly philanthropic region with deeply rooted traditions of solidarity with the less fortunate. This volume brings together groundbreaking perspectives on such diverse themes as corporate philanthropy, immigrant networks, and new grant-making and operating foundations with corporate, family, and community origins.
- Paperback 2006
- A Political Explanation of Economic Growth
- Yongping Wu
- Unlike South Korea and Japan, where large firms have been the major exporters, before the late 1980s Taiwan's successful exporters were overwhelmingly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). What factors account for the success of the SMEs and their benign neglect by the state? The author argues that it was an unintended consequence of the state's policy toward the private sector and its political strategies for managing societal forces.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Politics of Policies
- Inter-Amer Dev Bank
- This study analyzes how the workings of the policymaking process affect the quality of policy outcomes. It looks beyond a purely technocratic approach, arguing that the political and policymaking processes are inseparable. It offers a wide variety of examples and case studies, and yields useful insights for the design of effective policy reform.
- Paperback 2006
- Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution
- John E. Roemer
- Woojin Lee
- Karine Van der Straeten
- From the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" in the U.S. to the rise of Le Pen's National Front in France, conservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. Combining historical analysis and empirical rigor with major theoretical advances, the authors of this book construct a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances on income distribution.
- Hardcover 2007
- Regulating a New Economy
- Morton Keller
- Morton Keller, a leading scholar of twentieth-century American history, describes the complex interplay between rapid economic change and regulatory policy. In its portrait of the response of American politics and law to a changing economy, this book provides a fresh understanding of emerging public policy for a modern nation.
- Hardcover
- The State after Statism
- Edited by Jonah Levy
- This book assesses the changing nature of state intervention in the economies of the affluent democracies. Against a widespread understanding that contemporary developments, such as globalization and new technologies, are pressing for a rollback of state regulation in the economy, the book shows that these same forces are also creating new demands and opportunities for state intervention. Thus, state activism has shifted, rather than simply eroded.
- Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006
- Taxation and Economic Development in Taiwan
- Glenn P. Jenkins
- Chun-Yan Kuo
- Keh-Nan Sun
- Documenting the evolution of economic development and fiscal policies in Taiwan over the last four decades, this work explores the effectiveness of specific tax and trade policies. The authors make a major revision to the previously accepted role played by the export processing zones and the protection of domestic producers from foreign competition.
- Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003
- Trust in Troubled Times
- Brett Sheehan
- This timely book traces the development of banking and paper money in republican Tianjin in order to explore the creation of social trust in financial institutions. Framing the study around Bian Baimei, a conscientious branch manager of the Bank of China, Brett Sheehan analyzes the actions of bankers, officials, and local elites as they tried to overcome political and financial crises and instill trust in the banking system. Trust in Troubled Times is a valuable new perspective on the economic, social, and political history of modern China.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Tyranny of the Market
- Joel Waldfogel
- Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any individual, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and its consequences for consumers with atypical preferences.
- Hardcover 2007
- Welfare Reform
- Jeffrey Grogger
- Lynn A. Karoly
- In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
- Hardcover 2005
- What Children Need
- Jane Waldfogel
- Emphasizing the importance of parental choice, quality of care, and work opportunities, economist Jane Waldfogel guides readers through a maze of social science research evidence to offer comprehensive answers and a vision for change. Drawing on the evidence, Waldfogel proposes a bold new plan to better meet the needs of children in working families, from birth through adolescence, while respecting the core values of choice, quality, and work.
- Hardcover 2006
- Worst-Case Scenarios
- Cass R. Sunstein
- Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis.
- Hardcover 2007