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This book brings together economists, sociologists and anthropologists to discuss the role of culture in economic development, addressing such issues as religion, family, ethnic ties, entrepreneurship and poverty.

This volume, with contributions from experts in the field, explores questions about MBOs of the poor. Analyzing success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries.

International debt relief continues to be a highly controversial subject. Although many heavily indebted poor countries have received large amounts of debt relief over the past quarter of a century, it doesn¿t appear to be enough. This book examines the impact of international debt relief efforts since 1990 and assesses whether the various debt relief modalities have enhanced economic growth in eight highly indebted countries in Latin America ...

This book challenges the predominance of neo-liberalism as a mode of knowledge about contemporary world finance, and claims that it neglects the social and political bases as well as the malign consequences of change.

This book examines whether global finance can provide values like social security, equality and democratic accountability. It develops a pragmatic approach, focusing on the Tobin tax and explores alternative possibilities for global financial governance.

This volume expands on the standard economic framework of 'global economy' by looking at the way in which economic life is framed by society and social relationships and investigates how social values influence and help determine economic values.

There exists a vast body of literature on all aspects associated with patents, including innovation, patent policy instruments, licensing, and the tension between patent policy and competition policy. However, most of the works focusing on patent policy are only available as journal articles or as reprints in book collections. This book bridges that gap in presenting a systematic overview of models dedicated to patent policy.

This novel book looks at the relationship between the economics of John Maynard Keynes and the tradition of British Humanism, which dominated public life in the early years of the twentieth century.

This book assesses South Americäs most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur, explaining the main¿and inherent¿weaknesses of the integration effort, through explicit comparison with the European experience with integration.

As a defender of free-market liberalism and a leading opponent of socialism, this volume places Ludwig von Mises' views on political economy, public policy and monetary economics in the historical context of his time.

This new collection brings together key researchers in the field and asks why it is that China has adopted the right policies for economic growth and what lessons that China can offer other developing countries.

How do societies achieve a level of complexity, coordination, and social intelligence that far surpasses the capacity of individual human intelligence? Emily Chamlee-Wright addresses this question in the context of civil society generally, in which we cannot always rely on market prices to guide our way.

This collection puts forward promising reinterpretations of the primary schools of heterodox political economy, stringent critiques of the conventional readings of the recession, new schemes of theoretical and empirical analysis of the crisis, and proposals for economic policies alternative to those hitherto adopted.

The contributions to this prestigious volume describe important developments in monetary economics and monetary policy during the past half century and to draw lessons from this for the future with chapters from Charles Goodhart and Olivier Blanchard.

Although neo-liberalism has been critiqued from various perspectives, these critiques have not coalesced into a concrete alternative in development economics literature. The main objective of this book is to name and formulate this alternative, identify what is new about this viewpoint, and project it on to the academic landscape.

Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India and defines a new agenda for Adivasi studies. It considers the existing conceptual and historical parameters of Tribal studies, a...

This book looks at Kalecki's 'principle of increasing risk' and how it gives the way in which the reproduction and expansion of wealth can bring a coherent unity to economic analysis.

Die "In Frage und Antwort"-Reihe steht für die effiziente Vorbereitung auf mündliche Prüfungen während des Semesters und im Examen: lebensechte Prüfungsfragen mit mustergültigen Antworten und anschaulichen Kommentaren zum Selbst- und gegenseitigen Abfragen. Die Auswahl der Fragen basiert streng auf der Auswertung von Prüfungsprotokollen. Ihre Pluspunkte: Fragen wie in der mündlichen Prüfung Antworten und Kommentare mit Hinweisen auf Sto...

Edited by three European editors and spanning across Europe, this excellent study focuses on the effects of the European integration process on the inter-regional division of labour in both western and Eastern European countries.

This collection contains wide ranging contributions from distinguished authorities in economics, reflecting on Ian Steedman's work on time, international trade, capital theory and prices and growth and distribution.