"Contemporary China and India have been powerfully shaped by trans- and subnational forces. This volume approaches China and India via a strategy of "convergent comparison," exploring local and global influences through a focus on labor relations; legal reform and rights protest…
The author believes two approaches are currently used in defining the economic policy of a nation: a Rhine model which emphasizes collective achievement and public consensus, and a supply-side model based on individual achievement and short-term profits. Favoring the Rhine appro…
"Studies based on regime types have shown that the level of public goods provision is higher in democratic systems than in authoritarian forms of government"--
This work by two economists who were involved as experts in the reform of the Polish economy in the 1950s and 1960s present the results of their efforts to develop in theory an economic system which could avoid the worst excesses of both capitalism and central planning.