In July 1989 coal miners throughout the Soviet Union engaged in a massive strike that briefly captured world headlines and inaugurated a movement of strike committees that persisted across the Soviet/post-Soviet divide. In this collection of interviews and essays based on encoun…
Introduction / Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Khairuddin Abdul Rashid, William P. Anderson and Masahiko Furuichi -- Regional development of ASEAN from a broad perspective -- Asean integration : opportunities and challenges / Koji Sakane and JICA Study Team -- The role of ADB in ASEAN integr…
Modernity Britain: a shake of the dice, 1959-62
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain, through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s, to the very cusp of the 1960s and the coming of a new Ze…
"[In Britain] By the early 1960s consumerism e\was inexorably taking hold ... relative economic decline was becoming the the staple of political discourse ... immigration was turning into an ever-hotter issue ... traditional norms of morality were perceived as under serious thre…
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain, through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s, to the very cusp of the 1960s and the coming of a new Ze…
Modernity Britain: a shake of the dice, 1959-62
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain, through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s, to the very cusp of the 1960s and the coming of a new Ze…
This book explores the US economy from 1960 to 2010 using a more Keynsian, Cowles model approach, which the author argues has substantial advantages over the vector autoregression (VAR) and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models used almost exclusively today. Heim …