This work explores some central tenets of modern economics. In doing so, it subjects them to trenchant examination - including the case for free trade and the inevitability of ever more grotesque income inequalities. It argues that current policies are delivering neither sustain…
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This work explores some central tenets of modern economics. In doing so, it subjects them to trenchant examination - including the case for free trade and the inevitability of ever more grotesque income inequalities. It argues that current policies are delivering neither sustain…
Structured around 4 major areas of institutional reform - political institutions and organization of the state; fiscal institutions; public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies; and institutions in the so-called social sectors - this book summarizes the objective…
Subsidiarity and Economic Reform in Europe
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Subsidiarity in the European Union, as the guiding principle of decision-making "close to the people," is often motivated and discussed from a predominantly political perspective. In this book, twenty-five renowned economic researchers and policy experts draw the demarcation bet…
This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic …
Economist, Andrew Smithers, was one of the few who warned, in advance of the financial crisis, that economic policy must be changed for it to be avoided. At the peak of the stock market in March 2000 he published, with co-author Stephen Wright, Valuing Wall Street which showed t…
This book investigates the growth of an economy with management-controlled corporations. It begins by studying the behaviour of a corporation whose management maximizes the rate of growth constrained by the threat of takeover, and in which research and development efforts are ma…
The Great Recession that began in 2007 is now more than 4 years old, and counting. Some 24 million Americans are unemployed of underemployed, and at recent rates of job creation we won't be back to normal levels of production until late this decade. Here the author pursues the q…
