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Author: Nicholas Crafts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1108424406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain's relative economic decline.
Author: Open Media Research Institute
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781563249259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second annual survey by the Open Media Research Institute presents some 100 contributions on political developments in the 27 countries of the former socialist bloc. Sections on individual countries include a map, key statistics, brief discussions of domestic and foreign policy issues, excerpts from important documents, and profiles of major personalities. Some contributors provide general articles on regional economic developments and the processes involved with building democratic institutions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Nicholas Crafts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1108341500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo what extent has the British economy declined compared to its competitors and what are the underlying reasons for this decline? Nicholas Crafts, one of the world's foremost economic historians, tackles these questions in a major new account of Britain's long-run economic performance. He argues that history matters in interpreting current economic performance, because the present is always conditioned by what went before. Bringing together ideas from economic growth theory and varieties of capitalism to endogenous growth and cliometrics, he reveals the microeconomic foundations of Britain's economic performance in terms of the impact of institutional arrangements and policy choices on productivity performance. The book traces Britain's path from the first Industrial Revolution and global economic primacy through to its subsequent long-term decline, the strengths and weaknesses of the Thatcherite response, and the improvement in relative economic performance that was sustained to the eve of the financial crisis.
Author: Moses Abramovitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-04-28
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0521333962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The introductory essay is an extended treatment of how economists now view the growth process and its causes. Other essays consider the contributions of capital formation, education, and the changed nature of industries and occupations. Professor Abramovitz asks why elevated incomes failed to bring the social progress and personal satisfaction that people had looked for. The final chapters in the book take up the causes of our discontent and consider whether the Welfare State has itself become an obstacle to further economic progress.The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The introductory essay is an extended treatment of how economists now view the growth process and its causes. Other essays consider the contributions of capital formation, education, and the changed nature of industries and occupations. Professor Abramovitz asks why elevated incomes failed to bring the social progress and personal satisfaction that people had looked for. The final chapters in the book take up the causes of our discontent and consider whether the Welfare State has itself become an obstacle to further economic progress.
Author: Jeffrey G. Williamson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011-01-07
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0262295180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today. Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order—two hundred years in the making—was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor countries and by the fact that poor countries exported commodities (agricultural or mineral products) while rich countries exported manufactured products. In Trade and Poverty, leading economic historian Jeffrey G. Williamson traces the great divergence between the third world and the West to this nexus of trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. Analyzing the role of specialization, de-industrialization, and commodity price volatility with econometrics and case studies of India, Ottoman Turkey, and Mexico, Williamson demonstrates why the close correlation between trade and poverty emerged. Globalization and the great divergence were causally related, and thus the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps account for the income gap between rich and poor countries today.
Author: Eleanor Catton
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 860
ISBN-13: 0316126950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.
Author: Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-01-28
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780521576437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA succinct and accessible account of the nature and impact of industrialisation in Scotland.
Author: Tony Cleaver
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0415244056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition has been updated to take account of current developments in this area of economics. Building on the first edition, the overall structure is retained whilst new topic boxes and up-to-date examples add to its accessibility.
Author: Daniel Alpert
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 159184701X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGovernments and central banks across the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish or worse. How did we get here, and how can we compete and prosper once more? Daniel Alpert argues that a global labor glut, excess productive capacity, and a rising ocean of cheap capital have kept the Western economies mired in underemployment and anemic growth. We failed to anticipate the impact of the torrent of labor and capital unleashed by formerly socialist economies. Many policymakers miss the connection between global oversupply and the lack of domestic investment and growth. But Alpert shows how they are intertwined and offers a bold, fresh approach to fixing our economic woes. Twitter: @DanielAlpert
Author: E. A. Wrigley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0521025532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndustrial Growth and Population Change deliberately strays across the conventional boundaries of social scientific analysis, embracing economic history, historical geography, demography and sociology. The underlying thesis is that economic historians have tended too readily to suppose that the national entity is the appropriate unit of study.
