This book examines the main policies available to government in dealing with the problem of high unemployment. It thereby gives policy makers and academics a convenient basis for making policy decisions in this area. The book attempts to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of policy options including demand management versus supply-side policy, subsidizing employment and training, restructuring labor market regulations, and reforming the welfare state. It also investigates the political process whereby unemployment policy decisions are made.

Seeking reason in the impassioned globalization debate, de la Dehesa examines who stands to win and who stands to lose from the process of globalization, in a style accessible to readers unfamiliar with economic theory.

• Objectively and dispassionately illuminates the emotionally charged globalization debate;


• Acknowledges that the costs and benefits of globalization will not be distributed evenly;


• Details the economic effects of globalization on individuals, governments, nation-states and business;

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What Do We Know About Globalization: Issues of Poverty & Income Distribution examines the two fundamental arguments that are often raised against globalization: that it produces inequality and that it increases poverty.

• A lively and accessible argument about the impact and consequences of globalization from a leading figure in economics - Dehesa is Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Group of Thirty
  
• Demonstrates the ways in which wealthy nations and developing countries alike have failed to implement...