Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Economics - Comparative

Two decades have now passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and it is now an excellent time to take stock on how the transition process has turned out for the economies that have moved from central planning.

This new handbook assembles a team of leading experts to explore the major themes that have characterized the period. After identifying the nature of initial conditions and the strength and weaknesses of institutions, the varying paths countries have taken are fully analyzed from the shock financial therapy, privatization and ethnic strife of the early years to the burning issues...

If sustainable growth is a key goal for the economy of every nation, its desirability is perhaps even more acute in Russia. Even President Medvedev argues that the country s heavy reliance on natural resources makes it primitive and uncompetitive, calling for innovation and diversification.

But the authors of this provocative new book argue that this modernization may not be the best thing for Russia. Two factors present major obstacles: first, the country s physical and human capital was inherited in the Soviet era and was allocated geographically in a way that was not conducive to...

In spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market liberalization seems so strong, given that the benefits are seen to outweigh the costs.

This volume argues that in order to understand the slow progress of World Trade Organization negotiations, we need to take into consideration the intermestic character of trade politics, that is, the way in which international and domestic aspects of politics and policies have been woven together and become inextricably related to each other. This is a...

The financial crisis of 2007-08 and the Great Recession caused more widespread economic trauma than any event since the Great Depression. With a slow and uneven recovery, encouraging stability and growth is critical.

Financial Restructuring to Sustain Recovery maintains that while each part of the financial services industry can play a useful role in revving up the U.S. economic engine to full capacity, the necessary reforms are sometimes subtle and often difficult to implement. Editors Martin Neil Baily, Richard Herring, and Yuta Seki and their coauthors break recovery down...