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  • Legislative Style

    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one’s district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage with the media to cultivate a national reputation? William Bernhard and Tracy Sulkin argue that these decisions and others define a “legislative style” ... Read more

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  • Democratic Processes and Financial Markets

    Pricing Politics

    The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can forecast the result, returns do not exhibit any unusual behavior. Further, political expectations ... Read more

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  • Banking on Reform

    Political Parties and Central Bank Independence in the Industrial Democracies

    Series series Michigan Studies In International Political Economy
    Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, political parties have sought to draw on the political credibility of an independent central bank to cope with electoral consequences of economic internalization and deindustrialization.New Zealand and Italy made the initial efforts to grant ... Read more

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  • When Prophecy fails

    Extract of essential statements

    Series Book 22 - REdition Schmidt
    Authors who, from today's perspective and in the face of current research, were far ahead of their time were often misunderstood or simply ignored by their contemporaries. And even if an excerpt from an extensive work is always subjective, it still offers a middle ground between subsuming under a catchphrase on the one hand, and intensive preoccupation with the work on the other. If you want to ... Read more

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    Public Expenditures

    Series series Routledge New International Studies in Economic Modelling
    The focus of this volume is on the European context of public budget policy and a variety of different approaches are used - theoretical modelling, econometrics and applied general equilibrium modelling. Empirical evidence and case studies of European countries are contained in all the papers.The papers cover the four general themes of public budget policy:* economic stabilization, in view of the ... Read more

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  • Dead Aid

    Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and ... Read more

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  • Paul Klee: Creative Confession

    by Paul Klee ...
    Series Book 5 - Artist's Writings
    "Creative Confession" brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee, one of the most distinctive artists of the early twentieth century. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify Klee's artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process.Entitled "Graphic Art" (published as Creative Confession, 1920), "Ways of Nature Study" (1923) and "Exact Experiments in ... Read more

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  • Modern Monetary Theory and the Recovery

    This book discusses the causes of slow growth in the developed world after the early 1990s from a Modern Monetary Theory perspective. Policy proposals from MMT proponents that aim to rejuvenate the labour market without causing a resurgence of inflation will be examined.Modern Monetary Theory is an outgrowth of the heterodox post-Keynesian school of economics, and the overall scope of the theory ... Read more

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  • Understanding Japanese Savings

    Does Population Aging Matter?

    by Robert Dekle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will this lower Japanese savings rates?Using up-to-date financial and demographical data, author Robert Dekle finds that the answer to this question is an emphatic 'yes'. Understanding ... Read more

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  • Science & Magick: Are they Compatible?

    by M.E. Brines ...
    Is the scientific method compatible with Wicca and other magickal traditions? Are science and religion incompatible? Current wisdom is that they are. But is that actually true? Find out for yourself!! ... Read more

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  • Monetary Policy and Unemployment

    The US, Euro-area and Japan

    by Willi Semmler ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti.One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what potential role monetary policy has on economic activity and unemployment reduction in three key currency ... Read more

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  • Conflict, Political Accountability and Aid

    by Paul Collier ...
    Paul Collier’s contributions to development economics,and in regard to Africa in particular, have marked him out as one of the most influential commentators of recent times. His research has centred upon the causes and consequences of civil war, the effects of aid, and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resource-rich societies. His work has also enjoyed substantial policy impact, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD