The complex anatomy of this 'first economic crisis of the 21st century' is here examined--in sometimes sharply divergent perspectives--by a distinguished international group that includes ex-ministers, financial market participants, leading political scientists and economists; and senior officials from the World Bank, the IMF, and the Inter-American Development Bank. ...

Hailed by CHOICE as "a concise, exceptionally clear exposition of the transformation of Mexican economic policy since 1982", the first edition of MEXICO was published at the height of "Mexico-optimism" in 1992. Two years later, however, Mexico was on the verge of financial collapse. Author Nora Lustig updates her original book and analyzes Mexico's economy and relatively slow growth in the early nineties. ...

A comprehensive survey of the history of the family in Western Europe and North America. ...

Economists and historians view the events of the 1920s, the stock market boom and crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal, as being largely independent. This work presents an integrated, empirically-consistent view of this important period arguing that all of these events can be traced back to a paradigm technology shock, namely the electrification of U.S. industry from 1910 to 1926. The author goes from electrification through the stock ...

The economic axiom is a very general and purely a formal principle of conduct. It is inconceivable that anyone should act without applying, well or ill, the very principle of every action, i.e., the economic principle. ...

Agricultural developments in 19th-century Hertfordshire and their rippling effects are researched, documented, and discussed in this compelling regional history. Radical changes in the agricultural economy led to rapid social reorganization; mechanization switched the labor of farming from groups of toiling male, female, and child workers to threshing machines and reaper-binders. Changes in land enclosure, the prevailing social hierarchy, village ...

This painstakingly-researched book examines liberal predictions of the last generation to see what those predictions show about this important element of American political thought. The predictions do not fare well, for reasons that reveal crucial aspects of the thinking behind them. Writers forecast everything from the end of capitalism to twenty more Vietnams; some of the same people who now predict global warming were, in the 1970s, predicting ...

This painstakingly-researched book examines liberal predictions of the last generation to see what those predictions show about this important element of American political thought. The predictions do not fare well, for reasons that reveal crucial aspects of the thinking behind them. Writers forecast everything from the end of capitalism to twenty more Vietnams; some of the same people who now predict global warming were, in the 1970s, predicting ...

Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship Christopher Howe traces the history of Japanese trade over four centuries and locates the sources of Japan's current commercial and financial strength in events that began in the sixteenth century. <BR>"Thoughtful, well-organized, and lucidly written and reflects many years of painstaking research in different literatures."--"Business Horizons" <BR>"The best analysis yet in English of the role ...

This book seeks to understand and explain the reasons for the changing patterns of taxation. ...