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The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 982

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution. It starts with an historiography of the field, arguing for a continued legacy of comparative economic systems, which compared socialism and capitalism, a field which some argued should have been replaced by institutional economics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The process of transition to market capitalism is reviewed, and itself exemplifies a new combination of comparative analysis with a focus on institutional development. Going beyond, chapters broadening the application of comparative analysis and applying it to new issues and approaches, including the role and definition of institutions, subjective wellbeing, inequality, populism, demography, and novel methodologies. Overall, comparative economics has evolved in the past 30 years, and remains a powerful approach for analyzing important issues.

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 782

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems examines the institutional bases of economies, and the different ways in which economic activity can function, be organized and governed. It examines the complexity of this academic and research field, assessing the place of comparative economic studies within economics, paying due attention to future perspectives, and presenting critically important questions, analytical methods and relative approaches. This complements the recent revival of the systemic view of economic governance, which was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and likely even more the renewed East-West clash epitomized by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Westâ€...

Europe's Growth Champion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Europe's Growth Champion

What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many more, through a study of one of the biggest, and least heard about, economic success stories. Over the last twenty-five years Poland has transitioned from a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country to unexpectedly join the ranks of the world's high income countries. Europe's Growth Champion is about the lessons learned from Poland's remarkable experience, the conditions that keep countries poor, and the challenges that countries need to face in order to grow. It defines a new growth model that Poland and its Eastern Euro...

The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-04-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book examines the economic reforms and material progress of the Central Asian republics after becoming independent from the Soviet Union, focusing especially - although not exclusively - on the largest of these new states: Ukbekistan. It considers the region's abundant energy resources and prospects for future development.

Understanding Economic Transitions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Understanding Economic Transitions

Understanding Economic Transitions explains the genesis, operation, and transformation of the centrally-planned socialist economy, which figured prominently in the lives of billions of people in twentieth-century Europe and Asia. Just as importantly, the centrally-planned socialist economy’s demise coincided with the shift from nonindustrial to industrial economy (and de-industrialization in some cases) and the onset of ICT-driven globalization. Using theory, empirics, and selected country case studies, this book teases out the enduring lessons from the myriad and fraught pathways of transition from socialism to capitalism. Understanding Economic Transitions provides a self-contained, comp...

Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 526

Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. As more than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is now an excellent time to take stock of how the transition process has turned out for the economies that have moved on from socialism and the command economy. This new handbook assembles a team of leading experts, many of whom were closely involved in the transition process as policymakers and policy advisors, to explore the major themes that have characterized the transition proce...

Present at the Transition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Present at the Transition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-20
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This primary source account of post-communist regions examines how history, leadership, and foreign influence affected the process of economic transitions.

Crisis & Response
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 479

Crisis & Response

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 1989. It was time for countries of the South to establish a body of men who would help chart the way forward for the world's developing countries of Africa and Latin America. This volume has been developed from the time when Third World Foundation and the Malaysian Institute of Strategic and International Studies convened in Kuala Lumpur a meeting of 100 scholars and statesmen from 23 countries of the South in May 1986, called 'South-South II: Charting the Way Forward', and actions by the Steering Group since.

Service Provision and Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Service Provision and Migration

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-03
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book investigates how liberalization of service provision related to movement of natural persons takes shape within EU and WTO law. It provides an overview and analysis of the implementation of the identified obligations derived from EU law and the GATS in the Dutch legal order and that of the United Kingdom. A thorough investigation of the chosen strategies in each legal order is provided, including a comparison of the differences and similarities between these strategies. The resulting overview leads to insight into the tension that exists between the international obligations related to service mobility of the two investigated states on the one hand, and their migration law and access to the labour market legislation on the other.

Industrial Productivity in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 497

Industrial Productivity in Europe

This book analyses growth at the total economy and industry level from an international perspective, providing unique cross-country comparisons. The authors focus on the EU-25 countries but also include the US, Japan and Korea. The chapters explore growth patterns from a long-run perspective, although greater attention is paid to the period of expansion from 19952007 and the post 2008 period of crisis. Each contribution builds on a common methodology based on a detailed database providing a high degree of disaggregation with respect to the industries and factors accounting for growth. The role played by ICT is expertly emphasized, in particular the different paths followed in the US and the EU. This topical book will prove to be an unrivalled source of comparative data for academics, practitioners and policymakers alike.