Buku ini membahas persoalan bantuan asing dan kemandirian ekonomi, kebijakan politik dan ekonomi yang amburadul, serta masalah bahan bakar minyak (BBM). Semuanya ditulis dengan kekuatan data, argumen yang cerdas, serta gaya tulisan yang membuat persoalan rumit jadi mudah. Maka, kita akan mengetahui dengan gamblang praktik-praktik 'sok kuasa' Dana Moneter Internasional (IMF) terhadap Indonesia. …
For the first time in seven decades, there is no single power or alliance of powers ready to take on the challenges of global leadership. A generation ago, the United States, Europe, and Japan were the world’s powerhouses, the free-market democracies that propelled the global economy forward. Today, they struggle just to find their footing. Acclaimed geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer argues…
The need for better understanding of the role location plays in economic life was first and most famously made explicit by Bertil Ohlin in 1933. However it is only recently, with the development of computer packages able to handle complex systems, as well as advances in economic theory, that Ohlin's vision has been met and a framework developed which explains the distribution of economic activi…
This book focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state.
In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor. False Economy is a lively and lucid book that engagingly and thought-provokingly examines macroeconomics, economic topics, and the fault lines and successes that can make or break a culture or induce…
The content of this book: 1. Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Context 2. Lessons from World Bank Experience 3. A New Reconstructions Framework
This book offers effective strategies to help erase poverty. It advocates self-reliance, policy reform and cultural awareness. Accountability is required from all; the middle class, the trust fund babies and the underprivileged who see themselves as perpetual victims and have fallen into the entitlement trap. True Blue-prints are offered to rescue people from an economical slump and help them i…
A witty and accessible tour de force that is immersed in the latest economic thinking, Culture and Prosperity is an indispensable guide to the world around us and destined to become a classic text for understanding the politics of globalization.Guided by the belief that a combination of lightly regulated capitalism and liberal democracy -- the American business model -- is not just appropriate …
This is a book about the possibility of expanding capitalism into new areas and using it to solve problems that previously were assigned to charity or to government. Creative capitalism is not just a book for philanthropists. It's a book that challenges the conventional wisdom about our economic system, a road map for the new global economy that is emerging as capitalism adapts itself once agai…
What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that …