The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also a compelling case that even the Clinton administration was too closely tied to the financial community—that along with enormous economic success in the nineties came the seeds of the destruction visited on the economy at the end of the decade. This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning eco…
This book examines Indonesia's economic development from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Combining scholarly objectivity with an insider's view, the book offers insightful analysis of the events that shaped Indonesia's development.
India after the Global Crisis assesses India s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis but then shows how the global crisis and our domestic policy failures have taken a toll on India s economic performance: growth has slowed significantly, inflation has remained high, the external current account deficit has more than doubled, and the rate of domestic investment has fallen. Dr…
The consistent failure of the Japanese bureaucracy and business establishment to meet proper management and regulatory standards has made America's premier ally in Asia a major source of financial instability in today's world. - Japan has the world's biggest ever bad-debt burden - Japan has allowed organized crime to systematically infiltrate its financial institutions - Japan's national p…
This is the explosive story of how capitalism US-style got its comeuppance: how excessive deregulation, government pandering to big business and exorbitant CEO salaries all fed the bubble that burst so dramatically amid corporate scandal and anti-globalization protest. As chief economic advisor to the president at the time, Stiglitz exposes the inside of what went wrong, but also reveals how…
The 21st century has confronted China with a host of new international challenges globalization, financial crisis, geopolitical conflict, climate change. These are mirrored by equally demanding domestic challenges - managing the new normal, transforming and upgrading the economy, restoring and protecting the environment, and implementing political reform. This book explains how the CPC is respo…
This innovative study shows that multilateral sanctions are coercive in their pressure on their target and in their origin: the sanctions themselves frequently result from coercive policies, with one state attempting to coerce others through persuasion, threats, and promises. To analyze this process, Lisa Martin uses a novel methodology combining game-theoretic models, statistical analysis, and…
The contents of this book: 1. The Road to Baghdad 2. Imperial Hubris/Imperial Overextension 3. Contemporary Capitalism's Classic Crisis 4. The Ascendancy of Finance 5. The Economics of Anti-development
Focusing on Us policies towards the Single European Market, this volume analyzes the changing character of foreign economic policy. It argues that an erosion of the boundaries demarcating foreign and domestic policy has occurred as a result of developments on both domestic and international fronts. Consequently, the conduct of policy has become more densely textured, as parties from subnational…
It is a story about how the rapid and often chaotic industrialization of the most populous country on the planet has put China on a collision course with the rest of the world. The emergence of China as an economic superpower is currently moving on a path that will affect literally every nation and every person in the world, and potentially cause great turmoil and conflict. The primary purpose …