The ABCs of political economy is an accessible introduction to modern political economy. While informed by the work of Marx, Keynes, Veblen, Kalecki, Robinson and other great political economists. ABCs teaches readers the essential tools necessary to understand economic issues today from a modern perspective. Dispelling myths about markets, macroeconomic policies, and globalization, ABCs offers…
Between 2000 and 2010, six of the ten fastest-growing economies worldwide were African. In this favorable environment, how do we make sure jobs and poverty reduction follow? Now is the time for African countries to consider how economic growth and political liberalization should reinforce each other. Africa has experienced two liberations: the first from colonial and racist regimes and the seco…
This book comprises key essays on comparative regionalism and, more broadly, on regional conflict and cooperation by Professor Etel Solingen. The study of regionalism, a subject pioneered by Solingen in the 1990s, is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of scholars and practitioners around the world. This book provides a window into an evolving conceptual framework for c…
In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite its demonstrable sucess,…
This book provides a look at the current status and future potential of sustainable development in India. Macroeconomic developments, regional disparity and poverty situation, the trend in natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, trajectory of economic development, and conventional wealth are discussed.
A study of entrepreneurship under communist rule in the GDR. It sets out to show how the private sector became integrated into the socialist system that prevailed from the end of World War II until 1989, and then developed in the rapid transition to a market economy and new socioeconomic order.
Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM) adalah salah satu aspek penting dalam upaya mencapai tujuan-tujuan ASEAN. ASEAN, atau Association of Southeast Asian Nations, merupakan organisasi regional yang terdiri dari sepuluh negara anggota di Asia Tenggara. Pengembangan SDM ASEAN mencakup berbagai bidang, termasuk pendidikan, pelatihan, keterampilan, dan peningkatan kapasitas individu dan organisasi.
Kerjasama ASEAN di Bidang Hak Atas Kekayaan Intelektual (HAKI) telah menjadi fokus penting dalam upaya meningkatkan perlindungan, pengaturan, dan pemanfaatan karya intelektual di kawasan ASEAN. Menggambarkan tentang inisiatif dan upaya kolaboratif yang diambil oleh negara-negara anggota ASEAN untuk memperkuat kerangka hukum HAKI, mempromosikan inovasi dan kreativitas, serta menciptakan lingkung…
On the whole, economics is rather progressive in making the improvements and refinements and rather backward in accommodating itself to underlying change. Dozens of com- petent scholars have labored to show how the individual and the community react to the problem of consumer choice. Demand curves and indifference surfaces have given increas- ing precision to these ideas. The course by which, i…
This book is a generalitation from the whole span of modern history. It gives an account of economic growth, based on a dynamic theory of production and interpreted in terms of actual societies. It helps to explain historical changes and to predict major political and economic trends: and it provides the significant links between economic and non-economic behavior which Karl Marx failed to discern