Product Description: This volume collects selected papers on the European Union from the thirteenth Congress of the International Economic Association held in Lisbon, September 2002. It starts with an address by Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, who sets the tone for the other papers by describing and evaluating two of the greatest accomplishments of the EU: economic and monetary union, and EU enlargement...read more

Product Description: Explaining Growth attempts to compile the most comprehensive assessment of growth in developing and transition countries. The first phase has sought to review and discover broad similarities and comparable experiences in six regions spanning the developing world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since the inflationary 1970's, studies of monetary policy have concentrated almost exclusively on price-level stabilization and the avoidance of nominal shocks. In the aftermath of the collapse of financial bubbles in various parts of the world, the accomplishments and limitations of this dominant approach are debated in this volume edited by Axel Leijonhufvud, with contributions by a number of monetary economists, including Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas...read more

Product Description: Why do governments prefer to limit themselves to a specific inflation target? Specialists and senior officials of the European Central bank, the OECD and national central banks look beyond inflation targeting as the goal of monetary policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adjustment and Beyond: The Reform Experience in South Asia examines the experience of structural adjustment from the point of view of selected countries and the theory behind its application. Are further liberalization, privatization and opening of markets the way for the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: International trade and investment have flourished in the Asia Pacific region. This volume brings together some of the most eminent economists in the field to analyze this vital region from both theoretical and empirical perspectives...read more

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Product Description: This volume brings economics and methodology closer together through a series of six methodological case studies, each of which is discussed by practitioner in the relevant field, and a specialist in methodology. The objective is a better understanding of economics as a scientific discipline and insights into the way methodological discussion can inform practice...read more

Product Description: The state and its institutions are crucial for economic development: for better and for worse. This insight informs this important, up-to-date and authoritative survey of new trends in growth economics and the widely divergent economic performance of developing countries - for example, between Latin America and South-east Asia - which seemed to be similarly placed just a generation ago...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The dramatic implosions of the centrally administered, non-democratic political systems in central and eastern Europe in the late 1980s have generated a body of research concerning the transition from public ownership, and the role of the market and other institutions in engendering good incentives for economic actors...read more

Product Description: Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways. The impossibility theorems have suggested many directions: mathematical characterisations of voting structures satisfying various sets of conditions, the consequences of restricting choice to certain domaines, the relation to competitive equilibrium and the core, and trade-offs among the partial satisfactions of some conditions...read more

Product Description: This volume comprises fourteen papers presented to a conference of the IEA held at the International Centre for Economic Research, Turin. Four areas are identified in which theoretical and empirical developments are discussed for the fuller understanding of personal (as opposed to collective) behaviour with economic objectives: rational choice and associated problems of logic; rationality as explained by game theory; experiments to elucidate rational behaviour; and alternative treatments of rationality in decision-making theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume written by an international team of academics from the social sciences, explores the relationship between economic development and political systems. The chapters range from a theoretical exploration of the measurement of development and collective well-being under both democracy and dictatorships to case studies of the workings of different political regimes around the world. Of particular interest are models of political and economic equilibrium in procedural democracies and the detailed exploration of the working of economic systems that have operated as formal democracies for some time. Specialists in comparative analysis should find the chapters on the prospects for democracy and development in countries such as China, South Africa and Eastern Europe of particular relevance.