Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 352
Cover Image
International perspectives on household wealth
Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2006
The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as …-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are highlighted in terms of wealth holdings, among the low-income population …, along with changes in wealth polarization, racial differences in wealth holdings, and the dynamics of portfolio choices. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851778
Cover Image
Conversations on growth, stability and trade : an historical perspective
Snowdon, Brian - 2002
1. Introduction : the world economy in historical perspective -- 2. Economic growth and development : a very long-run view -- 3. Growth theories : old and new -- 4. Managing aggregate economic instability : from Keynes to Lucas -- 5. International economic integration in the Second Global Age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420073
Cover Image
Market, state, and feminism : the economics of feminist policy
Dawson, Graham; Hatt, Sue; Watson-Brown, Linda; Baxter, … - 2000
Market, State and Feminism offers an inter-disciplinary critique of the 'free market backlash' - the belief that free market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors argue that, far from being restrictive and intrusive, state action can enhance the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473922
Cover Image
International handbook on economic regulation
Parker, David (contributor); Crew, Michael A. (contributor) - 2006
Michael Crew and David Parker have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. With contributions from international specialists in economic regulation, the Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851346
Cover Image
Macroeconomic policy and a living wage : the employment act as redistributive economics, 1944-1969
Stabile, Donald - 2018 - 1st edition 2018
This book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946. It argues that in addition to Keynesian economics, the idea of a living wage was also part of the background leading up to the Employment Act. The Act mandated that the president prepare an Economic Report on the state of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920941
Cover Image
The evolution of water resource planning and decision making
Russell, Clifford S. (contributor);  … - 2009
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, but the book concentrates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852021
Cover Image
Transatlantic sport : the comparative economics of North American and European sports
Barros, Carlos Pestana (contributor);  … - 2002
This book offers a comparative perspective on the economics of sport and highlights both the similarities and differences in the North American and European models of sport. It tackles policy issues, such as the organising, financing and regulation of team sports alongside theoretical issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852037
Cover Image
Organizational crime : causes, explanations and prevention in a comparative perspective
Pohlmann, Markus (ed.); Dannecker, Gerhard (ed.);  … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279546
Cover Image
Aggregate demand, inequality and instability
Ferri, Piero - 2016
demand -- Part II: endogenous dynamics and instability -- 5. Aggregate demand, growth and instability -- 6. Wealth, public … debt and instability -- 7. Recursive workhorses -- Part III: the macro inference of inequality -- 8. Rent, wealth and … bubbles -- 9. A model with heterogeneous supply -- 10. Wealth and capital gains in financial markets -- Part IV: inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419908
Cover Image
The economics of wealth distribution
Davies, James B. - 2013
analysis of the distribution of wealth. Topics discussed include the measurement of the distribution of wealth and analyses the … time trends in wealth concentration and the importance of the role of inheritance. Theoretical approaches, including both …Davies, James B. and Anthony F. Shorrocks (2000), 'The Distribution of Wealth', in A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852171