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Macroeconomic theory and its failings : alternative perspectives on the global financial crisis

Kates, Steven (contributor) - 2010

"This innovative book focuses on the current global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories being used to guide policy. In so doing, it tackles the economic theories that have been used firstly to understand its causes and thereafter to contain the damage it has brought."...

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Behavioural macroeconomics

McDonald, Ian Martin - 2012

perspective on psychology and economics, social norms and macroeconomics, the nature of unemployment, unemployment and inflation … (2004), 'Fairness and Inflation Persistence', Journal of the European Economic Association, 2 (2-3), April-May, 240 …-51 -- Rafael Di Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch and Andrew J. Oswald (2001), 'Preferences Over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence …

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Reflections on the Great Depression

Parker, Randall E. - 2002

This book explores the most prominent economic explanations of the Great Depression and how it affected the lives, experiences, and subsequent thinking of economists who lived through that era. Presented in interview format, this collection of conversations with Moses Abramovitz, Morris Adelman,...

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The evaluation of active labour market policies : measures, public private partnerships and benchmarking

Koning, Jaap de (contributor) - 2007

This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...

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Flexibility and employment security in Europe : labour markets in transition

Muffels, R. J. A. (contributor) - 2008

This book seeks to gain a better understanding of the paradoxical relationship between the alleged need of European labour markets to become more flexible and the way in which national policies pursue this aim without jeopardising existing high standards of income and employment security....

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Innovating European labour markets : dynamics and perspectives

Ester, P. (contributor) - 2008

This book examines innovative theoretical perspectives and novel labour market policy responses to Europe's changing work demands, employment careers and life courses. It presents creative ideas and recommendations for flexicurity policies at various levels and in different social and economic...

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Global money, capital restructuring, and the changing patterns of labour

Bellofiore, Riccardo (ed.) - 1999

The last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the...

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Elgar encyclopedia of labour studies

Eriksson, Tor (ed.) - 2023

"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of...

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Labour market adjustments in Europe

Messina, Julián (contributor) - 2006

The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...

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