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The economics of technology and employment : theory and empirical evidence
Vivarelli, Marco - 1995
The impact of technical change on employment is investigated in this important new book which offers a critical appraisal of how far current economic analysis and theory can deal with this key policy issue. The Economics of Technology and Employment addresses the impact of technical change on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473912
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Labour market policy and unemployment : impact and process evaluations in selected European countries
Mosley, Hugh (contributor); Koning, Jaap de (contributor) - 2001
This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies that have been relatively neglected in previous research and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851438
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852119
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The Kennedy-Johnson tax cut : a revisionist history
Prachowny, Martin F. J. - 2000
The 1964 Kennedy-Johnson tax cut is often cited as the single most successful application of Keynesian stabilization policy. The author challenges this orthodox historical view by exposing the haphazard planning, simplistic economic theorizing, irreconcilable numerical projections, and partisan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473869
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Climate change, transport, and environmental policy : empirical applications in a federal system
Proost, S. (ed.); Braden, John B. (ed.) - 1998
This important new book presents a state-of-the-art assessment of how economic models can be used by different levels of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used at federal and confederal levels of government. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473914
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Does financial deregulation work? : a critique of free market approaches
Coggins, Bruce - 1998
Does Financial Deregulation Work? studies the process of financial deregulation in the United States. It exposes the basic flaws in the deregulationist approach and advances a new framework for effective financial regulation. Bruce Coggins provides a detailed and comprehensive critique of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473978
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The internationalisation of business R&D
Dachs, Bernhard (contributor); Zahradnik, Georg (contributor) - 2014
It has become clear that over the past few decades enterprises not only produce and sell abroad but increasingly also develop goods and services outside their home countries; a development now known as the internationalisation of business R&D. This book presents a comprehensive picture of the...
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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 …-51 -- Rafael Di Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch and Andrew J. Oswald (2001), 'Preferences Over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence …Andrew E. Clark and Andrew J. Oswald (1994), 'Unhappiness and Unemployment', Economic Journal, 104 (424), May, 648 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852162
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Monetary policy and the great inflation in the United States : the Federal Reserve and the failure of macroeconomic policy, 1965-1979
Mayer, Thomas - 1999
great inflation of the late 1960s and 1970s. It is the first detailed analysis, using Federal Reserve documents, of the … policy that led to this inflation. Thomas Mayer considers forecasting errors and wage and price controls in his attempt to … explain why the inflation occurred and places some of the blame on ineffective operating procedures, institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473850
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Monetary policy and Taiwan's economy
Dwyer, Gerald P. (ed.); Lin, Jin-Lung (ed.); Xu, Jiadong (ed.) - International Conference on the Conduct of Monetary … - 2002
Monetary Policy and Taiwan's Economy questions whether the Asian crisis could have been avoided through the application of recommendations highlighted by the contributors. The conclusion reached is that in an abstract world, perhaps; but in the world in which we live; no. It is argued that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474165