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This article presents an overview of the life of Richard Layard, who believes that the basic purpose of economics is the maximization of happiness and well-being. As director of the Wellbeing Programme at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, Layard focuses on the...
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This paper reports about current mainstream growth projections for the United States and the European Union over the medium term represent a marked slowdown from growth rates in the decades prior to the global financial crisis. Slower growth in Europe and the United States has mixed implications...
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This paper analyzes that although demands for political transformation commanded the world's attention, those calls …
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This chapter discusses the story of European integration in what is known as the European Union. The decision in 1951 by six European nations to pool coal and steel production under a common authority-the European Coal and Steel Community-marked the beginning of European integration. French...
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The future of finance, and in particular saving it from a popular backlash against the global financial crisis and related crisis management policies, has become a matter of great concern. In this brochure, which presents in written form a lecture from the Per Jacobsson Foundation’s lecture...
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increasingly affecting the rest of the world not just its neighbors and main trading partners. In addition, F&D examines a variety … of topics that are particularly relevant as the world struggles to shake off the crisis. Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi look … how the recession affected several individuals around the world. This issue of F&D profiles Princeton economic theorist …
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luminaries tasked with generating ideas on how to make the global monetary system more stable in the wake of the world financial …
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Crisis Stalls Globalization: Reshaping the World Economy"" examines the multiple facets of the recession-from the …
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'Africa: Making Its Move' explores some of the obstacles facing sub-Saharan Africa as it attempts to capitalize on changes that offer fresh opportunities for growth and poverty reduction. The lead article describes the changes and suggests how Africa can build on them to progress further. Other...
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