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From Neighborhoods to Nations: The Economics of Social Interactions
Ioannides, Yannis M. - Princeton University Press
decisions in the presence of interactions, Ioannides shows how research on cities and neighborhoods can explain communities …' composition and spatial form, as well as changes in productivity, industrial specialization, urban expansion, and national growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681127
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Preface
Ioannides, Yannis M. - Princeton University Press
decisions in the presence of interactions, Ioannides shows how research on cities and neighborhoods can explain communities …' composition and spatial form, as well as changes in productivity, industrial specialization, urban expansion, and national growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681703
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Introduction
Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093935
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Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy
Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093938
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Prologue
Lin, Justin Yifu - Princeton University Press
How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862624
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The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off
Lin, Justin Yifu - Princeton University Press
How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681120
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Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of local events now cascade over national borders and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097646
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Knowledge Regimes and the National Origins of Policy Ideas
Campbell, John L.; Pedersen, Ove K. - Princeton University Press
analysis of how “knowledge regimes”—communities of policy research organizations like think tanks, political party foundations …, ad hoc commissions, and state research offices, and the institutions that govern them—generate ideas and communicate them … interviews with top officials at leading policy research organizations, this book demonstrates why knowledge regimes are as …
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Greif, Avner; Kiesling, Lynne; Nye, John V. C. - Princeton University Press
This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays...
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The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
Campbell, John L.; Pedersen, Ove K. - Princeton University Press
analysis of how “knowledge regimes”—communities of policy research organizations like think tanks, political party foundations …, ad hoc commissions, and state research offices, and the institutions that govern them—generate ideas and communicate them … interviews with top officials at leading policy research organizations, this book demonstrates why knowledge regimes are as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097658