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Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies

Amsden, Alice H.; Chu, Wan-wen - The MIT Press

how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in mature high … the government policies and large-scale firms that drive skills, speed, and scale. R&D in Taiwan was usually undertaken in … entrepreneurs in Taiwan were nationally owned large-scale firms rather than multinational companies. …

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Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences

Ghosh, Atish R.; Gulde, Anne-Marie; Wolf, Holger C. - The MIT Press

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency boards and dollarization...

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Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke, Revised Edition

Axilrod, Stephen H. - The MIT Press

Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the FedÕs Board of Governors for more than thirty years and after that in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his unique perspective on the inner workings of the Federal...

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Political Economy of Fairness

Zajac, Edward E. - The MIT Press

How should the government balance the aims of justice and economic efficiency when intervening in the economy? In Political Economy of Fairness Edward Zajac seeks not only to raise the level of the fairness-economic efficiency debate, but to show both the importance and the difficulty...

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Back to Full Employment

Pollin, Robert - The MIT Press

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States--today faced with its highest level of unemployment since the Great...

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Economics After the Crisis

Turner, Adair - The MIT Press

The global economic crisis of 2008–2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took...

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In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

Blanchard, Olivier J. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak...

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Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

Biermann, Frank (contributor); Pattberg, Philipp (contributor) - The MIT Press

The notion of global governance is widely studied in academia and increasingly relevant to politics and policy making. Yet many of its fundamental elements remain unclear in both theory and practice. This book offers a fresh perspective by analyzing global governance in terms of three major...

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Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

Biermann, Frank (contributor); Pattberg, Philipp (contributor) - The MIT Press

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Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses

Dornbusch, Rudiger (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Global warming is debated largely in environmental terms. The contributions in this book focus instead on the economic effects of global warming, providing an excellent summary of current thinking on this important issue. They raise such crucial questions as: Which countries will suffer the most...

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