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Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence

Congleton, Roger D. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

the policy effects of direct (as opposed to representative) democracy, democratic accountability in presidential as …

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Naughton; Barry; editor - The MIT Press

For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's most celebrated and influential economist. In the late 1970s, Wu (b. 1930) was one of a small group of economic thinkers who broke with Marxist concepts and learned the principles of a market economy. Since then he has...

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Nothing is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium

Barro, Robert J. - The MIT Press

, he considers democracy, growth, and international policy, and in the final part he examines fiscal policy, monetary …

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Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence

Feng, Yi - The MIT Press

, specifically, the controversial question of the relationship between democracy and quality of life. Feng systematically studies … theory and country-specific case studies, Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance demonstrates that political … the direct effects of the three key political variables on economic growth and the indirect effects of democracy in terms …

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The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance

Berardi, Franco "Bifo" - The MIT Press

The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today’s precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco “Bifo” Berardi argues that the notion of...

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The Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy

Cheung, Yin-Wong (contributor) - The MIT Press

China is now the world’s second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world’s largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a “socialist-market economy,” suggesting that the government still plays a major role in the...

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Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems

Story, Jonathan; Walter, Ingo - The MIT Press

Few aspects of the great European integration project have been as difficult and fraught with political conflict as the creation of a single financial market and monetary union. It is clear, however, that monetary union and financial integration are now on the front-burner in Europe, and will...

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Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy

Marazzi, Christian - The MIT Press

We do little more than state the obvious when, trying to come to terms with the politico-institutional earthquakes traversing our times, we say that language is the key to politics. --from Capital and Affects Communication as work: we have recently experienced a profound transformation in the...

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The Continuing Evolution of Europe

Buettner, Thiess (contributor); Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - The MIT Press

The European Union began with efforts in the Cold War era to foster economic integration among a few Western European countries. Today’s EU constitutes an upper tier of government that affects almost every level of policymaking in each of its twenty-seven member states. The recent financial...

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Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda

Wenz, Peter S. - The MIT Press

Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on education, the construction of a vast network of interstate highways, healthcare for senior citizens, and environmental protection. These projects were...

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