This paper dwells on the Eurozone woes and addresses the origins of the transition from a fictitious boom to a painful bust by unravelling (i) the supply-side structural imbalances that formed the core-periphery economic divide, and (ii) the necessity of the periphery's sovereign debt to finance...

A surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of domestic investment using foreign finance for extended periods. While many of these episodes are in low-income countries where official finance is more important than private finance, this paper also...

Part I. What Went Wrong with Modern Economic Science? -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Encounter of the Fifth Kind with an Alien Science -- Chapter 2. Is Economics a Science? -- Chapter 3. About Economists and Theologians -- Chapter 4. Taking a Phenomenological Approach to Oikonomics: Looking at the...

1. Colonial World of Postcolonial Historians and the Neoliberal Reinvention of Tribal Identity in India -- 2. Myth of Modernization and Development in Orissa -- 3. Interrogating Social Capital and Denials of Development in the Planning for Tribal Development in India -- 4. Capitalism and...

This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank’s governance systems. It explores the relationship between bank governance and performance frameworks, both in terms of financial-economic indicators and development impact. It seeks to observe,...

This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP) implemented in the Argentinean province of Salta during the years of 2003 to 2010 as a case study. Following the Synthetic Control Method for comparative case studies, we use a...