This book aims to explain the secret to China’s rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand witness. Zheng Xinli was enrolled as a graduate student of economics 40 years ago, at a time when very few Chinese people could enroll in higher-level education, let alone...

The relation between structural reform and macroeconomic policy underlies the widespread perception that the large European economies have under-performed in the past decade in comparison both with their own standards and with the contemporaneous performance of the United States. This book,...

A Short Post-communist Economic History of Emerging Europe -- Pre-crisis Central Banking -- Bubbles Everywhere (the 2000s)Under the Clouds of the Subprime Crisis (July 2007 – September 2008)The Lehman Tsunami (September – October 2008) -- The “Rescue Team” and Rescue Package (October –...

1. Macroeconomic developments and COVID-19 recession in (CE)SEE -- 2. COVID-19 contagion among countries: Croatia and Slovenia in Comparison -- 3. The Short-Term Economic Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the EU -- 4. Macroeconomics of the COVID-19 Crisis -- 5. Central bank's balance sheet as a...

This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the road from the dominance of Keynesian ideas to those of New Classical Macroeconomics (NCM) toward...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: State Corporate Control in Transition: Research Perspectives -- Chapter 3: State Corporate Control in Transition: Challenges and Goals -- Chapter 4: Evolution of the State Corporate Control in Poland during the Transition -- Chapter 5: State Corporate...

1. Living In Truth -- 2. After The Fall -- 3. The Medium Is (Still) The Message -- 4. What Do You Expect? -- 5. Possibilities, Probabilities and Propensities -- 6. The Best And The Brightest -- 7. Bretton Woods Revisited -- 8. Selling England By The Pound -- 9. Tomorrow Without Fear -- 10. Out...

Chapter 1: Main Threats of the Post-COVID Economy and Statehood -- Part I: Post-COVID Economy: Public and Private Aims -- Chapter 2: Public Administration in a Post-COVID Economy -- Chapter 3: Digitalization of the Post-COVID economy -- Chapter 4: Impact of Regional Culture on Overcoming the...

The ‘Troika’ is a word that is scorched into the narrative of the EU’s banking and economic crisis - a triumvirate constituted by the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund. The modus operandi of the Troika is defined by the authors of this book...

1. The International Economic Crisis -- 2. The Greek Crisis -- 3. Addressing the Crisis Through Support Packages and Memoranda -- 4. Changes in the Economy -- 5. The Social Impact of the Crisis -- 6. Change in Social Stratification in the Greece of Crisis (2009-2017) -- 7. Transformations in the...