When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in...

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Figure O.1 The recent commodity boom was the largest and longest of any boom since 1900; Figure O.2 Real commodity prices in local currency units increased by between 75 and 150 percent but have fallen since; Figure O.3 Slower growth should...

Front Cover -- Revisiting Hayek's Political Economy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Hayek's Nobel -- Introduction -- Prelude -- The Nobel Prize Ceremony -- Hayek's Prize Lecture -- Battles of the Nobels --...

Front -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Unhappy family -- 2 Dashed illusions -- 3 The German question revisited -- 4 Winners and losers -- 5 A dangerous vacuum -- 6 Irreparable errors -- 7 The technocrats stumble -- 8 A bank unlike the others -- 9 The Cyprus cauldron -- 10 Sovereignty...

India has gone from an economy that grew less than 1.5 percent per annum until the 1980 to more than 6 percent today. In the process, it has cut the proportion of poor below the poverty line by half. This book offers the first comprehensive account of the policy initiatives leading to this...

Front Cover -- Economic Imbalances and Institutional Changes to the Euro and the European Union -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Economic Imbalances and Institutional Changes to the Euro and the European Union -- Introduction -- Part I: Institutional and Political Issues...

This volume examines global cases of environmental sustainability and economics in the context of nations from multi-disciplinary perspectives. This book analyses the problems faced globally as economies try to build a sustainable future in the aftermath of the 'Great Recession', and the recent...