Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Introduction and Overview -- Part I: Macroeconomic Accounts, Market Structure, and Behavioral Functions -- Chapter 1. Economic Structure and Aggregate Accounts -- Chapter 2. Behavioral Functions -- Part II: Financial Policies -- Chapter...

Complexity science-made possible by modern analytical and computational advances-is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While...

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often...

Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financial markets needed to thrive. This study...

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King...

France is often described as one of the last Western economies unable to reform itself in the face of globalization. Yet its economy has not fallen by the wayside and has even resisted the great recession that began in 2008. By interlinking historical, economic, and political factors and by...

This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions that many prefer to brush aside: if economists and other scholars, politicians, and business professionals understand the causes of economic crises, as they claim, then why do such damaging crises continue to occur? Can we trust business and...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Gusmao, Xanana -- Preface / Belo, Carlos -- Preface / Ramos Horta, José -- Preface -- PART I: Introduction -- 1. The Key Issues / Hill, Hal / Saldanha, João M....

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- ONE. The March of Capitalism -- TWO. The Challenge of Slow Growth -- THREE. American Contracts -- FOUR. The Soviet Bloc in Transition -- FIVE. The Chinese Puzzle -- SIX. Japan at the Crossroads -- SEVEN. Whither Northern Europe? -- EIGHT....

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I DEBT CRISIS IN THE THIRD WORLD -- Chapter 1 The Outlook for Development -- Chapter 2 External Shocks, Adjustment, and Income Distribution -- Chapter 3 Losers Pay Reparations, Or...