The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Overview -- 1 Conceptual Framework, Stylized Facts, and the Role of the Government -- 2 The Use of Long-Term Finance by Firms and Households: Determinants and Impact -- 3 The Use of Markets for Long-Term Finance --...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors and Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Regional Classifications Used in This Report -- Overview -- ECA Financial Systems Remain Vulnerable to Financial Shocks and Are Not Sufficiently...

Cover -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Epistemological issues -- Part II: New Approaches to Technical Change -- 2 The economistic paradigm -- 3 Evolutionary approaches in conventional economics -- 4 Conceptual tools -- 5 Towards an evolutionary...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Introduction -- The East Asian development model has worked -- Changing times, rising challenges -- Navigating a changing world: directions for policy -- Notes -- References -- 1...

The difficult economic climate in Europe and the United States since the financial crisis is set to continue as the New Normal, despite frantic efforts to stimulate growth. The long phase of expansion that lasted from the 1980s until 2008 was driven by easy money, cheap imports and confidence -...

The idea that Brazil, Russia, India and China (the ""BRICs"") are the rising stars of the world economy is now widely accepted. However, the ""old"" developed nations have not adjusted to the new world order as they struggle with the legacy of the financial crisis. The BRICs and others...

This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn't grow. For decades, it has been widely recognized that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organizing our economies are urgently required. This...

The economic growth of China is clearly one of the defining trends of our time. The world's most populous nation is undergoing a vast transformation that will redefine the global economy. Chinese industrial production has increased tremendously in recent years, and its consumption of resources...

Intro -- Foreword by Terry Smith -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I. The End of an Era -- Chapter 1. An Economy That Has Run Out of Road -- Chapter 2. How the Economy Really Works -- Part II. The Real Economy -- Chapter 3. The Energy Economy -- Chapter 4. The Great...