Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 An intentional task-motivated by hardship and respect -- Positionality disclosure -- Project overview -- Foresight-clarifying "intentional creative...

How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Another Take on How It All Began -- 1. The Capitalist Spirit and the British Economic Miracle -- 2. "The Great Seventeenth-Century Exception" -- II. The Spread of the New Economic Consciousness on the European Continent -- 3. The First...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Modern Economic Growth -- 1. Modern Economic Growth -- 2. Economic Determinism and the Twentieth-Century Experience -- 3. The General and the Particular in Modern Economic Growth -- Part 2 Agrarian Societies...

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- Introduction 1 -- Introduction 2 -- Welcome to the New Economy -- Defining and Measuring the New Economy -- Drivers of the New Economy -- Communications and Software -- Applications and Policy Issues -- Roundtable Discussion -- Appendix...

Technology and Employment -- Copyright -- Sponsors -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- TECHNOLOGY AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC WELFARE -- CENTRAL FINDINGS -- Employment and Wage Impacts of Technological Change in an Open Economy -- Technology and the Characteristics of Tomorrow's Jobs --...

The story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, and the Tan). It was the Big Five who played a preponderant role not only in transforming Penang into a regional entrepot and a business and financial base, but also in...

Gender equality and environmental sustainability are gaining political momentum as global challenges that require urgent action at the national and international levels. Both figure prominently, albeit with limited interlinkages, in the United Nations Agenda 2030, and gender equality...

BANKING ON GROWTHMODELS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Interactions between China's Growth Model and the Financial System -- 2. Interests, Ideas, Institutions, and the Politics of Banking and Economic Reform in China -- 3. Growth...

Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on Currency -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. State against Industry: Time and Labor among Dominican Furniture Makers -- 2. Of Violence and Precarity: Gender, Food, Debt -- 3. The End of the Colmado? -- 4. For Cooperatives: Mutual Aid,...