In The Death of Capital, respected portfolio manager and longtime investment professional Michael Lewitt looks at how the U.S. economy has increasingly been dominated by short-term speculation rather than industrial expansion in recent years. These disastrous trends, described here as...

Cover -- Understanding the Indian Economy from the Post-Reforms of 1991, Volume II -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Indian Economy: Nature and Structure -- Chapter 2 Dominance of the Unorganized Sector -- Chapter 3 Natural Resources of India -- Chapter 4 Economic...

For India's economic reforms policy to succeed, its programmes should be firmly anchored in the reality of the social and micro-institutional context-something our policy makers often regrettably ignore. To break out of 8 or 9 per cent growth rates, we need more appropriate skill sets,...

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews...

What Historical Value Orientation Should We Take to Understand and Promote the Reform -- Theoretical Debate Focus Regarding the Rightness of Institutional Transformation: Rethinking the Theory of Value and Conflict of the Two Economic Philosophies -- Historic Changes of Economic Development and...

This book deconstructs a series of myths surrounding China's economic rise. The first myth is that globalization led directly to China's rise; the second is that China is another East Asian developmental state; the third that China's market reform had been implemented in an incremental way; and...