Intro -- Profile of the Centre for European Studies -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- National approaches to managing the crisis -- Austria An Escape from Deficit Spending -- Belgium Living on the Edge -- Croatia A Prolonged Crisis without Recovery...

The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil,...

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Economic Growth and the Nanotechnology Priority: The Challenge of Economic Crisis and Industrial Concentration </span><span>argues that the nanometer scale would revolutionize and advance sources of economic growth to its highest and best use in history. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Introduction / Koichi Hamada, Anil K Kashyap, and David E. Weinstein -- The Japanese asset price bubble : a heterogeneous approach / Robert Barsky -- Time of troubles : the yen and Japan's economy, 1985-2008 / Maurice Obstfeld -- The Japan-US exchange rate, productivity, and the competitiveness...

The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation&rsquo;s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy Woloson...

Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance and Growth presents the World Bank's latest short-term forecasts. In addition, the report presents evidence that the financial boom played a critical role in the growth boom experienced by developing countries between 2003 and 2007, but that...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Why Blame Attribution Matters for Protest -- Chapter 2. Wage Arrears in Russia: A Dif‹cult Issue -- Chapter 3. Whom Russians Blame for Wage Arrears -- Chapter 4. The Politics of Blame --...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Growth and Crisis in the Japanese Economy -- 2 Economic Ascent and Hegemony in the Capitalist World-Economy -- 3 The MIDAs-Steel-Ships Nexus -- 4 Creating Japan's Coal-Exporting Peripheries -- 5 Replicating Japan's New Model in Iron Ore -- 6 Transporting Coal...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Institutions, Interests, and Ideas in Explaining Regime Change -- 1 Financial Shocks, Economic Crises, and Democracy: Theory and Practice -- PART I. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1929-34 -- 2 Economic Crisis and Democracy during the Great Depression -- 3...