Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: Revised Estimates for 120 Countries

Earthscan Publications, 2009. - 240 pages. The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization–all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic system. Green economics offers an alternative to mainstream economics, which views society and the ecosystem as subsets of the wider, limitless global economy. Starting with the recognition of planetary limits...

Курс Политическая Экономика Andreas D?r "Foreign Discrimination, Protection for Exporters, and U.S. Trade Liberalization", 2007, 47p. Abstract Current research suggests that changes in societal demands or in political institutions propelled the far-reaching reduction of American external trade barriers since the mid-1930s, yet is unable to account for the exact pattern or timing of trade liberalization. I argue instead that exporters lobby more...

Gothenburg University. Correspondence to Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr. , is emeritus Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Public Sector Research (CEFOS), Gothenburg University, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden (douglas(собачка)douglas-hibbs.com). Violeta Piculescu is a PhD in Economics from Gothenburg University, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden (violeta.piculescu(собачка)gmail.com). We are grateful to the Center for Public Sector Res...

Global imbalances have become a major source of systemic risk to the global economy. They can have adverse repercussions in the short and long term on both surplus and deficit economies due to the potentially disruptive effect of a sudden adjustment. They can be amplified by short term speculation that prevents the real exchange rate to perform its adjusting role. The paper examines past and recent patterns of destabilizing short term specul...

Cambridge University Press, 2006 - Всего страниц: 846 In this fourth edition of his textbook E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. This comprehensive and clearly written text explains the growth in real income per person and income disparities within and between developing countries. The author explains the reasons for the fast growth of Pacific Rim countries, Brazil, Poland,...

Routledge, 2001. 381 p. With its unique combination of theoretical models and empirical analyses, this collection of specialists’ essays contributes to an assessment of our understanding of the relationship between cycles, growth and structural change. In this light it also offers a critical evaluation of results in the recent literature on complex and chaotic dynamics. The book is constructed upon the hypothesis that a re-unification of the eco...

Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science 2002. Printed in Norway by: Centraltrykkeriet AS. Contents. Introduction. Preliminary Findings. Anarchic Exploitation. Criminalized Transactions. Militarized Production. Conflict Commodities. Rogue Companies. Emerging Conclusions. Executive Summaries. Dirty Diamonds. Fuelling Conflict. llicit Finance and Global Conflict. The Logs of War. Appendix: Contents of the Economies of Conflict CD, Version 1.