Product Description: Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline. Opportunities to bridge the gap between theorizing and policymaking are becoming increasingly limited. One issue of great importance to modern policymakers is the relationship between globalization and economic crisis...read more

Product Description: The integration process of "The Common Market of the South" (MERCOSUR) has been characterized by serious economic turbulence, including the devaluation of the Brazilian currency and the severe Argentinian monetary crisis. As a response to these difficulties, the adoption of monetary union has emerged as one possible solution to the financial uncertainty which has plagued this region...read more

Product Description: The processes of globalisation and increased economic regionalism have had profound, often destabilising, effects on modern economic and financial systems. In recognition of this fact, the editors of this fine book have collected together a diverse range of heterodox ideas surrounding the complex relationships and interactions between globalisation, regionalism and economic activity...read more

Product Description: European and Monetary Union continues to be the subject of intense controversy, and the launch of a single currency in January 1999 served to concentrate this debate around one issue: is the Euro in the interests of Europe? This pertinent book attempts to address this contentious question...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The "third way" is a term used by politicians and others to indicate a set of new policies adopted by former social democratic parties throughout the world. This book is an attempt to dissect the ideas and economic theory behind the rhetoric of the "third way" through a critical evaluation of the experiences of "third way" administrations in a diverse range of countries...read more

Product Description: In the past 30 years the financial sector has seen unparalleled growth and has exerted increased economic and political influence and significance. This growth has come hand-in-hand with several serious economic crises and greater monetary instability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This second edition of the dictionary provides biographical, bibliographical and critical information on over 100 economists working in the non-neoclassical traditions. It includes entries on, among othes, radical economists, Marxists, post-Keynesians, behaviourists, Kaleckians and institutionalists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: There have been rapid changes in the importance, and the economic power and operation of financial markets in the period, 1968-98. This book examines the control which central banks have over financial markets, focusing on the implications of the granting of independence to central banks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An examination of the future of economic policy in the next millennium, assessing the reasons for the shift to a more sceptical view of the role of government given the power of the financial markets and the impact of globalization. These contributions from within the political economy tradition emphasise the important lessons from the past about the varieties of forms of capitalism, the importance of public institutions and public policy and the limitations of the rival laissez-faire approach. The dangers of an unregulated and powerful financial sector for the real side of the economy are a particular focus of attention. Proposals to rectify the shortcomings of financial markets and shift the focus of policy to a greater concern for the poor and excluded are put forward. The message to the economic policy-makers of the future is that markets perform valuable economic and social functions, but perform these better when appropriately regulated and controlled. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: What can Keynesian economics mean in the 21st century? Do globalisation, inflationary pressures and supply-side constraints make managing demand in a domestic economy impossible? Or could its use to tackle unemployment be put back on the political agenda? These essays examine the potential relevance of Keynesian policies for Europe, America, the developing world and the global economy...read more

Product Description: This book reviews the paradigm which has come to be known as post-Keynesian economics, concentrating on the main issues that form the heart of this paradigm: money and finance; conflict in wage and price settings; the degree of monopoly and pricing in an open economy; divergence rather than convergence in the European Union; financial and economic development; economic policy and methodological issues...read more

Product Description: In this volume more than 40 leading economists pay tribute to, and critically evaluate, Geoff Harcourt's work. Contributors include Tony Atkinson, Tony Lawson, Edward Nell and Ian Steedman.

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Product Description: This volume features essays from an international group of economists who address issues relating to the objective of securing full employment. The contributors adopt a political economy approach that highlights the nature and significance of institutional change...read more

Product Description: This major book provides a coherent critique of the neo-classical synthesis together with a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the Post-Keynesian alternatives. Professor Arestis demonstrates that Post-Keynesian economics offers a challenge to conventional neo-classsical economics...read more