Product Description: About 10 years ago, the first very small steps towards this book were taken. The starting point was marked by the deep and sudden slump of the Swiss economy in the mid-seventies: a crisis wiping out about 10 percentage points of GNP and employment within just two years...read more

This is a collection of papers exploring the causal link between economic growth and political change. It includes case studies of Northern Ireland and Latin America.

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Product Description: Why have the economies of some developing countries fallen back while others have advanced? Why have so many stabilization and structural adjustment programmes failed to deliver growth dividends? This text shows that there is a common and valid answer: political credibility defined as the predictability of the institutional rules of the game...read more

Product Description: This work presents the proceedings of the IEA conference, held in Basel, which focuses attention on the most pressing issues in the present polycentric world economy in the realm of international debt, trade, investment, financial markets and policy coordination on the micro and macro level...read more

Product Description: About 10 years ago, the first very small steps towards this book were taken. The starting point was marked by the deep and sudden slump of the Swiss economy in the mid-seventies: a crisis wiping out about 10 percentage points of GNP and employment within just two years...read more