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Economic development / by Todaro, Michael P.(CARDINAL)123998; Todaro, Michael P.Economic development in the Third World.;
1. Economics, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective -- Case Study: The Economy of Brazil -- 2. Diverse Structures and Common Characteristics of Developing Nations -- Case Study: The Economy of Nigeria -- 3. Theories of Development: A Comparative Analysis -- Case Study: The Economy of India -- 4. Historic Growth and Contemporary Development: Lessons and Controversies -- Case Study: The Economy of Kenya -- I. Comparative Case Study: Korea and Argentina: Contributions of the Four Approaches to Development -- 5. Growth, Poverty, and Income Distribution -- Case Study: The Economy of Bangladesh -- 6. Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes, Consequences, and Controversies -- Case Study: The Economy of China -- 7. Unemployment: Issues, Dimensions, and Analyses -- Case Study: The Economy of Egypt -- 8. Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and Policy -- Case Study: The Economy of Mexico -- 9. Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development.18. Critical Issues for the 1990s: The New Interdependence, the Global Environmental Threat, Africa's Downward Spiral, Economic Transition in Eastern Europe, and the Globalization of Trade and Finance -- Case Study: The Economy of Saudi Arabia -- IV. Comparative Case Study: Chile and Poland: Privatization: What, When, and to Whom?Case Study: The Economy of Ghana -- 10. The Environment and Development -- Case Study: The Economy of Pakistan -- 11. Education and Development -- Case Study: The Economy of Malaysia -- II. Comparative Case Study: Bangladesh and Nigeria: Poverty Policy -- 12. Trade Theory and Development Experience -- Case Study: The Economy of South Korea -- 13. International Finance, Third World Debt, and the Macroeconomic Stabilization Controversy -- Case Study: The Economy of Venezuela -- 14. The Trade Policy Debate: Export Promotion, Import Substitution, and Economic Integration -- Case Study: The Economy of Jamaica -- 15. Direct Foreign Investment and Foreign Aid: Controversies and Opportunities -- Case Study: The Economy of Uganda -- III. Comparative Case Study: Thailand and the Philippines: Trade Strategy -- 16. Planning, Markets, and the Role of the State -- Case Study: The Economy of the Philippines -- 17. Financial Systems and Fiscal Policy -- Case Study: The Economy of Taiwan."This Best-Selling text retains the unique problem- and policy-oriented approach to development economics found in its earlier editions. Now extensively revised and updated to reflect the latest research and the most recent data, Economic Development, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive, current text in its field. This edition features a new chapter linking the environment and development problems; a new chapter describing critical issues for the 1990s including the economic transition taking place in the republics of the former USSR and eastern Europe, the economic crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, and the impact of the globalization of the world economy; eighteen new country-specific case studies - one at the end of each chapter, and four new comparative case studies - one at the end of each part; extensive new analysis on critical topics such as women and development, the new growth theory, the U.N.'s new Human Development Index, macroeconomic instability, the future of the debt problem and how the burden of adjustment has been handled between lenders and borrowers, the implications of emerging new regional trading blocs, and the transformation of multinational corporations into "global factories"; new discussion of market reforms and the role of the state, emerging financial systems and the costs and benefits of market liberalization, and an analysis of the impact of military expenditures on economic development; and a casebook, keyed to the text - written by Stephen C. Smith, George Washington University - is available."--Jacket.
Subjects: Economic development.;
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Economics of state and local government / by Raimondo, Henry John.(CARDINAL)192832;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.The regional economies of the United States -- The federal system in the United States -- The journey from private markets to fiscal Federalism -- State and local government public service responsibilities and expenditures -- Financing public elementary and secondary education -- State and local taxation in a federal system -- Property taxes -- Sales taxes -- Personal income taxes -- Nontax revenues: user charges and gambling revenues -- Spending, taxes, and the distribution of personal income -- Grants-in-aid system.This text draws on research in economics, political science, and policy analysis to show why state and local public finance has assumed such an important role in domestic fiscal policy matters. Traditional topics such as the theories of taxation and intergovernmental grants are combined by Raimondo with numerous overlooked subjects to reveal the dynamic and complex nature of state-local government fiscal behavior. Among the topics discussed are regional economic performance and state-local government finance; state and local taxes on property, sales, and personal income; user charges and gambling revenues; and the beneficiaries of local governments.1250L
Subjects: Local finance; Finance, Public;
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Capital in the twenty-first century / by Piketty, Thomas,1971-author.(CARDINAL)636283; Goldhammer, Arthur,translator.(CARDINAL)636265;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Income and Capital. Income and output ; Growth: illusions and realities. -- The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio. The metamorphoses of capital ; From old Europe to the new world ; The capital/income ratio over the long run ; The capital-labor split in the twenty-first century. -- The Structure of Inequality. Inequality and concentration: preliminary bearings ; Two worlds ; Inequality of labor income ; Inequality of capital ownership ; Merit and inheritance in the long run ; Global inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century. -- Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A social state for the twenty-first century ; Rethinking the progressive income tax ; A global tax on capital ; The question of the public debt.What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality, the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth, today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Subjects: Capital.; Income distribution.; Labor economics.; Wealth.;
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Free market fairness / by Tomasi, John,1961-(CARDINAL)706516;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.
Subjects: Capitalism.; Equality.; Free enterprise.; Liberalism.; Liberty.;
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Capital in the twenty-first century / by Piketty, Thomas,1971-(CARDINAL)636283; Goldhammer, Arthur,translator.(CARDINAL)636265;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Subjects: Capital.; Income distribution.; Wealth.; Labor economics.;
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Against thrift : why consumer culture is good for the economy, the environment, and your soul / by Livingston, James,1949-(CARDINAL)747328;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index."Since the financial meltdown of 2008, economists, journalists, and politicians have uniformly insisted that to restore the American Dream and renew economic growth, we need to save more and spend less. In his provocative new book, historian James Livingston-author of the classic Origins of the Federal Reserve System-breaks from the consensus to argue that underconsumption caused the current crisis and will prolong it. By viewing the Great Recession through the prism of the Great Depression, Livingston proves that private investment is not the engine of growth we assume it to be. Tax cuts for business are therefore a recipe for disaster. If our goal is to reproduce the economic growth of the postwar era, we need a redistribution of income that reduces corporate profits, raises wages, and promotes consumer spending"--
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Financial crises; Income distribution;
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What then must we do? : straight talk about the next American revolution : [democratizing wealth and building a community-sustaining economy from the ground up] / by Alperovitz, Gar.(CARDINAL)170159;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-196) and index."For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university's unresponsive attitude toward students and faculty. Exhilarating to some and troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world's attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion.With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students' Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, "outside agitators," and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement's white male leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were dealing with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who increasingly questioned their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf Students for a Democratic Society"--
Subjects: Capitalism; Income distribution; Democracy;
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Meaning from data [videorecording] : Statistics made clear / by Starbird, Michael,professor.; Leven, Jon,director.; Reay, Alisha,editor.; Rodriguez, Sal,director.; Starbird, Michael,professor.; Teaching Company,producer,publisher.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148 of guidebook).Disc 1: Part 1. Lecture 1. Describing data and inferring meaning -- Lecture 2. Data and distributions: getting the picture -- Lecture 3. Inference: how close? How confident? -- Lecture 4. Describing dispersion or measuring spread -- Lecture 5. Models of distributions: shapely families -- Lecture 6. The bell curve.Disc 2: Part 1. Lecture 7. Correlation and regression: moving together -- Lecture 8. Probability: workhorse for inference -- Lecture 9. Samples: the few, the chosen -- Lecture 10. Hypothesis testing: innocent until -- Lecture 11. Confidence intervals: how close? How sure? -- Lecture 12. Design of experiments: thinking ahead.Disc 3: Part 2. Lecture 13. Law: you're the jury -- Lecture 14. Democracy and Arrow's impossibility theorem -- Lecture 15. Election problems and engine failure -- Lecture 16. Sports: who's best of all time? -- Lecture 17. Risk: war and insurance -- Lecture 18. Real estate: accounting for value.Disc 4: Part 2. Lecture 19. Misleading, distorting, and lying -- Lecture 20. Social science: parsing personalities -- Lecture 21. Quack medicine, good hospitals, and dieting -- Lecture 22. Economics: "one" way to find fraud -- Lecture 23. Science: Mendel's too-good peas -- Lecture 24. Statistics everywhere.Producer, Alisha Reay; academic content supervisor, Ann Waigand; directors, Jon Leven, Sal Rodriguez; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jared Bourgeois, Jack Dierkin, Jim Allen; editor, Alisha Reay.Lecturer: Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics and Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin.Who was the greatest baseball hitter of all time? How likely is it that a poll is correct? Is it smart to buy last year's highest-performing stock? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, and this film is an introduction to this vitally important subject in today's data-driven society. Explanations for terms such as mean, median, percentile, quartile, statistically significant, and bell curve, and scores of other statistical concepts are covered. The emphasis is on the role of statistics in daily life, giving a broad overview of how statistical tools are employed in risk assessment, college admissions, drug testing, fraud investigation, and a host of other applications.DVD.
Subjects: Educational films.; Filmed lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Confidence intervals.; Distribution (Probability theory); Experimental design.; Mathematical statistics.; Sampling (Statistics); Statistical hypothesis testing.; Statistics; Statistics; Data Interpretation, Statistical.; Probability.; Statistics as Topic; Statistics as Topic;
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The Economics of health / by Culyer, A. J.(Anthony J.)(CARDINAL)125396;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.v. I. pt. I. What is health and what is its value? Social indicators : health / A.J. Culyer, R.J. Lavers and Alan Williams -- Measurement of health utilities for economic appraisal / George W. Torrance -- The value of changes in the probability of death or injury / Michael Jones-Lee -- pt. II. What influences health (other than health care)? A stock approach to the demand for health / Michael Grossman -- The shadow price of health / Michael Grossman -- The pure consumption model / Michael Grossman -- Health, investment in health and occupational choice / M.L. Cropper -- Time preference and health, an explanatory study / Victor R. Fuchs -- Determinants of neonatal mortality rates in the US : a reduced form model / Hope Corman and Michael Grossman -- Time-series analysis of the relationship between unemployment and mortality : a survey of econometric critiques and replications of Brenner's studies / Adam Wagstaff -- Anti-smoking publicity, taxation and the demand for cigarettes / Robert E. Leu -- pt. III. The demand for health care. The economics of moral hazard : comment / Mark V. Pauly -- Health insurance and the demand for medical care : evidence from a randomized experiment / Willard G. Manning [and others] -- Nonmonetary factors in the demand for medical care : some empirical evidence / Jan Paul Acton -- "Need" -- an economic exegesis / Alan Williams -- The distribution of public expenditure : the case of health care / Julian Le Grand -- pt. IV. The supply of health care. A production function for acute hospitals / Martin S. Feldstein -- A production function for physician services / U. Reinhardt -- Hospital cost functions / Judith R. Lave and Lester B. Lave -- "Behavioral" cost functions for hospitals / R.G. Evans -- Estimating hospital costs : a multiple-output analysis / Thomas W. Granneman, Randall S. Brown and Mark V. Pauly.v. II. pt. I. Market analysis. Incomplete vertical integration in the health care industry : pseudomarkets and pseudopolicies / Robert G. Evans -- The nature of the commodity "health care" and its efficient allocation / A.J. Culyer -- Medical care and the economics of sharing / Cotton M. Lindsay -- Supplier-induced demand : some empirical evidence and implications / Robert G. Evans -- A controlled trial of the effects of a prepaid group practice on use of services / Willard G. Manning [and others] -- The welfare loss of excess health insurance / Martin S. Feldstein -- Toward a theory of nonprofit institutions : an economic model of a hospital / Joseph P. Newhouse -- Taxation, health insurance and market failure in the medical economy / Mark V. Pauly -- National Health Service waiting lists : a discussion of competing explanations and a policy proposal / John G. Cullis and Philip R. Jones -- pt. II. Microeconomic appraisal. Foundations of cost-effectiveness analysis for health and medical practices / Milton C. Weinstein and William B. Stason -- What do we gain from the sixth stool guiac? / Duncan Newhauser and Ann M. Lewicki -- Economic evaluation of neonatal intensive care of very low birthweight infants / Michael H. Boyle [and others] -- Economics of coronary artery bypass grafting / Alan Williams -- Critical assessment of economic evaluation / Michael F. Drummond, Greg L. Stoddart and George W. Torrance -- pt. III. Planning, budgeting and monitoring mechanisms. A microeconomic model of the health care system in the United States / Donald E. Yett [and others] -- Projecting long-term trends in health manpower -- methodological problems / Uwe E. Reinhardt -- The budget as a (mis)-information system / Alan Williams -- Health care utilization in HMOs : results from two national samples / W.P. Welch -- Short-term responses of hospitals to the DRG prospective pricing mechanism in New Jersey / Michael D. Rosko and Robert W. Broyles -- pt. IV. Evaluation at whole system level. Alternative systems of health care provision : an essay on motes and beams / A.J. Culyer, Alan K. Maynard and Alan Williams -- Medical-care expenditure : a cross-national survey / Joseph P. Newhouse -- Health care in Canada : patterns of funding and regulation / Robert G. Evans -- Inequalities in health : some international comparisons / Julian Le Grand.This collection presents a careful selection of the best articles and is classified according to eight fields within health economics. It thus provides a comprehensive cross-section of the large and disparate literature on the subject.
Subjects: Medical economics.;
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A survey of sustainable development : social and economic dimensions / by Harris, Jonathan M.(CARDINAL)265871; Tufts University.Global Development and Environment Institute.(CARDINAL)268317;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.Alternatives to the International Monetary Fund / Robert S. Browne -- The World Bank and poverty / Carlos A. Heredia -- Assessing the the impact of NGO advocacy campaigns on World Bank projects and policies / Jonathan Fox and David Brown -- Coping with ecological globalization / Hilary French -- The United Nations environment programme and the United Nations development programme / Alexandre Timoshenko and Mark Berman -- Conflicts of global ecology: environmental activism in period of global reach / Vanadan Shiva.Foreign investment, globalization, and environment / Daniel C. Esty and Bradford S. Gentry -- Globalization and social integration / Dharam Ghai and Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara -- Reconciling economic reform and sustainable human development: social consequences of Neo-liberalism / Lance Taylor and Ute Pieper -- Impacts of structural adjustment on the sustainability of developing countries / David Reed -- The corporate accountability movement: lessons and opportunities / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh -- Socially responsible investing: doing good while doing well / Peter D. Kinder, Steven D. Lydenberg, and Amy L. Domini -- Corporate social responsibility / George A. Steiner and John F. Steiner -- Toward a new conception of the environment-competitiveness relationship / Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde -- Civil associations and toward a global civil economy / Severyn T. Bruyn.Government action, social capital, and development: reviewing the evidence on synergy / Peter Evans -- Good government in the Tropics / Judith Tendler -- View from the periphery: encountering development / Philip W. Porter and Eric S. Sheppard -- Global ecology and the shadow of development / Wolfgang Sachs -- Biodiversity: a third world perspective / Vandana Shiva -- Global warming in an unequal world: a case of environmental colonialism / Anni Agarwal and Sunita Narain -- Lifestyle is the problem / A. Atiq Rahman -- Enclosing the global commons: Global environmental negotiations in a North-south conflictual approach / Alain Lipietz -- Government, population, and poverty: a win-win tale / Nancy Birdsall -- An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling -- Accelerated resource degradation by agriculture in developing countries?: the role of population change and responses to it / Michael Lipton.Materialization and dematerialization: measures and trends / Iddo K. Wenick, Robert Herman, Shekhar Govind, and Jess H. Ausubel -- Material use and sustainable affluence / Frank Ackerman -- Balancing China's energy, economic, and environmental goals / John M. Byrne, Bo Shen, and Xiuguo Li -- Environmental quality, energy efficiency, and renewable energy / Peter Fox-Penner -- The costs of climate protection: a guide for the perplexed / Robert Repetto and Duncan Austin -- Equity and discounting in climate-change decisions / Robert C. Lind and Richard E. Schuler -- Globalization: threat or salvation? / Paul Streeten -- From adjustment to sustainable development: the obstacle of free trade / Herman E. Daly -- Ecological distribution, agricultural trade liberalization, and in situ genetic diversity / James K. Boyce -- Multinational corporations and the Neo-liberal regime / James R. Crotty, Gerald Epstein, and Patricia Kelly.Natural capital and sustainable development / Robert Costanza and Herman E. Daly -- Environmental economics, ecological economics, and the concept of sustainable development / Giuseppe Munda -- On the problem of achieving efficiency and equity, intergenerationally / Talbot Page -- Economics and "sustainability": balancing trade-offs and imperatives / Michael A. Toman -- From political economy to politicalecology / Juan Martinez-Alier -- Green accounting and economic policy / Salah El Serafy -- Are we saving enough for the future? / Kirk Hamilton and Michael Clemens -- Progress on the environmental Kuznets curve? / David I. Stern -- The human development paradigm / Mahbub ul Haq -- Sustainable livelihoods: the poor's reconciliation of environment and development / Robert Chambers -- Market, citizenship, and social exclusion / Charles Gore -- Gendered poverty and well-being / Shahra Razavi.People and environment: what is the relationship between exploitation of natural resources and population growth in the South? / Sara J. Scherr -- Population and urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India's megacities / Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel -- Mexico City: our common future? / Priscilla Connolly -- Reinventing cities for people and the planet / Molly O'Meara Sheehan -- Food security and sustainable use of natural resources: a 2020 vision / Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Rajul Pandya-Lorch -- Sustainable agriculture / Gordon Conway -- Environmental risks posed by Transgenic crops / Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellen -- Population extinction and saving biodiversity / Paul R. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily -- Rocking the boat: conserving fisheries and protecting jobs / Anne Platt McGinn -- The world's forests: problems and potentials / Norman Myers.Sustainability and the accountable corporation / Allen L. White -- A theory of Government intervention in late industrialization / Alice H. Amsden -- An idea whose time has come / M. Jeff Hamond, Stephen J. DeCanio, Peggy Duxbury, Alan H. Sanstad, and Christopher H. Stinson -- From class struggle to class compromise: redistribution and growth in a South Indian State / Patrick Heller -- New strategies for rural sustainable development: Popular participation, food self-sufficiency, and environmental regeneration / David Barkin -- African development that works / Peter G. Veit, Adolfo Mascarenhas, and Okyeante Ampadu-Agyei -- Challenges to community-based sustainable development / Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns, and Ian Scoones -- What is micro-enterprise development for women? Widening the agenda / Linda Mayoux.Summaries of essays on sustainable human and economic development. Topics include: Population and the demographic transition; Agriculture and renewal resources; Energy and materials use; Globalization and corporate responsibility; Local and national strategies.
Subjects: Sustainable development.;
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