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1. A Review of Economic Theory Edwin Cannan 2. Studies in the Theory of Business Cycles Michael Kalecki 3. Six Lectures on Economic Growth Simon Kuznets 4. Studies in the Theory of Money and Capital Erik Lindahl 5. The Natural System of Political Economy Friedrich List 6. Aspects of British Economic History, 1918-1925 A. C. Pigou 7. Industrial Fluctuations A. C. Pigou 8. Protective and preferential import duties A. C. Pigou 9. History of Monetary and Credit Theory from John Law to the present day Charles Rist 10. Economics: An Awkward Corner Joan Robinson 11. Freedom and Necessity Joan Robinson 12. Money and the Balance of Payments Tibor Scitovsky 13. Value Capital and Rent Knut Wicksell 14. Selected Papers on Economic Theory Knut Wicksell 15. Studies in the Theory of International Trade Jacob Viner

European Values -- Liberalism -- Change and its Consequences -- The Market, Market Failures, and Market Interventions -- All People are Winners -- Undesirable Developments and Possibilities for Improvement -- Behavior Towards Autoctracies -- Xenophobia -- Education And Culture Made the Difference -- Strategic Development of the European Union -- Good Governance -- Theses and Conclusion.

Forschungen zur Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie -- Forschungen zu solidarischen Wirtschaftspraktiken in der Zivilgesellschaft -- Forschungen zur lokalen Entstehung nachhaltiger Entwicklung -- Forschungen zu Bildungsprojekten für eine sozialökologische Transformation.

Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently. The participatory planning procedures proposed provide workers in self-managed councils and consumers in neighbourhood councils with autonomy over their own activities while ensuring that they use scarce productive resources in socially responsible ways without subjecting them to competitive market forces. Certain mathematical and economic skills are required to fully understand and evaluate the planning procedures discussed and evaluated in technical sections in a number of chapters. These sections are necessary to advance the theory of democratic planning, and should be of primary interest to readers who have those skills. However, the book is written so that the main argument can be followed without fully digesting the more technical sections. Democratic Economic Planning is written for dreamers who are disenamored with the economics of competition and greed want to know how a system of equitable cooperation can be organized; and also for sceptics who demand "hard proof" that an economy without markets and private enterprise is possible.

International audience ; Context. The issue of fiscal sustainability has affected not only central governments but also – and in some instances with more severe impacts – local governments (LGs) especially in contexts with high autonomy. This has exacerbated, at both the operational and scientific level, the issue of having effective measurement systems and assessment methodologies to detect, and therefore to prevent, financial defaults. Accounting plays an important role to understand the financial health of local governments. Yet, not only the debate about which system of accounts is more suitable for this purpose is still open, but also the growing development of overlaps and linkages within governments and private-sector organizations to provide local services in the era of the so-called " network governance " (e.g., outsourcing, public-private partnership, and, in some countries, the increasing phenomenon of public owned enterprises) and the intertwining of fiscal rules provided by central governments as well as the differentiated effects of local economies have tangled further. Problem. A greater need for cross countries comparative financial health analysis has emerged for several years, not only to compare central governments, but also LGs, especially in those supra-national settings like the EU. The work on international accounting standards is a great move toward more accurate cross country comparisons. However, the cultural background, the risks and protections offered by each country to LGs may lead to different financial health analysis's objectives and to various methodologies and focuses, that cannot be taken into account by accounting standards only. Objective. The paper offers to identify and discuss practitioners' visions of LGs' financial health and their objectives when assessing LGs' financial health. What do they consider to be a " bad financial situation " ? It aims at understanding the perceived influence of national environment (legislation, accounting reliability, LG perimeter…) on ...

International audience ; Context. The issue of fiscal sustainability has affected not only central governments but also – and in some instances with more severe impacts – local governments (LGs) especially in contexts with high autonomy. This has exacerbated, at both the operational and scientific level, the issue of having effective measurement systems and assessment methodologies to detect, and therefore to prevent, financial defaults. Accounting plays an important role to understand the financial health of local governments. Yet, not only the debate about which system of accounts is more suitable for this purpose is still open, but also the growing development of overlaps and linkages within governments and private-sector organizations to provide local services in the era of the so-called " network governance " (e.g., outsourcing, public-private partnership, and, in some countries, the increasing phenomenon of public owned enterprises) and the intertwining of fiscal rules provided by central governments as well as the differentiated effects of local economies have tangled further. Problem. A greater need for cross countries comparative financial health analysis has emerged for several years, not only to compare central governments, but also LGs, especially in those supra-national settings like the EU. The work on international accounting standards is a great move toward more accurate cross country comparisons. However, the cultural background, the risks and protections offered by each country to LGs may lead to different financial health analysis's objectives and to various methodologies and focuses, that cannot be taken into account by accounting standards only. Objective. The paper offers to identify and discuss practitioners' visions of LGs' financial health and their objectives when assessing LGs' financial health. What do they consider to be a " bad financial situation " ? It aims at understanding the perceived influence of national environment (legislation, accounting reliability, LG perimeter…) on ...

International audience ; Context. The issue of fiscal sustainability has affected not only central governments but also – and in some instances with more severe impacts – local governments (LGs) especially in contexts with high autonomy. This has exacerbated, at both the operational and scientific level, the issue of having effective measurement systems and assessment methodologies to detect, and therefore to prevent, financial defaults. Accounting plays an important role to understand the financial health of local governments. Yet, not only the debate about which system of accounts is more suitable for this purpose is still open, but also the growing development of overlaps and linkages within governments and private-sector organizations to provide local services in the era of the so-called " network governance " (e.g., outsourcing, public-private partnership, and, in some countries, the increasing phenomenon of public owned enterprises) and the intertwining of fiscal rules provided by central governments as well as the differentiated effects of local economies have tangled further. Problem. A greater need for cross countries comparative financial health analysis has emerged for several years, not only to compare central governments, but also LGs, especially in those supra-national settings like the EU. The work on international accounting standards is a great move toward more accurate cross country comparisons. However, the cultural background, the risks and protections offered by each country to LGs may lead to different financial health analysis's objectives and to various methodologies and focuses, that cannot be taken into account by accounting standards only. Objective. The paper offers to identify and discuss practitioners' visions of LGs' financial health and their objectives when assessing LGs' financial health. What do they consider to be a " bad financial situation " ? It aims at understanding the perceived influence of national environment (legislation, accounting reliability, LG perimeter…) on ...

International audience ; Context. The issue of fiscal sustainability has affected not only central governments but also – and in some instances with more severe impacts – local governments (LGs) especially in contexts with high autonomy. This has exacerbated, at both the operational and scientific level, the issue of having effective measurement systems and assessment methodologies to detect, and therefore to prevent, financial defaults. Accounting plays an important role to understand the financial health of local governments. Yet, not only the debate about which system of accounts is more suitable for this purpose is still open, but also the growing development of overlaps and linkages within governments and private-sector organizations to provide local services in the era of the so-called " network governance " (e.g., outsourcing, public-private partnership, and, in some countries, the increasing phenomenon of public owned enterprises) and the intertwining of fiscal rules provided by central governments as well as the differentiated effects of local economies have tangled further. Problem. A greater need for cross countries comparative financial health analysis has emerged for several years, not only to compare central governments, but also LGs, especially in those supra-national settings like the EU. The work on international accounting standards is a great move toward more accurate cross country comparisons. However, the cultural background, the risks and protections offered by each country to LGs may lead to different financial health analysis's objectives and to various methodologies and focuses, that cannot be taken into account by accounting standards only. Objective. The paper offers to identify and discuss practitioners' visions of LGs' financial health and their objectives when assessing LGs' financial health. What do they consider to be a " bad financial situation " ? It aims at understanding the perceived influence of national environment (legislation, accounting reliability, LG perimeter…) on ...

This thesis analyses the process of territorial qualification of agro-food products, by studying the role of geographical indications (GI) in this process, in Indonesia and Vietnam. We interrogate the objectives and the economic conditions of the development of GIs, by combining the economics of quality and territories. Three types of conditions are questioned, through the analysis of (1) the specificity of products, (2) the territorial coordinations and the organization of local actors, and (3) the State's role. The comparison of the Indonesian and Vietnamese GI systems, confronted with the economic model of GIs, highlights the important role of the States, which goes beyond the legal protection of GIs and gather several functions (selection of products, funding, expertise, monitoring after registration). The parallel analysis of six local GI experiences demonstrates , first, that GIs are be registered at various stages of the ongoing process of territorial qualification (advanced, intermediate or recent) and that the moment of the GI establishment conditions the construction of the local institutional device. Secondly, our field research underlines the importance of the economic context of supply - chains and the influence of local sociopolitical configurations during the emergence of GIs, questioning the capacity of these local institutional devices to balance the power between stakeholders. The study of the various roles of central States and local governments in the emerging GI dynamics opens perspectives of analysis of the interactions between GIs, public intervention, decentralization and opportunities for local organization and collective action. The evolution of the institutionalization process of the link to origin through GIs in both countries appears contingent upon several elements, including a larger participation of producers to the local GI dynamics, an active role of the local agricultural services and a broad engagement of buyers. ; Cette thèse porte sur les processus de qualification ...

AbstractThe paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialization pattern in the new EU member states. Relying on the empirical approach of the Markov transition matrices it analyses both the changes in the external shape of the distribution of comparative advantages and the intra‐distribution dynamics. The new members show a dynamic trade pattern: they gained comparative advantages relatively fast in sectors in which they were lagging behind at the beginning of the transition, notably in some 'high tech' products. In addition, many specialization improvements occurred in those items for which world demand expanded at the fastest rate over the nineties.

The Political Economy of Education provides academically rigorous yet clear explanations of the economics and politics driving today's educational systems and how economists analyze them. The book covers a host of topics central to teaching about education and crucial to educational policy. These include how to use the tools of economic and political theory to take critical measure of education's role in social mobility and economic growth, whether good teachers can overcome social class and race achievement gaps, the effectiveness of early childhood and vocational education, and debates on school accountability and whether increasing spending on schooling improves quality. The book also explores worldwide changes in higher education, especially massification and increased stratification and privatization. Written for upper undergraduate and graduate students in economics, public policy, and education and packed with real-world examples, this is an essential text for anyone interested in gaining fresh and international perspectives on education.

Probably no region's economists have had greater public visibility or greater impact on regional and national public policy than Latin America's and no region has been more directly affected by the spread of US economics. Economists in the Americas joins a small but important comparative literature on economics as a profession and is the first comparative treatment of professional economists in the United States and Latin America

1.Introduction : state capitalism and the Chinese economic miracle /Kellee S. Tsai and Barry Naughton --Section I:Evolution of the state sector.2.State-owned business and party-state regulation in China's modern political economy /Margaret M. Pearson --3.The transformation of the state sector : SASAC, the market economy, and the new national champions /Barry Naughton --Section II:Outcomes and processes.4.Stability, asset management, and gradual change in China's reform economy /Dough Guthrie, Zhixing Xiao and Junmin Wang --5.The emergence and evolution of Chinese business groups : are pyramidal groups forming? /Dylan Sutherland and Lutao Ning --6.Competition and upgrading in Chinese industry /Loren Brandt and Eric Thun --Section III:The big picture : historical, social, and systemic perspectives.7.Explaining the dynamics of change : tranformation and evolution of China's public economy through war, revolution, and peace, 1928-2008 /Morris L. Bian --8.The evolution of a welfare state under China's state capitalism /Mark W. Frazier --9.Did China follow the East Asian development model? /Andrea Boltho and Maria Weber.