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exchange rate regime is related to both fiscal policy and trade policy. Building on the theory of optimum currency areas … regimes to be mixtures of two or three of the polar regimes. Beginning with theory and later turning to case studies of … countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Corden focuses on how economies react to negative and positive shocks under …
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conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that … innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia’s failure to sustain technology, and …
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China is now the world’s second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world’s largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a “socialist-market economy,” suggesting that the government still plays a major role in the...
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human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is meeasured by … important similarities between Europe and Asia in human motivation and population behavior. The authors analyze age, gender …
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This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response … and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data …
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This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response … and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data …
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writers. EconomistsÕ ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as … view of future risk management methods using information technology; 2012 Nobelist Alvin Roth projects his theory of …
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Running since 1997 and continuing today, the Townsend Thai Project has tracked millions of observations about the economic activities of households and institutions in rural and urban Thailand. The project represents one of the most extensive datasets in the developing world. Chronicles from the...
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Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society’s productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more...
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