Macroeconomics

A comprehensive study of how the US standard of living has changed during recent years, as compared to the whole period since World War II. It analyzes trends in income, wages, jobs, wealth, poverty and the distribution of taxes and compares US trends with those of other advanced countries...

Drawing on data on family income, taxes, wages, employment, wealth, health care and poverty, this text presents a statistical portrait of the standard of living of America's working families. This updated edition includes a new chapter on health care costs and reform efforts...

The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation presents the full findings and recommendations of the ‘Meade’ committee set up by The Institute for Fiscal Studies..

This book examines the area of financial regulation in the banking sector. Editors Mayes and Wood bring together such academics as Charles Goodhart, Charles Calomiris and Kern Alexander whose expertise shines through this volume to provide a reference tool for researchers, students and bankers thems..

These readings address various aspects of the transformation of the Japanese economic system from one based on the government-business-bureaucracy triad to one which accommodates such changes as the further slowdown of growth, the rapid ageing of the population and structural changes...

_x000D_ The Truth About Inflation does not set out to forecast inflation, but to help improve its understanding, so that investors can make better decisions to achieve the real returns that they need. Starting with a summary of long history of inflation, the drivers of price change are considered. M..

The Uzawa-Lucas Endogenous Growth Model..

First published in 1976, this book traces the development of the Yugoslav economy from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of 1975, which the author argues was a highly productive era of social innovation. Drawing on personal experience of the Revolution, the Partisan Liberation War and..

This book looks at the rationale behind the Belt and Road initiative by China, and attempts to explain the motivation from economical and historical aspects. The book also compares trade governance of China with those of the United Kingdom and United States, and analyzes the value construction and p..

The book starts with the history of central banking in England and the United States and explains in detail how the Fed works. It goes on to cover the Fed's recent unprecedented activities to keep the Great Recession from spiraling into Greatest Depression. This timely coverage of an era of innovati..

The book starts with the history of central banking in England and the United States and explains in detail how the Fed works. It goes on to cover the Fed's recent unprecedented activities to keep the Great Recession from spiraling into Greatest Depression. This timely coverage of an era of innovati..

_x005F_x000D_ Since 1945 preventing runaway wage inflation has been regarded as a key policy in managing an economy in a successful way. The exact nature of pay control has varied from country to country and from time to time. This book, originally published in 1987, examines pay control policies in..