Economics

With easy-to-implement strategies, readers are given advice on becoming free of their fiscal worries. The author includes steps for developing a financial plan, reducing taxes, and maximizing insurance while minimizing costs. Jerry LePre is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker, corporate ...

Modern Microeconomics, with completely up-to-date economic content and theories, provides balanced and in-depth analysis of the essentials of microeconomics. Combining the results of years of teaching microeconomics, the book presents a very wide coverage of all essential topics.It is essential reading ...

The U.S. economy faced the prospect of a serious recession even prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The afflictions that had deepened under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - wage stagnation, rising inequality and wildly inflated stock markets - sharpened further.

A mismatch between the federal government's revenues and spending, now and in the foreseeable future, requires heavy borrowing, leading to a large and increasing federal debt. That increasing debt raises a serious challenge to all of the goals that various people expect their government to pursue. It ...

This work provides a dialogue on the issues of social equity, distributive justice, and economic development and will be important reading for development economists and Latin American scholars.'

Explores the idea that Europe's growth problems may be caused by weaknesses in capital markets and in the access to risk capital. It addresses the evaluation of the financial needs and constraints of start-up firms and how these might be bridged. The role of public sector intervention is analyzed, focusing on international best practices.

'A pioneering work in ethics and economics for the new global era raising all the hard questions that we need to think about in the coming decades, and proposing a radically new way of thinking about how the global community should function.' Peter Singer, IRA W. De Camp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton ...

Providing an overview of how market supporting institutions evolved in Europe and why these institutions are weak or absent in most countries of the world, this book will be of interest to a wide audience of aid and development policymakers, academics, and students of economics, political science, management, and law.

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Analysises tax systems and tax reforms in several Latin American countries since the early 1990's, including Argentina and Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay. This book presents and discusses tax systems from a quantitative and historical perspective and describes the main taxes existing in each country.

The ""quality of life"" concept of quality of life is a broad one. It incorporates basic needs but also extends beyond them to include capabilities, the ""livability"" of the environment, and life appreciation and happiness.

Using Tanzania as a case study this book shows how different definitions of Aid for Trade lead to different estimates of the amount being delivered. It suggests an alternative simple and practical methodology for recipient countries to classify and quantify it.

There is an investment crisis and, as a result, wage growth and yields are not keeping up with rising prices. But crisis brings opportunity. It is possible to protect savings and even profit handsomely by following a new investment paradigm-one that seeks to profit from the global trends that are already ...

It is no secret that Americans save very little: every economic index confirms as much. This book describes not only how the 'savings crisis' adversely influences personal lifestyles over the long term but also how it can undermine national wealth and standard of living.

The fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better.

This collection of papers presents the fruits of a collaborative project between African, American and French scholars seeking to understand in more specific terms how natural heritage, territory, and identity relate to each other.

This up-to-date guide to dealing with the pension crisis explains new rules to come into force in 2005 and outlines seven effective ways to secure a more prosperous retirement. Advice is aimed at the 40-plus age group - so it's never too late to take steps that will really make a difference.

Impersonal forces do not make economic decisions: we do. And what we decide not only determines our society's material well-being but also reflects ethical choices.

This annual series from the Brookings Institution and the Financial Institutions Center at the Wharton School provides timely and insightful analyses of the financial services industry.