way we define and measure national economies around the world: Gross Domestic Product. This entertaining and informative … book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and … GDP was a good measure for the twentieth century but is increasingly inappropriate for a twenty-first-century economy …

in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and …In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible … disseminated, and how this process varies between countries. The National Origins of Policy Ideas provides the first comparative …

in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and …In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible … disseminated, and how this process varies between countries. The National Origins of Policy Ideas provides the first comparative …

Budget speech 2008-09 by Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Issac …

that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and …

that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and …

The U.S. dollar’s dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008–2009, political … financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and U.S. policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar …’s importance. Eswar Prasad examines how the dollar came to have a central role in the world economy and demonstrates that it will …

The U.S. dollar’s dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008–2009, political … financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and U.S. policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar …’s importance. Eswar Prasad examines how the dollar came to have a central role in the world economy and demonstrates that it will …

The U.S. dollar’s dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008–2009, political … financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and U.S. policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar …’s importance. Eswar Prasad examines how the dollar came to have a central role in the world economy and demonstrates that it will …

local events now cascade over national borders and the fallout of financial meltdowns and environmental disasters affects …. The recent financial crisis exemplifies the new form of systemic risk that will characterize the coming decades, and the … and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to …