The political crisis of the American state: the unsustainable state in a time of unraveling / Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond King -- Is inequality a threat to democracy? / John Ferejohn -- The resilient power of the states across the long nineteenth century: an inquiry into a pattern of American...

This book examines imbalances in seven major economies: China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, evaluating key indicators agreed on by the G20 for identifying large imbalances, including public and private debt and private saving, and countries' external...

"The contributors to this volume include eminent scholars working on the topic of global trade and investment modeling The volume provides a fresh perspective on the role of model-based analysis in socio-economic and sustainability impacts of economic integration (and disintegration in the case...