Globalisation describes a process by which regional economies, societies and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communicat...

Globalization's Impact on State-Local Economic Development Policy

Text in Persian. Hassanali Mehran, who headed the Central Bank of Iran for more than two years, describes the goals and the policies of the bank fr...

This is a book about power and about an extraordinarily wealthy elite that has wielded unprecedented power, not for the good, but rather for the en...

This book examines China's greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation policies. Debate on potential climate change legislation in the United States ha...

The purpose of this book is to get the reader acquainted with the basic features that run through the fields of corporate, public and global govern...

The purpose of this book is to get the reader acquainted with the basic features that run through the fields of corporate, public and global govern...

This book examines the key role played by local governments in China's market-oriented economic reform process since 1978. In particular, it addres...

Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act, in part, to provide enhanced investigative tools and to assist in t...

The Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP") represents a massive and unprecedented investment of taxpayer money designed to stabilise the financial ...

Arthur Seldon uses public choice economics research to support his theory of over-government. The term "over-government" was coined by Seldon and i...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

From the beginning of the American federal government, Congress has required executive branch agencies to release or otherwise make available gover...

Greece is at a critical juncture of its recent history. The economic policies of the last three decades have brought it close to bankruptcy. Much o...

Greece has been characterised as the weak link of the Eurozone, since it became the epicenter of the European debt crisis in 2009. That year, the c...

Since the 1980s, Guatemala, the most populous country in Central America with a population just over 14 million, has continued its transition from ...

Whether the U.S. economy is slowing or humming, government officials, public policy analysts, and average Americans should know exactly how our gov...

The economic and political roles of towns in the Nordic late Middle Ages -- with Lübeck as the major hub in an extensive network -- have long been ...

The purpose of this book is to examine the performance of Guyana's economy during the era of dirigisme and the period of economic liberalisation wi...

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, Haiti has struggled to over...

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, Haiti has struggled to over...

This book examines Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist military and socio-political movement that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood. The United States, ...

Regional Economics is concerned with the spatial distribution of economic activity across geographic areas within a nation. It is a unique field wi...

Traditional trade-off thinking says we must accept undesirable costs to get desirable benefits. Win-win thinking says we can avoid the unwanted cos...

The fundamental purpose of a health insurance exchange is to provide a structured marketplace for the sale and purchase of health insurance. The au...

The future of New Zealand’s rural communities is often in the news. Empty shops, depopulation and lack of jobs are offered as signs that many towns...

Heke Tangata can broadly be translated as 'migration of the people', and in this book economist Brian Easton tracks the major relocations Maori hav...

The Spending Review examines how the Coalition Government will carry out Britain's unavoidable deficit reduction plan. This is an urgent priority t...