Download or read book Durable Economies written by Melanie Jaeger-Erben and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seemingly unrelated phenomena. In today's economies, which rest on ever-larger stocks of infrastructures, buildings, machinery and household goods, durable things are both a hugely significant source of wealth and a constant source of struggle. The contributors argue that a deeper engagement with durability is essential for reaching an understanding of how economies work; and for envisaging alternative economies built on principles of environmental stewardship and social justice. Placing durability at the core of economic analysis, this volume explores the work and tensions involved in the production and valuation of durability to outline a new agenda for more sustainable economies.
Download or read book The Great Transition written by Mauro Bonaiuti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent events including the financial crisis and the gradual lessening of the planet’s natural resources have raised the fundamental question as to whether the capitalist market system can survive its own contradictions or whether we are witnessing the outset of a profound change in civilization. By deploying the tools of the science of complexity alongside those of historical research, Mauro Bonaiuti tackles this basic question, posed against a backcloth of declining marginal returns where growth in the complexity of industrial, military and bureaucratic-institutional apparatuses is thought to have led to progressive increases in economic, social and environmental costs. In this framework, the economic crisis we are traversing, grave as it is, could be interpreted not as a simple cyclical crisis, from which it is possible to escape by the traditional policies of supporting growth, but as the outcome of a ‘passage of civilization’ inscribed in the long-term evolutionary dynamics of capitalism. After the crisis that started in 2008, with millions of people unemployed, with the failure of the economy to pick up and with the ever-growing sense of precariousness and insecurity, we are beginning to suspect that we are facing something more than a cyclical crisis.
Download or read book Price Reform and Durable Goods in the Transition to a Market Economy written by Pierre-Richard Agénor and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper examines the short- and long-term effects of price liberalization in a reforming socialist economy. The analysis is based on an optimizing framework that highlights hoarding behavior and the existence of parallel goods markets. The behavior of official and parallel market prices, stock of durables, and the velocity of money in the transition period between reform announcement and reform implementation is characterized, in the presence and absence of uncertainty about the transition date.
Download or read book Global Transition written by Graeme Donald Snooks and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-08-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Transition is an innovative study that analyses the problems and prospects of the Third World by building on the theoretical contribution - the dynamic-strategy model - made in the author's acclaimed Longrun Dynamics . It formulates a general economic and political theory he calls the global strategic transition (GST) model. The central feature of this model is the global strategic demand-response mechanism involving an interaction between the world's expanding strategic core and its fringe, which is facilitated through strategic inflation. This model also provides the basis for a new policy approach to economic development.
Download or read book The Former Soviet Union in Transition written by John P. Hardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the Joint Economic Committee's 1993 reports on the economies of the ex-Soviet states tracks the Soviet and post-Soviet economic reform efforts, and looks at issues such as integration and developments.
Download or read book Household Welfare and Vietnam s Transition written by David Dollar and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam's rapid growth has transformed the country, reducing poverty from about 75 percent of the population to about 50 percent. At the same time, its transition from a planned to a market economy has created new challenges for public policy in a wide range of areas. This volume explores issues such as which macroeconomic and structural reforms led to growth, what effect reform has had on the household economy, and how the transition has affected education, health, fertility, and child nutrition. It provides an analysis of economic and social policies and shows how micro-level data can be used to analyze the likely effect of different government expenditures and activities. It also focuses on the effect different policies have on the poor and challenges stereotypes about poverty-focused expenditures.
Download or read book Hungary An Economy in Transition written by Istvan Szekely and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the economic transformation of Hungary, presenting local ideas and perceptions and international analysis.
Download or read book The American Economy in Transition written by Martin Feldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual volume marks the sixtieth anniversary of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In contrast to the technical and specialized character of most NBER studies, the current book is designed to provide the general reader with a broad and critical overview of the American economy. The result is a volume of essays that range from monetary policy to productivity development, from population change to international trade.
Download or read book Individuals and Families in Transition written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transition to the Market Economy written by P. G. Hare and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Former Soviet Union in Transition written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innovations and Techno ecological Transition written by Fabienne Picard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to present a systemic perspective to energetic transition to a discarbonated society implying an increase of energetic efficiency of current production process, new way of energy production - integration of renewable energies, re-use of wastes. Main societal functions are analyzed in order to highlight the ongoing process of technological and non-technological innovations: transport and mobility, food, building. The purpose of this book is to analyze from a global perspective the energetic innovative system on building and to understand the limits of its development and potential new actions.
Download or read book Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries written by J. Braithwaite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declining incomes and growing income inequality have led to a rise in poverty in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This study examines poverty and social assistance in six countries - Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Russia, and the Kyrgyz Republic - comparing the poverty profiles and the correlates of poverty between the two regions. The study finds that the profile of poverty is more sharply defined in Eastern Europe than in the former Soviet Union, where poverty is more widespread. This holds the potential for better targeting of social assistance in Eastern Europe, and the study proposes a novel two-step approach to identify the poor.
Download or read book Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declining incomes and growing income inequality have led to a rise in poverty in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This study examines poverty and social assistance in six countries - Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Russia, and Kyrgyz Republic - to compare the poverty profiles and the correlates of poverty between the two regions. The study finds that the profile of poverty is more sharply defined in Eastern Europe than in the former Soviet Union, where poverty is more widespread. This holds the potential for better targeting of social assistance in Eastern Europe, and the study proposes a novel two-step approach to identify the poor.
Download or read book Globalisation Economic Transition and the Environment written by Phillip Lawn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on three critical issues pertaining to the broader goal of sustainable development _ namely, the degenerative forces of globalisation, ecological sustainability requirements, and how best to negotiate the economic transition process.ø
Download or read book Household Savings in Transition Economies written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainability in Transition written by Travis Gliedt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner. The textbook is structured as a learning-centered approach to walk students through the process of linking sustainable behavior and decision-making to green innovation systems and triple-bottom-line economic development practices, in order to achieve sustainable change in incremental to transformational ways. All chapters combine theory and practice with the help of global case study and research study examples to illustrate barriers and best practices. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with a check-on-learning section that ties the main points back to the core themes of the book. Chapters include a section focused on measuring progress and a box comparing international research or case studies to the North American focus of the chapter. A list of additional academic sources for students that complement each chapter are included. Building sustainability tools, techniques and competencies cumulatively with the help of problem- and project-based learning modules, Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions is a comprehensive resource for learning sustainability theory and doing sustainability practice. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate level students who have already completed introductory sustainability classes.
