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Truth, errors, and lies : politics and economics in a volatile world /
Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy and a key architect of Poland's successful economic reforms, applies his far-reaching knowledge to the past and future of the world economy, introducing a framework for understanding our global...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Polaco |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Navigator; Chapter One: The World, Words, and Meaning: Where Truth, Errors, and Lies in Economics and Politics Come from and What to Do to Make Truth Come First; Chapter Two: How Things Happen Economic Processes-What Science, Policy, and Happenstance Have to Do with Them and Who Set It Up This Way; Chapter Three: A Brief History of the World and What We Can Learn from It: Why Some Countries Are Wealthy and Others Poor and Whether It Must Always Be So.
- Chapter Four: Globalization-and Then What?: Where Globalization Originated and How to Come Out Ahead in the Era of Worldwide InterdependenceChapter Five: The World As It Is: How People Are Coping in Various Corners of a Changing World; Chapter Six: The Withering of Neoliberalism and Its Tattered Legacy: Why a Harmful Concept Rose to Temporary Ascendancy in Half the World and What to Do About It; Chapter Seven: What Development Is and What It Depends On: Where Socioeconomic Development Comes from and How It Can Make Us Happy.
- Chapter Eight: Stagnation and Development-Institutions, Policy, and Culture: On the Rules of the Economic Game, Deleterious and Progressive Policies, and the Significance of Culture in DevelopmentChapter Nine: The Coincidence Theory of Development and the New Pragmatism: What Output Growth and Economic Development Depend On and How to Make Them Better; Chapter Ten: The Uncertain Future: What Awaits Us in the Near and Distant Future and What Say We Have in It; A Letter; Notes; Index.