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Reflections on progress : essays on the global political economy /

Is the world giving up on the promise of ever-greater prosperity for all, on functioning democratic institutions, and on long-term peace? Is the special set of circumstances that led to the recent rapid growth in emerging markets unlikely to be present in the future? Will the second decade of the tw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Derviş, Kemal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • part I. Global economics
  • Global imbalances and domestic inequality
  • A world of convergence
  • Austere growth?
  • Should central banks target employment?
  • The great disconnect
  • The end of convergence?
  • Northern Europe's drag on the world economy
  • Catching up at different speeds
  • Tailspin or turbulence?
  • The future of economic progress
  • The oil price opportunity
  • Can trade agreements stop currency manipulation?
  • Is Uber a threat to democracy?
  • part II. The social contract, public policy, and inequality
  • The inequality trap
  • What role for the state?
  • The centrists cannot hold
  • Economic policy's narrative imperative
  • Balancing the technocrats
  • The next social contract
  • The Great War and global governance
  • Good governance and economic performance
  • The great income divide
  • A great breakdown?
  • Publicly funded inequality
  • The paradox of identity politics
  • A new birth for social democracy?
  • Restoring yesterday's hope for tomorrow's world
  • Part iii. Europe : beyond crisis management
  • The global future of Europe's crisis
  • Rebalancing the Eurozone
  • Mario Draghi's guns of August
  • Europe's vital French connection
  • Back to the brink for the Eurozone?
  • David Cameron's European spaghetti bowl
  • The European consequences of Germany's election
  • Europe's political transcendence
  • Democracy in Europe
  • Revamping Europe's tattered social contract
  • Europe's Franco-German dream team
  • Still no exit for Greece
  • Fiscal austerity versus European society
  • E pluribus Europe?
  • Two Europes in one.