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Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries This work explores the political incentives that either foster growth or steal nations' growth prospects. It examines the frontier between risk and uncertainty, analyzing the forces driving development in both developed and undeveloped regions.

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Examines the theory and practice of government interventions in the financial sector of two newly-industrialising countries, Brazil and South Korea. Findings explain the widespread use of such interventions, despite the generally negative predictions which derive from more prominent theories.

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The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund(IMF). This title explores the inner workings of the IMF to understand how its staff's thinking about capital controls changed so radically.

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In this volume in the NBER series on capital formation and financing, the authors show, with supporting figures, two major trends in mining and manufacturing. The first is that this sector had a rate of growth significantly higher than that of the economy as a whole. The total capital assets of this sector increased fifteenfold from 1880 to 1948, w

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An examination of long-term trends in capital formation and financing in the U.S., this study is organized primarily around the principal capital-using sectors of the economy: agriculture, mining and manufacturing, public utilities, non-farm residential real estate, and government. The analysis summarizes major trends in real capital formation and

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Explores how Latin America has handled the 1994 Mexican crisis and the debt crisis of the 1980s, revealing the full extent of the "tequila effect."

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A handbook for corporate financial officers and graduate students and their teachers in accounting and finance.

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Policy makers--Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative--call for federal intervention to fund emerging high-growth industries, believing they are starved for capital.

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While there are many analyses of capital-labor relations in oligopoly industries, such as auto and steel, very little work has been written on competitive-sector industries, such as textiles. Truchil has written the only systematic case study in book form on the textile industry covering the post-World War II era.

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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time.

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This is an introduction to moral and economic arguments for capitalism. It offers the reader a systematic treatment of the philosophical concepts that underpin the idea of capitalism and the business, legal and political institutions that impact commercial enterprises.

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The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from British to African hands in these three territories. Employing a comparative metho

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Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, this title examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked.

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Deals with the unprecedented involvement of the French state in the industrial sector of the country's economy during the First World War. This book studies the workings of the French war economy from 1914 to 1918 and on the politics of businessmen.

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The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the form of the state; and foreign policy of the country.

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This thought-provoking study argues for a restoration of the classical Marxist position linking the development process, class formation, and class capacities;

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As Accordino explains, at the federal level, the Iron Triangle comprised of the Pentagon, defense contractors, and a conservative Congress maintained defense spending at Cold War levels, encouraging contractors to stay focused on defense.

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