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Specifically, it uses changes in relative state burdens as a measure of state fiscal policy and shows that by altering the incentives to work, save and invest, changes in a state's tax burden relative to other states influence decisions on whether, how much and where to invest.

The book is divided into three parts.

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Finally, the author explores the economic consequences for the general economy of significant underground economic activity--for example: tax evasion, economic efficiency, and cyclical aspects.

This work will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy-makers in economics, economic policy, political science, and criminology.

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Why Keynes is relevant to today's global economic crisis, and how Keynesian ideas can point the way to renewed economic growth.

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Highlights the influence of Edmund Phelps' ideas. Addressing the most important debates in macroeconomic theory, this book focuses on the rates at which new technologies arise and information about markets is dispersed, information imperfections, and the heterogeneity of beliefs as determinants of an economy's performance.

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The fourteen papers presented in this volume are thought-provoking studies of the economic adjustment of Latin America to the difficult external environment of the 1980s.

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Examines the inter-relationship between the external debt problem and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America in the 1990s, considering the interplay of actors, including creditor governments, international financial institutions, debtor countries, commercial banks and multinationals.

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In his book, Cole points out that a simple monetarist model can explain Latin Amercian inflation, although it cannot by itself provide an explanation in terms of the ultimate causes of inflation.

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A new theory to explain the problems Mexico has had in developing a viable market economy is presented in this innovative book.

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Explains the fluctuations of economic activity that are an endemic feature of market economies. This title argues for a different macroeconomics model - one that works with an internal explanation of the business cycle and factors in agents limited cognitive abilities.

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Examines capital accumulation at business firm-level, linking it to the macro-level of the world-economy as explicated by Hopkins and Wallerstein. Focusing upon the timber industry in the 19th century, the work analyses how capital operates in the resource sector in the world-economy.

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Focusing on the international dimension of macroeconomic policy, this handbook covers the main areas of modern macroeconomic policy in open economies.

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Suitable for students and researchers seeking coverage of the developments in macroeconomics, this title lays out the core ideas of modern macroeconomics and its links with finance. It presents the simplest general equilibrium macroeconomic model for a closed economy, and then gradually develops a comprehensive model of the open economy.

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No single system of development can accommodate all variations of the economic, social, and political environments in developing economies.

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The issue of government or state involvement in the process of economic development and reform has become very popular in the economic development literature. This timely volume examines China's post-Mao economic reforms, and the Chinese government's involvement in the process of managing those reforms.

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In Part Five, the role and potential of the military in national development are explained and South Korea is presented as a success story.

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A collection of essays providing evidence that the connection between intelligence and inequality is weak and demonstrates that targeted educational and economic reforms can reduce the income gap and improve the country's aggregate productivity and economic well-being.

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Brings together dynamic equilibrium theory, data analysis, and advanced econometric and computational methods to provide a comprehensive set of techniques for use by academic economists as well as professional macroeconomists in various fields. This book starts from a class of DSGE models and describes methods needed to estimate their parameters.

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In his penetrating analysis of Mexico's current economic, political, and social situation, Ramirez focuses on the major structural problems that underlie the nation's profound economic difficulties and the challenges they pose to its people.

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The culmination of work begun in 1985 by the authors under the joint sponsorship of the Ekonomski Institut Zagreb and Florida State University, this book posits the most comprehensive and relevant model yet developed to explain the workings of Yugoslavia's economy.

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Peterson, Albaum, and Kozmetsky have systematically and formally documented here the American public's understanding of, attitudes toward, and perceptions regarding capitalism in the 1980s, and in so doing, have provided the first book to focus expressly on capitalism through empirical survey research.

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Macesich's latest book argues that the poor performance of monetary policy can be attributed to the ease with which money slips into the political arena to become a singularly important political issue.

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This book puts forward the view that rational expectations have a key role in formulating economic policy and in determining economic activity, prices, interest rates, and employment rates.