The Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present and Future

The Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present and Future
Author: Arie Arnon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781402071621

The Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present And Future has two main objectives. The first is to assess the state of play of the Open Economy Macromodel by bringing together those who developed it with those who apply it today. The second is to assess possible directions for its future development. The volume is divided into three parts. Part one focuses on the models, men, and institutions involved in the development of the international macroeconomic model. In this section, the contributors examine the two monetary approaches to the balance of payments, as well as the relationship between long-term fluctuations in real exchange rates and inflation. Part two deals with the present state of the models by looking at Robert Mundell's theory of optimum currency areas (OCAs) and its relationship with key currencies. The chapters in this section also consider the impact of exchange rate variability on labor markets, as well as the interactions between theoretical developments and real-world behavior in the open economy macromodel. The third and last part of this volume provides a perspective on the future by looking at alternate models and institutional perspectives. Several contributors examine the relationship between asset prices, the real exchange rate, and unemployment in a small economy via what they call "a medium-run structuralist perspective". The future of institutional structures necessary to conduct international economic policy is the subject of the last chapters in part three of the volume.

Letter in a Woodpile

Letter in a Woodpile
Author: Ed Cullen
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1591862493

From NPR commentator ("All Things Considered") Ed Cullen comes this collection of humorous commentaries on life in southern Louisiana, including Mardi Gras, science fairs, and how the denizens of Guatemala North (Baton Rouge) stay cool.

Transformational Politics

Transformational Politics
Author: Stephen Woolpert
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1998-08-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780791439463

Argues that traditional political science is failing to identify and address fundamental political phenomena of our time and proposes an alternative value-based political science.

Campaign Finance Reform

Campaign Finance Reform
Author: Anthony Corrado
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1997
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780815715818

A collection of documents and analysis focuses on the statutory, legal, and administrative dimensions of campaign financing, its regulation, and the potential for reform.

Beyond the Ivory Tower

Beyond the Ivory Tower
Author: Joseph Lepgold
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2001-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0231505523

The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane and irrelevant. Joseph Lepgold and Miroslav Nincic demonstrate how good international relations theory can inform policy choices. Globalization, ethnic conflict, and ecological threats have created a new set of issues that challenge policymakers, and cutting-edge scholarship can contribute a great deal to the diagnosis and handling of potentially explosive situations.

The History of Political and Social Concepts

The History of Political and Social Concepts
Author: Melvin Richter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 215
Release: 1995
Genre: Political science
ISBN: 0195088263

Since the 1960s, German scholars have developed distinctive methods for writing the history of political, social, and philosophical concepts. This work is a critical introduction to this emerging genre: the history of political and social concepts, or Begriffsgeschichte. Systematically surveying political, social, and philosophical discourses and their contexts, historians of concepts track linguistically how the advent, mentalities, and effects of modernity have been conceptualized in contested forms. After assessing the programs and achievements of this genre, and analyzing extended examples of its use, the author argues the need for an analogous project to chart the careers of concepts central to the political and social vocabularies of English-speaking societies.