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  • The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets

    by Elliot Posner ...
    Between 1995 and 2007, financial elites in more than a dozen western European countries engaged in a cross-border battle to create some twenty new stock markets, many of which were explicitly modeled on the American Nasdaq.The resulting high-risk, high-reward markets facilitated wealth creation, rewarded venture capitalists, and drew major U.S. financial players to Europe. But they also chipped ... Read more

    $72.59 CAD

  • Voluntary Disruptions

    International Soft Law, Finance, and Power

    by Abraham L. Newman, Elliot Posner ...
    Series series Transformations in Governance
    From home mortgages to i-phones, basic elements of our daily lives depend on international economic markets. The astonishing complexity of these exchanges may seem ungoverned. Yet the global economy remains deeply bound by rules. Far from the staid world of treaties and state-to-state diplomacy, economic governance increasingly relies on a different class of international market regulation - soft ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

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  • Sovereign Wealth Funds

    Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power

    by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H.B. Monk ...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy

    Edited by Henry Peter, Giedre Lideikyte Huber ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understood as voluntary contributions for the common good, can and should be fostered by states through tax incentives. The topic has been addressed from a ... Read more

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  • Global Finance in Crisis

    The Politics of International Regulatory Change

    Edited by Eric Helleiner, Stefano Pagliari, Hubert Zimmermann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    From the vantage point of the key powers in global finance including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and China, this highly accessible book brings together leading scholars to examine current changes in international financial regulation. They assess whether the flurry of ambitious initiatives to improve and strengthen international financial regulation signals an important turning ... Read more

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  • International Law in Financial Regulation and Monetary Affairs

    Edited by Thomas Cottier, John H. Jackson, Rosa M. Lastra ...
    Series series International Economic Law Series
    The early twenty-first century has seen a conspicuous absence of formal international law concerning money and finance. This book argues that this lack of formal international regulation was a significant contributing factor to the global financial crisis that began in 2007. It focuses on this lack of global substantive principles and 'hard law' rules in the field of financial regulation and ... Read more

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  • The Value of Everything

    Making and Taking in the Global Economy

    by Mariana Mazzucato ...
    The award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation.“A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits.” —Martin Wolf,... ... Read more

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  • Inequality

    What Can Be Done?

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of ... Read more

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  • Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

    by John Quiggin ...
    In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view ... Read more

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  • Economics for the Rest of Us

    Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal

    by Moshe Adler ...
    "Vivid case studies . . . Adler's frustration with wrongheaded economic thinking is as entertaining as it is thought provoking." — Publishers WeeklyWhy do so many contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar ... Read more

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  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

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