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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Defusing democracy	Delia M. Boylan	"Many of today's new democracies are constrained by institutional forms designed by previous authoritarian rulers. In this timely and provocative study, Delia M. Boylan traces the emergence of these …	OL12513890W
Energy and environmental challenges to security	NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security (2007 Budapest, Hungary)	The thirst for energy and the need to manage environmental impacts arising from the carbon economy are urgent issues facing this and future generations. The environment and security nexus provide an …	OL15024433W
The new Brazil	Riordan Roett	"Recounts Brazil's evolution from remote Portuguese colony, through economic crises that led to more prudent monetary policies, and to its new status as a regional leader, a respected ambassador for …	OL15617094W
Ayn Rand Nation	Gary Weiss	Thirty years after her death, Ayn Rand’s ideas have never been more important. Unfettered capitalism, unregulated business, bare-bones government providing no social services, glorification of selfis…	OL16215449W
Privatization of public services	Christoph Hermann	"Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public se…	OL16283385W
End This Depression Now!	Paul R. Krugman,Paul Krugman	A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize?winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old, and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful…	OL16564521W
State structure and economic development in Southeast Asia structuring development	Antoinette Raquiza	"This book considers late developing market economies, exploring the differences in performance in these economies, which are particularly vulnerable to political turmoil, crony capitalism and extern…	OL16643864W
Le capital au XXIe siècle	Thomas Piketty	What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic…	OL16814568W
Economic Foundations for Creative Ageing Policy, Volume II	Andrzej Klimczuk	Aging populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early 21st century. This demographic change is mainly seen as a threat rather than as an opportunity to improve the q…	OL17752606W
Using taxes to reform health insurance	Henry J. Aaron,Leonard Burman	"Examines the role that taxes currently play, the likely effects of recently introduced health savings accounts, the challenges of administering major subsidies for health insurance through the tax s…	OL17896310W
Happiness and hardship	Carol Graham,Stefano Pettinato	"In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato argue that the political sustainability of market-oriented growth is determined as much by relative income levels and trends as by absol…	OL1883401W
The road to stability and prosperity in South Eastern Europe	World Bank	ix, 156 p. : 28 cm	OL18840134W
Latin America transformed	Cristóbal Kay,Robert N. Gwynne	Now in a second edition, this book explains Latin America's economic, political, social and cultural transformations, its association with globalization and search for modernity, and how these transf…	OL19882122W
The New Economy and Economic Growth in Europe and the US	Paul J. J. Welfens,David B. Audretsch	The New Economy in Europe and the US poses many unexplored issues. The authors present innovative theoretical and empirical analysis on Internet dynamics, productivity growth and organizational chang…	OL19890614W
Economic policy & equity	Sanjeev Gupta,Vito Tanzi,Ke-young Chu	This book brings together the views not only of policymakers and academics but also of religious leaders and labor leaders from around the world- including the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Amart…	OL20607305W
World development	Barry Baker	Annotation	OL20877129W
Falling in love with America again	Jim DeMint	" In his new role as president and CEO of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint has travelled the country talking to Americans about how to return to our founding principles and restore and protect our…	OL23327765W
Teodoro Moscoso and Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap	A. W. Maldonado	"Long overdue and of superb quality, this book examines the contribution of Moscoso (the architect of Operation Bootstrap) to the politics and economics of Puerto Rico. Describes the man, the times, …	OL3353506W
Poverty alleviation in Jordan	Raḍwān ʻAlī Shaʻbān	"The incidence of poverty in Jordan declined between 1992 and 1997. This decline is related to the change in government policies from generalized food subsides, benefiting the rich more than the poor…	OL6244121W
Outsourcing Sovereignty	Paul R. Verkuil	This book describes the largely overlooked process of using private government contractors to perform essential or inherent functions in the military and civilian sectors of government. It shows how …	OL9396795W