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A New Book by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Transition Economies: Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Providing full historical context and drawing on a wide range of literature, this book explores the continuous economic and social transformation of the post-socialist world. While the future is yet to be determined, understanding the present phase of transformation is critical.
The book’s core exploration evolves along three pivots of competitive economic structure, institutional change, and social welfare. The main elements include analysis of the emergence of the socialist economic model; its adaptations through the twentieth century; discussion of the 1990s market transition reforms; post-2008 crisis development; and the social and economic diversity in the region today. With an appreciation for country specifics, the book also considers the urgent problems of social policy, poverty, income inequality, and labor migration…
Alan Tonelson on CNBC
I worry Trump might accept an inadequate trade deal with China: Alan Tonelson
Watch Jimmy Pethokoukis of American Enterprise Institute and Alan Tonelson, founder of RealityChek and Henry George School Board Member, debate who is to blame for the ballooning trade deficit.
SCEPA Seminar featuring Willi Semmler
How Inequality & Climate Change Impede Sustainable Growth
Watch this panel discussion featuring Willi Semmler with policy analysts, academics, and experts on the relationship between growing inequality and climate change and the path to a sustainable solution…
Progress and Poverty in Economics by Edward Nell
Progress and Poverty in Economics:
Henry George and How Growth in Real Estate Contributes to Inequality and Financial Instability
INTRODUCTION
Reviving the Work of America’s Most Original Economist
Andrew Mazzone and I collaborated on a project to review the work of the 19th-century American economist Henry George, especially his landmark book Progress and Poverty (1879) to see how George’s work stood up in the light of modern economics and to determine what could be brought up to date and applied to the contemporary world. We wanted to establish that George’s work was relevant and also to criticize American academic economics for having overlooked or rejected George both in his own time—when his work was a worldwide sensation—and afterward, even today. Andrew died suddenly in the middle of the project. This book is a tribute to him and completes what we began…
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. In Capitalism, Shaikh’s approach demonstrates that most of the central propositions of economic analysis can be derived without any reference to standard devices such as hyperrationality, optimization, perfect competition, perfect information, representative agents, or so-called rational expectations…
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