Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy: Opportunities and Challenges, Hujo Katja
Автор: Hujo Название: Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy ISBN: 023037090X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230370906 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development. The book includes theoretical and policy analyses as well as micro level country case studies, including Norway, Chile, Indonesia, Nigeria and Botswana.
Автор: De Geest Gerrit Название: Rents: How Marketing Causes Inequality ISBN: 1732511209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732511200 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kathleen K?rschner Название: Immigration and Housing Rents ISBN: 3658120606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783658120603 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 65210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study the impact of the mass immigration of East Germans on housing rents in West German metropolitan areas.
Автор: De Geest Gerrit Название: Rents: How Marketing Causes Inequality ISBN: 1732511217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732511217 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 26670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A surprising new explanation for the radical growth of income inequality--and a new strategy for stopping it.
Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s. But why, exactly? In Rents, Gerrit De Geest argues that the main cause is advances in marketing. Marketers have become better at causing and exploiting market distortions in legal ways. The legal system tries to prevent the deliberate creation of market failures, but it has not evolved at the same speed. Business schools have outsmarted law schools.
Over the time span 1970-2015, the impact of marketing on the economy has steadily increased, transforming competitive markets in less competitive ones by making prices less transparent, splitting informed and uninformed consumers, making products incomparable, locking in consumers, or exploiting psychological biases. This has increased the amount of artificial profits in the economy--called "rents" in economic jargon.
The result? Using a novel method, De Geest estimates that rents now amount to 35 percent of the economy. This means that out of every $100 you spend, on average $35 goes to profits that could not have been made in perfectly competitive markets. That was only $20 in 1970. The book shows how getting wealthy has become less a matter of working hard than of capturing rents.
A book that will explain both why your boss makes many times your salary and why the prices you pay for groceries keep changing.
"If you have a favorite brand of cars, airlines, aspirins, or smart-phones, then you are part of the problem of income inequality. This is the startling message of Gerrit De Geest's remarkable book. It will change your view of consumerism, the source of wealth, and the uneasy role of business schools in the modern economy. It is a book that will also make you a more interesting dinner companion "--Saul Levmore, William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
"This is one of those rare books that fundamentally change the way you look at the world. Marketing professors, De Geest argues, teach businesses how to exploit consumers. As a result, you pay too much for virtually every product and service you purchase. Once the book makes you see the problem, you cannot unsee it, and it is everywhere A provocative new theory of what goes wrong in the modern economy and why some people make so much more money than others."--Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci, Professor of Law and of Economics, University of Amsterdam
"Could the rising inequality in our society be the result of clever marketing ploys taught in business schools? Gerrit De Geest has written an original and powerful work on how so much creative and entrepreneurial effort is aimed at destroying the forces of competition, raising prices, and diverting value from people to firms. A law professor's indictment of the law's ineptitude in defending against greed, Rents sheds important new light on one of the biggest policy challenges of our time."--Omri Ben-Shahar, Kearney Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, University of Chicago
"In this captivating book, Professor De Geest highlights the underappreciated link between marketing and inequality. ... Novel and important, I highly recommend this book."--Oren Bar-Gill, W.J. Friedman and A.T. Friedman Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
Gerrit De Geest is the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law at Washington University School of Law. Before moving with his family to St. Louis, he was a professor at the Utrecht School of Economics and president of the European Association of Law and Economics.
Автор: Afram Gabi G. Название: The Remittance Market in India: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Options ISBN: 0821389726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821389720 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23100.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Millions of migrants worldwide send billions of dollars in remittances each year to their families or communities of origin. In many developing countries, remittances are an important source of family and national income and also are the largest source of external financing. Remittances are better targeted at the needs of the poor than foreign aid or foreign direct investment (FDI) as recipients often depend on remittances to cover daily living expenses, to provide a cushion against emergencies, or to make small investments in business or education. Therefore, international remittance services should be safe, efficient, and reliable. This can be achieved by increasing competition in the remittance industry, providing broader access to payment system infrastructure, enhancing transparency, and ensuring a sound and predictable legal and regulatory framework. With an estimated US$55 billion in remittance inflows in 2010, India is the world’s foremost remittance destination. The size and potential impact of these inflows is large. Despite substantial progress over the past 15 years, the provision of accessible, efficient, and cost-effective remittance services in India could be improved. Remittances transfers often can be costly relative to the low incomes of remitters and the small amounts involved, especially in rural India, and are not accessible. Attempts to examine the remittance market in India have been limited. This policy note attempts to fill this gap by undertaking a broad, detailed investigation of the Indian remittance market and analyzing its characteristics based on the General Principles for International Remittance Services (GPs). It identifies some of the key actions and public policy measures for the improvement and future development of this market that would make it more contestable, transparent, accessible, and sound. Such actions and policy measures could assist financial institutions and policy makers in enhancing the safety and efficiency of, as well as lowering the costs of, remittance services in India.
Название: Achieving Skill Mobility in the ASEAN Economic Community: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications ISBN: 9292571176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292571177 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This report examines the challenges the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states face under the ASEAN Economic Community in achieving the goal of greater mobility for the highly skilled, including hurdles in recognizing professional qualifications, opening up access to certain jobs, and a limited willingness by professionals ...
Автор: Elie Azar, Mohamed Abdel Raouf Название: Sustainability in the Gulf: Challenges and Opportunities ISBN: 0367248808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367248802 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book covers the region`s contemporary development challenges through the lens of the United Nations` Sustainable Development Goals, which place sustainability at the center of the solution addressing the current environmental, economic and social imbalances facing Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Natural resources, and the materials derived from them, represent the physical basis for the economic system. Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in demand for these resources, which has triggered interest from policy makers in transitioning to a more resource efficient and circular economy. This report presents a typology of five circular business models that could support the transition to a more resource efficient and circular economy: circular supply, resource recovery, product life extension, sharing, and product service system models. It reviews the current market penetration and assesses the potential scalability of each business model. Environmental potential is also discussed, as well as risks and unintended consequences that could result from a more widespread adoption of these business models. The report provides a broad set of policy approaches that could help alleviate some of the barriers that currently hinder the widespread adoption of circular business models.
Автор: Weerakoon Dushni, Jayasuriya Sisira Название: Managing Domestic and International Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Conflict Development: Lessons from Sri Lanka ISBN: 9811318638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811318634 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 55890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book draws lessons from the story of Sri Lanka’s post-conflict development in the context of a struggle for socio-political reconciliation, a turbulent world economy, and difficult internal and external political challenges. Heightened volatility in the global economy and intensifying geopolitical rivalries pose complex policy challenges for small countries embarking on post-conflict daunting challenges. To sustain peace, development needed to be broad based and inclusive. It needed to rapidly reconstruct war-devastated regions, restore macroeconomic stability, while delivering a ‘peace dividend’. The book contains contributions that highlight Sri Lanka’s endeavours of coping with adverse shocks, while exploiting new opportunities. It showcases how the island country had to attract capital and assistance, and support of the international community, including that of the rising Asian giants – China and India. Addressing the post-conflict challenges of sourcing development finance in a new global financial and political landscape, the book would be of interest to researchers working on post-conflict development in the context of a volatile global economy and changing aid architecture, and would also act as an important resource for policy makers.
Автор: Kleer Jerzy, Nawrot Katarzyna Anna Название: Rise of Megacities, The: Challenges, Opportunities and Unique Characteristics ISBN: 1786344262 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786344267 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 240010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Megacities of over 10 million inhabitants are unique entities in their own right, both challenging and supporting the policies, governance and cohesion of states.
Автор: Ignacio Apella, Rafael Rofman Название: When We`re Sixty-Four: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America ISBN: 1464815836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464815836 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 39730.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Discusses the effects of demographic change and the demands that it will place on institutions and public policies. The book considers not only the fiscal effects that changes in population age structure could have on pensions, health, or long-term care systems, but the impacts on future economic growth.
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