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Growth, Debt, And Politics: Economic Adjustment And The Political Performance Of Developing Countries
by Lewis W. SniderThis book addresses the question of how political capacity of the government of a developing country affects its ability to implement structural adjustments in its economy in response to external pressures. It builds on the inductive foundation of comparative case studies and speculative insights.
The Growth Delusion: Why Economists Are Getting It Wrong And What We Can Do About It
by David PillingA provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which determines how much we can spend on our schools, highways, and defense; economists decide how much unemployment is acceptable and whether it is right to print money or bail out profligate banks. The backlash we are currently witnessing suggests that people are turning against the experts and their faulty understanding of our lives. Despite decades of steady economic growth, many citizens feel more pessimistic than ever, and are voting for candidates who voice undisguised contempt for the technocratic elite. For too long, economics has relied on a language which fails to resonate with people's actual experience, and we are now living with the consequences. In this powerful, incisive book, David Pilling reveals the hidden biases of economic orthodoxy and explores the alternatives to GDP, from measures of wealth, equality, and sustainability to measures of subjective wellbeing. Authoritative, provocative, and eye-opening, The Growth Delusion offers witty and unexpected insights into how our society can respond to the needs of real people instead of pursuing growth at any cost.
Growth, Disparities and Inclusive Development in India: Perspectives from the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh (India Studies in Business and Economics)
by Rajendra P. MamgainThe book critically examines the high growth trajectory in India, particularly since the late 1980s, a period which is characterized by increasing inequality. Through various studies from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh -- a state more populous than Brazil and with a GDP comparable to Bangladesh -- it sheds light on the link between growth and inequality in emerging economies. The slow pace of any upward movement in terms of various development indicators in low-income Indian states is due to a number of factors, including their historical disadvantages. Over a period of time, this has resulted in widening disparities, both between different regions of these states, and between these states and other more prosperous Indian states.The book provides a holistic, yet critical, region-wise analysis of the achievements of Uttar Pradesh compared to other states and to India as a whole, in the context of indicators of inclusive development, namely, growth, employment, poverty, infrastructure, agriculture, industry, education and health. Based on the latest data and sophisticated analysis methods, it assesses inequality and development disparities, clearly identifying three major challenges that poorer states face in redressing poverty and expanding inclusive growth – increasing economic opportunities, empowering poor and marginalised groups to avail new opportunities in a rapidly changing world, and ensuring an effective safety net to reduce vulnerability.The book suggests strategies for promoting high and sustained economic growth, and highlights the significance of broadening social inclusiveness through greater and more rapid access to economic and social opportunities, and building strong social safety nets to protect the chronically poor and mitigate their risks and vulnerabilities with the help of good governance and institutions. With contributions from leading scholars from the region, it is a valuable resource for researchers working in the area of growth and inequality, as well as for policy makers from developing economies around the globe.
Growth, Distribution and Effective Demand: Alternatives to Economic Orthodoxy
by George Argyrous Gary MongioviGrowth, Distribution, and Effective Demand presents original essays on a variety of topics in theoretical and applied economics. The book honors the work of Edward J. Nell and develops interconnected themes that run through the modern Post-Keynesian tradition. The first part deals with the fundamental idea that economic growth is demand-driven, with special attention to policy ramifications. The second theme concerns the connection between economic growth and the structural characteristics of a market economy. These issues are closely linked to a critical tradition that calls into question key elements in orthodox economics. The final part of the book aims to buttress non-orthodox approaches to growth and distribution by critiquing particular aspects of the conventional theory, by elaborating neglected themes in non-orthodox theory, or by exploring some overlooked methodological ideas.
Growth, Distribution and Innovations: Understanding their Interrelations (The\graz Schumpeter Lectures)
by Amit BhaduriIdea for those studying advanced macroeconomic and written by a widely published author, this book outlines a new and more fruitful way of understanding, analyzing and formally modelling economic growth.In his series of lectures, collected here in one concise and engaging book, Amit Bhaduri draws on contemporary issues such as the role of competiti
The Growth Drivers
by Mhairi Mcewan Andy BirdThe Growth Drivers is a practical guide to building marketing capabilities. It explains why it is critical that organizations invest in the capabilities needed to excel at customer-centric marketing to drive growth. The authors explain what world-class marketing means in practice and reveal the power of strategic marketing as a dynamic propeller of growth. Each chapter includes a summary, a separate in-depth case study, a range of illustrative real-life examples and some practical tools based on the work of leading practitioners in this pioneering field, as well as relevant diagrams and pictures.
Growth Dynamics in New Markets: Improving Decision Making through Model-Based Management
by Martin F. Schaffernicht Stefan N. GroesserAn innovative simulation-based approach for strategic decision making when launching new products Growth Dynamics in New Markets contains a dynamic case study and simulations that reveal what it takes to successfully introduce a product into a new market. Written by experts in the field, the text and companion website include a compelling simulation game and a variety of simulation models. Using the simulation game and computer models, readers are challenged to design and put in place a strategy about product introduction and competitive behavior. The simulation models build on each other to help to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of product uptake as well as market development and competitive dynamics. The authors present different approaches for enhancing the models and offer guidance for applying them to real-world problems. This groundbreaking text clearly shows how to develop maps of dynamic systems, formulate candidate policies and evaluate them based on the simulations. It also reveals how to use computer simulations to understand what decisions could and should be made, when to make them and how intensive they should be. The authors present an interactive approach that: Contains an innovative combination of a case study, simulation game and simulation models for developing the skills to introduce a product to the marketplace Offers targeted questions that help to enhance the understanding of the material presented Presents detailed answers and solutions to a number or real-world business challenges Features video tutorials that explain how the simulation experiments are implemented and interpreted Aids in the development an action-oriented, pragmatic understanding of the underlying forces in business Designed for students of business administration, management, industrial engineering, informatics, engineering, and public policy, Growth Dynamics in New Markets offers an innovative approach that combines the practice of dynamic reasoning and the use of simulation to design and test possible policies.
Growth, Employment, Inequality, And The Environment
by Adolfo FigueroaGrowth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in which these problems are analyzed using a unified theory framework. Figueroa achieves his goal by addressing two significant problems. First, to solve the epistemological challenges of building unity of knowledge, he presents a unified theory of capitalism. Second, he considers the epistemological problem of the role of theory in scientific knowledge. This book therefore deals with a consistent theoretical system. That having been said, these theories which contain logically correct propositions may turn out to be empirically false. In order to avoid this error, some rules of scientific knowledge are needed. Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment presents a method that contains such rules. The method is derived from the Popperian epistemology, making it operational in economics. The proposed unified theory is therefore empirically valid; it is a good approximation of the real world. Theoretical economics is thus treated under explicit epistemological rules: theory is the servant, not the master.
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment
by Adolfo FigueroaGrowth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in which these problems are analyzed using a unified theory framework. Figueroa achieves his goal by addressing two significant problems. First, to solve the epistemological challenges of building unity of knowledge, he presents a unified theory of capitalism. Second, he considers the epistemological problem of the role of theory in scientific knowledge. This book therefore deals with a consistent theoretical system. That having been said, these theories which contain logically correct propositions may turn out to be empirically false. In order to avoid this error, some rules of scientific knowledge are needed. Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment presents a method that contains such rules. The method is derived from the Popperian epistemology, making it operational in economics. The proposed unified theory is therefore empirically valid; it is a good approximation of the real world. Theoretical economics is thus treated under explicit epistemological rules: theory is the servant, not the master.
Growth, Equity, Environment and Population: Economic and Sociological Perspectives
by Kanchan Chopra C.H. Hanumantha RaoThe book brings together papers on a range of issues that are of relevance to the Indian economy and polity in the new millennium. The contributors examine issues relating to growth and macro-economic fundamentals, the state of and future prospects for industry and agriculture in an era of high growth and globalization. Growing regional disparities, gender issues and other forms of inequity dominate the analysis of health care, migration, fertility and mortality related issues. Contributors also analyse contentious issues at the interface of environment and development, such as environmental efficiency of industry, links between alternative notions of value and household use of biomass. In a complementary manner, sociological perspectives on religion, family, gender and state introduce into the volume a qualitative analysis of the social institutions within the framework of which economic growth and structural change take place.
Growth Experience in Transition Countries, 1990-98
by International Monetary FundA report from the International Monetary Fund.
The Growth Experiment Revisited: Why Lower, Simpler Taxes Really Are America's Best Hope for Recovery
by Lawrence B. LindseyThe first edition of The Growth Experiment, originally published in 1990 as a response to critics of the Reagan-era tax cuts, became a kind of bible for proponents of supply-side economics. This new and updated edition, which explores the economic effects of America’s tax policy over the last five presidential administrations, makes a bold and timely argument against the centerpiece of Obama’s economic policy--increasing taxes on the wealthy. Lawrence Lindsey provides a data-rich argument showing that because of changes in human behavior prompted by tax cuts, lowering taxes on the wealthy "costs” the treasury far less than most economists calculate and creates an economic boon to middle and lower income earners. Sure to be controversial, The Growth Experiment Revisited is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the arguments at the heart of this most fractious of American policy debates.
Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe
by Alessio TerziFrom the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change. Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It’s the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the economy? Might this even lead to a better society, especially in rich nations, helping us break free from a pointless obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio Terzi takes these legitimate questions as a starting point for a riveting journey into the socioeconomic, evolutionary, and cultural origins of our need for growth. It’s an imperative, he argues, that we abandon at our own risk. Terzi ranges across centuries and diverse civilizations to show that focus on economic expansion is deeply interwoven with the human quest for happiness, well-being, and self-determination. Growth, he argues, is underpinned by core principles and dynamics behind the West’s rise to affluence. These include the positivism of the Enlightenment, the acceleration of science and technology and, ultimately, progress itself. Today growth contributes to the stability of liberal democracy, the peaceful conduct of international relations, and the very way our society is organized through capitalism. Abandoning growth would not only prove impractical, but would also sow chaos, exacerbating conflict within and among societies. This does not mean we have to choose between chaos and environmental destruction. Growth for Good presents a credible agenda to enroll capitalism in the fight against climate catastrophe. With the right policies and the help of engaged citizens, pioneering nations can set in motion a global decarbonization wave and in parallel create good jobs and a better, greener, healthier world.
Growth Frontiers in International Business
by Kevin Ibeh Paz Estrella Tolentino Odile E. M. Janne Xiaming LiuThe ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter) Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business Reflecting the aim of the 43rd AIB-UKI Conference on re-invigorating the still faltering global economy, this new book brings together fresh and interdisciplinary perspectives on avenues for further advancing the growth of international enterprises and the global economy. Growth Frontiers in International Business includes contributions from a diverse number of established and emergent IB scholars, who richly illustrate contemporary international business growth frontiers. The book presents discussion and thought into four main foci; policy frontiers, emerging market frontiers, innovation pathways and ethical growth avenues.
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
by Ryan HolidayA Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and AdvertisingA new generation of megabrands like Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Twitter haven't spent a dime on traditional marketing. No press releases, no TV commercials, no billboards. Instead, they rely on a new strategy--growth hacking--to reach many more people despite modest marketing budgets. Growth hackers have thrown out the old playbook and replaced it with tools that are testable, trackable, and scalable. They believe that products and businesses should be modified repeatedly until they're primed to generate explosive reactions.Bestselling author Ryan Holiday, the acclaimed marketing guru for American Apparel and many bestselling authors and multiplatinum musicians, explains the new rules and provides valuable examples and case studies for aspiring growth hackers. Whether you work for a tiny start-up or a Fortune 500 giant, if you're responsible for building awareness and buzz for a product or service, this is your road map.
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising
by Ryan HolidayYour new business went online yesterday and you've got a marketing budget of zero. How are you supposed to create a movement around your product? How can you get to your first thousand - or million - customers? Starting from zero, it feels impossible. Enter the growth hacker. You may not have heard of growth hacking yet, but you've certainly used the billion dollar brands built by it: Hotmail, AirBnB, Facebook, Dropbox, amongst many others.Growth hackers thrive on doing what traditional businessmen would consider impossible: creating something from nothing. They 'hack' their company's growth to create a narrative of sensational success, turning excited media, users and social media into a viral marketing force that will help their business grow exponentially.Silicon Valley has realized that growth hacking - not television commercials and billboards - is the successful start-up's secret weapon. Now growth hacker extraordinaire Ryan Holiday is ready to share his experience, teaching you how to harness the power of growth to propel you to success. Featuring insights from leadinggrowth hackers, Growth Hacker Marketing is the essential guide to the revolutionary new approach to growing your business.
Growth Hacking – konsequent umsetzen: Prozesse, Instrumente und Mindset für ein schnelles und nachhaltiges Wachstum – mit Roadmap und Checklisten
by Lukas GassnerDer Nimbus des Silicon Valley ist ungebrochen. Doch was ist das Geheimnis hinter dem gigantischen Wachstum dieser Firmen? Wie ist es Facebook, Dropbox, Tesla, Airbnb und Co. gelungen, innerhalb von wenigen Jahren zu Unternehmen mit Milliarden-Bewertungen heranzuwachsen? Fragen, auf die Growth Hacking Antworten liefert. Diese Technik erfordert neben einem kreativen und innovativen Mindset zugleich tiefes Produkt- und Zielgruppenverständnis sowie eine strukturierte Vorgehensweise. Die Anleitung dazu liefert dieses Buch – mit Beispielen und Checklisten. Es bietet Growth-Hacking-Einsteigern und -Fortgeschrittenen einen praktischen Leitfaden zur Entwicklung und Überprüfung eigener Growth-Hacking-Aktivitäten. In einer Roadmap hat Lukas Gassner die Erkenntnisse und Growth-Hacking-Erfahrungen der letzten zehn Jahre zusammengetragen und zu einem roten Faden verknüpft. Sie erfahren, wie Sie regelmäßig individuelle Growth Hacks entwickeln können, die sowohl skalierbar als auch wiederholbar, messbar und wirksam sind. Dabei wird bewusst auf Veteranen-Storys und Anekdoten verzichtet. Hier geht es ausschließlich darum, wie Sie nachhaltige und reproduzierbare Ergebnisse erzielen. Ein umsetzungsorientiertes Buch für Start-ups und KMU sowie für Großunternehmen, die agil handeln können.Aus dem Inhalt Was ist Growth Hacking – und was ist es nicht? Und was ist ein Growth Hack?Der Growth-Hacking-Prozess: Mit Struktur zum ErfolgCustomer: Der Kunde steht immer im MittelpunktExperiments: Wachstum ist kein Zufall, sondern das Ergebnis planvollen VorgehensCulture: Einordnung des Growth Hackings im UnternehmenProduct: Die fünf Produktphasen im Growth Hacking Anwendung der Growth-Hacking-RoadmapGrowth-Hacking-Fallstudien digitaler und analoger Produkte
Growth Hacking For Dummies
by Anuj AdhiyaHack your business growth the scientific way Airbnb. Uber. Spotify. To join the big fish in the disruptive digital shark tank you need to get beyond siloed sales and marketing approaches. You have to move ahead fast—with input from your whole organization—or die. Since the early 2010s, growth hacking culture has developed as the way to achieve this, pulling together multiple talents—product managers, data analysts, programmers, creatives, and yes, marketers—to build a lean, mean, iterative machine that delivers the swift sustainable growth you need to stay alive and beat the competition. Growth Hacking for Dummies provides a blueprint for building the machine from the ground-up, whether you’re a fledgling organization looking for ways to outperform big budgets and research teams, or an established business wanting to apply emerging techniques to your process. Written by a growth thought leader who learned from the original growth hacking gurus, you’ll soon be an expert in the tech world innovations that make this the proven route to the big time: iteration, constant testing, agile approaches, and flexible responses to your customers’ evolving needs. Soup to nuts: get a full overview of the growth hacking process and tools Appliance of science: how to build and implement concept-testing models Coming together: pick up best practices for building a cross-disciplinary team Follow the data: find out what your customers really want You know you can’t just stay still—start moving ahead by developing the growth hacking mindset that’ll help you win big and leave the competition dead in the water!
Growth Hacking für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Anuj AdhiyaWer will das nicht: Marketing betreiben und dafür weniger Geld ausgeben? Growth Hacking wurde genau dafür entwickelt, es sollte Startups helfen, ohne viel Geld zu wachsen. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen einen Einblick in die Grundlagen des Growth-Hacking-Prozesses. Der Autor erläutert außerdem, wie Sie Kommunikationslinien mit Ihren Kunden eröffnen, wie Sie Testmodelle etablieren und wie Sie sich die nötigen Werkzeuge aneignen, um erfolgreich kostengünstiges Marketing zu betreiben. Zudem geht er noch darauf ein, wie Sie sich das richtige Team zusammenstellen und eine passende Firmenkultur einführen. So ist dieses Buch der verständliche und übersichtliche Start zu Ihrem schnellen Erfolg.
Growth Imperative
by Michael E. Raynor Clayton M. ChristensenGrowth is important because companies create shareholder value through profitable growth. However, the pursuit of new platforms for growth often entails daunting risk. This chapter addresses many of the reasons why achieving and sustaining growth is so hard, and outlines the book's format, each chapter offering a different theory to help managers make important decisions that will allow them to grow new competitive businesses with predictable success.
Growth In A Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815 (Princeton Economic History Of The Western World #3)
by Philip T. HoffmanPhilip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant and ultimately dependent on wide-scale political revolution for their growth. Through a richly detailed historical investigation of the peasant agriculture of ancien-régime France, the author uncovers evidence that requires a new understanding of what constituted economic growth in such societies. His arguments rest on a measurement of long-term growth that enables him to analyze the economic, institutional, and political factors that explain its forms and rhythms. <p><p> In comparing France with England and Germany, Hoffman arrives at fresh answers to some classic questions: Did French agriculture lag behind farming in other countries? If so, did the obstacles in French agriculture lurk within peasant society itself, in the peasants' culture, in their communal property rights, or in the small scale of their farms? Or did the obstacles hide elsewhere, in politics, in the tax system, or in meager opportunities for trade? <p> The author discovers that growth cannot be explained by culture, property rights, or farm size, and argues that the real causes of growth derived from politics and gains from trade. By challenging other widely held beliefs, such as the nature of the commons and the workings of the rural economy, Hoffman offers a new analysis of peasant society and culture, one based on microeconomics and game theory and intended for a wide range of social scientists.
Growth in Transition
by Friedrich Hinterberger Elke Pirgmaier Elisabeth Freytag Martina SchusterStimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy responses to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. However, are the current policy approaches capable of tackling these problems by generating win-win solutions or are they the root causes of these problems? The current growth trajectory has neither lead to a reduction of our overall resource use – as we use resources and energy more efficiently we consume more – nor create the conditions for employment and well-being. Increasingly, there is the realization that it is necessary to make substantial interventions into our national economies and create better framework conditions and incentive systems in order to more widely and rapidly develop and disseminate workable, innovative solutions for realizing sustainable development. This is the task of politics, and the concrete design of the measures must be built upon a broad public debate and shared long-term visions. The authors of this book intend to trigger a dialogue among stakeholders about how we can shape this transformation process towards sustainability. Following a detailed presentation of the key arguments for reconsidering the necessary conditions for sustainable economies, an international cast of commentators from politics, administration, civil society, business and science engage with the central question: is there an alternative trajectory for Western economies that sustains wellbeing whilst confronting ecological and social breakdown?