Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash Networks are ubiquitous in our modern society The World Wide Web that links us to and enables information flows with the rest of the world is the most visible example It is however only one of many networks within which we are situated Our …

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Networks

Daron Acemoglu; Asu Ozdaglar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards 'rethinking economics' due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater wellbeing or at least an encouraging economic future.

2017

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A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics

Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sergio Rossi

Edward Elgar Publishing

Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times.

2013

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Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition

Paul Hare, Gerard Turley

Routledge

Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions.

2012

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Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Crown

Rethinking Regulation of International Finance encapsulates the most important aspects of the development and operation of the international financial system. This book questions the fundamental basis of the existing international financial architecture (soft law) and explores the need for a compliance-based model based on legitimacy of regulations and accountability of the regulatory bodies in international financial stability.

2018

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Rethinking Regulation of International Finance

Uzma Ashraf Barton

Kluwer Law International

Mainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry have broadened, these assumptions have becomehindrances rather than aids.

2003

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Prelude to Political Economy

Kaushik Basu

Oxford University Press

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.

2002

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Kicking Away the Ladder

Ha-Joon Chang

Anthem Press