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Why are some countries rich and others poor? David N. Weil, one of
the top researchers in economic growth, introduces students to the
latest theoretical tools, data, and insights underlying this
pivotal question. By showing how empirical data relate to new and
old theoretical ideas, Economic Growth provides students with a
complete introduction to the discipline and the latest research.
With its comprehensive and flexible organization, Economic Growth
is ideal for a wide array of courses, including undergraduate and
graduate courses in economic growth, economic development, macro
theory, applied econometrics, and development studies.
Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better examines the performance and
operation of the US homebuilding sector based on a detailed survey
of large home builders conducted by the authors in the period of
the great building boom of the 2000s. In contrast to the many books
that have focused on the financial side of the housing sector prior
to the Great Recession, the book examines the operational side of
the industry and what did, and, more importantly, what did not,
happen during the period of unprecedented growth. Despite the rise
of very large, national homebuilders during the boom years from
1999 to 2005 and the consolidation of the industry that accompanied
it, the authors find that major homebuilders often did not adopt
innovations in areas ranging from information technology, supply
chain practices, and work site management, nor improve their
operational performance. Given this, the book discusses what
homebuilders can learn from other industries as they face a
challenging future.
Which SUVs are most likely to rollover? What cities have the
unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous
polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades,
governments have sought to provide answers to such critical
questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water
authorities, and others to improve their products and practices.
Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school
report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies.
At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that
improves markets, enriches public discourse, and empowers citizens.
But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive.
Based on an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies,
Full Disclosure shows that information is often incomplete,
incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers,
and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies
must be accurate, keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find
loopholes, and, above all, focus on the needs of ordinary citizens.
For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many
workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David
Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed
their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their
products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that
compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining
wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety conditions,
and ever-widening income inequality. "Authoritative...[The Fissured
Workplace] shed[s] important new light on the resurgence of the
power of finance and its connection to the debasement of work and
income distribution." -Robert Kuttner, New York Review of Books
"The kinds of workplace fissuring discussed here-subcontracting,
franchising and global supply chains--have been the subjects of a
number of studies detailing the employment effects that Weil
describes. The Fissured Workplace is unusual in bringing this
research together into an integrated, detailed and decidedly
policy-oriented analysis...It makes a convincing case that the
better regulation of fissured workplaces is a first step towards
reversing the erosion of pay and conditions at the bottom of the
labor market." -Virginia Doellgast, Times Higher Education
Explains the major changes in the textile and clothing industry that are taking place mostly in the USA. Shows the central role of information systems in providing data on sales at the retail level that is communicated back through the system to garment distributors, manufacturers, designers, and to the starting point: the manufacturers of the cloth from which the garments are made.
Why are some countries rich and others poor? David N. Weil, one of
the top researchers in economic growth, introduces students to the
latest theoretical tools, data, and insights underlying this
pivotal question. By showing how empirical data relate to new and
old theoretical ideas, Economic Growth provides students with a
complete introduction to the discipline and the latest research.
With its comprehensive and flexible organization, Economic Growth
is ideal for a wide array of courses, including undergraduate and
graduate courses in economic growth, economic development, macro
theory, applied econometrics, and development studies.
Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure
strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and
services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these
targeted transparency policies include financial securities
disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile
rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute
a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens.
However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently
ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis
of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency
policies often produce information that is incomplete,
incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors,
workers, and community residents who could benefit from them.
Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it
form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be
successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary
citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their
everyday choices.
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