- Additional Authors
- Brand, William R.
- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 460 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Wędrujący świat. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Wędrujący świat.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- The world, words, and meaning: where truth, errors and lies in economics and politics come from and what to do to make truth come first -- How things happen : economic process - what science, policy, and happenstance have to do with them and who set it up this way -- A breif history of the world and what we can learn from it : why some countries are wealthy and others poor and whether it must always be so -- Globalization - and then what? Where globalization originated and how to come out ahead in the era of worldwide interdependence -- The world as it is : how people are coping in various corners of a changing world -- The withering of neoliberalism and its tattered legacy : why a harmful concept rose to temporary ascendancy in half the world and what to do about it -- What development is and what it depends on : where socioeconomic development comes from and how it can make us happy -- Stagnation and development - institutions, policy, and culture : on the rules of the economic game, deleterious and progressive policies, and the significance of culture in development -- The coincidence theory of development and the new pragmatism : what output growth and economic development depend on and how to make them better -- The uncertain future : what awaits us in the near and distant future and what say we have in it.
- LCCN
- 2010033569
- OCLC
- ssj0000488081
- Author
Kołodko, Grzegorz W.
- Title
Truth, errors, and lies [electronic resource] : politics and economics in a volatile world / Grzegorz W. Kolodko ; translated from the Polish by William R. Brand.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Brand, William R.