Contemporary Economic Issues Research Articles

Book Review: Today’s Economic Issues: Democrats and Republicans; Today’s Social Issues: Democrats and Republicans

Here I get the unique pleasure of reviewing two separate books in one shot. They are the first two volumes in ABC-CLIO’s Across the Aisle series, examining contemporary economic and social issues from the perspectives of America’s two most prominent and increasingly polarized political parties. Both volumes adhere to the same format and structure, and entries are comparable in quality and depth, the only difference being that Today’s Economic Issues contains a forward and introduction, whereas Social Issues has only a brief introduction. The former is an edited volume, whereas the latter is authored solely by Kneeland. As for the main content, the publisher is clearly going for uniformity throughout the series, so with my sincere apologies to the unique contributions of the authors and editors, I will for the most part be reviewing the two books together.

Downward Mobility and the Individualization of Youth Struggle: Girls as Public Pedagogy

Economic recovery since the Great Recession of 2008–09 has been slow, and youth have felt particular and acute effects of this era of economic decline. This article examines the downward mobility contemporary youth are experiencing and assesses the rise of creative employment as a result of both the evaporation of permanent full-time work and a shift in youth values. Analyzing the television series Girls as an example of public pedagogy, this article investigates how contemporary economic issues involving youth are both highlighted and erased in public consciousness and considers the policy ramifications of this minimization of youth struggle.

Resource extraction and national anxieties: China’s economic presence in Mongolia

Over the last two decades and particularly in the last 10 years, Chinese investment in Mongolia has skyrocketed, with the vast majority of the country’s exports now flowing to China. As foreign investment has grown in Mongolia, particularly in the mining sector, apprehension circulates about the extension and meaning of increased Chinese power. We argue that contemporary anxieties about China’s economic influence in Mongolia go beyond recent and contemporary political economic issues and are tied to memories of the Qing Dynasty. Controversies surrounding Mongolia’s flagship mine, the Oyu Tolgoi copper–gold mine in South Gobi province, demonstrate how even non-Chinese foreign mining operations are intertwined with Mongolia’s past and future relationships with China. Rather than acting simply as resource nationalists, the people and government of Mongolia often see contemporary Chinese economic power through a historical lens, with fears of declining sovereignty and becoming Chinese through control over land and resources. This paper draws on fieldwork conducted by the authors in Mongolia from 2009 to 2015 and contributes to discussions about fears of Chinese influence, extractive industry development, and resource nationalism in Mongolia.

Contemporary issues in economics, business and management - EBM 2016, November 9-10, 2016, Faculty of Economics - University of Kragujevac, the Republic of Serbia

Contemporary issues in economics, business and management - EBM 2016, November 9-10, 2016, Faculty of Economics - University of Kragujevac, the Republic of Serbia

Downward Mobility and the Individualization of Youth Struggle: Girls as Public Pedagogy

Economic recovery since the Great Recession of 2008–09 has been slow, and youth have felt particular and acute effects of this era of economic decline. This article examines the downward mobility contemporary youth are experiencing and assesses the rise of creative employment as a result of both the evaporation of permanent full-time work and a shift in youth values. Analyzing the television series Girls as an example of public pedagogy, this article investigates how contemporary economic issues involving youth are both highlighted and erased in public consciousness and considers the policy ramifications of this minimization of youth struggle.

Contemporary Issues in Economics, Business and Management - EBM 2014, November 27, 2014, Faculty of Economics - University of Kragujevac, The Republic of Serbia

Contemporary Issues in Economics, Business and Management - EBM 2014, November 27, 2014, Faculty of Economics - University of Kragujevac, The Republic of Serbia

Contemporary Issues in Economics of Dairy Markets and Policy

Marin Bozic is an assistant professor, Department of Applied Economics, and an associate director, Midwest Dairy Foods Research Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Andrew Novakovic is the E. V. Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics, Director of Outreach, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Contemporary Issues in Economics of Dairy Markets and Policy

Editorial: Contemporary Issues in International Economics

International dimension is at the core of modern business activity and globalization processes tighten interconnectedness also at the macroeconomic level to unprecedented levels. This is clearly demonstrated by the first two issues of our review and expressed in editorial introductions (Wach, 2013; Klich, 2013). Thus, the third issue is explicitly devoted to contemporary issues in international economics. Obviously, tackling them in the way as complete as for example in Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (Dicken, 2011) is impossible, taken into consideration limits of a journal issue.

A Failure to Report? Presidential Election Politics and the 2008 Economic Crisis

This paper addresses a key question that has thus far received scant attention: How do presidential candidates frame, spin, and sell the economic news on the campaign trail? A controlled random sample of 180 news articles was taken between August 2008 to November 2008 from six regionally diverse newspapers, The New York Times, USA Today, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Philadelphia Inquirer. In spite of conventional expectations related to candidate discussions, economics along with general defense issues and energy/environment were the most discussed policy issues in the 2008 election. Economic news reporting, thus, is dependent upon political cycles, presidential candidates, and varying economic concerns. Additionally, the evidence suggests that both candidate concerns and contemporary economic issues drive candidate speech related to the economy.

English

Welcome to the Special Issue of Journal of Economic and Social Studies (JECOSS). While JECOSS aims to embody interdisciplinary areas such as economics, business administration, public administration, political studies, international relations, labor economics and industrial relations, econometrics, sociology and psychology, this Special Issue focuses on contemporary economic issues in the Balkans and is titled as A Comparative Analysis of Current Economic Development in the Balkan Countries.. The Balkan Peninsula (South Eastern Europe) is an important area where both important historical and political events are taken place for the centuries. It has also recently experienced an unprecedented transformation. Over the past two decades, the Balkan Countries have gone through very important economic, social and political changes. Some former socialist countries (Bulgaria-2007, Slovenia-2004 and Romania-2007) and Greece (1981) have become full members of the EU. Some other Balkan countries (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia) have experienced fierce political conflicts which ended up with the wars in the region in 1990s. Following the turmoil, these countries have started to struggle for economic, social and political reconstruction process. In the war and during economic and politicaltransformation, many of the Balkan countries had economically declined. Their welfare levels had gone down.

Current Issues in Financial Economics: An Overview

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a number of contemporary issues in financial economics. The issues analyzed include causes of bank failures, financing of small and medium size enterprise financing, convergence of international equity markets, the importance of CEOs to shareholders, the effects of Accounting Standard 158, the impact of credit cards on aggregate money holdings, and measures of industrial concentration.

Gordon Brown and the role of compounded crisis in the pathology of leadership decline

Gordon Brown's premiership has become indelibly associated with a crisis of manifold complexity. The aggregate effects of what has been, in effect, a proliferation of crises, has been to revive the more formalistic and traditional categories of leadership decline in terms of a return to cabinet government and constitutional balances. The purpose of this article is not to deny the diagnostic and explanatory utility of these categories, but to question the extent to which they can amount to a comprehensive and exclusive register of the politically degenerative properties surrounding a leadership under severe pressure. The analysis examines the different types of crisis that Brown has had to confront, and gives close attention to the way these crises have impacted upon his own personal crisis of adaptation to the demands of contemporary leadership politics. Brown's conspicuous problems with the style and repertoire of his leadership fomented an altogether richer form of pathology than that which could be attributed solely to the effects of contemporary economic, international and social issues. By the same token, the dynamics of his decline revealed a different dimension to the more conventional sources of understanding surrounding the erosion of leadership authority in the British system of government.

‘Some people are never going to be able to do that’. Challenges for people with intellectual disability in the 21st century

This article surveys contemporary macro social, economic and political issues and considers how they define the context of life for people with intellectual disability in the early 21st century. It suggests that processes associated with globalisation intensify the agenda of neo‐liberalism to fundamentally determine their everyday social arrangements and experiences, at least in western democracies such as the USA, the UK and Australia. Risk has now emerged as an overarching principle informing social responses to intellectual disability, while marketisation and privatisation have given rise to a complex dynamic whereby demands for individualism have become interconnected with states of dependency. Emerging technologies of citizenship have seen paradoxical notions of choice, consent, needs and interests applied to people with intellectual disability. These new forms of governance pose personal challenges at an individual level and political challenges to the collective of self‐advocacy in its project for change in a globalising world.

Integrating Evolutionary Economics into the Microeconomic Principles Course

Is it possible to teach mainstream microeconomic principles which prepare students for upper division economics courses while also exposing them to the well known heterodox dissent of Veblen, Galbraith, Boulding, Myrdal, Schumacher, and others? This article offers a method for presenting in a timely manner key institutionalist counterarguments to neoclassical microeconomics in the logical sequence familiar to those who teach the subject. Such an approach allows the micro principles course to become more of the survey it was originally intended to be for first time economics students and to offer a wider interdisciplinary view into which controversial contemporary economic issues may be more easily introduced, discussed, and understood.

Contemporary Issues in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications Edited by Ralf Becker and Stan Hurn

Economic RecordVolume 82, Issue 257 p. 232-234 Contemporary Issues in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications Edited by Ralf Becker and Stan Hurn Nilanjana Roy, Nilanjana Roy University of Victoria CanadaSearch for more papers by this author Nilanjana Roy, Nilanjana Roy University of Victoria CanadaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 23 May 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00323.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume82, Issue257June 2006Pages 232-234 RelatedInformation

Capital flows and crises

The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He focuses on the connections between capital flows and crises as well as on those between capital flows and growth. Eichengreen argues that international financial liberalization, like other forms of economic liberalization, can positively affect the efficiency of resource allocation and the rate of economic growth. But analyses of both recent and historical experience also show an undeniable association between capital mobility and crises, especially when domestic institutions are weak and the harmonization of capital account liberalization and other policy reforms is inadequate. In his conclusion, Eichengreen makes suggestions for policy design to maximize the benefits of international financial liberalization while minimizing the risks of financial instability.

Book Review: Contemporary issues in development economics

Book Review: Contemporary issues in development economics

Aristotle in the 21st Century

This review focuses upon three themes from Aristotle's Economic Thought (Meikle, 1995) to reveal how (i) Aristotle's essentialist metaphysics can assist in clarifying contemporary issues in (ii) value theory and (iii) economics as ethics. Essentialism allows one to pose (adequately) the central question of value, namely: what is the entity that renders incommensurable commodities commensurable? Essentialism, by discouraging the elision of differences between activities with different aims, sharply differentiates between those activities which aim at use value, and those which aim at exchange value. Pursuit of the latter encourages neglect of the former, making it difficult for society to pursue ethical aims.

The Japanese Economy

A comparative perspective and an analytic approach grounded in mainstream economics distinguish this broad, accessible introduction to the Japanese economy. Throughout, Ito utilizes standard economic concepts in comparing Japan with the United States in terms of economic performances, underlying institutions, and government policies. Referring to cultural factors where appropriate, Ito subjects the basic facts about the Japanese economy to modern theoretical and empirical scrutiny, discussing macroeconomic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial structures and policies, the labor market, saving and investment, and international trade and finance. Ito reviews relevant aspects of Japan's history before launching into a broad analysis of the country's markets and its economic policies. He concludes with a look at such contemporary economic issues as the Japanese distribution system, Japanese asset prices, and US-Japan trade conflicts.

Women, men, and management: Redesigning our future

Abstract Fundamental political and economic changes that are under way are examined, together with implications for the workplace and society at large, from the perspective of two underlying social organization types —the dominator and partnership models. Contemporary economic trends and gender issues are placed in both the context of fundamental social and ideological change, and the broader context of sociocultural evolution. Particular emphasis is placed on the issue of women as managers or leaders.