Bøger af John Weeks

As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation. According to mainstream economic theory, the effect of this shift would be to favour agriculture. This book, with contributors from Latin America and Europe, surveys the results on agriculture of a decade of policy change, and to produce new and unexpected insights.

Africa with all the frills from earliest times to 1972. Historical romp from Somalia to the Cape and covering the Great Trek - hunting in the Okavango - and political intrigue and adventure.

A study of the history of Sierra Leone concentrating on economic aspects. Conclusions and possible alternatives are put forward by the author.

The purpose of this book is to provide a critique of the standard neoclassical macroeconomic model. This model is the basis of certain "parables" which play a major role in policy-making and in the way that the layman conceives of economic policy and management.