Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya

Catalogue 2012 Economics 15
New New
Ekonomi Pasaran Sosial
Alternatif untuk Malaysia?
Amin Ahmad
Umumnya, Jerman adalah sebuah negara
yang hebat pengalaman transisi politiknya.
Daripada pemerintahan monarki kepada
pemerintahan demokrasi, seterusnya
kediktatoran dan juga terpecahnya Negara
itu kepada dua wilayah di bawah zon
pendudukan asing, berdirinya Tembok
Berlin sebagai simbol Perang Dingin
paling diingati dalam sejarah, Jerman kini merupakan sebuah
Negara yang dihormati di seluruh dunia. Buku ini ditulis
untuk menelusuri pelbagai simpang penting dalam sejarah
politik-ekonomi-sosial Jerman sejak pasca Perang Dunia
Pertama sehingga keruntuhan Tembok Berlin, dan seterusnya
pasca penyatuan wilayah Barat dan Timur dengan focus
kepada keajaiban ekonomi Jerman (Wirtschaftswunder) yang
dinisbahkan kepada system Ekonomi Pasaran Sosial (Soziale
Marktwirtschaft). Meskipun umumnya banyak perbezaan
yang boleh ditunjukkan, beberapa ruang pembelajaran
boleh didapatkan dalam perbandingan antara Jerman dan
Malaysia.
Publisher: IKD
2011: 142 pp
ISBN: 9789838840965: RM25.00 / S$17.50
New
Poverty and Global Recession in
Southeast Asia
Edited by Aris Ananta and Richard Barichello
Financial crises after financial crises
have occurred, with widening impact and
deepening severity. This book started
with an objective to understand the
impact of high inflation on poverty in
Southeast Asia. However, global inflation
moved quickly into recession in 2008.
Southeast was not an exception. The
book then refocused the title to Poverty
and Global Recession in Southeast Asia. It is a modest
attempt to contribute a better understanding of poverty and
food security in Southeast Asia during the 2008-09 global
recessions, considering both recent developments and the
previous major crisis of 1997-98. The book may also help to
anticipate some possible impacts of future global recession
on food and poverty, not only in Southeast Asia, but also in
many other countries in the world.
Publisher: ISEAS
2012: 432 pp
ISBN: 9789814311199: RM125.00 / S$49.90
Economic Policy and Human Rights
Holding Governments to Account
Edited by Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson
Economic Policy and Human Rights
present a powerful critique of
neoliberal economic policies, assessed
from the perspective of human rights
norms. In doing so, it brings together
two areas of thought and action
that have hitherto been separate:
progressive economics and human
rights advocacy. Focusing on
in-depth comparative case studies
of the United States and Mexico and looking at issues
such as public expenditure, taxation and international
trade, the book shows that heterodox economic analysis
benefits greatly from a deeper understanding of a human
rights framework, challenging a narrow focus on efficiency
and growth. Economic Policy and Human Rights is a
vital book for anyone interested in human rights and in
harnessing economics to create a better world.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 257 pp
ISBN: 9781848138742: RM110.00 / S$47.80
New
APEC
New Agenda in Its Third Decade
Ippei Yamazawa
RM100.00/S$39.90
Ippei Yamazawa is one of the
fathers to the study of Asia-Pacific
regional cooperation in Japan
and has contributed hugely to the
development and work of APEC
over many years. APEC is a crucial
trans-regional arrangement that
draws the United States into
constructive economic engagement
with East Asia. This book makes
it clear why APEC remains such a
crucial element of regional
economic architecture and defines an agenda going
forward to which regional leaders should aspire. Here
is a first rate exposition of the priorities for regional
cooperation in Asia and the Pacific. – Peter Drysdale,
Professor Emeritus, Australian National University
Publisher: ISEAS
2012: 140 pp
ISBN: 9789814311632: RM100.00 / S$39.90
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