{"product_id":"9789814641456","title":"DIAGNOSTICS FOR A GLOBALIZED WORLD","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do you gauge the accomplishments of policy and its failures? While a number of nations are successful in optimizing a socio-economic welfare function, others are woefully falling short of the optimal frontier. \u003ci\u003eDiagnostics for a Globalized World\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a reformulation of the inherited theory of economic and social policy (codified in the 1950s by Jan Tinbergen) to find a diagnostic tool in measuring the effectiveness of economic and social policy. Using a logarithmic adaptation of data envelopment analysis, the authors explain how to rank the attainment of nations of multidimensional goals such as those expressed by the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and upcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword \u003ci\u003e(Dr David V Gibson)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economic and Social Policy of Nations: Achievements \u0026amp; Failures:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOverview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Theory of Economic and Social Policy Reconsidered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRating Country Performance by Frontier Analysis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecent Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Fair Globalization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNested Decision Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompetitiveness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisequilibrium and Chaos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Geneva Consensus (Ruzanna Tarverdyan):\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOverview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeyond GDP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeyond the Washington Consensus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToward a Sustainable Globalization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemembering Times Past and Honoring Four Great Scholars (Sten Thore):\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOverview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJan Tinbergen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbe Charnes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eW W Cooper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIlya Prigogine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e Postgraduate students taking courses in International Trade and International Relations; students of Operations Research illustrating the use of the quantitative technique called data envelopment analysis (DEA) to gauge the economic performance of nations; national and international policy makers in charge of evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of policy interventions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresents a metric for the social and economic performance of nations that international organizations such as the ILO, the World Bank, UN, WTO, UNCTAD, OECD, EC, UNECE, and the World Economic Forum are currently scrambling to develop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpands on earlier work published jointly with W W Cooper, ranking 102 nations on all continents in terms of their achievements of “Decent Work” and “A Fair Globalization”. The present study also includes a study of the “competitiveness” of nations, comparing the work by the US Council for Competitiveness and the World Economic Forum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes the last published work by the late W W Cooper, the co-founder of data envelopment analysis, actually extending his own pioneering work of 1978. Published on the occasion of Cooper's centenary in 2014, and sponsored by Cooper's long-term academic home — the IC\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e Institute (Innovation, Creativity and Capital), The University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"World Scientific \/ Now Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139928080624,"sku":"9789814641456","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814641456_p0.jpg?v=1763691789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814641456","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}