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The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators

Challenges of Definition, Aggregation, and Application

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  1. King Banaian
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  2. Bryan Roberts
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This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests better measures than those currently used.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Challenges of Measurement in Political Economy

    • King Banaian, Marta Podemska, Bryan Roberts
    Pages 1-14

  3. So You Want to Use a Measure of Openness?

    • H. Lane David
    Pages 15-32

  4. Measuring Central Bank Independence: Ordering, Ranking, or Scoring?

    • King Banaian
    Pages 33-55

  5. Fiscal Indicators

    • John E. Anderson
    Pages 57-79

  6. A New and Better Measure of Capital Controls

    • Pariyate Potchamanawong, Arthur T. Denzau, Sunil Rongala, Joshua C. Walton, Thomas D. Willett
    Pages 81-102

  7. Measuring Welfare

    • Bryan Roberts
    Pages 103-138

  8. Why and How to Move from Capturing Perception of to Quantifying Corruption?

    • Omer Gokcekus, Justin Myzie
    Pages 139-153

  9. New Interpretations of Indices of Economic Freedom

    • King Banaian, William Luksetich
    Pages 155-170

  10. On the Methodology of the Economic Freedom of the World Index

    • Robert A. Lawson
    Pages 171-185

  11. Government Structure, Strength, and Effectiveness

    • Joshua C. Walton, Apanard Angkinand, Marina Arbetman, Marie Besançon, Eric M. P. Chiu, Suzanne Danis et al.
    Pages 187-215

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219
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About the authors

KING BANAIAN is a Professor and Chariman of the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University, USA.
BRYAN ROBERTS is a Program Manager for the Department of Homeland Security.

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