Israeli Economy (eBook)

A Story of Success and Costs

Joseph Zeira (Autor)

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2021
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22970-6 (ISBN)

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An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries in the world. The Israeli Economy tells the story of this remarkable transformation, shedding critical new light on Israel's rapid economic growth.Joseph Zeira takes readers from those early days to today, describing how Israel's economic development occurred amid intense fighting with the Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries. He reveals how the new state's astonishing growth continued into the early 1970s, and traces this growth to public investment in education and to large foreign transfers. Zeira analyzes the costs of the Arab-Israeli conflict, demonstrating how economic output could be vastly greater with a comprehensive peace. He discusses how Israel went through intensive neoliberal economic policies in recent decades, and shows how these policies not only failed to enhance economic performance, but led to significant social inequality.Based on more than two decades of groundbreaking research, The Israeli Economy is an in-depth survey of a modern economy that has experienced rapid growth, wars, immigration waves, and other significant shocks. It thus offers important lessons for nations around the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Zusatzinfo: 45 b/w illus. 46 tables. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: 1948 Palestinian exodus • 1982 Lebanon War • Aliyah • Arab citizens of Israel • Arab–Israeli conflict • arabs • balance of trade • Balfour Declaration • Beirut • Berl Katznelson • Business Cycle • Centre-right politics • Chapter 9 • David Ben-Gurion • Demographics of Israel • Demography • developed country • Economic Growth • Economic History • Economic Inequality • Economics • economist • economy • Economy of Israel • Education • Employment • Expense • Fifth Aliyah • First Aliyah • First Intifada • Fourth Aliyah • Golan Heights • Great Famine (Ireland) • Gulf War • HAMAS • Hashomer Hatzair • Hebrew University of Jerusalem • histadrut • Hovevei Zion • Illegal Immigration • Immigration • Immigration Act of 1924 • Inflation Tax • Institution • Intifada • invasion of Kuwait • Israel • Israeli Declaration of Independence • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Israelis • Jerusalem • Jewish Agency for Israel • Jews • Labour movement • Lebanese Civil War • Lecture • Mandatory Palestine • Market Failure • Mizrahi Jews • Moshav • Muslim world • Neoliberalism • New Nation (United States) • Old Yishuv • opportunity cost • Palestine Liberation Organization • Palestinian National Authority • Palestinian refugees • palestinians • Palestinian territories • Petah Tikva • Poalei Agudat Yisrael • Privatization • public agenda • Public Expenditure • Recession • Refugee • rhetoric • Rosh Pinna • Safed • Salah • Second Aliyah • Sephardi Jews • Sinai Peninsula • Six-Day War • Social Order • Statism • Suez Crisis • Supranational union • Tel Aviv • The Other Hand • Trade Agreement • Trade-off • Trade Union • Unemployment • War of attrition • White Paper of 1939 • yishuv • Yom Kippur War • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22970-8 / 0691229708
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22970-6 / 9780691229706