wyszukanych pozycji: 37
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Climate Change, Culture, and Economics: Anthropological Investigations
ISBN: 9781785603617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that human activity is a factor in global climate change. This special volume of REA facilitates readers to better understand the ways in which people around the world have adapted (or failed to adapt) culturally to changing economic conditions caused by climate change. It focuses on specific situations in particular locations, showcasing (and confirming) the strength and value of intensive ethnographic or archaeological "investigation. The authors discuss: 1) How has climate change affected production, distribution, or consumption at the local...
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that human activity is a factor in global climate change. This special volume of REA facilitates readers...
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594,04 |
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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy
ISBN: 9780333372296 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Monetary and exchange rate policies of national monetary authorities, together with certain of their consequences, provide the common theme for the studies in this volume. Four of the contributions are mainly concerned with exchange rate policy-decisions to alter fixed parities, intervention by central banks in foreign exchange markets, and the determinants of exchange rates including intervention and the degree of capital mobility. Two studies are oriented to aspects of domestic monetary policy, one examining policy reactions of French monetary authorities, the other concerning the choice of...
Monetary and exchange rate policies of national monetary authorities, together with certain of their consequences, provide the common theme for the st...
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606,65 |
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Individual and Social Adaptions to Human Vulnerability
ISBN: 9781787691766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the series by taking a close look at human vulnerability: the ways in which people attempt to cope with it and barriers to successfully overcoming it. The two leading articles both take up the issue of microfinance; Daniel Murphy examines the influences of this in the lives of pastoralists in Mongolia, and Megan Hinrichsen explores related processes among vendors in Quito, Ecuador. Next, Elena Sischarenco looks at ways of dealing with vulnerability...
This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the seri...
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444,22 |
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International Logistics
ISBN: 9780412992216 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Both academia and the real world are showing a vastly increased interest in international logistics. Although this book covers the entire topic, it may not contain sufficient detail to answer all questions. The topic-and the challenge is much larger than any single book can cover A number of people helped us, and their assistance should be recognized. They include Robert L. Argentieri, Eunice Coleman, Patricia J. Daugherty, Robert Derbin, Robert Hannus, Ken Knox, Douglas Long, Eugene L. Magad, Dale S. Rogers, Robert Rouse, John Silvey, and Clyde Kenneth Walter. This book is designed for both...
Both academia and the real world are showing a vastly increased interest in international logistics. Although this book covers the entire topic, it ma...
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606,65 |
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Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches
ISBN: 9781780522289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "The Economics of Religion" explores the new paradigms of "religious economics" and "economies of religion" under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. It examines and appraises some of the recent theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences. This volume offers the chance to extend the analysis of religious behaviours by means of conceptual and methodological models of economics. It goes far beyond the classical "economy and religion" debate, and suggests not only theoretical but also epistemological changes in the study of...
"The Economics of Religion" explores the new paradigms of "religious economics" and "economies of religion" under the scope of transdisciplinary and i...
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537,21 |
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Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America
ISBN: 9781781900581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history and present day economic processes, the contributions to this volume are subdivided into three major thematic sections. Part I addresses questions of how the political economy is articulated at the macro- and micro-level through processes of consumption, production, gift-giving, and evolution....
Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect th...
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511,38 |
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Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Interdependence
ISBN: 9780333436455 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The contributors examine the conduct and consequences of national macroeconomic policy in a world of economically independent countries. The book's main themes include the effect of deregulation and financial innovation and of budget deficits on monetary policy, the role of exchange rates in the international transmission of disturbances of a monetary or fiscal origin, the effectiveness of price controls in moderating the economic cost of deflationary maroeconomic policies and the implications of cooperative versus non-cooperative approaches to policy under conditions of economic...
The contributors examine the conduct and consequences of national macroeconomic policy in a world of economically independent countries. The book's ma...
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671,53 |
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The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations
ISBN: 9781786352286 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume consists of three sections connected by the elucidation of differences in perspective between people and polities. The first, concentrating on ecology, serves in part to further explore the theme of climate change. It looks into aquifer usage and ecology in the Midwestern United States, farming and climate shifts in Costa Rica and in Burkina Faso, and goat herding and conservation issues in the Himalayas. The second section focuses on exchange transactions and relations in a variety of situations and settings: among Nigerian immigrant business owners in New York City, along the...
This volume consists of three sections connected by the elucidation of differences in perspective between people and polities. The first, concentratin...
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526,88 |
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International Logistics
ISBN: 9781461358671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Both academia and the real world are showing a vastly increased interest in international logistics. Although this book covers the entire topic, it may not contain sufficient detail to answer all questions. The topic-and the challenge- is much larger than any single book can cover A number of people helped us, and their assistance should be recognized. They include Robert L. Argentieri, Eunice Coleman, Patricia J. Daugherty, Robert Derbin, Robert Hannus, Ken Knox, Douglas Long, Eugene L. Magad, Dale S. Rogers, Robert Rouse, John Silvey, and Clyde Kenneth Walter. This book is designed for...
Both academia and the real world are showing a vastly increased interest in international logistics. Although this book covers the entire topic, it ma...
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cena:
647,09 |
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Anthropological Considerations of Production, Exchange, Vending and Tourism
ISBN: 9781787431959 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and significant theme in economic anthropology: production, exchange, vending, and tourism.
Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and significant theme in...
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470,05 |
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Planning for Drought: Toward a Reduction of Societal Vulnerability
ISBN: 9780367298449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 597 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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220,79 |
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Anthropological Enquiries Into Policy, Debt, Business And Capitalism
ISBN: 9781839096594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Volume 40 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores current issues in national and international policy, cost and debt, business and capitalism, and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running through the collection is the steady encroachment of neoliberalism into economic policy and practice, and the impact this has had on everyday ways of life. In Part I, Raja Swamy explores post-disaster relocation and livelihood issues in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India, Anthony Rausch and Junichiro Koji investigate Japan’s Hometown Tax Donation...
Volume 40 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores current issues in national and international policy, cost and debt, business and capitalism, a...
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464,89 |
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Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility
ISBN: 9781848550582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates, or ought to operate. This collection of essays discusses a series of alternative perspectives - manifested in ethical movements, alternative consumer behaviour, and social corporate responsibility initiatives - that seek to reveal the 'hidden hands' of power, inequality and morality that shape Market exchange. Against the impersonality of the...
In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rat...
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780,62 |
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Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility
ISBN: 9781781901571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates, or ought to operate. This collection of essays discusses a series of alternative perspectives - manifested in ethical movements, alternative consumer behaviour, and social corporate responsibility initiatives - that seek to reveal the 'hidden hands' of power, inequality and morality that shape Market exchange. Against the impersonality of the...
In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rat...
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201,42 |
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Wawa
ISBN: 9781531621261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wawa has more than two hundred years of history in American business. Founded in 1803 and incorporated in 1865, Wawa has roots in the manufacture of cast-iron water pipes and decorative lampposts. Using the resources and surplus water power from the iron business, the family opened a cotton mill and began producing cotton piece goods, including Red Star diapers. The first Wawa milk plant opened in 1902; by the late 1950s, the Wawa Dairy had expanded its home delivery business to include over one hundred forty-five routes. The first Wawa Food Market opened on April 16, 1964. Today, the company...
Wawa has more than two hundred years of history in American business. Founded in 1803 and incorporated in 1865, Wawa has roots in the manufacture of c...
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121,93 |
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Dimensions of Ritual Economy
ISBN: 9780762314850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the building blocks of a theory of ritual economythe process of provisioning...
Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as ...
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388,27 |
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Dimensions of Ritual Economy
ISBN: 9781781901533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book explores how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming.
Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as ...
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201,42 |