The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany: Containing Social Reforms
ISBN: 9781138803510 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assessing the role of employers in the development of welfare state & labour market institutions, this book builds on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms & explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative & historical literature on the welfare state.
Assessing the role of employers in the development of welfare state & labour market institutions, this book builds on an in-depth analysis of Germany,...
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262,42 zł |
Economic Consequences of the Size of Nations
ISBN: 9780333406359 / Angielski / Twarda / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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776,43 zł |
Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth
ISBN: 9780812279238 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unsatisfactory performance of the United States economy during the 1970s generated considerable debate over potential new directions for economic policy. This volume, the result of the second Wharton/Reliance Symposium held in May 1983, presents and analyzes a range of economic policy options. The focus of the volume is on potential policy remedies for the economic problems of slow real output and productivity growth. Given the range of issues covered and the alternative viewpoints presented, this collection does not search for an overall policy consensus. To focus on consensus... The unsatisfactory performance of the United States economy during the 1970s generated considerable debate over potential new directions for econom... |
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383,60 zł |
Myth-Busting China's Numbers: Understanding and Using China's Statistics
ISBN: 9781137353191 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A good understanding of Chinese data gathering methods and reporting structures is invaluable to anyone with business or investment plans in China. This book tackles the veracity of Chinese statistics, raising awareness of abuses and problems in real-life examples that have occurred, and provides practical strategies to reduce risk in the future.
A good understanding of Chinese data gathering methods and reporting structures is invaluable to anyone with business or investment plans in China. Th...
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97,02 zł |
Area C and the Future of the Palestinian Economy
ISBN: 9781464801938 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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155,87 zł |
China and the Manchus
ISBN: 9781480051942 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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35,86 zł |
Industrial Colonialism in Latin America: The Third Stage
ISBN: 9781608464180 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditions of the popular sectors over the last half-century under -industrial colonialism.- The author's framework of analysis weaves together key structural variables including the neoliberal mode of knowledge creation for material production in order to unveil the actual mechanisms of the reproduction of this system. The decisive role of science in the development of the productive forces forms the basis of explicating the -state development...
This book confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditi...
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132,83 zł |
Transition in Vietnam; Impact of the Rural Reform Process on an Ethnic Minority
ISBN: 9783631503508 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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366,60 zł |
Nonprofit Organizations Facing Competition; The Application of United States, European and German Competition Law to Not-for-Profit Entities
ISBN: 9783631551646 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a long time it has been assumed that the search for profits was inseparable from the carrying on of an economic activity, which could not be imagined absent the profit-maximizing motive. Nowadays, the role of nonprofit organizations as economic actors, operating in a competitive market, is well recognized. Therefore, these organizations are no longer a priori excluded from the application of competition law. The current United States, European and German rules of competition, however, do not contain specific provisions for nonprofit market actors, which are treated like other...
For a long time it has been assumed that the search for profits was inseparable from the carrying on of an economic activity, which could not be imagi...
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471,53 zł |
Introducing a New Economics: Pluralist, Sustainable and Progressive
ISBN: 9780745334882 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students and lecturers worldwide increasingly reject the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterize mainstream economics. They demand that the real world should be brought back into the classroom in order to most effectively confront current crises. Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds this revolution in the teaching of economics. With a firm commitment to theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary pluralism, the authors challenge the institutional education hegemony head on. This unique textbook reflects a new ethos of...
Students and lecturers worldwide increasingly reject the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterize mainstream economics. T...
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191,46 zł |
Introducing a New Economics: Pluralist, Sustainable and Progressive
ISBN: 9780745334899 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students and lecturers worldwide increasingly reject the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterize mainstream economics. They demand that the real world should be brought back into the classroom in order to most effectively confront current crises. Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds this revolution in the teaching of economics. With a firm commitment to theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary pluralism, the authors challenge the institutional education hegemony head on. This unique textbook reflects a new ethos of...
Students and lecturers worldwide increasingly reject the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterize mainstream economics. T...
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451,61 zł |
Shanghai, Past and Present: A Concise Socio-Economic History, 1842-2012
ISBN: 9781845196318 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to become one of the world s best-known finance and industry hubs. As China s largest city, Shanghai today plays a central economic role, much as it did in the 1920s. The author provides a concise diachronic survey of the economic history of modern Shanghai, setting out how the city s urban infrastructure, municipal institutions, consumer culture, and industry have shaped, and have been shaped by, this economic power house. The work tackles a range of themes, including the city s millionaires, then and now;...
This book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to become one of the world s best-known finance and industry hubs. ...
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292,22 zł |
Europe in an Age of Austerity
ISBN: 9781137396013 / Angielski / Twarda / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study discusses and analyses the broad issues that have underpinned the current European economic crisis. It examines the experiences of three countries - Greece, Ireland, and Portugal - which reveal an economic system which lacks the adjustment mechanisms that countries with sovereign currencies take for granted.
This study discusses and analyses the broad issues that have underpinned the current European economic crisis. It examines the experiences of three co...
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194,08 zł |
Handbook of Asian Finance: Reits, Trading, and Fund Performance, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780128009864 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Participants in Asian financial markets have witnessed the unprecedented growth and sophistication of their investments since the 1997 crisis. The Handbook of Asian Finance: Financial Markets and Wealth Management analyzes the forces behind these growth rates. Insights into banking, fund performance, and the effects of trading technologies for practitioners to tax evasion, market manipulation, and corporate governance issues are all here, presented by expert scholars. Offering broader and deeper coverage than other handbooks, the Handbook of Asian Finance: ... Participants in Asian financial markets have witnessed the unprecedented growth and sophistication of their investments since the 1997 crisis. T... |
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524,93 zł |
Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions
ISBN: 9781442648562 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada's urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority. Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions... Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada's urban centers are simultaneou... |
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373,51 zł |
Making Remittances Work: Balancing Financial Integrity and Inclusion
ISBN: 9781464801099 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. H.M. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development stated that 'the impact of helping migrants and their families will be lasting and global if we link remittances to other financial services and make them more affordable and more relevant to their needs." Remittances are a critical source of financing for most developing countries. The importance of remittances goes beyond numbers. For many households in developing countries, they are probably the most stable source of primary or additional income. At the same time,...
H.M. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development stated that 'the impac...
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215,70 zł |
Remapping `Crisis`: A Guide to Athens
ISBN: 9781780996059 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In periods of intense crisis the pressing need to take sides comes to the surface and trumps neutrality. The claim to objectivity, always a little problematic, can no longer be sustained, and becomes itself a ground of confrontation as the conflicts amongst economists and constitutional lawyers show. As the world is moving towards a state of permanent crisis the engaged intellectual and the committed media are coming back (Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law and Contributor to The Guardian). This is a crucial collection that provides a new perspective on the social dimension of crisis -...
In periods of intense crisis the pressing need to take sides comes to the surface and trumps neutrality. The claim to objectivity, always a little pro...
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84,96 zł |
Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914
ISBN: 9781138803169 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage...
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical per...
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706,63 zł |
Measurement of Poverty, Undernutrition and Child Mortality
ISBN: 9783631576595 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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250,35 zł |
The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65
ISBN: 9780774827805 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese ?cultural entrepreneurs, ? businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by investing in multiple cultural enterprises in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rich in biographical detail, the interlinked case studies featured in this volume introduce three distinct archetypes: the cultural personality, the tycoon, and the collective enterprise. These portraits reveal how rapidly evolving technologies and growing transregional ties created fertile conditions for business success in the cultural sphere. They... The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese ?cultural entrepreneurs, ? businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputatio... |
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449,21 zł |