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Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia
ISBN: 9780415701471 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shows how continuing misguided policies have entrenched a group of super-rich oligarchs, in alliance with an all-powerful presidency, while further undermining Russia's economic potential. This book covers topics that include the origins of the oligarchs,
Shows how continuing misguided policies have entrenched a group of super-rich oligarchs, in alliance with an all-powerful presidency, while further un...
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310,21 |
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The Information Age : Technology, Learning and Exclusion in Wales
ISBN: 9780708317082 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development and exploitation of technology has long been at the core of Welsh economic and social life and has assumed even greater significance over the last few decades with the emergence of new information and communication technologies.
The development and exploitation of technology has long been at the core of Welsh economic and social life and has assumed even greater significance o...
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50,98 |
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Fish Markets and Fishermen: The Economics of Overfishing
ISBN: 9781853836510 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Part primer, part field report, part textbook, this is an intelligent synthesis pulled together by people who have paid their dues on the front lines of marine conservation.' Carl Safina, Ph.D, author of Song for the Blue Ocean An account of one of the world's crucial resource issues. The authors argue that the decline in fish stocks and collapse of fisheries is primarily economic - current incentives offer fishermen little alternative. They offer an understanding of the science and management of fish stocks, using case studies and presenting authoritative information. They examine policy...
'Part primer, part field report, part textbook, this is an intelligent synthesis pulled together by people who have paid their dues on the front lines...
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130,84 |
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The Pathology of the Us Economy: The Costs of a Low-Wage System
ISBN: 9780333650233 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates the calamitous consequences of the current US policies that follow a Haitian model of low wage development. The author makes his case by describing the decades-long unfolding of the current crisis in the US economy following the post-war boom. From the beginning, the boom contained the seeds of its own destruction. As the boom disintegrated, attempts to stabilize the economy made matters even worse. Efforts at profit maximization reinforced the problems. For example, attacks on both labour and government reinforced the decline. This work warns against framing policies...
This book demonstrates the calamitous consequences of the current US policies that follow a Haitian model of low wage development. The author makes hi...
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200,77 |
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Inequality Around the World
ISBN: 9780333773550 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most troubling developments of the past two decades has been the dramatic rise in inequality among nations and within nations. This book examines the nature of this development in a variety of countries and contexts - China, Russia, Australia, Latin America, Italy - where the rise of inequality has not been studied as intensively as the US or UK. It also presents analyses of some potential causes and consequences of the rise in inequality.
One of the most troubling developments of the past two decades has been the dramatic rise in inequality among nations and within nations. This book ex...
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Economic Growth and Resources
ISBN: 9780333244432 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Economic Growth and Resources
ISBN: 9780333277775 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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602,40 |
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The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism
ISBN: 9780333372821 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current world economic crisis and its impact on Japanese capitalism contains many paradoxes. After the historical conditions of continuous growth under US economic hegemony broke down, generating a global economic crisis from the beginning of the 1970s, the restructuring of capitalism through the 'information revolution' seems paradoxically to be causing a historical reverse in social conditions of over a century. Although the Japanese economy is often regarded as an exceptionally successful economy it is not immune from the crisis. The process of restrengthening Japanese competitive...
The current world economic crisis and its impact on Japanese capitalism contains many paradoxes. After the historical conditions of continuous growth ...
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602,40 |
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International Business and Europe in Transition
ISBN: 9780333641965 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of the Academy of International Business series looks at International Business in the context of a rapidly changing Europe. Leading contributors have come together to present the latest research, attempting to answer a number of important questions: * is the vision of a Single European market realistic? * what are the barriers to its achievement? * what are the prospects for Eastern Europe? * how should firms enter East European markets? * what does the process of transition imply for corporate policy?
This volume of the Academy of International Business series looks at International Business in the context of a rapidly changing Europe. Leading contr...
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602,40 |
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Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in Subsaharan Africa: Volume 2: Country Case-Studies
ISBN: 9780333661055 / Angielski / Twarda / 663 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative guide to Africa's economic development and prospects. This is volume 2 in a major international research project coordinated by the African Economic Research Consortium and bringing together the top academics in development economics, trade policy and international economics from Africa, Europe and North America. This second volume applies the theoretical framework and issues of economic liberalization and regional integration to detailed country case studies of the Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
An authoritative guide to Africa's economic development and prospects. This is volume 2 in a major international research project coordinated by the A...
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602,40 |
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Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in Subsaharan Africa: Volume 3: Regional Case-Studies
ISBN: 9780333661062 / Angielski / Twarda / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative guide to Africa's economic development and prospects. This is volume 3 in a major international research project coordinated by the African Economic Research Consortium and bringing together the top academics in development economics, trade policy and international economics from Africa, Europe and North America. This third volume examines schemes for regional integration, and the successes and failure of each of these specific projects to examine the potential and pitfalls facing co-operation and integration in Africa today.
An authoritative guide to Africa's economic development and prospects. This is volume 3 in a major international research project coordinated by the A...
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401,58 |
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The Japanese Economy Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780333665190 / Angielski / Twarda / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. Its successes in forming a company-centred society generated the long downturn toward zero-growth capitalism. Successful spread of information technologies resulted in deterioration of economic life among working people and a wide fall in birth rate. At the zenith of the Japanese model of company system, a huge bubble swelled, so as to prepare a prolonged depression throughout the 1990s. Neoliberalism with spiral reversal of capitalist development toward more competitive markets rather promoted difficulties among people. A lucid...
The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. Its successes in forming a company-centred society generated the long downturn toward zero-growth ...
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200,77 |
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African Economies in Transition: Volume 2: The Reform Experience
ISBN: 9780333712375 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in those socialist countries which began from a position of pervasive state intervention. A companion theoretical volume (0-333-66545-7) examines the changing role of the state during the period of transition. This volume examines the important debate on agricultural reforms in the period, and provides in-depth country studies of the transition economies, covering Congo, Madagascar, Tanzania and the impact of war on transition in Angola and...
An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in ...
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602,40 |
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Tackling Unemployment
ISBN: 9780333722329 / Angielski / Twarda / 543 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. This book contains his most influential articles on the subject of unemployment. It is published along with a companion volume Inequality, which deals with these topics and with economic transition. Unemployment explains what causes unemployment and proposes remedies to reduce it. There is a strong focus on how unemployed people are treated and how this affects unemployment - including Layard's well-known recommendation of a job-guarantee for long...
Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. This ...
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602,40 |
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Local Economies in Turmoil: The Effects of Deregulation and Globalization
ISBN: 9780333792421 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main theme is how local economic cultures and economic networks in the South and in Eastern Europe are put under strain by global deregulation and how traditional and not so traditional but locally rooted structures of economic life adjust to deregulation or fail to do so. All the contributions, written by different authors, combine a 'flexible specialization in clusters' approach with original empirical data. An Introduction and a concluding chapter by the editors brings out the common issues and conclusions.
The main theme is how local economic cultures and economic networks in the South and in Eastern Europe are put under strain by global deregulation and...
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401,58 |
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The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship: A Political Economy Analysis
ISBN: 9780333800539 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship covers the two most conflicting Chilean governments of this century. The analysis of the Allende government examines the macroeconomic policies and structural reforms and their results; the questioning of property rights constituted a key issue of conflict. The analysis of the Pinochet government starts with a review of Chilean democracy breakdown. Then it examines the success, failure, and final success of economic structural reforms. The book ends with a discussion of the legacies of both governments. In the historical Chilean memory of the...
The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship covers the two most conflicting Chilean governments of this century. The analysis of the Allende gove...
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401,58 |
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Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis
ISBN: 9780333921586 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The financial crisis that hit a number of 'miracle' economies of Asia in 1997 shocked the world. Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis rejects conventional explanations of the crisis as the outcome primarily of inefficient and corrupt economics systems in the countries concerned. It argues that the crisis was the result of premature and overly rapid financial liberalization in a world of increasing financial liquidity and volatility, and calls for a more cautious approach to financial liberalization, and a reform of the international financial architecture.
The financial crisis that hit a number of 'miracle' economies of Asia in 1997 shocked the world. Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis rejects...
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Foreign-Owned Firms: Are They Different?
ISBN: 9780333966266 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign-owned firms (FoFs) can have significant implications in terms of employment, income and technology for the national economies involved. This book compares the efficiency of domestic and FoFs, and also looks at the performance of FoFs in several different countries. Contributors take a broad variety of research approaches with a focus on the use of firm-specific data from France, Germany, Austria, and Sweden. They conclude that foreign ownership matters but the real difference is not between FoFs and national firms but between multinational and domestic firms.
Foreign-owned firms (FoFs) can have significant implications in terms of employment, income and technology for the national economies involved. This b...
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Modernisation is Russia since 1900
ISBN: 9789517468541 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history. This book examines the broad theme of modernisation in late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia both through general overviews of particular topics, and specific case studies of modernisation
Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history. This book examines the broad theme of modernisation in late imperial, Soviet, and post-Sov...
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179,60 |
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China inTransition, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781590336274 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is a country in the midst of a transition which is inscrutable to almost all observers. The leadership has changed from the 'old guard' to the 'new guard' with hardly a slip. Capitalism is roaring but somehow at the same time doesn't exist. The economy is booming in virtually all areas. The military is growing more powerful each year, many industries are at world level, and China is taking more and more steps to join the international community while being sure as she doesn't snuggle up too closely. Still, with a population of 1.3 billion and staggering poverty in the rural areas making...
China is a country in the midst of a transition which is inscrutable to almost all observers. The leadership has changed from the 'old guard' to the '...
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357,16 |