Stories From The Middle Seat: The four-million-mile journey to building a billion dollar international business
ISBN: 9780991298518 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you build a multi-billion dollar international business? And then how do you save one when it seems like all the cards are stacked against you? Sharing letters he sent to his father during his years of traveling the world building--and then saving--a multi-billion dollar company, Bob Hemphill's Stories from the Middle Seat recounts the funny, unique, and sometimes out-landish parts of international business. From a time of significant prosperity to a period of domestic and international finan-cial hardship, we have Bob's... How do you build a multi-billion dollar international business? And then how do you save one when it seems like al... |
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68,08 zł |
Doing Business in Myanmar
ISBN: 9780991047642 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of military rule, the elimination of economic sanctions and the passage of a new Foreign Investment Law heralds modern Myanmar's opening to the world. What rules apply to doing business in this previously forbidden country, at once old and new? Michael O'Kane, author of the best-selling Doing Business in Saudi Arabia, examines the legal, business and investment climate in this new guide to doing business in Myanmar. Among the subjects tackled are: --Business Structures --Starting a business --The Foreign Investment Law --The Negative List --Labor Law --the new Stock Exchange --the new...
The end of military rule, the elimination of economic sanctions and the passage of a new Foreign Investment Law heralds modern Myanmar's opening to th...
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78,39 zł |
Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Northwest Tanzania
ISBN: 9780325070957 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Weiss explores the dynamic relation of specific local, regional, and global understandings of value as manifested in the coffee of rural Haya communities. His investigation offers critical insight into the significance of colonial and postcolonial encounters in this region of Africa.
Weiss explores the dynamic relation of specific local, regional, and global understandings of value as manifested in the coffee of rural Haya commu... |
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476,04 zł |
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce
ISBN: 9780333973745 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and foes of the commercial state. These nomadic characters report on remote parts of the globe in the twin contexts of an increasingly powerful imperial state and an emerging world economy. Examining voyage narratives by William Dampler, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, James Cook, and William Bligh, Neill demonstrates how the transformation of travellers from nomadic outlaws into civil subjects, and vice versa, takes...
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and ...
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194,52 zł |
The Caribbean Banana Trade: From Colonialism to Globalization
ISBN: 9780333998496 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs. Peter Clegg investigates the complex political relationships between the traditional actors in the trade and how the issues of colonialism and globalization have shaped their interactions. He presents a detailed analysis of the development of the Caribbean banana trade and analyzes why the influence and importance of the traditional actors within the trade has diminished over the last thirty years.
The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs. Peter Clegg investigates the complex political relationships between...
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194,52 zł |
Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World
ISBN: 9780393331158 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sworn in as head of the U.S. Treasury Department s international finance division just three months prior to 9/11, John B. Taylor soon found himself at the center of the war on terror. Global Financial Warriors takes you inside the White House Situation Room, to the meetings of the G7 finance ministers, and to cities worldwide as Taylor assembles a coalition to freeze terrorist assets, plans the financial reconstruction in Afghanistan, oversees the development of a new currency in Iraq, and deals with the spread of financial crises. From reforming the IMF and the World Bank to negotiating...
Sworn in as head of the U.S. Treasury Department s international finance division just three months prior to 9/11, John B. Taylor soon found himself a...
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108,72 zł |
British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry?
ISBN: 9780415057806 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector. Stressing the social context of cultural production, McRobbie focuses on British fashion and its graduate designers as products of youth street culture,...
British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on inter...
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701,59 zł |
British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry?
ISBN: 9780415057813 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector. Stressing the social context of cultural production, McRobbie focuses on British fashion and its graduate designers as products of youth street culture,...
British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on inter...
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192,23 zł |
International Trade Policy : A Contemporary Analysis
ISBN: 9780415068796 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an introduction to the basic theory behind international trade policy. The author analyzes current policy issues within a theoretical framework. The book adopts a thematic approach, with each chapter examining a different issue - each of which is of central importance to contemporary trade policy. The book will be useful for all those who want to understand what governments do, in terms of trade policy and how they do it.
This volume provides an introduction to the basic theory behind international trade policy. The author analyzes current policy issues within a theoret...
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233,81 zł |
Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence
ISBN: 9780415091596 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The advent of multinational corporations and free trade zones has produced complex interrelationships between trade, aid and development. More than ever before trade has become a vital factor in the economic, political and social development of Third World nations. This work introduces trade as both concept and activity, placing aid within the context of trade in practice. The trend towards the globalization of trade, especially in the light of GATT and its emphasis on greater integration of economies throughout the world, means developing countries increasingly want both trade and aid, as...
The advent of multinational corporations and free trade zones has produced complex interrelationships between trade, aid and development. More than ev...
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249,41 zł |
Routledge French Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance Dictionnaire Anglais Des Affaires, Du Commerce Et de la Finance: French-English/English-
ISBN: 9780415093941 / Angielski / Twarda / 1152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dictionary consists of some 100,000 terms and references in bith French and English, including 4,000 abbreviations. over 45 subject areas are covered, including: * Accountancy * Banking * Business Administration * Computing * Economics * Environment * Finance * General Commerce * Human Resource Management * Import/Export * Industry * Insurance * Law * Leisure * Management * Mathematics * Media * Patents * Politics * Property * Sales & Marketing * Stock Market * Taxation * Tourism * Transport * Welfare & Safety.
Also included is a comprehensive up-to-date reference... This dictionary consists of some 100,000 terms and references in bith French and English, including 4,000 abbreviations. over 45 subject areas...
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1299,25 zł |
The Current Account and Foreign Debt
ISBN: 9780415094016 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is generally assumed that current deficits are intrinsically bad and in need of correction. The Current Account and Foreign Debt argues that this is not always the case. The author analyses a broad range of issues in support of this argument. These include:
* Approaches to current account balance * Short run issues * Longer run issues * Policy The book can be read as an integrated whole, or alternatively, each chapter can be consulted without reference to the others. The Current Account and Foreign Debt provides the counterbalance to a common... It is generally assumed that current deficits are intrinsically bad and in need of correction. The Current Account and Foreign Debt argues th...
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909,47 zł |
Trade Policy and Industrialization in Turbulent Times
ISBN: 9780415107112 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between trade policy and industrialization has provoked much controversy. Can trade policy promote economic growth in developing countries? Those actively working in the area are becoming increasingly sceptical about the conventional advice given by international policy advisors and organizations.
This volume builds upon earlier theoretical and empirical research on trade policy and industrialization but is the first cross-the-board attempt to review developing country experiences in this realm for twenty years. The experience of fourteen developing countries in the 1970s... The relationship between trade policy and industrialization has provoked much controversy. Can trade policy promote economic growth in developing coun...
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935,46 zł |
European Monetary Integration: 1958 - 2002
ISBN: 9780415114325 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an accessible introduction to European monetary integration which provides a historical background to current debates, as well as an analysis of future developments. Further features of this book include:
* a chronology of economic and monetary unification from 1958-1999 * clear non-technical presentation of the economic issues regarding the costs and benefits of creating a monetary union * detailed presentation of the economic and legal framework for the changeover to a single European economy * evaluation of the Maastricht Treaty's plan for monetary union *... This book is an accessible introduction to European monetary integration which provides a historical background to current debates, as well as an anal...
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961,44 zł |
European Monetary Integration: 1958 - 2002
ISBN: 9780415114332 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an accessible introduction to European monetary integration which provides a historical background to current debates, as well as an analysis of future developments. Further features of this book include:
* a chronology of economic and monetary unification from 1958-1999 * clear non-technical presentation of the economic issues regarding the costs and benefits of creating a monetary union * detailed presentation of the economic and legal framework for the changeover to a single European economy * evaluation of the Maastricht Treaty's plan for monetary union *... This book is an accessible introduction to European monetary integration which provides a historical background to current debates, as well as an anal...
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348,15 zł |
How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints
ISBN: 9780415117777 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last 15 years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional barriers to market-based trade such as commodity cartels and tariffs have been augmented by new developments such as the rise of regional trade blocs and the growth of intra-firm trade. This book argues that these changes are large and persistent enough to have an impact on total development performance, and on the performance of individual countries and individual sectors. It illustrates this with a wealth of theoretical arguments, empirical evidence and...
Over the last 15 years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional barriers to mark...
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909,47 zł |
Foreign Direct Investment and Governments: Catalysts for economic restructuring
ISBN: 9780415118200 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new paperback edition of Foreign Direct Investment and Governments examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment, governments and economic development. The book includes:
* an investigation of the catalytic role played by the governments and multinationals in determining national advantages * eleven in-depth national studies of the UK, USA, Japan, New Zealand, India, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, China, Indonesia and Taiwan * analysis of all aspects of the investment development path Foreign Direct Investment and Governments is an... This new paperback edition of Foreign Direct Investment and Governments examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment, ...
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909,47 zł |
Exporting Africa: Technology, Industrialism and Trade
ISBN: 9780415126915 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exporting Africa explains how firms, which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, have been able to sustain their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international economy: in short, how they deal with the threats and the promises which rapid technological changes present to Africa. The papers present new empirical research and an innovative conceptual framework.
Exporting Africa explains how firms, which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, have been able to sustain their competitiven...
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805,53 zł |
The Gains from Trade and the Gains from Aid: Essays in International Trade Theory
ISBN: 9780415130387 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the normative side of trade theory and is divided into five parts:
* trade under perfect competition; * restricted trade under perfect competition; * trade under imperfect competition and other distortions; * Compensation: lumpsum, non-lumpsum or neither? * International trade This book focuses on the normative side of trade theory and is divided into five parts:
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Free Trade: 1793-1886
ISBN: 9780415133166 / Angielski / Twarda / 1248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trade is the dominant subject in nineteenth century economics. During the course of the century, Britain was transformed from a protectionist power to an open economy, a change embodied by the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. This is reflected in the economic literature of the period, with the qualified free trade advocacy of the early classical economists developing into more strident views of the Manchester School. However throughout the period free trade did not go unchallenged, and by the end of the century a fully developed protectionist position had emerged represented by, for example,...
Trade is the dominant subject in nineteenth century economics. During the course of the century, Britain was transformed from a protectionist power to...
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5716,67 zł |