ilość książek w kategorii: 15629
The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited
ISBN: 9780044460152 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Economics of Feasible Socialism identified a workable socialist programme, achievable in the lifetime of a child born today, that avoids far-fetched or Utopian assumptions and the deformation of actually existing socialism of the Soviet species.
The Economics of Feasible Socialism identified a workable socialist programme, achievable in the lifetime of a child born today, that avoids far-fetch...
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285,23 zł |
Economic Transformation in Emerging Countries: The Role of Investment, Trade and Finance
ISBN: 9780080434292 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. This book deals with one of the great dramas of our day, the transformation of countries from economic backwardness, or a socialist somnolence, into greater efficiency and participation in the invigorating currents of international trade and investment. This book is about building market institutions and about the struggle to shed institutional baggage of the past. It is about new 'openings'. It is about liberalization of economic policies, about relaxing controls, and welcoming the influx of foreign capital and goods. Above all, the underlying theme of this book is the search for...
Hardbound. This book deals with one of the great dramas of our day, the transformation of countries from economic backwardness, or a socialist somnole...
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872,95 zł |
The Regional Dimension of Transformation in Central Europe
ISBN: 9780117023673 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation, and focusing in particular on Poland, this book gives an account of the major problems of regional restructuring.
Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation, and focusing in particular on Poland, this ...
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285,23 zł |
Toward a Planned Society: From Roosevelt to Nixon
ISBN: 9780195019858 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disneyland completed a major expansion in 2001. In addition to creating a sister theme park, California Adventure, it opened several new hotels and Epcot-like displays, all adjacent to one another. This guide to Disneyland offers: restaurant profiles for the full-service restaurants and mini-profiles for the counter service restaurants; rating and ranking for every attraction (rated and ranked for each age group) based on interviews and surveys of more than 6100 families; advice on when to go - the best times of year and the best days of the week; comprehensive coverage of Universal Studios...
Disneyland completed a major expansion in 2001. In addition to creating a sister theme park, California Adventure, it opened several new hotels and Ep...
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165,95 zł |
General X-Efficiency Theory and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780195023800 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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296,17 zł |
Emerging from Poverty: The Economics That Really Matters
ISBN: 9780195037142 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commisioned by the World Bank, this book is a history and analysis of the efforts to assist less developed countries achieve a higher economic level. It also offers a new way of thinking about economic development.
Commisioned by the World Bank, this book is a history and analysis of the efforts to assist less developed countries achieve a higher economic level. ...
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633,08 zł |
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980
ISBN: 9780195057034 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the American South from the time of the New Deal to the present. Decrying the South's economic backwardness and political conservatism, the Roosevelt Administration launched a series of aggressive programs to reorder the Southern economy. A generation of young liberal Southerners entered the national government to preside over these policies. After 1950, however, Keynesianism replaced New Deal reform as the mainstay of national economic policy, and the national security state supplanted the social...
This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the American South from the time of the New Deal to the p...
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780,26 zł |
Women in the World Economy: An Instraw Study
ISBN: 9780195063158 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until now, there has been little coordinated research on the role of women in the economics of developing countries, or on the impact of the international economy on women in those countries. Here, Susan Joekes not only examines women who are engaged in what is defined as gainful, or wage earning employment, she also considers the role of women in unpaid labor such as household work, farm work on their own land, and other activities that require managing resources. Specially commissioned by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women...
Until now, there has been little coordinated research on the role of women in the economics of developing countries, or on the impact of the internati...
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227,38 zł |
Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection
ISBN: 9780195103243 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even as relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China continue to be strained, investment by Taiwanese businesses in China is growing every year. Between 1978 and 1994, Taiwan businesses invested $10 billion in China, 10% of the total foreign investment during that period. This study describes the magnitude and importance of this investment. Hsing demonstrates the role of a shared cultural heritage and language and the role of Chinese local government in building networks of firms in the two countries.
Even as relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China continue to be strained, investment by Taiwanese businesses in China is growing ev...
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301,14 zł |
The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe: A Personal Perspective on Philantropy and Technology Transfer
ISBN: 9780195146691 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how philanthropy can be a primary force in the transfer of technology in transitional societies. It demonstrates the necessity of retraining of people and how this endeavor is as important as the technology itself. It is essentially about Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, with somewhat smaller emphases on Russia, Romania and South Africa. It chronicles, explains, and analyzes western assistance efforts in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2000 in the context of the political and economic events of the period, with particular emphasis on the activities...
This book shows how philanthropy can be a primary force in the transfer of technology in transitional societies. It demonstrates the necessity of retr...
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161,04 zł |
Biography of a Subject: An Evolution of Development Economics
ISBN: 9780195170030 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline of economics and political economy. Although one could claim that Adam Smith was the first "development economist," the systematic study of the problems and processes of economic development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has emerged only over the past five decades. This biography of the subject of economic development will focus on the essential ideas in the evolution of development thought and policy over the subject's half-century of life. In concise form and...
The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline of economics and politi...
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247,03 zł |
Europe and the International Order
ISBN: 9780195205305 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For over one hundred years, the British economy has been in decline relative to other industrialized countries. This book explores the origins of Britain's economic problems and develops a striking new argument about the sources of decline. It goes on to analyze the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain from the development of Keynesianism to the rise of monetarism under Margaret Thatcher. France, by contrast, experienced an economic miracle in the postwar period. Hall argues that the French state transformed itself and then its society through an extensive system of state...
For over one hundred years, the British economy has been in decline relative to other industrialized countries. This book explores the origins of Brit...
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791,31 zł |
Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope
ISBN: 9780195211054 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During recent years, many Latin American countries have undergone significant reforms. The economic systems that emerged in the 1930s, stifled by heavy government intervention and protectionism, have given way to new ones based on market orientation, openness, and competition. This study provides a thorough analytical review of the events that led to the transformation of these economies during the past decade. The author analyzes economic developments from the debt crisis of 1982 to the stabilization programs of the late 1980s. The evolution of social conditions in the region, including...
During recent years, many Latin American countries have undergone significant reforms. The economic systems that emerged in the 1930s, stifled by heav...
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255,82 zł |
QUALITY OF GROWTH
ISBN: 9780195215939 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last decade of the 20th century witnessed striking progress in the developing world and at the same time, it also saw stagnation and setbacks. Economic growth is key to development both in its pace and also in its quality. 'The Quality of Growth' is a collection of essays in an ongoing research project. The book looks at the 'World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development' and examines how far we have progressed at the turn of the millennium. According to the report, there are four factors especially relevant for poverty outcomes: - distribution, - sustainability, -...
The last decade of the 20th century witnessed striking progress in the developing world and at the same time, it also saw stagnation and setbacks. Eco...
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119,85 zł |
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
ISBN: 9780195311457 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nations between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt...
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion peop...
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236,99 zł |
The Market Economy: A Reader
ISBN: 9780195332582 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Market Economy: A Reader outlines the characteristics and philosophical underpinnings of the market economy and its usefulness in the allocation of resources. This anthology offers a comprehensive set of authentic, primary source selections that demonstrate how the tenets of classical economic liberalism provide the foundation for an efficient economic system--while also maximizing individual freedom. The readings also provide a structure for analyzing economic and philosophical issues.
The book includes selections from several authors who are not economists but whose work is... The Market Economy: A Reader outlines the characteristics and philosophical underpinnings of the market economy and its usefulness in the all...
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674,55 zł |
Islam and the Economy of Pakistan: A Critical Analysis of Traditional Interpretation
ISBN: 9780195470017 / Angielski / Twarda / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is Pakistan an ideological state? Is there a particular sectarian point of view which dominates the debate on ideology? These questions are critically examined in this book. The orthodox views on sacred laws of Islam are discussed in order to establish the context for the topic. To further elaborate the argument, the author focuses on issues such as zakat, the rules of conduct for the individual and family, as well as income distribution and foreign trade.
Pakistan's official name--The Islamic Republic of Pakistan--defines the authority that is vested in it for decision-making powers on... Is Pakistan an ideological state? Is there a particular sectarian point of view which dominates the debate on ideology? These questions are critically...
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65,47 zł |
Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914
ISBN: 9780198204411 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the most comprehensive comparative study of the agrarian systems of the frontier lands of Argentina and Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges much received wisdom about the economic "success" of North America and the "failure" of Latin America. Based on extensive primary research in Argentina, Canada, and Britain, Adelman's book points to the central importance of property relations in economic history in these regions.
This is the most comprehensive comparative study of the agrarian systems of the frontier lands of Argentina and Canada in the late nineteenth and earl...
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927,68 zł |
The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906-1959
ISBN: 9780198207078 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This authoritative history of the Treasury provides a new perspective on public policy-making in the twentieth century. It explores the role and functions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the consequent implications for the changing role of the Treasury. As the key department in British government, the Treasury developed growing responsibility for managing the national economy and became increasingly involved in international relations from the time of the First World War. The author examines the relations between ministers and their official advisers, and the growing influence of...
This authoritative history of the Treasury provides a new perspective on public policy-making in the twentieth century. It explores the role and funct...
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458,39 zł |
Non-Governmental Organizations and Rural Poverty Alleviation
ISBN: 9780198233305 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The voluntary sector is often perceived as effective in reaching poor and disadvantaged groups in developing countries. Drawing on the results of a series of project evaluations in Asia and Africa, this work lends support to the view that voluntary organizations are effective in reducing rural poverty, through a participatory approach, the involvement of committed staff, and a skilled and competent leadership. However, it also shows that voluntary agencies do not always reach the poor through economic programmes, that small-scale projects designed for the poor are often very costly, and that...
The voluntary sector is often perceived as effective in reaching poor and disadvantaged groups in developing countries. Drawing on the results of a se...
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817,11 zł |