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Aggregate Returns to Individual Decisions: Development, Income Inequality and Competition for Jobs and Workers
ISBN: 9783631517260 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In general, economic decisions are made in order to maximize individual well-being or, equivalently, to maximize the returns of these decisions to the individual. However, while taking their environment as given, the decision-makers often do not explicitly take into account what consequences their decisions have on the aggregate level. Many macroeconomic phenomena can be seen as unintended or unforeseen consequences, returns, to the decisions of rational individuals. This book presents several models in this spirit. The first part investigates the role of individual education decisions for...
In general, economic decisions are made in order to maximize individual well-being or, equivalently, to maximize the returns of these decisions to the...
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Balance of Payments Issues in Central and Eastern European Countries' Run-Up to Euro Area Accession
ISBN: 9783631556948 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2004, eight countries from central and eastern Europe entered the EU; all eight countries intend to access the euro area within three to six years after entering the EU. This book presents three analytical studies that focus on selected aspects related to the countries balance of payments and other issues that are of interest in the countries run-up to full European Monetary Union membership. The first study assesses the countries current account balance and the sustainability of external debt. The second study addresses the question of how to attract foreign direct investment inflows by...
In 2004, eight countries from central and eastern Europe entered the EU; all eight countries intend to access the euro area within three to six years ...
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The Worth of the Social Economy: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9789052015804 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the worth of the social economy? What worth does the social economy produce?
Co-operatives, not-for-profit and mutual benefits organizations as well as foundations share common values that colour the way they perform and how they manage to do so. Yet, little is known about how the social economy is actually being evaluated, and how evaluation may reinforce or weaken this specificity. This book fills a gap in the literature about the social economy. It seeks to make a critical assessment of the interests to which the social economy of today must cater and for which questions... What is the worth of the social economy? What worth does the social economy produce?
Co-operatives, not-for-profit and mutual benefits organizati... |
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International Trade Negotiations and Domestic Politics: The Intermestic Politics of Trade Liberalization
ISBN: 9780415811569 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market liberalization seems so strong, given that the benefits are seen to outweigh the costs. This volume argues that in order to understand the slow progress of World Trade Organization negotiations, we need to take into consideration the intermestic character of trade politics, that is, the way in which international and domestic aspects of politics and policies have been woven together and become inextricably related to each other. This is a... In spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market ... |
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Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade: History, Theory and Empirical Evidence
ISBN: 9780415648042 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. This text is a critical examination of this ongoing enterprise, of its history, theory, practice, and most of all, of its outcomes.
The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. This text is a critical examination of this ongoing ...
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Knowledge Flows in European Industry
ISBN: 9780415649513 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on an original research programme, this book empirically appraises the dissemination of knowledge relevant to the innovative activities of European industry.
Based on an original research programme, this book empirically appraises the dissemination of knowledge relevant to the innovative activities of Europ...
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225,25 |
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Untersuchung Und Vergleich Der Privatisierung Oeffentlicher Unternehmen ALS Zentraler Bestandteil Der Wirtschaftspolitik in Den Achtziger Und Neunzige
ISBN: 9783631515945 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Privatisierung offentlicher Unternehmen im Rahmen der Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland und Frankreich steht im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung. Ausgangshypothese der Arbeit ist, dass es trotz unterschiedlicher Begrifflichkeiten in beiden Landern zahlreiche Ubereinstimmungen in Theorie und Praxis der Privatisierung offentlicher Unternehmen gibt. Fur den Zeitraum der 80er Jahre bis 2001 werden die theoretischen und praktischen Grundlagen der Privatisierung offentlicher Unternehmen untersucht. Nachfolgend wird nach der fur jedes Land getrennten Darstellung des Verlaufs der Privatisierungen in...
Die Privatisierung offentlicher Unternehmen im Rahmen der Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland und Frankreich steht im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung. Ausg...
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Chancen Und Risiken Fuer Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft Im Internationalen Wettbewerb Der Wirtschaftssysteme
ISBN: 9783631605035 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Einfuhrung der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland war ein herausragendes Beispiel fur erfolgreiche Ordnungspolitik. Seitdem konnte sich die marktwirtschaftliche Ordnung trotz starker Wandlung der ausseren Bedingungen zwar immer wieder selbst erneuern, dennoch kam es zu Degenerationserscheinungen. Heute stehen okonomische Fragestellungen zudem immer mehr im Kontext internationaler Verflechtungen. Die daraus resultierenden Herausforderungen fur die Soziale Marktwirtschaft sind Gegenstand dieses Bandes, der auf den Ergebnissen des 2. Ordnungspolitischen Dialogs im...
Die Einfuhrung der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland war ein herausragendes Beispiel fur erfolgreiche Ordnungspolitik. Seitde...
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Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft ALS Vorbild in Internationalen Krisen: Oekonomischer Und Technologischer Wandel Zwischen 1989 Und 2009
ISBN: 9783631635933 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kaum war die Wirtschaftskrise von 2008 und 2009 richtig im Bewusstsein der Bevolkerung angekommen, so scheint sie schon wieder vorbei zu sein. Wirtschaftspolitischer Pragmatismus regierte, ja triumphierte. Das sogenannte neoliberale Projekt ist seitdem weitgehend diskreditiert, ordnungspolitische Positionen wurden bedenkenlos als unnotige Hindernisse zu einer ideologiefreien und funktionierenden Wirtschaftspolitik uber Bord geworfen. -Gier- wurde als hervorstechende Eigenschaft des marktwirtschaftlichen Systems definiert und die Kontrolle dieser Gier verlangte nach schnellen und quasi...
Kaum war die Wirtschaftskrise von 2008 und 2009 richtig im Bewusstsein der Bevolkerung angekommen, so scheint sie schon wieder vorbei zu sein. Wirtsch...
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Rural Off-Farm Employment and Its Effects on Adoption of Labor Intensive Soil Conserving Measures in Tanzania
ISBN: 9783631546529 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study analyzes two related aspects: households participation in off-farm employment as a livelihood strategy and the effects of participation in off-farm employment on households adoption of labor intensive soil conserving technologies. Several factors are significant but spatial econometric analysis reveals that model parameters vary substantially across space. In addition, households supplying labor off-farm are generally associated with reduced adoption of terraces, hedgerows and cut-offs. The negative impact of supplying labor off-farm can be moderately cushioned when households also...
This study analyzes two related aspects: households participation in off-farm employment as a livelihood strategy and the effects of participation in ...
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Deeper Than Debt: Economic Globalisation and the Poor
ISBN: 9781899365463 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to the history and current implications of the debt crisis, which positions debt in the wider context of globalisation and development. Deeper than Debt brings together a wide range of viewpoints to discuss the effects of economic globalisation on the lives of the poor majority in debtor countries. This primer text argues that, due to debt, four fifths of the world's population cannot develop while inequality between the rich and the poor grows. This book provides invaluable analysis for activists who have campaigned successfully with Jubilee 2000 and other campaigns, and for...
An introduction to the history and current implications of the debt crisis, which positions debt in the wider context of globalisation and development...
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Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions
ISBN: 9781461375807 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-based public institutions, and illustrates these guidelines through case studies conducted at one technology-based public institution, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The aim of this book is to demonstrate that a clear, more precise response to the question of performance accountability is possible through the systematic application of evaluation methods to document value.
The authors begin with a review of the... Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-bas...
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Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control: An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Economic Dependence
ISBN: 9781483604527 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control: An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Economic Dependence
ISBN: 9781483604534 / Angielski / Twarda / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Financial Restructuring to Sustain Recovery
ISBN: 9780815725244 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The financial crisis of 2007-08 and the Great Recession caused more widespread economic trauma than any event since the Great Depression. With a slow and uneven recovery, encouraging stability and growth is critical. Financial Restructuring to Sustain Recovery maintains that while each part of the financial services industry can play a useful role in revving up the U.S. economic engine to full capacity, the necessary reforms are sometimes subtle and often difficult to implement. Editors Martin Neil Baily, Richard Herring, and Yuta Seki and their coauthors break recovery down... The financial crisis of 2007-08 and the Great Recession caused more widespread economic trauma than any event since the Great Depression. With a sl... |
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The Four Asian Tigers: Economic Development and the Global Political Economy
ISBN: 9780124074408 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. The first part of the book focuses on the global and regional elements of the economic system and recent geo-politics. The second part of the book focuses on the domestic actors and institutions which played critical roles in the miracle economies of East Asia. This collection of original papers describes the economic developments and environment that underlie the East Asian NICs. Through a comparison of the Four Tigers - South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore - the...
This book critically examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. The first part of the book foc...
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Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949
ISBN: 9780198292715 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern Asian economic history has often been written in terms of Western impact and Asia's response to it. This volume argues that the growth of intra-regional trade, migration, and capital and money flows was a crucial factor that determined the course of East Asian economic development.
Modern Asian economic history has often been written in terms of Western impact and Asia's response to it. This volume argues that the growth of intra...
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The UK Economy
ISBN: 9780199266517 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the 16th edition of the classic text on the UK economy, originally edited by Prest and Coppock. Comprehensively rewritten and updated at frequent intervals, The UK Economy has become acknowledged as one of the most systematic, up to date, and balanced assessments of British economic life. Written by a team of specialist economists and edited for the second time by Malcolm Sawyer, it combines factual information and informed analysis in the single most accessible guide to the character, problems, and performance of the British economy.
Each chapter is written by an expert... This is the 16th edition of the classic text on the UK economy, originally edited by Prest and Coppock. Comprehensively rewritten and updated at frequ...
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331,05 |
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The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries
ISBN: 9780199532438 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened significantly since 1980. Why has this happened? Is it due to new technologies? What is the role of globalization? Are there historical precedents?
The book begins with the "race" between technology and education, and shows that continuing technical progress does not necessarily imply a continuing rise in dispersion. It then examines the experience of 20 OECD countries over the twentieth century, material presented in... This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the Un...
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Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy
ISBN: 9780199556779 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order.
In the classification of the "Varieties of Capitalism" school, Germany has always been taken as the chief exemplar of a "European," coordinated market... Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in th...
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