ilość książek w kategorii: 10770
Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia's Plantations
ISBN: 9780824852542 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2006 dejected members of the Bukit Jalil Estate community faced eviction from their homes in Kuala Lumpur where they had lived for generations. City officials classified plantation residents as squatters and, unaware of years of toil, attachment to the land, and past official promises, questioned any right they might have to stay, wondering "How can there be a plantation in Kuala Lumpur?" This story epitomizes the dilemma faced by Malaysian Tamils in recent years as they confront the moment when the plantation system where they have lived and worked for generations finally... In 2006 dejected members of the Bukit Jalil Estate community faced eviction from their homes in Kuala Lumpur where they had lived for generations. ... |
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159,76 zł |
Financial Supervision in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9783642443046 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book surveys changes in supervision methods and organizations since the financial crisis. Exploring such concepts as conduct and culture, governance and business models of institutions, it discusses `good supervision' and what is expected of supervisors.
This book surveys changes in supervision methods and organizations since the financial crisis. Exploring such concepts as conduct and culture, governa...
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389,98 zł |
European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2013
ISBN: 9783642447105 / Angielski / Miękka / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part one of Volume 4 (2013) of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law offers a special focus on recent developments in international competition policy and law. International competition law has only begun to emerge as a distinct subfield of international economic law in recent years, even though international agreements on competition co-operation date back to the 1970s. Competition law became a prominent subject of political and academic debates in the late 1990s when competition and trade were discussed as one of the Singapore issues in the WTO. Today, international... Part one of Volume 4 (2013) of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law offers a special focus on recent developments in international c... |
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585,00 zł |
Ricardo and the History of Japanese Economic Thought: A Selection of Ricardo Studies in Japan During the Interwar Period
ISBN: 9781138853614 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Ricardo's theories were introduced in fragments in Japan after the Meiji restoration of 1868 and his work came into prominence late in comparison to other major thinkers figuring in the history of economic thought. The book seeks to analyse the studies in Japan from the year 1920 to the end of the 1930s - during the time before the outbreak of the Second World War, when even the study of classical economics became difficult. The book covers different aspects of his works and contains elements which may be interesting to foreign and even Japanese readers today without... David Ricardo's theories were introduced in fragments in Japan after the Meiji restoration of 1868 and his work came into prominence late in compar... |
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734,76 zł |
International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780415514637 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International economic integration is not a recent phenomenon; its roots can be traced back to the Roman Empire. This informative volume departs from the conventional short-term analysis and takes a long-term view of the process, offering perspectives that are both detailed and diverse. Author Dennis McCarthy examines seven types of organizations that exemplify international economic integration (colonial empires, merchant associations, religious empires, criminal empires, free trade areas, customs unions and common markets), and representative examples of each type are analyzed in a...
International economic integration is not a recent phenomenon; its roots can be traced back to the Roman Empire. This informative volume departs from ...
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167,17 zł |
Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry: Theory and Empirical Evidence
ISBN: 9781137465283 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This useful new book contributes to the understanding of competition policy in the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to banks' efficiency. It contrasts concepts of economic theory with empirical evidence to distill optimal policy decisions. The authors study the banking sector in Mexico, a developing country with a regulated and sound banking system and an industry with strong participation from global systemic banks. However, the Mexican banking system continues to have low financial deepening in the economy. Simultaneously, changes experienced by the...
This useful new book contributes to the understanding of competition policy in the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relat...
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389,98 zł |
Social Capital in Development Planning: Linking the Actors
ISBN: 9781137478009 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pursuit of sustainable development and smart growth is a main challenge today in countries around the world. Social capital is an asset of their territorial communities. It is also a precondition for national and local policies that aim to better the economic base and quality of life for all. This change is socially diffused, economically sustainable over time, and smart in its content. A significant stock of social capital facilitates such results because it links into the process of development planning institutional decision makers and socioeconomic stakeholders who share trust,...
The pursuit of sustainable development and smart growth is a main challenge today in countries around the world. Social capital is an asset of their t...
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389,98 zł |
The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
ISBN: 9781137553638 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussion on issues related to the size, spread and frequency of financial crises has captivated a wide variety of audiences. Why has the world economy experienced such a marked increase in financial transactions and private and public indebtedness since the 1980s? How have middle-income developing countries suddenly become a part of this dynamic? And, most importantly, how has the topic of financial crises been featured in households' daily discussions in both developed and developing parts of the world?
Domna Michailidou addresses the questions above... Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussion on issues related to the size, spread and frequency of financial crises has captivated a wide variety of a...
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506,99 zł |
Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of Excellence
ISBN: 9781785603112 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innovation is critical to growth and development in Africa. In the context of a continent characterized by fast growing economies as well as an array of socioeconomic challenges, such as high levels of poverty, innovation in Africa must be understood in an encompassing manner. Africa needs to foster the emergence of its own Silicon Valley, but it must also foster the invention and adoption of more efficient wood-fueled traditional stoves that limit deforestation and combat climate change. This book contains a number of analytical case studies that examine the nature and origins of emerging...
Innovation is critical to growth and development in Africa. In the context of a continent characterized by fast growing economies as well as an array ...
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213,31 zł |
Controlling Capital: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets
ISBN: 9781138943124 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Controlling Capital examines three pressing issues in financial market regulation: the contested status of public regulation, the emergence of culture as a proposed modality of market governance, and the renewed ascendancy of private regulation. In the years immediately following the outbreak of crisis in financial markets, public regulation seemed almost to be attaining a position of command the robustness and durability of which is explored here in respect of market conduct, European Union capital markets union, and US and EU competition policies. Subsequently... Controlling Capital examines three pressing issues in financial market regulation: the contested status of public regulation, the emergenc... |
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734,76 zł |
China-India Relations: Cooperation and Conflict
ISBN: 9781138955752 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The question of whether China and India can cooperate is at the core of global geopolitics. As the two countries grow their economies, the potential for conflict is no longer simply a geopolitical one based on relative power, influence and traditional quarrels over land boundaries. This book assesses the varying interests of China and India in economics, environment, energy, and water and addresses the possibility of cooperation in these domains. Containing analyses by leading authorities on China and India, it analyses the nature of existing and emerging conflict, describes the... The question of whether China and India can cooperate is at the core of global geopolitics. As the two countries grow their economies, the potentia... |
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734,76 zł |
Deutschland Und Europa: Die Europäisierung Des Politischen Systems
ISBN: 9783531198743 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Europaische Union bestimmt die Politik in Deutschland auf vielfaltige Weise. In diesem Buch werden die Veranderungen der politischen Institutionen sowie der politischen Prozesse aufgezeigt, die in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aufgrund von EU-Integration und Europaisierung vonstattengegangen sind. Fur die neue Auflage wurde das Buch vollstandig uberarbeitet und komplett aktualisiert."
Die Europaische Union bestimmt die Politik in Deutschland auf vielfaltige Weise. In diesem Buch werden die Veranderungen der politischen Institutionen...
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182,22 zł |
Eu Competition and State Aid Rules: Public and Private Enforcement
ISBN: 9783662479612 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides a scrutiny of legislative novelties and case law in the area of EU competition and state aid rules, with the particular emphasis on the interaction between public and private enforcement of the mentioned rules. The target readers are all stakeholders and others involved in the process of enforcement judges, attorneys at law, corporate lawyers and market participants who have sustained or could sustain damage as a result of the violations of competition or state aid rules. The efficient enforcement of competition and state aid rules is one of the keys to the successful...
The book provides a scrutiny of legislative novelties and case law in the area of EU competition and state aid rules, with the particular emphasis on ...
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663,00 zł |
Food Security in an Uncertain World: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9781785602139 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International trade agreements are central to food security. The links between trade and the four dimensions in food security (availability, access, utilization, and stability) are examined. Freer trade in agricultural products provides additional food security. This is bolstered by factors such as increasing the use of GMOs, reducing food waste, and increasing investment in research and development. Also important is the ability of poor people to obtain food in the presence of transportation bottlenecks. Since low-income households spend most of their money on food, policy makers need to be...
International trade agreements are central to food security. The links between trade and the four dimensions in food security (availability, access, u...
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496,01 zł |
Food Security in a Food Abundant World: An Individual Country Perspective
ISBN: 9781785602153 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food insecurity can result from various events. When food is abundant, the entitlement to food is limited by endowments, the ability to trade, and potential transfers from family or the government. This volume utilizes a country and regional perspective to examine food insecurity. We consider the interaction between income and the share of household expenditures on food. The epidemiological risk assessment approach to food security issues is utilized as a function of agricultural and production, food distribution, and health policies. The interdependence of food security and climate change is...
Food insecurity can result from various events. When food is abundant, the entitlement to food is limited by endowments, the ability to trade, and pot...
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469,34 zł |
Community Management of Urban Open Spaces in Developing Economies
ISBN: 9781785606397 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Bharati Mohapatra examines the social, functional, physical and emotional aspects of neighborhood Open Space and the attitude of people for community participation in managing the Open Space, as well as development of a framework for community participation by integrating the social, psychological and spatial attributes. The key interlinked parameters examined are: Place Use (Functional content), Place Quality (Spatial content), Place Attachment (Emotional content), Place Management (Environmental Behavior) and Levels of Participation. The book presents both qualitative studies and...
Dr. Bharati Mohapatra examines the social, functional, physical and emotional aspects of neighborhood Open Space and the attitude of people for commun...
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357,33 zł |
Financial Crime in China: Developments, Sanctions, and the Systemic Spread of Corruption
ISBN: 9781137435293 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given China's rapid development, many observers assert that world economic growth and key economic indicators are now depending on the country alone, including the prospects of the dollar, the Euro, oil prices, industrial commodities, global equity markets and bond prices. On the other hand, China faces a number of major social and economic challenges which could undermine future growth, such as prevalent corruption, financial crime, and the relative lack of the rule of law. Financial Crime in China builds upon original research into the topic and offers a never-before-seen look at the...
Given China's rapid development, many observers assert that world economic growth and key economic indicators are now depending on the country alone, ...
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389,98 zł |
Trade, Globalization and Development: Essays in Honour of Kalyan K. Sanyal
ISBN: 9788132217060 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was written in honour of Professor Kalyan K. Sanyal, who was an excellent educator and renowned scholar in the field of international economics. One of his research papers co-authored with Ronald Jones, entitled The Theory of Trade in Middle Products and published in American Economic Review in 1982, was a seminal work in the field of international trade theory. This paper would go on to inspire many subsequent significant works by researchers across the globe on trade in intermediate goods. The larger impact of any paper, beyond the number of citations, lies in... This book was written in honour of Professor Kalyan K. Sanyal, who was an excellent educator and renowned scholar in the field of international eco... |
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389,98 zł |
The Economics of Chocolate
ISBN: 9780198726449 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history, government, nutrition, and geography. The chapters are organized around several themes, including the history of cocoa and chocolate -- from cocoa drinks in the Maya empire to the growing sales of Belgian chocolates in China; how governments have used cocoa and chocolate as a source of tax revenue and have regulated chocolate (and defined it by...
This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic...
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255,93 zł |
Internationalisierungsprozesse Eigentümergeführter Unternehmen: Der Einfluss Des Eigentümers ALS Strategischer Akteur
ISBN: 9783658106645 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christina M. Stein identifiziert interessante Besonderheiten der Person des Eigentumers als strategischer Akteur, der mit seinen individuellen Charakteristika, seinem finanziellen und emotionalen Engagement stark auf die Ausgestaltung des Internationalisierungsprozesses des Unternehmens Einfluss nimmt. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung resultieren u.a. aus einer theoretischen Analyse von Unterschieden zwischen dem Internationalisierungsprozess eigentumer- und managergefuhrter Unternehmen sowie einer fallstudiengestutzten Untersuchung. ...
Christina M. Stein identifiziert interessante Besonderheiten der Person des Eigentumers als strategischer Akteur, der mit seinen individuellen Charakt...
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255,12 zł |