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Trade Policy and Economic Welfare
ISBN: 9780198775348 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this classic text on international economics has been substantially revised and updated to take account of the considerable activity in this field over the last two decades. Three new chapters discuss trade policy and the environment, strategic trade policy, and trade policy and the exchange rate. Corden also analyzes in detail the many arguments for protection.
The second edition of this classic text on international economics has been substantially revised and updated to take account of the considerable acti...
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234,91 zł |
How Europe's Economies Learn: Coordinating Competing Models
ISBN: 9780199203192 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When seeking to bench mark the performance of European economies, commentators often look for comparison the economies of Japan and the United States. How Europe's Economies Learn shows how this is seriously misleading and needs to be complemented with an understanding of the fundamental differences between Europe's economies.
When seeking to bench mark the performance of European economies, commentators often look for comparison the economies of Japan and the United States....
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242,36 zł |
Trade, Growth, and Inequality
ISBN: 9780199204649 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for graduate students as well as researchers at all levels. It combines mathematical rigour with an exceptional breadth of approaches, including institutions, history, and comparative economics. Existing research is exposited and evaluated, and numerous new results are included. The central themes of economic inequality, within and between nations, are discussed, as is convergence, or the reduction of inequality.
Distinctive features of the... Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for ...
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244,84 zł |
A Question of Rigs, of Rules, or of Rigging the Rules?: Understanding the Profitability and Prospects of Upstream Oil Activities in the Gulf of Mexico
ISBN: 9780199205752 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an exercise in applied economics that, for the first time, brings together and combines a historical and institutional approach to the development of oil and gas activities in the US Gulf of Mexico with the statistical and analytical material put in the public domain by agencies of the US Federal or state governments.
This book is an exercise in applied economics that, for the first time, brings together and combines a historical and institutional approach to the de...
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403,96 zł |
Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness
ISBN: 9780199236558 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy?
Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to... What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in som...
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515,80 zł |
The Multilateral Investment System and Multinational Enterprises
ISBN: 9780199241101 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brewer and Young examine the future of the world economy and the key economic and political forces that will shape it. Considering the implications of historically important changes in the world economy in recent years, including the expansion of the international investments of multinational corporations and the new role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the authors present numerous examples of how countries have changed their international trade and investment policies, and examine how these changes are affecting firms' strategies and operations worldwide. This book explains the...
Brewer and Young examine the future of the world economy and the key economic and political forces that will shape it. Considering the implications of...
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515,80 zł |
Assembling Work: Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain
ISBN: 9780199241514 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research, undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s.
The authors argue that in actual fact production and employment regimes are adapted and 're-made' in a number of ways, responding to specific corporate and local contexts. In particular, they focus upon the ways in which Japanese and British managers have sought to construct... Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment....
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319,45 zł |
Immigration Policy and the Welfare State: A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti
ISBN: 9780199256310 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws together and unifies analysis of immigration into the major EU countries and the US, making digestible and transparent the major trends and dramatic developments of the past decade. While the influence of the welfare state on immigration incentives is a key issue, various other influences on both legal and illegal migration are analyzed, together with the implications of migration for the market outcomes on these two continents.
This book draws together and unifies analysis of immigration into the major EU countries and the US, making digestible and transparent the major trend...
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264,78 zł |
The Globalizing Learning Economy
ISBN: 9780199258178 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume analyses some of the major and current trends and challenges in the "new economy" from the point of view of technical innovation and competence building.It brings together the leading European expertise on different topics in this field.The contributors to this volume share the belief that knowledge is a fundamental component of economic growth and welfare. However, the ways in which knowledge is transmited and distributed among economic agents requires shaping by public policies.The individual chapters report on the most significant policies adopted and asses them in the light of...
This volume analyses some of the major and current trends and challenges in the "new economy" from the point of view of technical innovation and compe...
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247,33 zł |
The Diversity of Modern Capitalism
ISBN: 9780199261130 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the theory of institutional complementarily. Different economic models are not simply characterized by different institutional forms, but also by particular pattern of interaction between complementary institutions which are the core characteristics of these models. Institutions are not just simply devices which would be chosen by 'social engineers' in order to perform a function as efficiently as possible; they are the outcome of a political economy...
This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the t...
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1012,87 zł |
Population and Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth
ISBN: 9780199261840 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book of collected essays--an outcome of an A-session held at the 12th International Congress of Economic History in Madrid, 1998--sets a new standard in an active and influential field of research. The contributors go beyond the conventional European and North American geographical boundaries, bringing out new empirical findings and developing new arguments.
This book of collected essays--an outcome of an A-session held at the 12th International Congress of Economic History in Madrid, 1998--sets a new stan...
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249,82 zł |
Making the Emu: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht
ISBN: 9780199278404 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU member states comply with their famous deficit and debt requirements of 3 and 60 per cent of GDP. Yet, how can the EU's leaders be certain that these targets are met? Is a 3 per cent deficit in Belgium equivalent to one in Italy or France? Making the EMU explores how the Treaty's budgetary surveillance procedure monitors member state budgetary policies, harmonizes their budgetary data, and effectively determines which member states qualified for member status and are subject to the Pact's sanctions. This book provides the...
The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU member states comply with their famous deficit and debt requirements of 3 and 60 pe...
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269,75 zł |
The Origin of Goods: Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements
ISBN: 9780199290482 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at rules of origin in preferential trading agreements and their growing importance in trade negotiations. The book's message is that rules of origin can act as powerful barriers to trade and have been deliberately used as such.
This book looks at rules of origin in preferential trading agreements and their growing importance in trade negotiations. The book's message is that r...
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751,91 zł |
The New International Money Game
ISBN: 9780226013978 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Previous editions of Robert Z. Aliber's "The New International Money Game" have been widely acclaimed as the best and most entertaining introduction to the arcane enigmas of international finance. Since its original publication, the book has become a classic primer for beginning students, businesspersons, and anyone interested in a clear explanation of international monetary and financial issues.
With expert knowledge and a wry sense of humor, Aliber demystifies international finance by breaking through the jargon barrier and presenting technical issues in a clear and concise manner.... Previous editions of Robert Z. Aliber's "The New International Money Game" have been widely acclaimed as the best and most entertaining introduction t...
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305,95 zł |
Globalization in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780226066004 / Angielski / Miękka / 597 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been made to present a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration.
This volume collects eleven papers doing exactly that and more. The first group of essays explores how the process of globalization can... As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well ...
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331,38 zł |
The Rules of the Global Game: A New Look at US International Economic Policymaking
ISBN: 9780226134949 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic news once confined to the business pages of the newspapers now receives headline coverage, whether it involves protests in Seattle or sweatshops in Asia. As attention is increasingly focused on economic policy, it becomes even more important for noneconomists to be able to make sense of these stories. Is the Asian economy sinking or rising? What effects will a single European currency have on the US economy? Kenneth W. Dam's "The Rules of the Global Game" provides, in clear and practical language, a framework to help readers understand and answer such questions. Dam takes us beyond...
Economic news once confined to the business pages of the newspapers now receives headline coverage, whether it involves protests in Seattle or sweatsh...
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143,60 zł |
The Wto as an International Organization
ISBN: 9780226454498 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Trade Organization was established in the 1990s, superseding the GATT and providing a stronger institutional foundation for international trading arrangement among countries. As an international organization it faces a number of challenges, including achieving agreement over trade in services, bringing in new members from the economies in transition and developing countries, making the strengthened dispute settlement mechanism effective, and bringing about an increasingly open multilateral trading system.
The World Trade Organization was established in the 1990s, superseding the GATT and providing a stronger institutional foundation for international tr...
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220,92 zł |
A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers
ISBN: 9780226536811 / Angielski / Miękka / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. In "A History of Corporate Governance around the World," some of the brightest minds in the field of economics present new empirical research that suggests that each side of the debate has something to offer the other.
The contributors argue that free enterprise and well-developed financial systems are... For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the Unite...
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331,38 zł |
The China Code: What's Left for Us?
ISBN: 9780230001350 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is growing at a remarkable pace and exerting a powerful influence on the global economy. How is this rapid development possible? How is China transforming the west? Frank Sieren, a leading expert on China, gives a compelling account of China's re-emergence. His sobering appraisal: China is setting the agenda for the future of the West.
China is growing at a remarkable pace and exerting a powerful influence on the global economy. How is this rapid development possible? How is China tr...
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195,42 zł |
European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi-Level Governance in the Making
ISBN: 9780230001916 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences are shown to mix with national ones and involve the European sector and company, as well as Community, levels. Competing tendencies towards 'Europeanization', 'Americanization' and 'Re-nationalization' are identified. The approach is multi-disciplinary and truly...
This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an im...
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195,42 zł |