Fragmentation: New Production Patterns in the World Economy
ISBN: 9780199243310 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the world economy becomes more integrated, products become more globalized. Airplanes, automobiles, computers, watches, and garments are among products whose constituent parts are made all over the world. This volume presents arguments and evidence showing that this process is benign: it raises competitiveness, creates jobs, and enhances economic welfare.
As the world economy becomes more integrated, products become more globalized. Airplanes, automobiles, computers, watches, and garments are among prod...
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Intangible Assets
ISBN: 9780199256938 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wealth and growth in today's economies are driven primarily by intangible assets. Physical and financial assets are rapidly becoming commodities, yielding at best a competitive return on investment. Abnormal profits, dominant market position and even temporary monopolies are most effectively achieved by the sound deployment of intangible assets. The aim of this book is to bring together the best research and thinking in this exciting and rapidly emerging area.
Wealth and growth in today's economies are driven primarily by intangible assets. Physical and financial assets are rapidly becoming commodities, yiel...
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Corporate Networks in Europe and the United States
ISBN: 9780199256976 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a compelling comparison of corporate networks within the United States and Europe. It focuses on the comparative data on the inter-changing directories and networks of Germany, The United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States.
This book offers a compelling comparison of corporate networks within the United States and Europe. It focuses on the comparative data on the inter-ch...
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International Competitiveness and Technological Change
ISBN: 9780199259243 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. This book analyses the role of technological change in the competitiveness of firms and national economies.
Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial in...
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Changing Governance of Local Economies: Responses of European Local Production Systems
ISBN: 9780199259403 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities. Building on the work of their previous book (Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise? OUP 2001), which charted the recent development of local clusters of specialized manufacturing among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, the authors find patterns of economic governance far more complex and dynamic that usually described in a literature...
This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; an...
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Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy
ISBN: 9780199290475 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work. In this book the concept of "change" is problematized in terms of flexibility and stability across these processes, examining the central issues of industrial dynamics, structural change, and transformation.
Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work. In this book the c...
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
ISBN: 9780201483406 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be...
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Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs
ISBN: 9780202303383 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLANT CLOSED--A sign of the times? These two words have had profound meaning for workers in every factory and office across the country. Millions of workers who have already been displaced by closings have had to pick up the pieces of shattered lives and get on with the business of living. Those who are still working are faced with the insecurity of wondering whether they might find the gates closed some morning when they arrive at work. The number of plant closings and the threat of future closings have raised many questions. What has been happening to the American economy that has... PLANT CLOSED--A sign of the times? These two words have had profound meaning for workers in every factory and office across the country. Millions ... |
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Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs
ISBN: 9780202303390 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLANT CLOSED--A sign of the times? These two words have had profound meaning for workers in every factory and office across the country. Millions of workers who have already been displaced by closings have had to pick up the pieces of shattered lives and get on with the business of living. Those who are still working are faced with the insecurity of wondering whether they might find the gates closed some morning when they arrive at work. The number of plant closings and the threat of future closings have raised many questions. What has been happening to the American economy that has... PLANT CLOSED--A sign of the times? These two words have had profound meaning for workers in every factory and office across the country. Millions ... |
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Paying for Medicare: The Politics of Reform
ISBN: 9780202303932 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature. The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at policy innovation in history continue to shape decisions about Medicare and cost containment efforts. Smith shows how particular policy alternatives were developed; why chosen or rejected; and how provider interests and American political... ** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstand... |
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Paying for Medicare: The Politics of Reform
ISBN: 9780202303949 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature. The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at policy innovation in history continue to shape decisions about Medicare and cost containment efforts. Smith shows how particular policy alternatives were developed; why chosen or rejected; and how provider interests and American political... ** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstand... |
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Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland: Corporatism and Community
ISBN: 9780202305295 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland
Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland
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Optimization in Industry: Volume 2, Industrial Applications
ISBN: 9780202361567 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The origin of any industrial optimization study lies in the theory that some improvement can be made in a controllable system. The possibility for improvements may arise in any context, for example, in the control of a chemical plant, the organization of production to meet delivery dates, the design of rubber compounds, in traffic signal settings, and so on. In this volume, T. A. J. Nicholson deals with applications of the industrial optimization techniques demonstrated in the first volume of this two-part project, Optimization in Industry: Optimization Techniques.
The origin of any industrial optimization study lies in the theory that some improvement can be made in a controllable system. The possibility for imp...
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Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences
ISBN: 9780226032122 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The takeover boom that began in the mid-1980s has exhibited many phenomena not previously observed, such as hostile takeovers and takeover defenses, a widespread use of cash as a means of payment for targeted firms, and the acquisitions of companies ranking among the largest in the country. With the aim of more fully understanding the implications of such occurances, contributors to this volume consider a broad range of issues as they analyze mergers and acquisitions and study the takeoveer process itself.
The takeover boom that began in the mid-1980s has exhibited many phenomena not previously observed, such as hostile takeovers and takeover defenses, a...
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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
ISBN: 9780226080321 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Underdeveloping the Amazon" shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at...
"Underdeveloping the Amazon" shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverish...
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Law and Public Choice: A Critical Introduction
ISBN: 9780226238036 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Law and Public Choice, Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey present a remarkably rich
and accessible introduction to the driving principles of public choice. In this, the first systematic look at the implications of social choice for legal doctrine, Farber and Frickey carefully review both the empirical and theoretical literature about interest group influence and provide a nonmathematical introduction to formal models of legislative action. Ideal for course use, this volume offers a balanced and perceptive analysis and critique of an approach which, within limits, can... In Law and Public Choice, Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey present a remarkably rich
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R&d, Patents and Productivity
ISBN: 9780226308845 / Angielski / Miękka / 519 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An essential reference for specialists in the economics of technological change."--D. G. McFertridge, "Canadian Journal of Economics"
"An essential reference for specialists in the economics of technological change."--D. G. McFertridge, "Canadian Journal of Economics"
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The Lysenko Affair
ISBN: 9780226410319 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until 1965, Soviet genetics was dominated by a fanatical agronomist who achieved dictatorial power over genetics and plant science as well as agronomy.
"A standard source both for Soviet specialists and for sociologists of science." "American Journal of Sociology " "Joravsky has produced . . . the most detailed and authoritative treatment of Lysenko and his view on genetics." "New York Times Book Review"" The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until 1965, Soviet genetics was dominated ...
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The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
ISBN: 9780226476988 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. Chronic poverty affects more than the citizens and economies of these nations; it threatens global stability as the pressures of immigration become unsustainable and rogue nations seek power and influence through extreme political and terrorist acts.
For decades, a vast array of international institutions has pumped billions of dollars into these nations in an attempt to remedy their ills through the development of technological infrastructures, educational systems, and health... The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. Chronic poverty affects more than the c...
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Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An Economic History
ISBN: 9780226505114 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The interrelation among race, schooling, and labor market opportunities of American blacks can help us make sense of the relatively poor economic status of blacks in contemporary society. The role of these factors in slavery and the economic consequences for blacks has received much attention, but the post-slave experience of blacks in the American economy has been less studied. To deepen our understanding of that experience, Robert A. Margo mines a wealth of newly available census data and school district records. By analyzing evidence concerning occupational discrimination, educational...
The interrelation among race, schooling, and labor market opportunities of American blacks can help us make sense of the relatively poor economic stat...
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