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The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust: The Public-Choice Perspective
ISBN: 9780226556352 / Angielski / Miękka / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has antitrust legislation not lived up to its promise of promoting free-market competition and protecting consumers? Assessing 100 years of antitrust policy in the United States, this book shows that while the antitrust laws claim to serve the public good, they are as vulnerable to the influence of special interest groups as are agricultural, welfare, or health care policies. Presenting classic studies and new empirical research, the authors explain how antitrust caters to self-serving business interests at the expense of the consumer.
The contributors are Peter Asch, George... Why has antitrust legislation not lived up to its promise of promoting free-market competition and protecting consumers? Assessing 100 years of antitr...
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292,22 zł |
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The Market Structure of Sports
ISBN: 9780226743950 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a detailed economic assessment of the current business of professional sports and prospects for the future in the United States, Scully examines the factors that determine players' salaries; management practices and franchise values; and long-term, short-term, and corporate ownership. Scully shows, for example, that while the economic growth of the last two decades was fueled primarily by sales of television rights, the broadcast market has become saturated and teams will have to look elsewhere for income in the 1990s.
This book offers technical insights that will interest... Through a detailed economic assessment of the current business of professional sports and prospects for the future in the United States, Scully examin...
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122,20 zł |
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Valuing Health for Policy: An Economic Approach
ISBN: 9780226807133 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How much should citizens invest in promoting health, and how should resources be allocated to cover the costs? A major contribution to economic approaches to the value of health, this volume brings together classic and up-to-date research by economists and public health experts on theories and measurements of health values, providing useful information for shaping public policy.
How much should citizens invest in promoting health, and how should resources be allocated to cover the costs? A major contribution to economic approa...
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425,04 zł |
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Asian Container Ports: Development, Competition and Co-Operation
ISBN: 9780230001954 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The container port industry in Asia represents adynamic aspect of the international transport and logistics scene. This book applies an overarching theme of 'Development, Competition and Cooperation' to a wide range of individual container ports in Asia. Major trends are identified and concrete examples provide new insights into the nature of relationships between the main ports in the region. The contents provide a great deal of new analysis that contributes to theoretical and conceptual debates on the nature of port competition. More generally, it will aid understanding of port development...
The container port industry in Asia represents adynamic aspect of the international transport and logistics scene. This book applies an overarching th...
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375,70 zł |
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Cluster-Based Industrial Development: An East Asian Model
ISBN: 9780230004832 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its utmost importance, the issue of industrial development has been largely neglected in the literature for the last few decades. The authors have conducted comparative case studies between Chinese and Japanese industries.
Despite its utmost importance, the issue of industrial development has been largely neglected in the literature for the last few decades. The authors ...
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375,70 zł |
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Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services
ISBN: 9780230006591 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides in-depth insights into the practices that lead to success in global sourcing. Written by internationally acclaimed academics, it covers best practices on IT outsourcing, offshoring, business process outsourcing and netsourcing. This book is a must read for any practitioner, academic or student concerned with global sourcing.
This book provides in-depth insights into the practices that lead to success in global sourcing. Written by internationally acclaimed academics, it co...
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187,83 zł |
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Sme Cluster Development: A Dynamic View of Survival Clusters in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780230007970 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new interpretative key, which we call 'a stage and eclectic approach', to the development of clusters. This approach supports public efforts to increase the effectiveness of policy-making and development operations in local contexts.
This book offers a new interpretative key, which we call 'a stage and eclectic approach', to the development of clusters. This approach supports publi...
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375,70 zł |
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The Global Business Revolution and the Cascade Effect: Systems Integration in the Global Aerospace, Beverage and Retail Industries
ISBN: 9780230013582 / Angielski / Twarda / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using empirical data from the supply chain of aerospace, beverages and retail this text develops an original framework, the 'cascade effect', to explain changes in industrial concentration. This provides an original insight into the determinants of industrial structure and has vital implications for firms and policy-makers in developing countries.
Using empirical data from the supply chain of aerospace, beverages and retail this text develops an original framework, the 'cascade effect', to expla...
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375,70 zł |
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Efficiency Models in Data Envelopment Analysis: Techniques of Evaluation of Productivity of Firms in a Growing Economy
ISBN: 9780230018860 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume discusses the latest techniques and their economic applications for modern industries like computer, pharmaceutical, banking and other manufacturing. Both econometric and mathematical programming techniques are analyzed so as to develop a synthetic approach.
This volume discusses the latest techniques and their economic applications for modern industries like computer, pharmaceutical, banking and other man...
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375,70 zł |
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Dynamics of Entry and Market Evolution
ISBN: 9780230521537 / Angielski / Twarda / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses both competitive and game theory models of industry growth through new technology, innovations and new entry, and provides a comprehensive treatment of various dynamic models of entry, applications of efficiency and entry models in computers and the pharmaceuticals industry, and applied models of Differential Games.
This book discusses both competitive and game theory models of industry growth through new technology, innovations and new entry, and provides a compr...
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375,70 zł |
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Business Logic for Sustainability: A Food and Beverage Industry Perspective
ISBN: 9780230551312 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The food and beverage industry is vital to the global economy, but in a society increasingly concerned with sustainable development, it is facing new challenges. This book explores corporate sustainability management in the food and beverage industry, whilst also addressing the threats of impending legislation and the latest debates, such as obesity and the coffee crisis.
The food and beverage industry is vital to the global economy, but in a society increasingly concerned with sustainable development, it is facing new ...
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187,83 zł |
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Charms, Charmers and Charming: International Research on Verbal Magic
ISBN: 9780230551848 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. As the most comprehensive collection of research on charms, charmers and charming available in the English language, it forms an essential reader on the topic.
Bringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagasca...
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526,00 zł |
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Basic Industrial Resources of the U.S.S.R.
ISBN: 9780231030779 / Angielski / Twarda / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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690,95 zł |
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Mechanization and Maize: Agriculture and the Politics of Technology Transfer in East Africa
ISBN: 9780231065962 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mechanization and Maize focuses on several international assistance agencies and on two African countries, Kenya and Tanzania. The technologies considered are improved varieties of maize, the primary East African food crop, and small-and large-scale forms of agricultural mechanization. The book investigates how political and technical forces come together, and draws upon the debate on the Green Revolution.
Mechanization and Maize focuses on several international assistance agencies and on two African countries, Kenya and Tanzania. The technologies...
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371,91 zł |
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The Antitrust Experiment 1890-1990: Critical Studies
ISBN: 9780231067102 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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690,95 zł |
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At the End of the Rainbow?: Gold, Land, and People in the Brazilian Amazon
ISBN: 9780231103558 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched...
Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazo...
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148,50 zł |
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Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy, and Social Issues
ISBN: 9780252065248 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern agriculture is being transformed by the genetic alteration of seeds, animals, and microorganisms, a process that has produced such products as Flavr Savr tomatoes and crops resistant to specific insects or herbicides. Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment is the first comprehensive overview of the ongoing transformation of agriculture, exploring the impact of genetic engineering from scientific, social, ethical, and ecological perspectives. Sheldon Krimsky and Roger Wrubel detail the impact the new generation of products is expected to have on agricultural practice and the...
Modern agriculture is being transformed by the genetic alteration of seeds, animals, and microorganisms, a process that has produced such products as ...
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126,14 zł |
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Japanese Multinationals in the United States: Case Studies
ISBN: 9780275920975 / Angielski / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focuses on the management/labor interface within the context of the foreign direct investor in the United States, eespecially the Japanese. Utilizing case studies and interviews, the author examines both the effects of Japanese multinationals on U.S. workers' interests, and the effects of the U.S. work environment on Japanese multinationals. Three basic questions permeated the research: How do labor and management considerations come together as key strategic and operating decisions are made and implemented by Japanese multinationals in the United States? How do Japanese... This study focuses on the management/labor interface within the context of the foreign direct investor in the United States, eespecially the Japane... |
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371,91 zł |
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Oil, Turmoil, and Islam in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780275921354 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The turmoil and strife of the Middle East raises serious questions about the security of the world's oil supply. "Oil, Turmoil, and Islam in the Middle East" is a hard-hitting indictment of OPEC and OAPEC, arguing that these organizations can no longer afford to impose indiscriminate price increases on the marketplace because they hurt not only themselves but oil poor Third World nations, as well. The author analyzes the importance of Middle Eastern oil in world politics. He emphasizes that any consideration of the forces influencing development in the Middle East should take Islamic... The turmoil and strife of the Middle East raises serious questions about the security of the world's oil supply. "Oil, Turmoil, and Islam in the Mi... |
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371,91 zł |
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Business of College Football
ISBN: 9780275927257 / Angielski / Twarda / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lawrence, an economist, football fan, and official, is an authoritative and astute critic of what is wrong with football in higher education as regulated by the NCAA. Lawrence believes the NCAA has become a cartel that keeps expenses low by rewarding the players almost nothing comparable to their contribution. . . . This is not the book for a novice interested in the razzle-dazzle of sports, but it is highly recommended for one who wants to understand the present situation and efforts, some misguided, to control the sport. Lawrence makes an in-depth analysis of the symbiotic relationship... Lawrence, an economist, football fan, and official, is an authoritative and astute critic of what is wrong with football in higher education as reg... |
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292,22 zł |