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From Gold to Euro: On Monetary Theory and the History of Currency Systems
ISBN: 9783642074837 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with the evolution of monetary systems. Firstly, it argues that money forms a constitutional element in any private-ownership economy, estab lishing a nominal-standard order for the market behaviour of individual agents. The market economy is basically a payment society where money structures and values economic activities, and performs itself as a market asset. The use of re sources and the production of commodities are governed by calculations in mone tary values which subordinate production and employment to the logic of asset markets. The "veil" of money cannot be...
This book deals with the evolution of monetary systems. Firstly, it argues that money forms a constitutional element in any private-ownership economy,...
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Horizontal Inequalities and Post-Conflict Development
ISBN: 9780230251847 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan, and four thematic studies on macro-economic policies, privatisation, PRSP's, and employment generation.
This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on...
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Globalization, Hegemony and the Future of the City of London
ISBN: 9780230280205 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives a detailed account of the primacy of the City of London, both as a domestic actor and as a global financial centre. It focuses on whether the hegemonic position of the City of London can be threatened by the globalization process and how this relates to its role as an international money laundering centre.
This book gives a detailed account of the primacy of the City of London, both as a domestic actor and as a global financial centre. It focuses on whet...
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Global Shipping in Small Nations: Nordic Experiences After 1960
ISBN: 9780230294547 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization. The authors analyse political and institutional patterns alongside the various corporate responses to the many upheavals of global shipping.
This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges an...
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Capitalists in Communist China
ISBN: 9780230284586 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1949, Chinese capitalists have experienced some dramatic shifts in their political and economic life. Keming Yang examines what such changes tell us about China's current political situation and future political development, making use of both historical and current interdisciplinary evidence.
Since 1949, Chinese capitalists have experienced some dramatic shifts in their political and economic life. Keming Yang examines what such changes tel...
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Linking Trade and Security: Evolving Institutions and Strategies in Asia, Europe, and the United States
ISBN: 9781461447641 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The connections between trade and security are hardly new. Analysts and practitioners have clearly recognized this interrelationship since the mercantilist arguments of the 16th and 17th centuries. Despite wishful economic liberal thinking that might prefer to separate the political from the economic, it is widely recognized that trade and security are fundamentally interconnected in the foreign policy of states. Over time, as new forms of trade policy have come into being and the international security environment has evolved, the nexus of these two spheres has grown more complex and...
The connections between trade and security are hardly new. Analysts and practitioners have clearly recognized this interrelationship since the ...
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Basic Income Worldwide: Horizons of Reform
ISBN: 9780230285422 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world.
In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book t...
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Greece's Horizons: Reflecting on the Country's Assets and Capabilities
ISBN: 9783642345333 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have daily debated the course of the Greek economy, prescribing ways to move forward. This collection of essays progressively moves from an analysis of the causes of the crisis and the policy responses so far to a debate on some of the countryʼs advantages and capabilities that should underpin its new development model and propel the return to growth. The book analytically chooses to view the glass as half-full and seeks to provide motivation... The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have ... |
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The Political Economy of Local Regulation: Theoretical Frameworks and International Case Studies
ISBN: 9781137588272 / Angielski / Twarda / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change.
This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public servic...
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Public-Private Partnerships: Policy and Governance Challenges Facing Kazakhstan and Russia
ISBN: 9781137569516 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation.
This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation.
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Globalization and Regionalization: Challenges for Public Policy
ISBN: 9781461352785 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, David B. Audretsch and Charles F. Bonser present a view of Globalization and Regionalization that holds that the interaction between a more open trading system and the new telecommunications and computer technology has substantially increased productivity and facilitated the fragmentation of the production process. The fragmentation of the production process has resulted in a new international organization of production. It has accelerated the globalization of national economies and has allowed firms to take advantage of low wages, wherever they are to be found, and, where...
In this volume, David B. Audretsch and Charles F. Bonser present a view of Globalization and Regionalization that holds that the interaction between a...
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American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance
ISBN: 9780230236080 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside traditional emphases on military intervention, looking instead to economics.
In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book dem...
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Conservative Party Economic Policy: From Heath in Opposition to Cameron in Coalition
ISBN: 9781137295231 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering the period from Ted Heath's assumption of the leadership of the Conservative Party through to the early years of the Coalition, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the Tory Party's Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Policy-Making over the past 50 years providing an historical context for the political and economic events of today.
Covering the period from Ted Heath's assumption of the leadership of the Conservative Party through to the early years of the Coalition, this volume p...
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A Study of China's Foreign Aid: An Asian Perspective
ISBN: 9781137323767 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a new perspective of China's controversial foreign aid strategy. The chapters offer a thorough examination of data to show how China has created knowledge in its long experiences of aid and how this accumulated knowledge could contribute to other developing countries. The book also examines China's aid philosophy and strategy through an Asian perspective, instead of the Western perspective that is postulated in existing academic literature. This is important as China shares a number of common features with other Asian donors, including India and Japan. Finally, the book...
This book provides a new perspective of China's controversial foreign aid strategy. The chapters offer a thorough examination of data to show how Chin...
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The Good Society: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Switzerland
ISBN: 9783642372377 / Angielski / Twarda / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together work from economists and political scientists, this volume offers empirical answers on how to achieve a good society, making it a highly relevant comparative study in political economy and welfare studies.
Bringing together work from economists and political scientists, this volume offers empirical answers on how to achieve a good society, making it a hi...
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The Future of Public Housing: Ongoing Trends in the East and the West
ISBN: 9783642416217 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are exceptions, too. By including perspectives of scholars from across the world, this book provides new insights into public housing in its various forms. It contains in-depth chapters on public housing in five East Asian countries and six Western countries, together with three comparative overview chapters.
Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contr...
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Welfare State at Risk: Rising Inequality in Europe
ISBN: 9783319014807 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the causes of inequalities that have developed in the European Union, analyzes their social and economic consequences, and assesses the political measures taken to address these issues - also on the basis of public survey results. The detailed analyses presented focus on structures of inequality to be found in the areas education, culture, labor market, Internet access, families and children, gender, and the regions of the EU. The book also critically examines both the legal framework conditions and financial / taxation policy as instruments that can be used to... This book investigates the causes of inequalities that have developed in the European Union, analyzes their social and economic consequences, and a... |
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Challenging the Orthodoxy: Reflections on Frank Stilwell's Contribution to Political Economy
ISBN: 9783642361203 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena do not occur in isolation from social and political processes. One leading Australian political economist is Frank Stilwell. Highlights of his work include concerns with the creation and use of wealth, inequalities between rich and poor, the spatial implications of economic growth, and the tensions between economic growth and the environment. Stilwell has been especially prominent in developing alternative economic policies, with seminal...
Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena ...
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Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Volume VI Lectures on Political Economy 1875-1876
ISBN: 9780333102589 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Voting Power and Procedures: Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
ISBN: 9783319051574 / Angielski / Twarda / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshe Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others are revisited. The book proposes new voting procedures and studies well-known procedures and/or apportionment methods either from a technical or historical point of view.
This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshe Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specifi...
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