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Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European Gap
ISBN: 9780691130866 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation. Drawing on the findings of a two-year research project that examined data from France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, these economists argue that Europe's 25 million "missing" jobs can be attributed almost entirely to its relative lack of service jobs.... Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity o... |
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514,26 |
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Democratic State
ISBN: 9780700602629 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of five original essays by seven of the best-known political-economy theorists addresses the interconnections between the economy and the polity and embodies the leading theoretical approaches to the political economy of the state.
This collection of five original essays by seven of the best-known political-economy theorists addresses the interconnections between the economy and ...
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117,50 |
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Zimbabwe's Fight to the Finish: The Catalyst of the Free Market
ISBN: 9780710308726 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1900. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1900. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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440,75 |
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The No-Growth Society
ISBN: 9780713001365 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1975. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1975. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching's Last Trains
ISBN: 9780714653389 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Beeching Report recommended the closure of about a third of Britain's passenger railways, a plan that went ahead despite opposition. This book examines the politics behind the programme and argues that Beeching was attempting to impose logic on railway finances and responding to the failures of public ownership.
The Beeching Report recommended the closure of about a third of Britain's passenger railways, a plan that went ahead despite opposition. This book exa...
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773,33 |
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Political Theory and the Environment: A Reassessment
ISBN: 9780714681870 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beginning of the new century is a crucial time for environmental political theory. Since the first wave of environmental texts appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, environmentalism has come under a series of challenges, and has begun a process of redeveloping itself in order to meet these challenges. Environmental writers have shown that they can take on questions of distributive justice, democracy, economic efficiency, and other concerns of conventional political theory from an environmentalist perspective. This book offers a set of important contributions to the property theory,...
The beginning of the new century is a crucial time for environmental political theory. Since the first wave of environmental texts appeared in the lat...
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215,45 |
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Developments in Latin American Political Economy: States, Markets and Actors
ISBN: 9780719054594 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique approach to contemporary Latin America, this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and issues of core significance in the region.
A unique approach to contemporary Latin America, this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and issues of core significa...
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103,06 |
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The Political Economy of New Labour: Labouring Under False Pretences?
ISBN: 9780719054822 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides a systematic assessment and evaluation of the modernization of the British Labour Party in light of its landslide victory in 1997. It also represents an attempt to locate Labour's modernization in terms of the distincitive political economy of contemporary British capitalism and the impact of globalization, the evolution and transformation of the British State in the post-war period, the legacy of Thatcherism, and the specifics of electoral strategy and competition in contemporary Britain.
This work provides a systematic assessment and evaluation of the modernization of the British Labour Party in light of its landslide victory in 1997. ...
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Socially Mixed Economies: How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems
ISBN: 9780739102701 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever considered what the middle ground between capitalism and socialism would look like? Socially Mixed Economies offers a tantalizing snapshot of this brave new world, a third way born of compromise by countries accepting that social gains can develop in opposed systems. John Weber takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the give-and-take of post Cold War history. Drawing on examples from Europe, the United States, and the developing world this provocative work suggests that today's political landscape is far from polarized between purely socialist and capitalist...
Have you ever considered what the middle ground between capitalism and socialism would look like? Socially Mixed Economies offers a tantalizing snapsh...
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The Politics of Belonging: Nationalism, Liberalism, and Pluralism
ISBN: 9780739108260 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Politics of Belonging represents an innovative collaboration between political theorists and political scientists for the purposes of investigating the liberal and pluralistic traditions of nationalism. Alain Dieckhoff introduces an indispensable collection of work for anyone dealing with questions of identity, ethnicity, and nationalism.
The Politics of Belonging represents an innovative collaboration between political theorists and political scientists for the purposes of investigatin...
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Breaking the Iron Wall: Decommodification and Immigrant Women's Labor in Canada
ISBN: 9780739112359 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By providing empirical as well as historical evidence, Habiba Zaman undertakes a rigorous analysis of immigrant women's commodification and the possibility of their decommodification in Canada.
By providing empirical as well as historical evidence, Habiba Zaman undertakes a rigorous analysis of immigrant women's commodification and the possib...
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411,41 |
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The Political Economy of International Trade: U.S. Trade Laws, Policy, and Social Cost
ISBN: 9780739112915 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As both trade deficits and fiscal deficits steadily increased during the 1980s in the U.S., free trade has not stood without its share of suffering. Chung investigates American trade policy from the perspectives of U.S. trade laws and international trade agreements by outlining the primary trade laws of the past; considering the trade laws of the present; and delving into various trade agreements, disputes, and reforms.
As both trade deficits and fiscal deficits steadily increased during the 1980s in the U.S., free trade has not stood without its share of suffering. C...
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528,96 |
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The Political Economy of International Trade: U.S. Trade Laws, Policy, and Social Cost
ISBN: 9780739112922 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As both trade deficits and fiscal deficits steadily increased during the 1980s in the U.S., free trade has not stood without its share of suffering. Chung investigates American trade policy from the perspectives of U.S. trade laws and international trade agreements by outlining the primary trade laws of the past; considering the trade laws of the present; and delving into various trade agreements, disputes, and reforms.
As both trade deficits and fiscal deficits steadily increased during the 1980s in the U.S., free trade has not stood without its share of suffering. C...
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Democracy, Equality, and Justice: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Political Economy, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780739117637 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging common interpretations of the political thought of John Adams and Adam Smith, Democracy, Equality and Justice offers an engaging and novel portrait of the political economy in America at its founding. The founders believed that liberty should not trump community, but should exist within the context of community. Drawing on extensive written records of the thought of John Adams and Adam Smith, the father of modern capitalism, Dr. John E. Hill argues that these two great men advocated a balanced, values-based, and just political economy. Adams, historically misperceived as a rugged...
Challenging common interpretations of the political thought of John Adams and Adam Smith, Democracy, Equality and Justice offers an engaging and novel...
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220,40 |
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The Politics and Economics of Park Management
ISBN: 9780742511569 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Politics and Economics of Park Management examines national protected area systems, in both developed and developing countries, that have made a transformation from 'fortress parks' to a sustainable use model. The contributors--park management, academics, and members of nongovenmental organizations--contend that successful institutional change in protected area systems involves not only the adoption of appropriate legal and regulatory regimes covering sustainable use, but also the development of an informal culture of sustainable resource use among all of a park's stakeholders. While this...
The Politics and Economics of Park Management examines national protected area systems, in both developed and developing countries, that have made a t...
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235,10 |
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Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
ISBN: 9780742540446 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows interesting developments, from communication NGOs in Africa to affirmative action in India's information technology job market. Other cases spotlight China, Singapore, Venezuela, Palestine, Arab nations, Ghana, Canada, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Theoretically driven and empirically grounded, Global...
This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market,...
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Giving Credit Where Due: A Path to Global Poverty Reduction
ISBN: 9780761835349 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the World Bank, approximately one billion people live on less than $1 a day. Giving Credit Where Due: A Path to Global Poverty Reduction critically examines the level and quality of the international community's response to such extreme poverty. This timely work traces the ethical and religious underpinnings of social welfare policy; describes income support systems in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere; and proposes a new strategy for reducing global poverty.
According to the World Bank, approximately one billion people live on less than $1 a day. Giving Credit Where Due: A Path to Global Poverty Reduction ...
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186,11 |
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Economic Development of Southern Sudan
ISBN: 9780761835899 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic Development of Southern Sudan provides an overview of the Southern Sudanese economy, and the main causes for the lack of development in the territory. The book suggests strategies and policies for greatly reducing poverty and initiating sustainable development in the territory. Yongo-Bure outlines the significance of the resource base of Southern Sudan, as well as the development programs of the first peace period (1972D1983). The prominent sectors analyzed include agriculture, industry, transport, education, health, energy, power, and trade. The exploration and exploitation of...
Economic Development of Southern Sudan provides an overview of the Southern Sudanese economy, and the main causes for the lack of development in the t...
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225,30 |
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Privatization in Costa Rica: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis
ISBN: 9780761836209 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Privatization in Costa Rica offers an assessment of the last twenty-five years of privatization efforts in Costa Rica, and argues that one-dimensional thinking about the privatization of state services is misdirected. An historical perspective on privatization in general within the context of commercial globalization is followed by a review of Costa Rica's political economy and it's integration into a global market in terms of privatization. Case studies of three types of privatization attempted include the Costa Rican Development Corporation (CODESA); the Costa Rican Electricity Institute...
Privatization in Costa Rica offers an assessment of the last twenty-five years of privatization efforts in Costa Rica, and argues that one-dimensional...
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176,32 |
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Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region
ISBN: 9780765603524 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the highly regarded 1993 book "Driven by Growth," this work presents the political-economic evolution of the Asia-Pacific countries, with overviews of the impact of economic development on political change. This new edition now includes chapters on Burma and Vietnam. New authors have been added and all the original chapters have been revised.
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the highly regarded 1993 book "Driven by Growth," this work presents the political-economic evolution of t...
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225,25 |
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