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The Global Politics of Science and Technology
ISBN: 9783642553639 / Angielski / Twarda / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global governance. This two-volume collection brings the debate about science and technology to the center of International Relations. It shows how integrating science and technology translates into novel analytical frameworks, conceptual approaches and empirical puzzles, and thereby offers a state-of-the-art review of various...
An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact...
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Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations
ISBN: 9783319164649 / Angielski / Twarda / 471 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water pricing to achieve conservation in scarce water resources is a major policy challenge. This book provides credible evidence from water pricing experiences in various countries around the world. The book chapters, written by experts in water pricing from various countries, documents the past 10 to 15 years of water pricing experiences in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and Spain. The book includes also several chapters that review innovations in water pricing in various countries, such as new... Water pricing to achieve conservation in scarce water resources is a major policy challenge. This book provides credible evidence from water pricin... |
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The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation
ISBN: 9781137496720 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adaptation policies and measures are essential components of any global attempt to cope with the pending impacts of climate change. Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, this book offers the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results. The authors present a political economy framework revolving around four key processes: enclosure, exclusion, encroachment, and entrenchment. They document the presence of these four inequitable attributes...
Adaptation policies and measures are essential components of any global attempt to cope with the pending impacts of climate change. Drawing on concept...
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Stagnation Versus Growth in Europe: Capitalism in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9783319269511 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the debate on the policies required to overcome the crises of 2008 and 2011, in which the focus on short-term measures has overshadowed the need to analyze the low growth rate in the European Union, and especially the Eurozone, as the basis for interventions that will counteract the tendency toward stagnation. Factors that lie at the root of the low growth are examined in depth, covering, for example, the impact of the demographic trend toward an aging population in Europe, consequences of inequality for growth, challenges posed by technological change, competition from...
This book explores the debate on the policies required to overcome the crises of 2008 and 2011, in which the focus on short-term measures has overshad...
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Democratization in the Third World: Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
ISBN: 9781349267859 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratisations. The authors, from seven different continents, examine civil society and its relation to the state throughout the world and assess prospects for sustainable democratization.
Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and La...
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Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy
ISBN: 9781349122684 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of articles on schools, individuals and topics within the mainstream of the history of economic thought. The principal schools are the Physiocrats and the English Classical Economists. The principal individuals are Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Francis Y. Edgeworth, Friedrich von Wieser, Frank W. Taussig, and William H. Hutt. The principal topics include the economic role of government, power, the psychology of economics, and the early history of macroeconomics.
This book is a collection of articles on schools, individuals and topics within the mainstream of the history of economic thought. The principal schoo...
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Planning and Market in Soviet and East European Thought, 1960s-1992
ISBN: 9781349227587 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the evolution of ideas about the desirable combination of planning and market in the former Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary since the 1960s, when major economic reforms started, up to 1991 when the countries have been engaged in a transformation of their economies into market economies. It also discusses the common and contrasting features of the debates which evolved in the countries under review.
This book discusses the evolution of ideas about the desirable combination of planning and market in the former Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia a...
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Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies: Lessons from the Japanese Experience
ISBN: 9781349237777 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic progress requires technological development, which in turn depends on a country's social capacity to acquire, assimilate, and develop new technologies. Focusing on the evolution of Japan's economy from the Meiji Restoration to the present day, this volume provides an authoritative account, firmly grounded in theoretical and empirical analysis, of the country's attempts to generate the necessary social capacity for technological innovation and absorption. Successive chapters address the specific experiences of a number of key Japanese industries during this process. Each industrial...
Economic progress requires technological development, which in turn depends on a country's social capacity to acquire, assimilate, and develop new tec...
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Structural Adjustment in Africa
ISBN: 9781349204007 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing overviews of states and sectors, classes and companies in the new international division of labour, this series treats polity-economy dialectics at global, regional and national levels. This volume in the series looks at the complexities of structural adjustment in Africa.
Providing overviews of states and sectors, classes and companies in the new international division of labour, this series treats polity-economy dialec...
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Political Economy and Christian Theology Since the Enlightenment: Essays in Intellectual History
ISBN: 9781349519569 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century they came to be seen as incompatible, even mutually hostile. In the twentieth century they went their separate ways and are no longer on speaking terms. These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of this estrangement, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate. Others have recently shown that both political economy and Christian...
Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century they cam...
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The New Asia in Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781349407804 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remarkable economic growth of Asia has been the defining feature of the second half of this century. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific, technological and economic factors which enabled Asia to make such a strong comeback after centuries of oppression. This historical survey offers useful lessons for the future, and guides predictions for how Asia might face up to the new challenges of the next millennium.
The remarkable economic growth of Asia has been the defining feature of the second half of this century. This book offers a comprehensive overview of ...
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Energy and Economic Reform in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Production, Consumption and Exports, and for the International Energy Markets
ISBN: 9781349391936 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a succinct account of what may happen to the energy sector in the former Soviet Union in the medium- to long-run under alternative scenarios for macroeconomic reform. The analyses reveal the serious damage of the oil resource base caused by the reckless exploitation practices of the past. Production of oil and coal can recover only slowly from the doldrums of the early 1990s, but the potential to expand gas output is very considerable. Energy consumption practices have been extremely wasteful in the past. The total savings potential that could be accomplished as energy...
This book provides a succinct account of what may happen to the energy sector in the former Soviet Union in the medium- to long-run under alternative ...
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China's Trade Patterns and International Comparative Advantage
ISBN: 9781349409822 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book outlines the process of China's trade reforms over the past two decades and assesses the impact of these reforms on the economy. The author provides a detailed quantitative analysis to trace China's evolving commodity pattern of trade and changing comparative advantage structure over the entire reform period.
This book outlines the process of China's trade reforms over the past two decades and assesses the impact of these reforms on the economy. The author ...
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Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
ISBN: 9783319479033 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book will appeal to all those who are interested in the required transformation in the planning, management, and operations of data-rich cities and the ways in which such cities can employ the latest technologies to use data efficiently, promoting data access, data sharing, and interoperability.
The book will appeal to all those who are interested in the required transformation in the planning, management, and operations of data-rich cities an...
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Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations
ISBN: 9783319381916 / Angielski / Miękka / 471 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water pricing to achieve conservation in scarce water resources is a major policy challenge. This book provides credible evidence from water pricing experiences in various countries around the world. The book chapters, written by experts in water pricing from various countries, documents the past 10 to 15 years of water pricing experiences in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and Spain. The book includes also several chapters that review innovations in water pricing in various countries, such as new... Water pricing to achieve conservation in scarce water resources is a major policy challenge. This book provides credible evidence from water pricin... |
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The Diversity of Emerging Capitalisms in Developing Countries: Globalization, Institutional Convergence and Experimentation
ISBN: 9783319499468 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations. While varieties of industrialized countries' capitalisms are extensively scrutinized, those of developing countries' capitalisms are far less documented. By implementing a unified and original comparative approach based on the institutional complementarity theory, the different contributors of the book find evidence for the originality and heterogeneity of the forms of capitalism to be observed in...
This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are c...
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New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy
ISBN: 9783319582467 / Angielski / Twarda / 413 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966): A Liberal Political Economist and Conservative Social Philosopher
ISBN: 9783319683560 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Taiwan's Political Re-Alignment and Diplomatic Challenges
ISBN: 9783319771243 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume investigates and evaluates the context, causes, and consequences of various essential issues in Taiwanese domestic politics and external relations before and after the regime change in 2016.
This edited volume investigates and evaluates the context, causes, and consequences of various essential issues in Taiwanese domestic politics and ext...
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Stagnation Versus Growth in Europe: Capitalism in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9783319800486 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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