ilość książek w kategorii: 8749
Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia: Trends, Issues and Challenges
ISBN: 9783319152172 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. Itmaps governance challenges and analyzes current trends from the perspectives of democracy, public policy, and public institutions. Regional public administration and governance systems have undergone some phenomenal changes over the last three decades and have played a key role in the economic progress of the area, especially in the Southeast and East Asian nations. Rich with country-specific evidence and analyses, the chapters in the bookapply empirical and other research methods to examine...
This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. Itmaps governance challenges and analyzes current tre...
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389,98 zł |
Intraco: Blazing a Trail Overseas for Singapore?
ISBN: 9789814656818 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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361,90 zł |
Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013): Measurement of Carrying Capacity and Countermeasures
ISBN: 9783662462041 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book mainly focuses on the status, trends and countermeasures of carrying capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region. It presents the results a comprehensive survey and systematic research on the carrying capacity of this region and its mega-cities, conducted in the hope of providing decision-making support for the governments of this region. The primary goals are to be able to actively respond to the new challenges of global climate changes and environmental resource constraints; fully practice green development concepts; and actively promote transformation in the...
This book mainly focuses on the status, trends and countermeasures of carrying capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region. It presents ...
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194,97 zł |
Economics for Everyone, Second Edition: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
ISBN: 9780745335773 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economics is too important to be left to the economists, argues Jim Stanford, and this concise and readable book provides nonspecialists with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't).
Now in its second edition, Economics for Everyone is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition, and wages are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. Stanford answers such questions as "Do workers need capitalists," "Why does capitalism harm... Economics is too important to be left to the economists, argues Jim Stanford, and this concise and readable book provides nonspecialists with all the ...
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107,26 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade
ISBN: 9780199981755 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade surveys the literature on the politics of international trade and highlights the most exciting recent scholarly developments. The Handbook is focused on work by political scientists that draws extensively on work in economics, but is distinctive in its applications and attention to political features; that is, it takes politics seriously. The Handbook's framework is organized in part along the traditional lines of domestic society-domestic institutions - international interaction, but elaborates this basic framework...
The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade surveys the literature on the politics of international trade and highlig...
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706,50 zł |
Firms' Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9784431553656 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factories to a country and a region in a highly globalized economic setting. The theoretical and empirical analyses examine the influence of the transfer pricing system, corporate tax rates, and a country's industrial structure on a firm's decision to locate and the impact of firms' location on regional economic activities. The theoretical analysis elucidates the importance of the above-mentioned factors in the firm's selection of possible location. The...
This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factorie...
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389,98 zł |
Welfare Reform and Its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor
ISBN: 9781107507586 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two decades of federal and state-level demonstration projects and experiments concerning cash welfare in the United States culminated with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as welfare reform. Ten years after reform there remain a host of unanswered questions on the well-being of low-income families. In Welfare Reform and Its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor, many of the nation's leading poverty experts address these and related outcomes to assess the longer-term effects of welfare reform. A diverse array of survey...
Two decades of federal and state-level demonstration projects and experiments concerning cash welfare in the United States culminated with the passage...
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147,77 zł |
Monetary Policy in Low-Inflation Economies
ISBN: 9781107514119 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All central banks manage the supply of money and credit in their countries, increasing and decreasing them as needed to provide what economies need to keep growing. The way central banks typically handle that job involves short-term interest rates. But when inflation is low, central banks can't use their usual methods to get money and credit into an economy that needs it. Several essays in this volume describe the work of economists who have investigated problems that central banks might have when inflation gets low. Other essays investigate related questions such as whether an economy...
All central banks manage the supply of money and credit in their countries, increasing and decreasing them as needed to provide what economies need to...
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147,77 zł |
Making Value for America: Embracing the Future of Manufacturing, Technology, and Work
ISBN: 9780309326537 / Angielski / Miękka / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization, developments in technology, and new business models are transforming the way products and services are conceived, designed, made, and distributed in the U.S. and around the world. These forces present challenges - lower wages and fewer jobs for a growing fraction of middle-class workers - as well as opportunities for "makers" and aspiring entrepreneurs to create entirely new types of businesses and jobs. Making Value for America examines these challenges and opportunities and offers recommendations for collaborative actions between government, industry, and education... Globalization, developments in technology, and new business models are transforming the way products and services are conceived, designed, made, an... |
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203,89 zł |
Oil Supply Crises: Cooperation and Discord in the West
ISBN: 9781498515436 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oil Supply Crises: Cooperation and Discord in the West, by Vessela Chakarova, offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of consumer countries' policies and reactions to oil supply shortages. In addition to being a valuable source of information on oil market dynamics, it provides a deep theoretical understanding of one of the most critical issues in international relations: inter-state cooperation. This volume employs a structured, focused comparison to study European consumer countries' cooperation in times of oil supply shortages. There have been fifteen such crises since the...
Oil Supply Crises: Cooperation and Discord in the West, by Vessela Chakarova, offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of consumer countries...
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225,35 zł |
Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
ISBN: 9780393246414 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline. Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world--but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics... In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani R... |
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107,26 zł |
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
ISBN: 9780745335995 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even as labor in the developed world seems to be in retreat, industrial struggle continues elsewhere and with particular force in the Global South. In Southern Insurgency, Immanuel Ness provides a thorough and expert perspective of three key countries where workers are fighting the spread of unchecked industrial capitalism: China, India, and South Africa. In each case, he considers the broader historical forces in play, such as the effects of imperialism, the decline of the international union movement, class struggle, and the growing reserve of available labor. He then narrows his...
Even as labor in the developed world seems to be in retreat, industrial struggle continues elsewhere and with particular force in the Global South. In...
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134,09 zł |
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
ISBN: 9780745336008 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even as labor in the developed world seems to be in retreat, industrial struggle continues elsewhere and with particular force in the Global South. In Southern Insurgency, Immanuel Ness provides a thorough and expert perspective of three key countries where workers are fighting the spread of unchecked industrial capitalism: China, India, and South Africa. In each case, he considers the broader historical forces in play, such as the effects of imperialism, the decline of the international union movement, class struggle, and the growing reserve of available labor. He then narrows his...
Even as labor in the developed world seems to be in retreat, industrial struggle continues elsewhere and with particular force in the Global South. In...
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456,07 zł |
Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy
ISBN: 9783319159904 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from production-based to consumption-based approaches in international climate policy. With the help of an analytical model, the author investigates the effects of different policy variants on environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, carbon leakage, competitiveness and the global distribution of income. The economic, legal and political background and the often contradictory findings on consumption-based approaches are reviewed in great detail. In the final chapters, options for practical policy design are developed.... This book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from production-based to consumption-based approaches in international climate polic... |
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389,98 zł |
An African Green Revolution: Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Small Farms
ISBN: 9789401783682 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, half the population lived on less than on dollar a day, and a staggering one in three people and one third of all children were undernourished. Africa has abundant natural resources; agriculture provides most of its jobs, a third of national income and a larger portion of total export earnings. However the levels of land and labor productivity rank among the worst in the world. The book explains Africa s productivity gap and proposes ways to close... This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, hal... |
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389,98 zł |
Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market: The Breakdown of Scientific Thought
ISBN: 9789401784085 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that the free pursuit of knowledge is of the highest value in its own right. As market principles are forced on universities, inducing a neoteric culture of managerialism, many worry that the very characteristics that made European higher education in particular such a success are being eroded and... This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market o... |
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389,98 zł |
Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964-1979
ISBN: 9781137460257 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party.
In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the ...
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506,99 zł |
Smart Bioenergy: Technologies and Concepts for a More Flexible Bioenergy Provision in Future Energy Systems
ISBN: 9783319161921 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biomass is a vital source of renewable energy, because it offers a wide range of established and potential methods for energy generation. It is also an important facet of the progression toward a sustainable energy future. The need for further development in the provision of bioenergy is underlined by challenges affecting the biomass resource base, including rising demand for biomass for food, feed, materials and fuel. This is underlined by significant concerns over factors relating to land, such as soil, nutrients and biodiversity. This book examines and analyzes Germany's decade-long...
Biomass is a vital source of renewable energy, because it offers a wide range of established and potential methods for energy generation. It is also a...
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389,98 zł |
Public Sector Accounting and Auditing in Europe: The Challenge of Harmonization
ISBN: 9781137461339 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides an overview of the governmental accounting status quo in Europe by analysing the public sector accounting, budgeting and auditing systems in fourteen European countries. IT sheds light on the challenges faced by European countries as they move towards adoption of the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS).
The book provides an overview of the governmental accounting status quo in Europe by analysing the public sector accounting, budgeting and auditing sy...
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467,99 zł |
Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism
ISBN: 9781137524836 / Angielski / Twarda / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy, yet little research exists on how best to organize that. This book examines three necessary functions--information exchange, authoritative allocation, and reducing rent seeking--across experiences in Latin America.
Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy, yet little researc...
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194,97 zł |