ilość książek w kategorii: 9511
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Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia
ISBN: 9781349520923 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the economic crisis of 1997, there have been significant social policy reforms in East Asia. Using the concept of the developmental welfare state, this book seeks to answer whether the welfare reforms in East Asia have extended social rights while maintaining its developmental credentials. Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia explains the way in which the shift in economic strategy has influenced social policy reform in East Asia. It also analyzes the political dynamics of social policy in which economic imperatives for social reform were transformed into social...
Since the economic crisis of 1997, there have been significant social policy reforms in East Asia. Using the concept of the developmental welfare stat...
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Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order
ISBN: 9781349539772 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Hayek, spontaneous order - the emergence of complex order as the unintended consequence of individual actions that have no such end in view - is both the origin of the Great Society and its underlying principle. These sometimes critical essays assess Hayek's position and argue that his work can inform contemporary social and political dilemmas.
For Hayek, spontaneous order - the emergence of complex order as the unintended consequence of individual actions that have no such end in view - is b...
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Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade
ISBN: 9781349539246 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. The historical focus is on Hollywood's engagement with rivals and partners in two leading developing countries, Egypt and Mexico, beginning with the birth of their national film industries in the late 1920s.
Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. The historical focus is on Hollywood'...
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Economic Sanctions: International Policy and Political Economy at Work
ISBN: 9781349535385 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Transferred to digital printing 2008"--T.p. verso.
"Transferred to digital printing 2008"--T.p. verso.
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Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction
ISBN: 9781349533183 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing broad, holistic notions of 'impact' to measure the effects of international development assistance, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the international political economy. Leading experts focus on enhancing aid's ability to reduce poverty in poor countries.
Developing broad, holistic notions of 'impact' to measure the effects of international development assistance, this book makes a significant contribut...
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Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?
ISBN: 9781349531523 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world.
This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investme...
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Emerging Capitalism in Central Europe and Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Political Economies
ISBN: 9781349480326 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the emergence of different forms of capitalism in Central-Eastern states in Europe and Mekong states within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). All of them (but Thailand) have historically disappeared from the regional maps for long periods of time due to colonial or imperial rule. Most of them were previously members of a soviet-type economy, and they all joined ASEAN or the European Union in the 1990s or in the 2000s. These states are characterized by a strong urge toward feelings of national sovereignty due to their experiences with colonialism and...
This book examines the emergence of different forms of capitalism in Central-Eastern states in Europe and Mekong states within the Association of Sout...
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International Accounting Harmonization: Adopting Universal Information Methods for a Global Financial System
ISBN: 9781349477302 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International Accounting Harmonization analyzes the differences between national accounting rules and international accounting methods, showing that when firms adopt international accounting standards they achieve significantly higher positive coefficients compared with firms that only take on local accounting strategies.
International Accounting Harmonization analyzes the differences between national accounting rules and international accounting methods, showing that w...
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China's Rise to Power: Conceptions of State Governance
ISBN: 9781349446780 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society.
China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This ...
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Mobilizing Resources in Latin America: The Political Economy of Tax Reform in Chile and Argentina
ISBN: 9781349295913 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform.
This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of ...
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Macroeconomic Policy, Growth and Poverty Reduction
ISBN: 9781349662357 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late twentieth century, structural adjustment policies became the West's received wisdom as a solution to the economic problems of the South. The range of geographical coverage matched with the coherence of the approaches taken by the contributors allows striking comparisons to be made.
In the late twentieth century, structural adjustment policies became the West's received wisdom as a solution to the economic problems of the South. T...
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Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse
ISBN: 9781349621309 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnographic accounts as vehicles for women's rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures and societies.
This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnographic accounts as v...
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The Changing Role of Central Banks
ISBN: 9781349463428 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Changing Role of Central Banks derives lessons from current economic and financial challenges as well as failures in confronting them. Through this approach, it brings under perspective political and social reactions to major economic problems of the last ten years, particularly those pertaining to money and initiatives taken by central banks.
The Changing Role of Central Banks derives lessons from current economic and financial challenges as well as failures in confronting them. Through thi...
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Globalization Contained: The Economic and Strategic Consequences of the Container
ISBN: 9781349454501 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the global significance of the freight container, with particular emphasis on the perspectives of the US and China, Globalization Contained considers the implications of the freight container as an agent of change for the future of the global economy and global security.
Examining the global significance of the freight container, with particular emphasis on the perspectives of the US and China, Globalization Contained ...
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The Political Economy of Theocracy
ISBN: 9781349377633 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book consists of essays by leading scholars in economics and political science which try deepen our understanding of how theocratic regimes behave, by providing up to date empirical surveys by leading scholars of the economic performance of Iran and of Muslim countries in general, and by looking at the behavior of historical theocracies.
This book consists of essays by leading scholars in economics and political science which try deepen our understanding of how theocratic regimes behav...
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The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators: Challenges of Definition, Aggregation, and Application
ISBN: 9781349370375 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests better measures than those currently used.
This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, ...
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New Security Frontiers: Critical Energy and the Resource Challenge
ISBN: 9781138250413 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The globalizing world is increasingly confronting a new category of security issues related to resource availability. The resource environment contains both traditional categories, such as energy, foodstuffs, and water, as well as new technologically related resources, such as rare earth minerals. The essays in this volume emphasize both the uniqueness and the magnitude of these new challenges, while simultaneously acknowledging that cooperation and competition in response to these security concerns occur within the context of both the historical and contemporary international power...
The globalizing world is increasingly confronting a new category of security issues related to resource availability. The resource environment contain...
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The Voice from China: An Chen on International Economic Law
ISBN: 9783662514153 / Angielski / Miękka / 789 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In short, the 24 selected and representative articles written in English by the author over the past 30-odd years, mainly published in international leading journals and now collected and compiled in this monograph, could be deemed the products of international academic debates. They record, reflect and embody the author s personal views on a number of contemporary basic issues in international economic law & the international economic order. These personal views with Chinese characteristics are deeply rooted in China s specific national situation and the common position of the world-wide... In short, the 24 selected and representative articles written in English by the author over the past 30-odd years, mainly published in internationa... |
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Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy: New Robust, Reliable and Coherent Modelling Tools
ISBN: 9783319353692 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent modeling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis.
This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent ...
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Sustainable Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Future Perspectives
ISBN: 9783319471440 / Angielski / Twarda / 809 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents fundamental and applied research aimed at the development of smart cities across India. Based on the exploration of an extensive array of multidisciplinary literature, this book discusses critical factors of smart city initiatives: management and organization, technology, governance, policy, people and communities, economy, infrastructure, and natural environment. These factors are broadly covered under the integrative framework of the book to examine the vision and challenges of smart city initiatives. The book suggests directions and agendas for smart city research and... This book presents fundamental and applied research aimed at the development of smart cities across India. Based on the exploration of an extensive... |
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