ilość książek w kategorii: 9545
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No Growth Without Equity?: Inequality, Interests, and Competition in Mexico
ISBN: 9780821377673 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equity and growth are central concerns for development in Mexico. Specific inequalities in income, power, wealth, and status create and sustain economic institutions and policies that perpetuate these inequalities and promote poor economic performace. 'No Growth without Equity? Inequality, Interests, and Competition in Mexico' presents a novel analysis showing why more equality is necessary to increase economic growth. The authors analyze the causes of persistent inequality and weak growth in Mexico, despite major changes associated with NAFTA and democratization, and draw implications for...
Equity and growth are central concerns for development in Mexico. Specific inequalities in income, power, wealth, and status create and sustain econom...
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Draining Development?
ISBN: 9780821388693 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of developing countries to tax havens and other financial centers in the developed world. This volume assesses the dynamics of these flows, much of which is from corruption and tax evasion. What causes them, what are their consequences and how might they be controlled? The chapters by authors from a variety of backgrounds, including criminologists and practicing lawyers as well as economists, examine many dimensions of the phenomenon. For example,...
A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of ...
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The Annotated Works of Henry George: The Science of Political Economy
ISBN: 9781683933403 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia
ISBN: 9780197520260 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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187,22 |
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Failed: What the Experts Got Wrong about the Global Economy
ISBN: 9780195170184 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in the last two decades of the 20th century? What was the role of the International Monetary Fund in these economic failures? Why was Latin America able to achieve substantial poverty reduction in the 21st century after more than two decades without any progress? Failed analyzes these questions, explaining why these important...
Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Bro...
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188,78 |
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Resilient Economics: Finance, Society and the Environment
ISBN: 9780955736964 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy
ISBN: 9781849807654 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical liberalism against contemporary challenges. It sets out an analytical framework of 'robust political economy' that explores the economic and political problems that arise from the phenomena of imperfect knowledge and imperfect incentives. Using this framework, the book defends the classical liberal focus on markets and the minimal state from the critiques presented by 'market failure' economics and communitarian and egalitarian variants of political theory. Mark Pennington expertly applies the lessons learned from responding to...
This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical liberalism against contemporary challenges. It sets out an analytical framework of 'ro...
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Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy
ISBN: 9781594518126 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing, Derber shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unless we rapidly transform our economy and create a new green American Dream Derber shows there is hope in the financial meltdown and Great Recession we are now suffering. The economic crisis has raised deep questions...
This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist a...
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Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality
ISBN: 9781498588980 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age
ISBN: 9780262548847 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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191,06 |
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Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places
ISBN: 9780521799973 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This meticulously researched study represents the first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the United States should approach the drug legalization question. It surveys what is known about the effects of different drug policies in Western Europe and what happened when cocaine and heroin were legal in the US a century ago. The book shows that legalization involves different tradeoffs between health and crime and the interests of the inner city minority communities and the middle class. The book explains why it is so difficult to accomplish substantial reform of drug...
This meticulously researched study represents the first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the United States should approac...
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The Clean Power Plan's Economic Impact - State by State
ISBN: 9781934276297 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This addendum to The Clean Power Plan's Economic Impact shows detailed results for the 48 contiguous states. For each state, the findings present four different expenditure burdens: 1. The current average annual electricity costs relative to 2014 median household income (cost burden) by neighborhood (formally U.S. Census Tracts); 2. The impact on the electricity cost burden by neighborhood if the Clean Power Plan (CPP) is implemented, and consumers do not change their behavior; 3. The impact on the electricity cost burden by neighborhood... This addendum to The Clean Power Plan's Economic Impact shows detailed results for the 48 contiguous states. For each state, the find... |
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The Economics of Individual and Population Aging
ISBN: 9780521297028 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study aims to identify and describe the principle economic issues associated with individual and population ageing.
This study aims to identify and describe the principle economic issues associated with individual and population ageing.
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Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline
ISBN: 9781107475939 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democracy and its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class and the non-political rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills contend that this usurpation is the source of...
Democracy and its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and polit...
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Opening the Black Box of Cabinet-Level Politics : Explaining Disaggregated Public Social Expenditure Changes in Affluent, Parliamentary Democracies with Cabinet-Level Politics and Institutions
ISBN: 9783643911179 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills
ISBN: 9780465063987 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human healthand have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time when constituents need them most. The result, as pioneering public health experts David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu reveal in this provocative book, is that many countries have turned their recessions into veritable epidemics, ruining or extinguishing thousands of lives in a misguided attempt to balance budgets...
Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disast...
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Challenges for China's Development: An Enterprise Perspective
ISBN: 9780415341332 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pace of reform for China s enterprises of all kinds has quickened as they seek to cope with the challenges of self-determination in a rapidly evolving context of difficult social and welfare changes, and the realities of increasing global competition. This book explores these challenges from the perspective of the enterprise. It includes discussion of current and likely future overall trends, reports on new research findings on the true extent of governance and accounting reforms within enterprises, and considers the impact of increasing global competition on strategy, business... The pace of reform for China s enterprises of all kinds has quickened as they seek to cope with the challenges of self-determination in a rapidly e... |
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The oikos collection : The oikos collection
ISBN: 9781906093013 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the rapidly growing importance of sustainability and corporate responsibility in a globalized world, management schools are increasingly integrating long-term economic, environmental and social issues into their teaching and research. Climate change, poverty, labor standards and human rights are among the many topics that future decision-makers will need to face in their careers. Business education needs to reflect this new reality and provide a broadened understanding of value creation in order to create economic capital while developing social and preserving natural capital. Many...
With the rapidly growing importance of sustainability and corporate responsibility in a globalized world, management schools are increasingly integrat...
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Crisis of Global Sustainability
ISBN: 9780415694179 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development, proposing new organizational solutions to deal with the crisis of sustainability. Crisis of Global Sustainability provides for the first time a compact insider description of the evolution and impact of the Club of Rome, a global think tank that produced a groundbreaking 1972 study "The Limits to Growth" which highlighted the dangers of unrestrained economic growth and... This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to prom... |
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Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System: From GATT to the Uruguay Round and the Future
ISBN: 9780367159764 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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