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Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Latin America has gone through a major transformation in the past two decades. According to the United Nations, with the discovery of new oil and mineral deposits and increases in energy exports, manufacturing and tourism, Latin America's economic growth and development will only continue, foreign investment will increase, and the region's global influence will become greater and greater. This is…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 059 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 601) Аннотация: Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots. Via an unprecedented analysis of management texts which influenced the thinking of employers and contributed to reorganization of companies over the last decades, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'This excellent volume provides an empirically robust, critically informed but also eminently readable interrogation of the politics and practice of sustainable development. Through a global governance and political economy lens it traverses the public and the private, and the local and the global and offers some carefully thought-through hope for a better way forward.' — Lorraine Elliott,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system. The book's original authors, Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo, provided not only an overview of Italian law, but a definition of the field, together with an important contribution to the general literature on comparative…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: 'It is difficult to think of a more pressingly momentous political challenge than the topic addressed in this volume, and there could hardly be a better group of researchers to unfold key implications. In the broadest of senses referred to here, 'socio-technical systems' pervade all the great political dilemmas of the contemporary world. Across sectors spanning health, food, water, energy,…

Скачать книгу (размер 7 215 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1416) Аннотация: Auctions play a crucial role in the allocation of resources in many industries. This selection of topics and papers should be of help to the student, researcher and economic practitioner, offering comprehensive reference material. Topics include risk aversion, correlation/affiliation and bidders.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: 'The policy framework advocated by Minford et al. . . . is grounded in economic theory and an incisive empirical analysis of the costs of UK's membership of the EU. Their thesis that the EU is a political union practising economic protectionism in the guise of gradualism towards free trade makes sense. . . . Minford and his associates' analysis suggests that the EU's policy framework of free…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life? Rebel Cities places the city…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: How did economic 'experts' worldwide fail to predict the financial crisis of 2007-2008? Eminent economist Paul Davidson discusses how mainstream economic theory may not be applicable to the world of experience. Post Keynesian theory, on the other hand, is designed to be applicable to the real world, and this book shows how applying it to policy formulation could help practically resolve economic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: 'The NIEMO development effort is as ambitious as any in regional science. In addition to immense data handling issues faced are the numerous conceptual and theoretical hurdles these researchers have cleared so adeptly. The volume's chapters present many of the critical areas of analysis to which analytical frameworks like NIEMO can be put, and demonstrate what can be accomplished when a group of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Intra-Industry Trade calls for us to rethink what trade most often looks like and how it shapes global institutions, fostering peace among states. Cameron G. Thies and Timothy M. Peterson argue that our understanding of trade has not kept pace with its changing nature in the 21st century; existing models, rooted in Ricardo's theories, regard trade uniformly as taking place between entities and…

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: This unique book highlights the contributions made by Muslim scholars to economic thought throughout history, a topic that has received relatively little attention in mainstream economics. Abdul Azim Islahi discusses various ways in which Muslim ideas reached the European West, influencing scholars and helping to form the foundations of modern economic ideas and theories. Early chapters outline…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'In these creative and imaginative essays, James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon explore new analytical territory by explaining how democratic politics can generate economic disorder. While some of these themes are present throughout Buchanan's scholarly oeuvre, these essays break new analytical ground by examining the ability of democratic processes to promote destructive outcomes in the absence of…

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