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Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard rules of economic engagement, creating systems that differ markedly from those predicted by the theory of general market...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-30
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Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace? This can largely be attributed to governments maintaining welfare expenditures beyond what tax revenues allow. But will these governments refrain from doing what...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-04-24
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The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade surveys the literature on the politics of international trade and highlights the most exciting recent scholarly developments. It examines the impact of domestic societal actors, domestic institutions, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-23
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As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism, Colin Hay and...
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Polity
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2015-04-17
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The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, farm policies and between countries. While a certain degree of research has been conducted on biofuel efficacy and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-09
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This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from...
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Springer
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2015-03-31
Collection :
Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
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This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand. Perhaps more than any other matter...
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Springer
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2015-03-28
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Sports Economics, Management and Policy
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This book demonstrates that the much-needed global shift in energy production and use must happen at a territorial level in order to be truly successful and sustainable.This book enables regional implementation efforts by connecting broad EU environmental policies with...
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Springer
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2015-03-18
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This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality...
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Springer
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2015-03-12
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Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
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The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before. But...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-03-06
Collection :
Global Futures
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The debate on whether to privilege economic growth over ecological security is passé. Environmental considerations must be at the heart of economic growth, especially for a country of 1.25 billion people destined to add another 400 million by the middle of the century....
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OUP India
Parution :
2015-03-05
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-04
Collection :
Latin American Political Economy
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This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-02-25
Collection :
Advances in Spatial Science
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This volume examines current and previous environmental policies, and suggests alternative strategies for the future. Addressing resource depletion and climate change are pressing priorities for modern economies. Planning energy infrastructure projects is complicated by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-29
Collection :
International Papers in Political Economy
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This timely book provides in-depth analytical comparison of the nineteenth century evolution of the American single market with corresponding political, economic, and social developments in post-WWII European efforts to create a single European market. Building the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-22
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Research on the role of states and markets in the hydrocarbon sector is highly topical in contemporary International Political Economy. This edited collection will approach this subject from a broader perspective, investigating the very essence of the interaction...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-20
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This study analyses enterprise development and entrepreneurship and their relationship with the state and market building in Russia. It focuses on continuities and changes in the factory regime, drawing on existing literature and the author's own research and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-05
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This book is a collection of original essays grouped into four parts under the headings “Greece and European integration,” “Issues in the Methodology of Economics,” “Institutions and the Free Market Economy,” and “Insights for Today from Ancient Greece.” The essays...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-27
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This study offers an analysis of the UK's current economic policy options and a plan for improving life for ordinary citizens via a sensible and realistic understanding of governments' limited ability to manage economic performance. It provides a manifesto which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-21
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