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By:Annalisa Marzano
Published on 2007 by BRILL
ISBN 9789004160378
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Drawing on documentary sources and archaeological evidence this book offers a socio-economic history of elite villas in Roman Central Italy and brings a new perspective to the debate on the slave-based villa system and the crisis of Italian villas in the imperial period.
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By:Mandla Seleoane
Published on 2001 by HSRC Press
ISBN 9780796919816
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This publication will assist researchers, students and the public in their understanding of socio-economic rights.
Download The Political Economy of Tax Reform PDF/eBook
By:Takatoshi Ito,Anne O. Krueger
Published on 2007-12-01 by University of Chicago Press
ISBN 9780226387000
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The rapid emergence of East Asia as an important geopolitical-economic entity has been one of the most visible and striking changes in the international economy in recent years. With that emergence has come an increased need for understanding the problems of interdependence. As a step toward meeting this need, the National Bureau of Economic Research joined with the Korea Development Institute to sponsor this volume, which focuses on the complexities of tax reform in a global economy. Experts from Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Japan, and Thailand, as well as the United States, Canada, and Israel examine the major tax programs of the 1980s and their domestic and international economic effects. The analyses reveal similarities between the United States and countries in East Asia in political constraints on policy making, and taken together they show how growing interdependence interacts with domestic economic and political concerns to affect issues as politically vital as tax reform. Economists, policymakers, and members of the business community will benefit from these studies.
Download Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500-1700: Volume 2, Industry, Trade and Government PDF/eBook
By:C. G. A. Clay
Published on 1984-12-20 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521277693
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Clay provides an analysis of the economy and society of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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By:Bruce McGowan
Published on 1981 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521242080
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A painstaking study of Ottoman records, providing analyses of the economic, fiscal and demographic situation.
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By:Vaclav Smil
Published on 2017-05-12 by MIT Press
ISBN 9780262338318
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|I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. -- Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows -- ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity -- for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel--driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts -- from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
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By:Richard A. Goldthwaite
Published on 1982-10-01 by JHU Press
ISBN 9780801829772
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Patrons - The Guilds - Strozzi family - Succhielli family.
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By:Sheila Rowbotham,Swasti Mitter
Published on 1994 by Psychology Press
ISBN 9780415095853
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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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By:Elhanan Helpman
Published on 2004 by Harvard University Press
ISBN 9780674015722
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In this wise and profound work, Helpman discusses the vast research that has revolutionized understanding of economic growth in recent years, and summarizes and explains its critical messages in clear, concise, and accessible terms.
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By:Talcott Parsons,Neil J. Smelser
Published on 2003-01 by Psychology Press
ISBN 9780415175272
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This volume is designed as a contribution to the synthesis of theory ineconomics and sociology. We believe that the degree of separationbetween these two disciplines separation emphasized by intellectualtraditions and present institutional arrangements arbitrarily concealsa degree of intrinsic intimacy between them which must be brought tothe attention of the respective professional groups.
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By:Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch
Published on 2001-07-16 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521795500
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This economic history classic examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery.
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By:Raymond M. Duch,Randolph T. Stevenson
Published on 2008-03-17 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9781139470629
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This book proposes a selection model for explaining cross-national variation in economic voting: Rational voters condition the economic vote on whether incumbents are responsible for economic outcomes, because this is the optimal way to identify and elect competent economic managers under conditions of uncertainty. This model explores how political and economic institutions alter the quality of the signal that the previous economy provides about the competence of candidates. The rational economic voter is also attentive to strategic cues regarding the responsibility of parties for economic outcomes and their electoral competitiveness. Theoretical propositions are derived, linking variation in economic and political institutions to variability in economic voting. The authors demonstrate that there is economic voting, and that it varies significantly across political contexts. The data consist of 165 election studies conducted in 19 different countries over a 20-year time period.
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By:Hossein Askari
Published on 2003 by Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 9781567205428
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In this, the first of three related, empirically based studies, Askari, Forrer, Teegen, and Yang examine the broad philosophy behind economic sanctions: why they are used and what they are meant to achieve. In addition they examine whether or not sanctions can be successful and offer an analysis of the implications of sanctions.
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By:Mariana Mazzucato
Published on 2015-11-15 by Anthem Press
ISBN 9781783085217
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Named one of the best books of 2013 by the 'Financial Times', 'Huffington Post' and 'Forbes', this debate-shifting book debunks the myth of the State as a static bureaucratic organization only needed to 'fix' market failures, leaving dynamic entrepreneurship and innovation to the private sector. Case studies ranging from the innovations that make the iPhone so 'smart' to the current developments in clean technology reveal the reality, whereby the private sector only invests after the entrepreneurial State has made the bold, high-risk investments.
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By:Eric Helleiner,Andreas Pickel
Published on 2005 by Cornell University Press
ISBN 9780801489662
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This book demonstrates the enduring, and even heightened, economic significance of national identities and nationalism in the current age.
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By:C. T. Taylor,Aubrey Silberston,Z. A. Silberston
Published on 1973-12-06 by CUP Archive
ISBN 9780521202558
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By:Regine Paul
Published on 2015-01-30 by Berghahn Books
ISBN 9781782385424
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The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality. Rather than investigating the failure of borders to keep unauthorized migrants out, the author highlights the different policies of each country as |border-drawing| actions. Policymakers draw lines between different migrant groups, and between migrants and citizens, through considerations of both their economic utility and skills, but also their places of origin and prospects for social integration. Overall, migrant worker legality is arranged against the backdrop of the specific vision each country has of itself in an economically competitive, globalized world with rapidly changing welfare and citizenship models.
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By:Yasushi Tanaka,Toshiaki Tamaki,Jari Ojala,Jari Eloranta
Published on 2014-11-13 by Routledge
ISBN 9781317597636
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This book compares two countries with striking parallels in economic and political outcomes, yet with some distinct features in terms of institutional structures, relative size, and culture. Therefore, this book forms a fruitful platform for the study of the similarities and differences in the economic and societal development of Japan and Finland. Despite their geographic distance from one another and the aforementioned differences, both countries experienced rather similar economic and societal development patterns after the Second World War. The study of these societies both individually and through commonalities will provide a unique perspective on the emergence of modern economies and institutions. The book provides comprehensive coverage on issues such as welfare state formation and society, security and military spending, education system, industrial development, international trade, governmental economic policies, energy solutions, and bubbles and their collapse; thus, issues typical for these countries, as well as most modern states, studied from a longitudinal perspective. The book aims to answer a fundamental question in social science: Why do there seem to be common trends and developmental paths among countries differing in size, culture, and economic structure? This book will provide insights for those seeking to decipher how the developments in their own countries came about and where they may be headed to.
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By:Anthony H. Pascal
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By:Gerardo della Paolera,Alan M. Taylor
Published on 2003-11-03 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521822473
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A 2004 reference for those seeking a more quantitative understanding of Argentina's development.
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By:Micol Brazzabeni,Manuela Ivone Cunha,Martin Fotta
Published on 2015-11-30 by Berghahn Books
ISBN 9781782388869
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Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite - or perhaps because of - their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.
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By:Paul Benneworth
Published on 2018-08-15 by Routledge
ISBN 9781351685702
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In a knowledge-based economy, universities are vital institutions. This volume explores the roles that universities can play in peripheral regions, contributing to processes of regional economic development and innovative growth. Including a series of case studies drawn from Portugal, Norway, Finland, the Czech Republic, Estonia and the Dutch-German border region, this will be the first book to offer a comprehensive comparative overview of universities in European economically peripheral regions. These studies seek to explore the tensions that arise in peripheral regions where there may not be obvious matches between university activities and regional strengths. Aimed at academics, policy-makers and practitioners working on regional innovation strategies, this volume brings a much-needed sense of realism and ambition for all those concerned with building successful regional societies at the periphery of the knowledge economy.
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By:Teotonio R. De Souza
Published on 1990-01-01 by Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 9788170222590
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By:Hollis,Edward J. Nell
Published on 2007-02-01 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521033886
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Discusses the alliance between economics and philosophy.
