Ekonomisk historia

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the ...

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one small idea can ignite a revolution just as a single matchstick can start a fire. One such idea - putting employees first and customers second - sparked a revolution at HCL Technologies, the IT services giant. In this candid and personal accoun...

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How do societies go through major technological, economic and structural changes peacefully? The ways in which Denmark, Norway and Sweden went from feudal agricultural societies to industrialized democracies were exceptionally peaceful. In the pro...

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In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies. Yet waves of price increases and reduced production in the 19...

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Entrepreneurship is vital for companies' success, to allow them to adapt and grow in today's interlinked and turbulent business environments. Yet as they grow in size and complexity, many companies become less innovative and more rigid. The challe...

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The dust had yet to settle on the global financial crisis in 2009 when an unlikely Wharton grad set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. The n...

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Hur har relationen mellan arbete och familj förändrats i Sverige under 1900-talet? Maria Stanfors ger en samlad bild av den långsiktiga utvecklingen av kvinnors arbete, karriärer, utbildning och barnafödande. Hon visar vilka val kvinnor i Sverige ...

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The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess ...

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Rising social, political and economic inequality in many countries, and rising protest against it, has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. A timely intervention in these disc...

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Vår världs ekonomiska historia - den förindustriella tiden ger en bred översikt av de stora dragen i världens ekonomiska historia under flera tusen år, från mänsklighetens begynnelse fram till 1800. Vi följer hur ekonomierna i de olika världsdelar...

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From near-extinction in the early eighties, Harley-Davidson rose to worldwide recognition and is still today one of the great, iconic American motorcycle brands. In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an ex...

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Varför växer vissa ekonomier när andra stagnerar? Detta är en av många frågor som diskuteras i Världens ekonomiska historia. I boken presenterar författarna på ett lättillgängligt sätt den globala ekonomins historiska utveckling från förhistorisk ...

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Hur kunde Sverige utvecklas från ett av Europas fattigaste länder till att bli fjärde rikast i världen? Och hur var det möjligt att samtidigt bli ett av världens mest jämlika länder? Kan den svenska välfärdsstaten bestå i framtiden? I den här boke...

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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance...

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Revised and updated edition of this award-winning study of debt.

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All samhällsutveckling är beroende av kreativa och egensinniga entreprenörer som ifrågasätter hävdvunna sanningar och som vågar bryta nya vägar. Omgivningen uppfattar ofta dessa människor som besvärliga. I denna bok ges en bred exposé över entrepr...

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Robert B. Marks skildrar i denna lättillgängliga och fängslande bok den moderna världens ursprung i globalt perspektiv. Till skillnad från de flesta andra böcker i ämnet, som förutsätter att den moderna världens tillblivelse handlar om "västerland...

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Hur stor betydelse har egentligen dramatiska ekonomiska händelser i vår egen tid? Är de långsamma förändringarna i samhällets struktur mer avgörande för samhällsutvecklingen? I Sveriges ekonomiska historia belyser Lars Magnusson båda dessa rörelse...

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Få kontinenters historia är så präglad av myter och fördomar som Afrikas, och dess historia har ofta beskrivits som statisk och afrikanska samhällen som primitiva. Afrika - en kontinents ekonomiska och sociala historia visar i stället en dynamisk ...

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Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to ...

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Människan har genom alla tider resonerat kring ekonomiska fenomen. Denna bok spårar fram¿växten av ett ekonomiskt tänkande genom historien, från dess tidigaste rötter i filosofi, juridik och teologi. Vi lär känna några av ämnets mest namn¿kunniga ...

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This new edition of Ivan T. Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 f...

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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz show...

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The power of top management is pervasive and profound. It affects the quality of economic life, but also our personal and social lives. Equally strong is its impact on the sustainability of a free enterprise system. Psychoanalyst, teacher, and man...

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The second edition features a 220-term brand glossary and a premium softcover binding. THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach...

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This book provides a unique contribution to contemporary globalization debates by providing an accessible survey of the growth and role of multinational enterprises in the world economy over the last two hundred years. The author shows how entrepr...

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A Concise Economic History of the World offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present. Comprehensive and now even more global in scope, the fifth edition examines the ongoing effects of globalization on both past c...

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Likens corporations to living organisms and traces their developmental stages, discussing the normal, even healthy problems that lead to growth at these stages, as well as the unusual problems that can cause a company's death.

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This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the foremo...

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London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of ...

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