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Contending Issues in African Development
Advances, Challenges, and the Future
E-bok, 2001
1128 kr
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Taking a forward-looking approach, this book critically examines the issues and dynamics central to Africa's problematic development and situates these issues within the contents unique cultural, political, economic, and social milieu. Moving away from a simple litany of problems bedeviling …
Democracy in Desperation
The Depression of 1893
Av Douglas Steeples, David O. Whitten
E-bok, 1998
1204 kr
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The Panic of 1893 and the depression it triggered mark one of the decisive crises in American history. Devastating broad sections of the country like a tidal wave, the depression forced the nation to change its way of life and altered the pattern and pace of national development ever after. The …
Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash
A Speculative Orgy or a New Era?
E-bok, 1998
1178 kr
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Attempting to reveal the real causes of the 1929 stock market crash, Bierman refutes the popular belief that wild speculation had excessively driven up stock market prices and resulted in the crash. Although he acknowledges some prices of stocks such as utilities and banks were overprices, …
Iraq's Burdens
Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment
E-bok, 2002
1204 kr
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Oil revenue has been an economic curse for Iraq. In the second half of the 20th century the international oil sector shaped Iraq's economy, forcing it to rely too heavily on revenue brought in by oil production and exports. Iraq's failure to use copious oil rents to diversify the economy has proven …
Growth and Variability in State Tax Revenue
An Anatomy of State Fiscal Crises
Av Randall G. Holcombe, Russell S. Sobel
E-bok, 1997
1204 kr
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During recessions state government fiscal crises are widespread, as states find their revenues inadequate to meet their expenditure demands. This volume shows that state fiscal crises have only one significant cause: revenue downturns associated with recessions. Other analysts have argued that …
Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy
Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927
E-bok, 1999
1204 kr
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Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, and Benjamin Strong, as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, played a critical role in the formulation of American monetary policy during the 1920s. Yet little attention has been given to the relationship between them—at first cooperative, then …
Community Associations
The Emergence and Acceptance of a Quiet Innovation in Housing
E-bok, 2000
1178 kr
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Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly. Today a new type of community is emerging—one planned from the start regarding housing location, style, and governance. These Community Associations (CAs) have increased in number from 500 …
Economy in the Reagan Years
The Economic Consequences of the Reagan Administrations
E-bok, 1994
1204 kr
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The arguments over the economic policies of the Reagan Administration will continue until sufficient time has elapsed for a consensus to be possible. In the meantime, it is necessary for contemporary scholars to record their opinions as a base for the consensus. Campagna has recorded his …
Economy of Iraq
Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010
E-bok, 1994
1178 kr
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The economy of Iraq has fluctuated wildly since the 1950s. It has been affected by changes in governments, by wars, and by general instability. This book analyzes a complex subject and is especially timely at this critical juncture in the history of Iraq, the Middle East, and international …
Economic Structures of Antiquity
E-bok, 1995
1766 kr
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The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis. Silver finds that the ancient economy emerges as a class of economies with its own laws of motion shaped by transaction costs (the resources used up in exchanging ownership …
Epistemics of Development Economics
Toward a Methodological Critique and Unity
Av Kofi Kissi Dompere, Manzur Ejaz
E-bok, 1995
1178 kr
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The effective use of development economic theories in practice is limited, the authors contend, by the lack of explicit criterion for judging their scientific content. The directional progress of critical research and teaching is also constrained by this deficiency. This study advances a …
Electricity in the American Economy
Agent of Technological Progress
Av Sam H. Schurr, Calvin C. Burwell m. fl.
E-bok, 1990
1144 kr
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Electricity has penetrated deeply into virtually every aspect of American life, be it in industry, the home, or in the rapidly growing commercial and service sectors. This book documents and analyzes the existence of a strong, and growing, synergy between technological progress and the use of …
Economics of Intellectual Property in a World without Frontiers
A Study of Computer Software
E-bok, 1992
1178 kr
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This work explores the problems arising from dynamic information technology in its application to intellectual property rights. In a global marketplace of ideas, political boundaries and the sovereignty of the nation state seem to be disappearing because of the increasing difficulty of scrutinizing …
Advocate for American Enterprise
William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
E-bok, 2001
1204 kr
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In 1865, William Buck Dana, working a bold new departure in American journalism, established the nation's first business weekly, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle , in the country's commercial nerve center, New York City. As its publisher and editor, he became the nation's most influential …
Moral Revolution and Economic Science
The Demise of Laissez-Faire in Nineteenth-Century British Political Economy
Inbunden, 1979
1098 kr
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Role of Economic Advisers in Developing Countries
Av Lauchlin Bernard Currie, Unknown
Inbunden, 1981
713 kr
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Crash and Its Aftermath
A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933
Inbunden, 1985
2481 kr
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The Crash and Its Aftermath is an excellent work of reference on the Great Contraction. It will be useful both to people with only a passing curiosity about the Crash and to those for whom the Great Depression is a major scholarly concern. Business History From now on any serious student of the …
Synthetic Rubber
A Project That Had to Succeed
Av Attilio Bisio, Vernon D. Herbert
Inbunden, 1985
1067 kr
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The authors recount how the synthetic rubber industry was created virtually overnight following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They examine early attempts to extend natural rubber reserves. The rest of the story is that of the full scale effort by government, industry, and academia to develop a …
Coming of Age of Political Economy, 1815-1825
Av Gary Langer
Inbunden, 1987
1098 kr
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The new Political Economy, which in 1815 captured the attention of a country exhausted by war and drained by economic crisis, was to have profound effects on British and, indeed, the Western world's economic and political life for more than a hundred years. Professor Langer's new study is the first …
Slippery Slope
The Long Road to the Breakup of AT&T
Av Betty Henck, Bernard Strassburg
Inbunden, 1988
1098 kr
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A comprehensive examination of the events that led to the Bell System breakup. . . . Argues that divestiture was the culmination of a long process of change in telecommunications policy that began several decades ago. Associates new technologies, economic pressure, and social and political …
Will to Win: A Biography of Ferdinand Eberstadt
Av Robert C. Perez, Edward F. Willett
Inbunden, 1989
1098 kr
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Ferdinand Eberstadt, the man whose war production strategy was credited with shortening World War II by one full year, was America's financier extraordinaire. His contributions over a period of nearly fifty years helped to shape the world of business and finance as we know it today. In this lively …
Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920
Av James Norris
Inbunden, 1990
1098 kr
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In the period between 1865 to 1920, as America shifted from a rural-farming economy to urban-manufacturing, a major transformation also occurred in the behavior of the country's consumers. This change is perhaps best illustrated in the advertisements that appeared in popular magazines. They began …
From Industry to Arms
The Political Economy of High Technology
Inbunden, 1990
1067 kr
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The importance of technology in our day to day lives is something that few people would deny. At home and in the office, in business and in politics, the effects of technology are pervasive. In this important new study, Anthony DiFilippo examines one specific aspect of this issue: the forces of …
Multinational Culture
Social Impacts of a Global Economy
Av Cheryl R. Lehman, Russell M. Moore
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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The papers collected here were originally presented at a conference on multinational culture held at Hofstra University to explore the sociocultural impacts of the transformation to a global economy. Written by a distinguished group of contributors from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the …
Democracy in Desperation
The Depression of 1893
Av Douglas Steeples, David O. Whitten
Inbunden, 1998
1098 kr
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The Panic of 1893 and the depression it triggered mark one of the decisive crises in American history. Devastating broad sections of the country like a tidal wave, the depression forced the nation to change its way of life and altered the pattern and pace of national development ever after. The …
Diary of Rexford G. Tugwell
The New Deal, 1932-1935
Av Michael Namorato, Michael Vincent Namorato
Inbunden, 1992
1067 kr
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Rexford G. Tugwell's diary of the New Deal era is one of the most important first-hand, primary accounts of the New Deal available. One of FDR's most intimate advisors, Tugwell provides an open account of what went on in the New Deal, particularly in the early days when programs to address the …
Prelude to Trade Wars
American Tariff Policy, 1890-1922
Av Edward Kaplan, Thomas Ryley
Inbunden, 1994
855 kr
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The tariff policies of the 1890-1922 led to the development of tariff rates that launched the United States on a path that led to later trade wars. The Republican Party and Porter McCumber took the lead in promoting these policies, claiming that the tariff would protect new and struggling …
Economy of Iraq
Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010
Inbunden, 1994
1098 kr
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The economy of Iraq has fluctuated wildly since the 1950s. It has been affected by changes in governments, by wars, and by general instability. This book analyzes a complex subject and is especially timely at this critical juncture in the history of Iraq, the Middle East, and international …
Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 B.C. - 1900 A.D.
Inbunden, 1997
1244 kr
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China's long-term maritime history has been overlooked by the scholarly community, so much so that there is a misconception that the Chinese were sea- or ocean-phobic. This image has been promoted rather deliberately because a sailing-aversive China would fit in well with the non-capitalist …
