Comparative Economics 3

Collectivist Economics examines such issues as the inequality of the distribution of wealth and its impact on social stability, corrupt financial institutions and economic efficiency. Chapters cover……続きを見る

Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to ana……続きを見る

The leadership secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Leadership. Includes how to: • Understand and develop your leadersh……続きを見る

The volume focuses on the socio-political aspects of economic transformations in the Eastern European Socialist countries. Particular emphasis is laid on the problem of interrelations between the pl……続きを見る

(a) How might there be an increase in total spending on a child’s education in response to providing a fixed level of education? (b) How might there be a ‘crowd-out’ effect from government intervent……続きを見る

The secrets that experts and top professionals use to get things done. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Getting Things Done. Includes how to: • Get more done in le……続きを見る

Globalization is the first volume which systematically encompasses the debates and the results of research of political scientists on all core aspects of the interrelation between politics and econo……続きを見る

Economics is often defined as the science of choice or human action. But choice and action are essentially mental phenomena, an aspect rarely mentioned in the economics discourse. Choice, while not ……続きを見る

In the 1980's when Reagan deregulated just about everything assuming that prices in America would drop through "fair" competition and "fair" markets the exact opposite has happened. Corporate Americ……続きを見る

Computable Foundations for Economics is a unified collection of essays, some of which are published here for the first time and all of which have been updated for this book, on an approach to econom……続きを見る

Efficiency is the hallmark of environmental economics, and though economists are concerned with the environment, primarily because it challenges the efficiency of competitive markets, until now, lim……続きを見る

When anthropologists and other students of culture want to compare different societies in such areas as the organization of land, labor, trade, or barter, they often discover that individual researc……続きを見る

WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS? Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? ……続きを見る

Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - s……続きを見る

This fascinating, in-depth look at China’s new and rapidly changing role in the world focuses on the critical choices China must make to ensure sustainable economic growth. All signs show that China……続きを見る

This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars who reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the 21st century. The volume develo……続きを見る

We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts o……続きを見る

From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that eco……続きを見る

Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing similar circumstances, did not. He’s explan……続きを見る

Economists in the post-Cold War era are increasingly circumspect about universal, one-size-fits-all conceptions of human behaviour and economic institutions. Contemporary economics is thus marked by……続きを見る

(Note: This material appeared previously in "Chum For Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters" by the same author.) This historical essay, drawn from the deepest jungles of Uruguay in South Am……続きを見る

The selling secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Selling. Includes how to: • Pitch your product to meet the needs of yo……続きを見る

This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it. It contains ……続きを見る

Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holco……続きを見る

Suppose that in response to learning that some sick individuals were denied health insurance, the government mandates that insurance companies must offer insurance to everyone at unregulated rates. ……続きを見る

The people management secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of People Management Includes how to: • Build a business-like r……続きを見る

For many years a neglected figure, Nikolai Bukharin has recently been the subject of renewed interest in the West. Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Bukharin's work has wide appeal to thos……続きを見る

Mexico provides a case study of a cornerstone economy in the development of the hemospheric free trade zone in the Americas, an adjusting economy which has been integrated into uneven economies (Can……続きを見る

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families. This first full scale study seeks to understand Chinese families within the Chines……続きを見る

The NLP secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of NLP (neuro linguistic programming) Includes how to: • Identify role models……続きを見る