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  • China's Transition to a Global Economy China's Transition to a Global Economy
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    China's Transition to a Global Economy

    How has China approached the global economy? Webber, Wang and Zhu attempt to answer this question through analysis of the concepts of globalization, transition and regionalization. China's approach has been experimental, stressing the liberalization of...
    $184.00

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  • The Big Mac Index The Big Mac Index
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    The Big Mac Index

    PPP is one of the most widely researched areas in international finance and one of the most controversial in the theory of exchange rate determination. This book demonstrates the applications of Purchasing Power Parity in exchange rate determination as...
    $184.00

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  • Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean
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    Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean

    This book takes a unique approach to analysing foreign capital flows. Using the neighbourhood model, it analyzes foreign capital inflows from the perspective of both the source and destination countries. Focusing on China, India and the Caribbean, it...
    $184.00

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  • Labour Market Planning Revisited Labour Market Planning Revisited
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    Labour Market Planning Revisited

    This book enables the reader to understand labour markets and shows how to forecast the need for skills in developing countries. The forecasting of these skills has recently fallen into disrepute with the notion that all forecasting techniques that...
    $184.00

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  • Transition Strategies Transition Strategies
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    Transition Strategies

    The transition process of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which started more than a decade ago, has been the focus of much attention for both practitioners and scholars. Few studies however, address management issues involved in the...
    $227.00

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  • Value and the World Economy Today Value and the World Economy Today
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    Value and the World Economy Today

    Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today. The book is...
    $227.00

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  • Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment
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    Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment

    Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in...
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  • The Cost of Money The Cost of Money
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    The Cost of Money

    This book explores the Nigerian housing market from a hands-on perspective in a conversational way that can only be described as refreshing. The writer discusses issues like climate change, market trends and the role money plays in defining Africa's...
    $15.00

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  • Adolescents, Cultures, and Conflicts Adolescents, Cultures, and Conflicts
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    Adolescents, Cultures, and Conflicts

    First published in 1998. Adolescent development and well-being are both affected by socio-political change, political violence, immigrant status and various types of cultural, social and institutional diversity. These are realities faced by many...
    $95.00

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  • Approaches to Sustainable Development Approaches to Sustainable Development
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    Approaches to Sustainable Development

    A definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission - ...development which meets the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the needs of future generations. This volume seeks to analyze the economic basis for this...
    $90.00

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  • The Long-Term Adequacy of World Timber Supply The Long-Term Adequacy of World Timber Supply
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    The Long-Term Adequacy of World Timber Supply

    Projecting modest future growth for both prices and harvest levels, this study, first published in 1990, provides theoretical and empirical justification for challenging the conventional wisdom that real timber prices will rise for the indefinite future...
    $105.00

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  • The Haitian Economy (Routledge Revivals) The Haitian Economy (Routledge Revivals)
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    The Haitian Economy (Routledge Revivals)

    This title, first published in 1983, considers the Haitian economy, placing it in its historical context, and explores the reasons why it has performed so badly. Mats Lundahl examines agriculture, which has failed to provide an adequate standard of...
    $385.00

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  • The Green Economy in the Gulf The Green Economy in the Gulf
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    The Green Economy in the Gulf

    Over the course of the book, academics and practitioners from various fields demonstrate why transitioning into a 'green economy' - a future economy based on environmental sustainability, social equity and improved well-being - is not an option but a...
    $131.00

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  • Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice
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    Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice

    The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental...
    $446.00

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  • Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology
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    Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology

    The present macroeconomic crisis has demonstrated that a deeper understanding of the importance of relevant macroeconomic theories and methods is wanting. Additionally, lack of methodological awareness is behind much of the disagreement within...
    $501.00

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  • The Economic Reader The Economic Reader
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    The Economic Reader

    This book proposes a comparative study of the history of manuals of political economy in the most representative countries for the development of economics in the 19th and early 20th centuries demonstrating and the 'professionalisation' of economics.
    $147.00

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  • Theories of Surplus and Transfer (Routledge Revivals) Theories of Surplus and Transfer (Routledge Revivals)
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    Theories of Surplus and Transfer (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1990, this is an analysis of the history of western economics from Petty to Supply-Side, through the prism of the controversies over productive labour and its product. It treats the early economists' "productive-unproductive"...
    $97.00

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  • Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development
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    Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development

    This book makes an important contribution to the fields of development economics, political economy and gender studies analysing the capacity of the Indian informal economy to deliver socio-economics security and well being to workers. 
    $137.00

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  • The Emerging Middle Class in Africa The Emerging Middle Class in Africa
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    The Emerging Middle Class in Africa

    The book analyses specific aspects of the lives of the middle class in Africa. It looks at how people become and remain in the middle class through a series of thematic chapters. It examines how behaviour changes in the process, in terms of consumption...
    $231.00

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  • Social Demography of South Africa Social Demography of South Africa
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    Social Demography of South Africa

    This edited collection investigates what progress has been made in the field of social demography in South Africa since the democratic dispensation in the country. Contributors offer a compilation of in-depth analytical studies of substantive, technical...
    $111.00

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  • Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities
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    Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities

    Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by...
    $373.00

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  • An Introduction to Sustainability An Introduction to Sustainability
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    An Introduction to Sustainability

    An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing subject of sustainability. This is an essential textbook for any sustainability course.
    $513.00

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  • The Global News Challenge The Global News Challenge
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    The Global News Challenge

    The Global News Challenge tackles one of the timeliest topics in mass communication today-the challenges facing international broadcasters with universal branding strategies in developing countries. This book employs a global perspective to explore the...
    $121.00

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  • Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South
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    Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

    This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally-scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation.  It provides a historical and...
    $121.00

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  • Fiscal Tiers (Routledge Revivals) Fiscal Tiers (Routledge Revivals)
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    Fiscal Tiers (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1984. This book brings together and develops the economic theory relating to the design and operation of systems of non-central government - positing major developments in several areas. It considers what functions systems most...
    $100.00

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  • Development Management Development Management
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    Development Management

    Despite significant financial investments, the rate of development and pace of poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries has not always matched expectations. Development management typically involves complex interactions between...
    $373.00

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  • Phenomenological Bioethics Phenomenological Bioethics
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    Phenomenological Bioethics

    Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life. Reproductive technologies, genetic diagnosis, organ transplantation, and psychopharmacological drugs all raise...
    $111.00

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  • Trade Strategy and the Asian-Pacific Region Trade Strategy and the Asian-Pacific Region
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    Trade Strategy and the Asian-Pacific Region

    This volume, first published in 1970, assesses the major reappraisal of US world commercial policy that took place in the 1960s - in particular the wishes for free trade treaties that would bring about the liberalisation of international trade.
    $90.00

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  • The Indonesian Economy Since 1965 The Indonesian Economy Since 1965
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    The Indonesian Economy Since 1965

    This book, first published in 1978, analyses the underlying structure of the Indonesian mass-based economy and its problems, and goes on to show how the hectic economic activity after 1965 failed to come to terms with the real needs of the people. It...
    $90.00

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  • Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms
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    Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms

    In the 1990s Brazil launched a comprehensive economic liberalization program. It lifted its trade barriers, adopted new market-oriented regulations, opened up its capital market and abandoned earlier efforts to internalize production and to build...
    $54.00

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  • Behavioural Approaches to Corporate Governance Behavioural Approaches to Corporate Governance
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    Behavioural Approaches to Corporate Governance

    Corporate governance failures are all too frequent and their patterns and outcomes seem avoidably familiar. This book examines the findings of behavioural finance and economics that are most relevant to governance problems, and suggests potential...
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  • Biofuels, Food Security, and Developing Economies Biofuels, Food Security, and Developing Economies
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    Biofuels, Food Security, and Developing Economies

    The last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world. One response to the challenges of climate change and energy supply has been the development of crops to be used for biofuels. But, as this book shows, this can...
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  • The Development of High Technology Industries The Development of High Technology Industries
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    The Development of High Technology Industries

    This book, originally published in 1988, reviews the development of high technology industries at global and selected national and local levels, providing a unique insight into reasons for and consequences of such modern industrial development. It...
    $71.00

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  • Company and Campus Partnership Company and Campus Partnership
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    Company and Campus Partnership

    Originally published in 1992, this study looks at the ways in which company and campus can co-operate to spread the risk and cost of research. It analyses joint ventures in an international context, focusing particularly on the USA, France and Japan,...
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  • Managing Innovation Within Networks Managing Innovation Within Networks
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    Managing Innovation Within Networks

    Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective. The book offers practical guidelines with direct managerial relevance based on evidence collected from twenty-two...
    $45.00

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  • Information Technology and Workplace Democracy Information Technology and Workplace Democracy
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    Information Technology and Workplace Democracy

    The revolution in new technology gave rise to new work patterns and improved productivity, all of which affect the management of human resources. Expectations for increased efficiency have not always been fulfilled because of the problems that have...
    $72.00

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  • China's Centralized Industrial Order China's Centralized Industrial Order
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    China's Centralized Industrial Order

    This book is about the political economy of China's industrial reform and the rise of a group of Chinese big businesses under the Communist Party and the central state's control. It examines the origins, evolution and institutional configuration of this...
    $131.00

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  • Technological Collaboration in Industry Technological Collaboration in Industry
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    Technological Collaboration in Industry

    This volume, originally published in 1993 is based on extensive research and draws together a selection of detailed global case studies illustrating a variety of issues from Japanese joint ventures to small business development. It considers the scope...
    $90.00

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  • High Technology Industry and Innovative Environments High Technology Industry and Innovative Environments
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    High Technology Industry and Innovative Environments

    Originally published in 1988, this book explores how new technologies, industrial innovation and the growth of high technology industry have affected regional employment and economic change in different European countries. It discusses the factors which...
    $90.00

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  • Trade Unions and Technological Change Trade Unions and Technological Change
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    Trade Unions and Technological Change

    When this book was first published in 1967, it was one of the first pieces of research to systematically examine the manpower problems associated with rapidly changing technology. It discusses issues such as technological change and unemployment, changes...
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  • Professions, Work and Careers Professions, Work and Careers
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    Professions, Work and Careers

    Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life...
    $373.00

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