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This book reviews the development of China’s social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage. By emphasizing the role of the social security system in regulating income distribution, it points out some problems in the current social...
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Springer
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2017-09-30
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This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term “Black social economy,” a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere’s ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This book analyzes the revenues from the creation of currency by a central government. Adopting an institutional perspective, it develops a general theory of seigniorage by identifying three monetary regimes in economic history and the history of economic thought: a...
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Springer
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2017-09-10
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This book analyzes how the EU referendum in the United Kingdom came to pass and what the foreseeable consequences are for the UK, Europe, US and world economy. The Brexit decision represents a momentous event for Europe, which weakens the EU and shifts the global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-31
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For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now - more than ever - under scrutiny from critics who argue that it has failed to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-08-31
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Key Concepts
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This book illustrates how the treatment of complexity in analytical frameworks shapes economic studies. It explores the ways economists make sense of our economic environment and where their differences in interpretations of economic issues and policy proposals are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-26
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A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it. This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers;...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-07-06
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In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical appraisal of the economic theory of uncertainty and shows that...
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Springer
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2017-07-04
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This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the perspectives of three different countries—Canada, Switzerland, and Australia—to overcome objections that a universal program to keep all...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-04
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This book explores the issue of consumer financial education, responding to increased interest in, and calls to improve peoples’ financial literacy skills and abilities to understand and manage their money. New conceptual frameworks introduced in the book offer academic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-26
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Information is a central concept in economics, and The Knowledge We Have Lost inInformation explores its treatment in modern economics. The study of information, far from offering enlightenment, resulted in all matter of confusion for economists and the public.
Philip...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-01
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Dieser Sammelband enthält die schriftlich ausgearbeiteten Vorträge der am 19. und 20. September 2016 an der Technischen Universität Berlin unter der Themenstellung «Schnittfelder von Bauleitplanung und raumbezogenen Fachplanungen – Fach- und Rechtsfragen in der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Dieser Sammelband enthält die schriftlich ausgearbeiteten Vorträge der am 14. und 15. März 2016 an der Technischen Universität Berlin unter der Themenstellung «Fach- und Rechtsfragen des Verfahrens und der Sicherung von Bauleitplänen» stattgefundenen wissenschaftlichen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-23
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This book looks at the life of Keynes leading up to the writing of his seminal General Theory , examines the General Theory in detail, and explores how it differs from classical theory. The impact of Keynes's work on the economy postwar and up to the present day is also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-17
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This Palgrave Pivot offers comprehensive evidence about what people actually think of “nudge” policies designed to steer decision makers’ choices in positive directions. The data reveal that people in diverse nations generally favor nudges by strong majorities, with a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-05
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This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. Social scientists, policy analysts, researchers, and for-profit sector...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-03
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This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources. Approaching the problem through a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-23
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Presenting the dynamic laws of economic quantities, this book tackles one of the core difficulties of current economic theory: that of transforming abstract equations of equilibrium into precise dynamic rules. The theoretical framework of neoclassical micro theory...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation. In federal and state courts in the United States, as well as in other nations, when one party sues another, the suing party is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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