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How can people peacefully cooperate with others to improve their lives? This important book answers this question by introducing readers to the Austrian school of economics.Austrian economics is a heterodox tradition with a distinct philosophy of science stressing...
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Polity
Parution :
2026-04-10
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The World Inequality Report 2026 is the most authoritative and wide-ranging account available of global trends in inequality. Drawing on the work of more than 200 researchers worldwide, the report builds on the 2018 and 2022 editions to provide policymakers, scholars,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-03-30
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Why does racial inequality in America persist? In this important textbook, Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim answer this question by introducing readers to the innovative field of stratification economics.Stratification economics offers an antidote to conventional...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-01-26
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This volume presents original essays by leading researchers and practitioners in postal and delivery economics, drawn from the 32nd Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, held in Berne (Switzerland), on 29-31 May 2024. The book explores the evolving...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-22
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We cling to a distorted idea of freedom. To be free, we commonly think, means to be unconstrained. This widespread belief makes our societies less fair, as it fails to confront that freedom to act can mean freedom to dominate. But, as Andrea Capussela argues in this...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-01-09
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This book assesses the current state of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, anticipates its future in the GCC countries. In doing so, it identifies potential gains of implementing AI to increase returns to investment and reduce potential risks that may be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-13
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Cooperatives have often been viewed as organizations that are fundamentally different from conventional companies. This book redefines cooperatives as business organizations comparable to companies and examines their functional characteristics compared with companies,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Das ökonomische Prinzip beruht vor allem auf Effizienz und Optimierung, so scheint es. Doch wir Menschen stehen im Zentrum der Ökonomie mit unserer Vernunft aber auch unseren Gefühlen und zum Teil irrationalen Handlungen. Alles, was wir sehen und erleben...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The book deals with the publication and creation of NOTAMs and SNOWTAMs as well as the Global Reporting Format (GRF) from a flight operations perspective. It is primarily aimed at airport employees working in the field of flight operations (e.g. flight dispatchers) and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Der Kapitalismus hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten unbestreitbar einen enormen Wohlstand mit sich gebracht. Warum also, und dies ist die Kernfrage des Buches, wird dieser Kapitalismus immer wieder infrage gestellt, ja sogar teilweise rigoros bekämpft? Kritikerinnen...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat sich bei ihrer Gründung eine vorbildliche demokratische Verfassung gegeben. Doch hat sich deren Anwendung zunehmend von demokratischen Prinzipien entfernt. Infolge einer unternehmerfreundlichen Wirtschaftspolitik und des Abbaus...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-20
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This book provides a systematic and integrated approach to construct measures of complex and multidimensional concepts called composite indicators. One of the most pressing needs of scientists and policy makers is to measure phenomena that are important to our lives in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-20
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China’s economic rise over the last four decades has been as confounding as it has been impressive. Few economies have grown as fast and changed the lives of so many people in such a short time. How is it that a nominally Communist state has been able to achieve this...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-07-21
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Over the past decades, capitalism has undeniably brought about tremendous prosperity. So why—this being the central question of the book—is capitalism repeatedly called into question, and in some cases, even fiercely opposed? Critics argue that capitalism is the root...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-14
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The 2025 edition of the African Economic Report continues in the spirit of previous versions. It presents a broad overview of the continent’s economic evolution and offers insights into Africa’s relationship with the rest of the world. In other words, it explores how...
Editeur :
Policy Center for the New South
Parution :
2025-07-13
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Verschiedene Wirtschaftsmodelle bzw. Ökonomieschulen legen voneinander abweichende Ordnungen nahe. Klassischer Liberalismus und Neoliberalismus setzen auf weitgehend unregulierte Marktkräfte. Staatliche Einflussnahme auf die Ökonomie ist hingegen im...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2025-06-20
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In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-06-03
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Institutions are the controlling force at the center of any economy. They organize and control all economic activity from markets to producers, consumers to governments, and more.Institutions determine how fundamental economic questions such as, what, how, and for whom,...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-03-25
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The eighteenth century was a time of major global transitions. Movements of religious and intellectual revival challenged established ideas, European colonies emerged in the Western hemisphere, global trade expanded, and political revolutions and revolts in America,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-14
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Grandchildren of immigrants belonging to groups that have achieved high socioeconomic status choose which identities to leverage in the host country's political arena. The scholarship about political incorporation often assumes that immigrant groups and their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-07
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