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This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context. The Spanish case is particularly interesting because of this country’s location on the so-called...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-29
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This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into the financial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-27
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Angesichts der Veränderung von Bedarfsstrukturen im Rahmen des demografischen Wandels in Deutschland steht die kommunale Sozialplanung vor der Herausforderung, die Versorgung im Alter sicherzustellen, ohne den Gesamtzusammenhang der Altersgruppen in der Kommune aus den...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-21
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Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement
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This book offers a thorough introduction to the highly promising complex agent-based approach to economics, in which agent-based models (ABMs) are used to represent economic systems as complex and evolving systems composed of heterogeneous agents of limited rationality...
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Springer
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2018-09-19
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Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit. In today’s world, the link between mobility and security issues is...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-17
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This book explores how corruption is now widely recognized as a major “disease” which threatens not only economic development but also the foundations of societies. As well as examining the causes and consequences of corruption, this book also offers a deep analysis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-17
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Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007–8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures? If so, this book is for you. Using imagined dialogue between three economists with contrasting theoretical perspectives and a student who knows little...
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Springer
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2018-09-15
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The book follows a first edition published in 1989, which focused on the severe economic crisis Ghana faced during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. In this second edition, the authors extend the review up to the mid-2010s, covering the entire period since...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-12
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The award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation “A stimulating analysis of the underlying...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-09-11
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Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: EconomicsFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Master the skills you need to set yourself apart and hit the highest grades; this year-round course companion develops the higher-order thinking skills...
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-09-10
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The book assesses the development experience by reflecting on a number of aspects, such as growth in relation to employment, regional imbalances and rural–urban distribution. Further, it examines educational attainment and human capital formation issues in the context...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-09-10
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In this book, Fauri and Tedeschi bring together contributions that outline the movement of job seekers and ethnic minority entrepreneurs in Europe, to analyse the overall impact of different forms of migration on European economies in the last 100 years. Contributions...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-06
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The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market. In contrast, the view...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-09-06
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This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-29
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This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Douglass North’s contribution to economics and the social sciences by examining the origins and structure of his New Institutionalist Economic History (NIEH). Informed by contemporary debates in the philosophy of economics,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-28
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In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries?In this timely book, Rossi and Sierminska analyse the complex relationship between gender, wealth and...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-08-27
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Although in Europe there continues to be a large degree of consensus that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that nobody who is poor, sick, disabled, unemployed, or old is left deprived, there are mounting calls to roll back spending on the welfare state....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-23
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Although in Europe there continues to be a large degree of consensus that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that nobody who is poor, sick, disabled, unemployed, or old is left deprived, there are mounting calls to roll back spending on the welfare state....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-22
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This book provides a detailed examination of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after closer integration in the European Union. An important facet of European economic integration was the development of a free-trade area in...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-17
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Das Buch bietet eine neue Einführung in die Volkswirtschaft. Die Inhalte sind in Entscheidungssituationen eingebettet, um eigene wirtschaftliche Erfahrungen zu machen und die Volkswirtschaftslehre besser zu verstehen. In der Makroökonomie liegt der Fokus auf der...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2018-08-06
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