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Since 1997, Hong Kong's economic growth rate has dropped sharply, inequality has increased, and corruption has found its way to the highest levels of government. These developments, Simon Cartledge argues, can be attributed to the city's 'pro-business' constitution,...
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E-Penguin
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2017-07-01
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Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating public services. In social policy, the welfare state is retreating from its historic task of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-23
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The 2007 financial crisis and the Great Recession have prompted a debate about the state of macroeconomics, and many orthodox economists have argued that macroeconomics has entered a Dark Age.
This book discusses the shortcomings of the standard macroeconomic model...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-14
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This important textbook has been revised and updated to continue its focus on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis, whilst ensuring that perspectives addressing the moral limits of the market, latest behavioural economics literature, and the changes in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-26
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African Affairs is the top journal inAfrican Studies and has been for some time. This book draws together some of the most influential, important, and thought provoking articles published in its pages over the last decade. In doing so, it collates essential cutting-edge...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-19
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African Affairs is the top journal inAfrican Studies and has been for some time. This book draws together some of the most influential, important, and thought provoking articles published in its pages over the last decade. In doing so, it collates essential cutting-edge...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-19
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Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation...
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PublicAffairs
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2017-04-25
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Who were key figures in the making of European monetary union? Which ideas did they contribute to ensuring that monetary union would be sustainable? How prescient were they in identifying the necessary and sufficient foundations of a sustainable monetary union?
This...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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In seiner Studie untersucht der Autor erstmals die politischen Entscheidungen im Bereich der Sparkassenpolitik bei Deregulierungs- und Privatisierungsvorhaben in Deutschland. Für Ökonomen bleibt es häufig unklar, warum bestimmte betriebswirtschaftlich sinnvolle Vorhaben...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-13
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The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum on how the impending technological revolution will change our livesWe are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And this one will be unlike any other in human history.Characterized by new...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-03
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Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-15
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Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-02
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This book examines the financial performance of Turkish firms that were privatized by way of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). The author uses event study methodology to empirically evaluate the financial efficiency of privatized firms. She also compares the equity...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-18
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In this timely and provocative book, James Stent, a banker with decades of experience in Asian banking and fluency in Chinese language, explains how Chinese banks work, analyzes their strengths and weaknesses, and sets forth the challenges they face in a slowing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This volume is a collection of essays published between 1999 and 2015 in the review The Federalist Debate. The book highlights the issue of federalism intended as a theoretical paradigm to interpret the major problems of our age, and in particular the issues of peace...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-10-05
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The Politics of Economic Activity confronts head-on deeply rooted understandings of how politics affects economics.The book proposes a robust, incisive alternative definition of politics: the mobilization of values to change or reproduce the institutions that orientate,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-22
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The Politics of Economic Activity confronts head-on deeply rooted understandings of how politics affects economics.The book proposes a robust, incisive alternative definition of politics: the mobilization of values to change or reproduce the institutions that orientate,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-22
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Identity Construction and (Mis) Perceptions on Being Black in South Africa: Unpacking Socio-Economic, Spatial, and Political Dimensions in the South Durban Basin presents the research findings of a two-year empirically based study on the politics of race, ethnicity, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-09-15
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In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S. Prasad describes how the renminbi (RMB) is taking the world by storm and explains its role in reshaping global finance.
This book sets the recent rise of the RMB, China's currency since 1949, against a sweeping...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-13
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Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-26
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