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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-25
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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
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2016-08-11
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Nach dem Scheitern des Verordnungsentwurfes zur Societas Privata Europaea hat die Europäische Kommission mit dem Richtlinienentwurf zur Societas Unius Personae (SUP) einen erneuten Anlauf genommen, um die Tätigkeit europäischer Unternehmen im gemeinsamen Binnenmarkt zu...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-10
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Aus Anlass des 65. Geburtstages von Reinhard Neck im Mai 2016 folgen wir der akademischen Tradition der Veröffentlichung einer Festschrift zu Ehren des Jubilars. Der berufliche Werdegang von Reinhard Neck beginnt mit einer Stelle als Universitätsassistent am Institut...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-20
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This book contends that the massacre of civilians in Beijing on June Fourth 1989 was a pivotal rupture in both Chinese and world history. If not for that day, China’s socioeconomic, political and cultural landscape would not have undergone the kind of dramatic...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-13
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This book examines Africa’s water resources from pre-historic times to the present, illustrating how Africans and their rulers formulated water management systems to support water-sector activities including irrigation, livestock raising, fishing, river transportation,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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Korea's economic success has inspired numerous studies and research projects in past decades. Despite good efforts to analyze the strategy of Korea, earlier studies have not been able to comprehensively and systematically explain the country's "miraculous" growth. After...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-01
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How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy? What are the challenges that China faces today...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-30
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Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-07
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Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-07
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This book focuses on the nexus between constitutions adopted by post-socialist countries of Europe and Asia after 1989 and economic transition in the region. It takes the perspective of Constitutional Political Economy and argues for the role of constitutions as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-29
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This book examines the Eurozone crisis and the possibility of fiscal and political union in Europe, with contributions from some of the most respected experts on these topics. The book explains the complex, multidimensional crises in competitiveness, fiscal matters,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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The traditional dominance of international markets by companies from the US, Western Europe and Japan can no longer be taken for granted. Emerging market economies, from the powerhouse Chinese economy (set to pass the US in national income by 2020) to dynamic players...
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Kogan Page
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2015-11-03
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German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent global economy,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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The spread of contemporary globalized capitalism wrought by the new patterns of industrialization, marketization, and consumerization shapes Russia’s recent historical path and developmental possibilities. This book discusses Russia’s transformation into a market...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-16
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Research for the developing world can generate evidence on the effectiveness of foreign aid, invent new technologies that serve poor people, and strengthen research capabilities in poor countries. How do countries determine which of these policy goals to pursue?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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These memoirs portray an individual coping with the adversities and surrealistic qualities of life and work under communism. The author recollects his adolescence, next, how he tried to avoid head-on conflicts, dissented, and how he finally became a known critic of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-02
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This book compares development experiences from South Korea and Estonia, which are both very successful examples of development within their region. The development experience of states in the 20th century offers a bewildering variety and often downright contradicting...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-25
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Petty trade helped vast numbers of people to survive the crisis faced by post-Soviet Russia. The book analyses how this survival technique was carried out in practice. On the basis of his fieldwork research, the author shows how people coped with rapid social change and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-18
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What is the weight of the social economy? How should we measure it? Throughout the world, cooperatives, non-profit and mutual benefit organizations, foundations and other social enterprises play an important role in job creation, social cohesion, social innovation,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-09-11
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