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Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism shows that globalized trade and capitalism originated in trade practices of pre-Islamic Arabs, which were copied by European trade partners in the Middle Ages in European markets. Promotion of free trade across the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages created the condition for capitalism to emerge in Europe.

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The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty.

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An analysis of the issues that effect the determination and uses of earnings as measures of corporate financial performance.

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Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of change, and examining how these changes affected men, women and children at various social levels. It demonstrates the gains and costs of economic change.

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This study considers the forces behind the East Asian growth miracle, the process of growth, the effect of saving, and the effect of foreign direct investment and multinationals. The authors conclude that rapid growth may resume in East Asia once the crisis of 1997 has been resolved.

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This work, written by a scholar and consultant who has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe, presents important background information and analysis on the economic and political changes that are taking place in that part of the world.

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Explains how big business took control of what we eat - and why so few of us even noticed. This book uncovers some startling facts and stomach-churning figures of agribusiness. It is suitable for those who care about their health and our planet.

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Integrates environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, from the global to the local, from West to East, and from North to South. This book analyzes environmental issues from the world-systems perspective.

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The key issue confronting empirical economics is to establish sustainable relationships that are both supported by data and interpretable from economic theory. Focusing on modeling, this book aims to give students the statistical foundations of estimation and inference, and also presents a thorough understanding of econometric techniques.

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As most econometricians will readily agree, the data used in applied econometrics seldom provide accurate measurements for the pertinent theory's variables. Here, Bernt Stigum offers the first systematic and theoretically sound way of accounting for such inaccuracies. He and a distinguished group of contributors bridge econometrics and the philosop

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How can a researcher with such tools learn anything about the social reality in which he or she lives This book addresses varied topics in both classical and Bayesian econometrics, offering evidence that its answer to the fundamental question is sound. It represents an account of contemporary economic methodology.

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This study aims to quantify the relationships between the economies of the United States and Japan on an industrially disaggregated basis. It links two large-scale econometric models of the US and Japan in the framework of the world model system (Project LINK).

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This book utilizes a theoretically informed framework for analyzing the effectiveness of the presidents economic rhetoric and employs an empirical assessment that measures rhetorics effect on economic actors. The analysis suggests that the rhetoric presidents use has little influence in shaping the behaviors of these economic actors.

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This book utilizes a theoretically informed framework for analyzing the effectiveness of the presidents economic rhetoric and employs an empirical assessment that measures rhetorics effect on economic actors. The analysis suggests that the rhetoric presidents use has little influence in shaping the behaviors of these economic actors.

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Delisle Worrell . This work is an excellent resource for courses in development, international economics, international business, and Latin America.

The articles first focus on the uses of monetary policy in the Caribbean, ways of adjusting the balance of external payments, and the design of fiscal policy.

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The main purpose of this book is to discuss a number of questions which arise in connection with economic aid. The final chapter considers various arguments for and against providing economic aid and draws some conclusions, suggesting that the amount provided should be substantially increased and made more effective.

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This work explores the social, political and economic contexts and consequences of economic interaction beyond local systems. Because the focus of economic analysis is often local, particularly in anthropology, this book aims its analysis beyond the local system of economic interaction.

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According to the Marxist interpretation still dominant in Japanese studies, the last century and a half of the Tokugawa period was a time of economic and demographic stagnation. Professors Hanley and Yamamura argue that a more satisfactory explanation can be provided within the framework of modem economic theory, and they advance and test three imp

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