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Argues that a just international economy would be one that is inclusive, participatory, and welfare-enhancing for all states. This book asserts that a politically feasible approach to international economic justice would emphasize free trade and limited flows of foreign assistance in order to help countries exercise their comparative advantage.

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Reflects on the association between economic liberalization policies and labor markets in a host of developing and transition economies.

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Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and world view of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. This book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture.

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Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and world view of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. This book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture.

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This work uses techniques of optimization and operations research to develop the first comprehensive survey of the entire field of the optimization of resource, production, and distribution systems.

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Providing an empirical look at the Jamaican economy, this careful study examines the impact of the (International Monetary Fund) approach to economic management in the 1980s and compares it to the non-IMF policies of the 1970s.

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Economists use models in their analysis and research, as some small aspects of the world can be effectively represented in this way. This book explains the way in which models are used in economics, and makes specific methodological recommendations.

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Scholars, students, policy makers and business practitioners will find the theoretical and empirical models provided by this book helpful in understanding the economics of technical change at both the micro and macro levels.

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This volume provides an integrated and wide-ranging set of primary-source readings on the relationship between moral values and economic activity, as articulated by some of the leading figures in Western civilization.

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If the end of war is not victory but peace, wartime plans for postwar peace assume importance beyond the war itself. This book shows how deeply the peace plans of World War II, beginning as early as 1941, were affected by political conditions, by wartime developments, and by personalities such as Roosevelt, Morgenthau, Keynes, Churchill, and Winant

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The objective of this book is to examine the various US international economic policies that affect developing countries.

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It examines the main challenges facing East European countries, their economic policy strategies, the main challenges to the economies that adopted currency boards, and whether currency boards were a solution.

The book is organized into two parts.

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This study examines the relative successes and failures of reform programs in Poland and Czechoslovakia, as well as the causes of these successes and failures.

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An examination of how sanctions can and cannot be used effectively to further US foreign interests. After demonstrating import substitution industrialization effects in different cases, Seldon goes on to demonstrate how sanctions fuelled the rise of a powerful criminal elite in Yugoslavia.

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Using both a public policy and an economic focus, his work seeks to clarify the debate on high technology industrial policy and to address the policy question of whether and how government should respond to competitive assaults in strategic industries.

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Examines economic sociology's principal assumptions, key explanatory concepts, and selected research sites. The author argues that economic activity is embedded in social and cultural relations, but also that power and the unintended consequences of rational purposive action must be factored in when seeking to explain or predict economic behavior.

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Arising from a two-year project by the Council on Foreign Relations to articulate a next generation approach to American foreign policy, this study concludes that any conception of American security must change to address financial and technological opportunities, as well as emerging threats.

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The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis.

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The extensive appendix of monthly key economic factors for 1978-1991 makes this an important reference source for economic and financial trend analysis.

A new and practical method for economic trend analysis is introduced that provides more advanced knowledge than available from economic newsletters.