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The federal income tax exemption for state and local government securities has been a controversial issue for many years. Proponents argue that elimination of the tax exemption would make the cost of borrowing money to many state and local governments prohibitive.

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This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century. He asks whether human ingenuity can produce enough food to support healthy and vigorous lives for all these people without damaging the integrity of the biosphere.

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In the last 2 centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding success story. Agriculture has fed population with a variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book explains how these feats were accomplished. It covers various factors that have affected agricultural performance.

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This collection of original essays brings econometric theory to bear on the problem of estimating the labor force participation of women. Five scholars here examine, both theoretically and empirically, the determinants of women's wages in the market, the value of their home time, and the factors that affect their employment. Originally published i

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This edited collection critiques postfeminist advertising through the lenses of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age, class, and nationality. The authors represent a variety of feminisms, including Black, disabled, lesbian, transnational, and more.

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This book is about understanding feminist theories and feminist economics through a multi-paradigmatic approach. It discusses four paradigms, offers four paradigmatic viewpoints of several social concerns of feminism, and emphasizes that the four views provide a broader and balanced understanding of feminism.

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The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion. -- .

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An in-depth analysis of the struggles against water privatisation across Europe in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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An in-depth analysis of the struggles against water privatisation across Europe in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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A textbook designed to teach the student of management ninety per cent of all they will ever need to know in accounting and finance at any level within their organisation. -- .

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The theory of transnational regimes is advocated as a new way of structuring the global system.

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The finance basics that experts and top professionals understand.

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In this first book-length analysis of the Latin American financial sector, Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart examine the dramatic changes resulting from financial liberalization in the region.

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Although ratio analysis is generally used as a univariate strategy, the accounting and finance literature has evolved to include multivariate-based models in financial analysis, and these models can be used to explain economic events and often predict them.

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Since the opening of the Ottoman Archives, research on the history of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1800 has resulted primarily in the publication of individual financial and administrative records, sometimes with analysis. Dr. Shaw's study is the first effort to use all the available records concerning an individual province, synthesizing them into

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Analyzes the views on the crises and on the reform of the international financial architecture. This book is suitable for researchers, policymakers, and students.

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Throughout the 1990s, numerous financial crises rocked the world financial sector. The Asian bubble burst, for example; Argentina and Brazil suffered currency crises; and the post-Soviet economy bottomed out in Russia.

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This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia's "Crisis Five"--Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand--Padma Desai argues that the region's imp