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Discusses the oil shocks of 1973-74, 1979-80, and the minishock of 1990-91, and examines the possibility of oil shocks over the next twenty years. The authors assess the world market outlook on the basis of underlying trends on world oil supply and demand.

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Chakarova offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of consumer countries policies and reactions to oil supply shortages. In addition to being a valuable source of information on oil market dynamics, it provides a deep theoretical understanding of one of the most critical issues in international relations: inter-state cooperation.

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In this ground-breaking new volume, Valerie Marcel draws on unprecedented access to the politicians, engineers and businessmen directing five Middle Eastern state oil companies to shed light on one of the most secretive segments of the international oil industry.

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Vo examines the key role of oil in economic relations between the United States and the nations of the Persian Gulf, providing a useful historical perspective.

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Yeomans explores the role of oil in America--from driving the US economic engine to consolidating the US's position as unilateral superpower--and explains the American consumer's love affair with gasoline and the automobile.

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Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing.

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Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. This book suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the light of his epistemology, philosophy of science, and moral theory.

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This book describes what communication has to do with the nature of being human, and what being human has to do with communication.

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This book criticizes the static marginalist equilibrium method of analysis of the individual firm.

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This volume investigates how Britain and Germany regulated their railways at three different points in time over the past century. Its central focus is the design of regulatory regimes and the impact of institutional factors on the selection of design ideas and on processes of isomorphism.

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This book carefully examines the motives, objectives and strategies of the major players in the global lending game: creditor governments, bank regulatory agencies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

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He has gone further too - interviewing the nation's top financial journalists, whose views can help make a company soar or sink; The result is a fascinating, 360 degree view of what it takes to be a business leader in today's cut-throat global economy - thought-provoking, often surprising, always insightful.

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Arguing that society has pursued short-run approaches to decision-making that in the long term are counterproductive, On Systemic Balance presents a multidimensional and interdisciplinary alternative to problem solving.

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Featuring thought-provoking questions and a listing of helpful resources, On the High Wire will engage and inspire new managers to become even more creative and effective leaders.

At the heart of the book is the notion that productive and fulfilling management is not simply a collection of skills and techniques, but a mindset.

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Featuring thought-provoking questions and a listing of helpful resources, On the High Wire will engage and inspire new managers to become even more creative and effective leaders.

At the heart of the book is the notion that productive and fulfilling management is not simply a collection of skills and techniques, but a mindset.

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This book develops a Credo for honorable entrepreneurs dedicated to freedom and general human flourishing, based on work by Aristotle and the giants of moral, political, and economic thinking. It explores how entrepreneurs can prevent a separation of the honorable and the useful, a moral challenge faced by leaders in all parts of society.

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This book develops a Credo for honorable entrepreneurs dedicated to freedom and general human flourishing, based on work by Aristotle and the giants of moral, political, and economic thinking. It explores how entrepreneurs can prevent a separation of the honorable and the useful, a moral challenge faced by leaders in all parts of society.

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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, the book that created the field of economics, is transformed into a page-turner of global significance by America's sharpest political commentator.

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How it works and OLAP's many benefits to aid users in the public and private sectors is spelled out here.

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Life is more like a marathon than a sprint. Here's how to stay well conditioned. In the opening chapter of this powerful little book, Butterworth shares how he learned the attitudes and actions that result in steady success over the long haul are what make for long-term satisfaction and achievement.

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Making use of his exceptional, humor-laced storytelling style, Butterworth makes the basics of teamwork easy to grasp and easy to put to work and offers a succinct understanding of how to work well as a team.

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