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Explaining how politics shapes corporate governance, this book combines a theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and narratives of country cases.

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Political Risks in International Business presents and stimulates new directions in political risk research, corporate management, and public policy. Political risks can be broadly defined as uncertainty about the political environment of business and the effects of that environment on individual firms.

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How do the weak negotiate with the strong and win some benefits in spite of their lack of power This book covers all the complex trade negotiations conducted in the 1960's between the African states and the EEC. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previousl

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This book analyzes the effect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context of Latin America. It concludes that political and economic stability, as well as law and order, have a statistically significant impact on microfinance effectiveness.

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Using Philadelphia as a case study, this book traces the development of current economic mechanisms to control pollution.

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One of the first rules of investing is diversification: spreading resources over many types of investments in order to minimize financial risk. Mutual funds have been the diversification vehicle of choice for the last several decades.

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During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. This title follows the trajectory of this market populism, and examines the origins and impact of the mass engagement in investing.

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A guide to creating products that pop through the noise, off the shelf and into consumers' imaginations.

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Coca-Cola is the world's best-known brand, and perhaps the most quintessentially American one: a beverage with no nutritional value, sold variously as a remedy, a tonic and a refreshment.

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This volume focuses on the concepts of ownership under communism. It traces the evolution of economic ideas of property reform leading from the doctrine of blanket nationalization to projects of moderate privatization in eight countries of Eastern Europe and China on the eve of the 1989 revolutions.

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Making the case that population growth does not hinder economic progress and that it eventually raises standards of living, Julian Simon became one of the most controversial figures in economics during the past decade. This book gathers a set of articles--theoretical, empirical, and policy analyses--written over the past twenty years, which examine

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From Malthus to Becker, the economic approach to population growth and its interactions with the surrounding economic environment has undergone a major transformation. Population Economics elucidates the theory behind this shift and the consequences for economic policy.

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This book renders a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic outcomes of Puerto Ricans during Puerto Ricos severe economic crisis. This book is a valuable resource for scholars interested in Puerto Rico and economic, social mobility, migration, demographic, or public policy issues for Hispanics and Latinos.

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From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, and economic adjustment of the American people to the speculative machinery that developed between 1868 and the New Deal. The book begins with the struggle of Populist legislators, representing stable fa

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Written by four experts in the field of pension funds, this work examines the possibilities for pension reform based on a detailed understanding of a successful system, the union pension fund of the Operating Engineers.

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Explains how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems by conducting year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa - records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money.

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Documents the existence and explores the implications of the postmodern moments in modern economics. This book begins with an argument for the general relevance of postmodernism to contemporary economic thought. It shows how economic theory would change if the postmodern elements were allowed to flourish.