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This engaging and accessible book is a must-read for every economics student. It explores what the global economy is, how it developed and how it operates today, and why certain aspects of it have become controversial.

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The conventional wisdom is that this new international economy is the natural outcome of market forces and cannot be resisted except at great cost to economic and social welfare. This book challenges that argument by bringing a clear historical perspective to the study of the world economy since 1944.

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Executive decision makers are coming to understand that strategic management, national government policies, and the international public sector are all related, often in subtle ways.

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Evaluates the positive and negative aspects of foreign assembly and suggests ways in which it may develop and affect the future of North-South relations. The authors examine in detail the US semiconductor industry, the first to go abroad on a large scale. They also chart the development of the semiconductor industries of Western Europe and Japan.

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Living and working abroad. Sounds glamorous - and maybe it is, if you're posted to Paris or Vienna. But what if your company sends you to Santiago, Lisbon, or Montevideo Many questions arise: Is it safe to go out at night Do quality schools exist This book answers such questions expats may have.

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Marshaling a great deal of new information in a highly readable manner, the author explains the reasons for the dramatic expansion of arms sales during the past decade and clearly traces such trends as the rise in sophistication of weapons being sold so as to include the most advanced technologies, and the shift in sales to unstable parts of the Th

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This book examines the development of the region's business environment and the conditions that uniquely impact its growth.

It offers a unique perspective on select issues such as regional integration among Arab states on the Persian Gulf or within the Economic Cooperation Organization surrounding the Caspian Sea.

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The transformation and growth of capitalism in third world countries is examined by first looking at the beginnings and growth of capitalism in the developed industrialized world and at the various stages in which it is transplanted to less developed countries.

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Through stories and action-oriented tools, Useem shows how to get to the go point--when it's time to get off the fence, say yes or no, and jump the right way.

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A risk-prone, privatised profit-driven economic model overseen by a largely unaccountable, greedy and arrogant elite has resulted in one of the worst financial crises in history. The over-paid heroes of Wall Street and the City worshipped the gods of globalisation, financialisation and speculation.

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A history of the American newspaper during the century of its greatest influence on our society, from the arrival of the penny papers in the 1830s until the coming of radio news around 1930, this book explains what gave the American newspaper its character.

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Illustrates the consequences of debt and austerity for ordinary Irish people and explains why austerity can't work. This title shows that history offers numerous useful models for Irish recovery - provided we open our eyes to them.

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How the 401(k) has come to dominate the American family's long-term investment portfolio, why it is inadequate-and what to do about it

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The Great American Bank Robberymaps out in detail exactly how Washington social engineers and their accomplices reshaped banking regulations and housing policies and gutted time-tested underwriting standards that led to the worst financial calamity since the 1930s, one that has robbed American households of $14 trillion in net worth.

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A legendary journalist exposes how the very architects of our financial calamity now engineer the recovery program

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The great crash of 2008 was one that no one saw coming, or, if they did, they ignored the warning signs. This title takes us through the boom and the global imbalances that led to the bust. It presents a whole-world view of reasons for the downturn, from good, old-fashioned greed and rampant speculation, to the imbalances in global capital flows.

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A highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed it

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A re-evaluation of the 1929 Crash, this work outlines and refutes seven commonly held myths regarding the events of 1929-1932. It compares the stock market and profitablity of corporations, re-assesses the over-pricing of RCA stock and looks at the 1931 banking system hearings.

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Once Britain's pensions system was admired around the world. Now it is in tatters. What on earth went wrong The author finds out how politicians bent on penny-pinching, a bullied and ineffectual civil service, and highly placed but unscrupulous individuals all played their part in fatally undermining a 100-year-old system.

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This devastating critique by the authors of The Deindustrialization of America documents how the economic policies of the Reagan era have damaged the American standard of living and suggests how this trend may be reversed.