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Challenges the hold that cliometrics - an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists - has exerted on the study of our economic past. This book calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around.

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Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. This title shows why you cannot always have both.

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Explains the key elements of the world economy and provides a step to further research for students and scholars in public policy, international studies, business, the broader social sciences, and for economic policy professionals. This title includes entries covering topics in international trade, finance, production, and economic development.

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How can developing countries grow their economies Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In this book, the author - the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank - focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves.

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The Scientific Marx was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Marx advanced Capital to the public as a scientific explanation of the capitalist economy, intending it to be

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Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all Americans--not just a privileged elite--smarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation's "safety net."

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Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it might be--hasn't kept pace. In The So

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We are on the verge of a big shift to a new kind of economy in which entrepreneurship and innovation range freely across public and private sectors. The authors gather stories from across the globe highlighting the new players, the new currencies, and the disruptive business models that make up this new solution economy.

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Describes and reassesses the long-term industrial development of Dundee, emphasising the ever-shifting dynamics of textile production in shaping the city's history

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Examines how developments in economics and the social sciences lead to greater government intrusion in our private lives. Exploring how behavioral economics contributes to the excessive rise of paternalistic interventions, this title presents a controversial challenge to the prevailing currents in economic and political discourse.

Revised and expanded with the most recent data, this new edition of the classic primer on American economics brings key policy issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of the best economic literacy activists in the country. Glossary. Illustrations throughout.

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An essential introduction to American economic history from 1929 to the present. -- .

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This work argues that right-wing claims that the government are sucking the lifeblood from the US economy derive their persuasiveness from popular allegories and metaphors which distort understanding. It offers alternative metaphors to provide an analysis of the reforms needed by the US.

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Many warn that the next stage of globalization - the offshoring of research and development to China and India - threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. This title shows how wrong the doomsayers are. It explains why know-how developed abroad enhances the prosperity at home.

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The author believes that governments, certain academics, banks, and non-governmental organizations (nonprofits) are working in a coordinated way to stop you from using cash.

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Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office - or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands This title argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as - if not more than - finance, real estate, and law.