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Offers a treatment of microeconomic theory - one that stresses the behavior of the individual actor in various institutional settings. This book begins with an exposition of the standard models of choice and the market. It is designed for the first-year graduate microeconomic theory course and is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well.

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In A Destiny of Choice, David Blanke and David Steigerwald bring together important scholarship on the tension between two leading interpretations of modern American consumer culture. This debate is central to the economic difficulties seen in the United States today.

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While joining with neoclassical economics in supporting the validity of supply-and-demand theory where it is literally applicable, McCain challenges most neoclassical theory, especially monopoly, oligopoly, and general equilibrium theory and welfare economics.

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For the greater part of recorded history, the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. This book provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. It presents a history that starts in biblical times.

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Assesses the reasons behind the deterioration of earnings and job opportunities among less skilled men. The authors consider the impact of changes in industrial structure, declines in unionization, and trends in the level and quality of schooling for men who have limited skills and education.

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Investigates the US economy and the trends and events that created an economic output in 1999 that was two and a half times greater than it was in in 1959. The guide shows how electronic data is compiled and analyzed and what national income and output statistics really mean.

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In this book, O'Hanlon and Graham analyse US official development assistance (ODA) to poor countries. The authors place US ODA in a broad historical, international, and economic perspective. They then recommend an alternative approach to ODA for the United States as well as other donors.

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Traces the relative successes of Bolivia's labor unions, contextualizing their triumphs and disappointments within the history of Bolivia's tumultuous political scene. The author explains how the labor movement evolved in the framework of several political changes, including the Bolivian National Revolution which began on April 9, 1952.

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This volume traces the history of organized labor in Peru and Ecuador from its first appearance in the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. It also discusses the negative impact on the trade union movement of the free enterprise-free trade policies of the last decades of the twentieth century.

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In this volume, Alexander sketches the history of organized labor in the countries of Uruguay and Paraguay. He covers such topics as the role of organized labor in the economics and politics of these two countries and their relations with the international labor movement.

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His three appendixes elaborate on the need for, and methods to, transfer technology to LDCs, provide ways to analyze the costs, and present a model of reciprocal distribution that may benefit both the donor and the recipient country in the transfer process.

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This symposium of papers by statesmen and leading experts from around the world examines the global economic situation and voices concern about the potential for world unemployment and trade crisis in the 1990s.

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The last set of chapters considers the past four decades of a mixed economy and why it lacks long-term viability, while the concluding two chapters suggest changes in operating principles and financial practices to make the mixed economy a viable one.

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It includes events leading up to the NAFTA vote in Congress on November 17, 1993, the vote itself and analyses of it, the political aspects of NAFTA's passage, and the status of the agreement once in effect.

The book covers (1) serials, including journals, magazines, and newspapers;

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This work is designed to show the way in which the simplest form of classical economic system would behave during a process of equilibrium growth. An extremely simple classical model of an economic system is examined in such a way as to observe the process of change in the variables over time.

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This work examines how national-level social bargaining was established in Portugal and Spain during the 1980s and 90s, despite unpropitious institutional and structural conditions. It argues that this development was the result of the reorientation of the strategies of the social actors.