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Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. This book puts contemporary thinking about networks and economic activity into context. It develops a general framework within which this body of research can be located.

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'The basic theme of the work is an important one for operational research, namely the influence of constraints rather than objectives in policy formulation.'JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY

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Constructing Capitalism describes Australia's transformation from an immense and isolated gaol in 1788 to a liberal capitalist economy by the time of Federation.

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Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer behavior. Even finely tuned econometric models, however, have not served well as guides for policy ch

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The assumption of American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of 'reform and openness' will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. It analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment liberalization on Chinese labor politics.

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This work analyzes the dramatic developments now underway in many parts of the world and outlines a trend toward economic and political synthesis or convergence.

This work will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative economic systems, political economy, comparative politics, and international economic relations.

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Presenting the history of three major cutlery districts in Western Europe, this study is a resource for research on industrial development in 19th century Europe. It challenges the flexible specialisation thesis and argues that growing businesses had to develop competitive strategies for control over important resources.

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Examines the commercial considerations that drive U.S. development assistance.

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Anna Kassulke provides a penetrating scrutiny of the most globally important concept of our time: money.

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International trade liberalization historically has taken many organizational forms--unilateral, bilateral, minilateral, and multilateral. Given the proliferation of normative views about which of these should be pursued, economists and political scientists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the reasons for the observed variation in the

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Managing Cooperatives in the Global Economy offers both theoretical arguments and practical insights into how the value-based cooperative model of business provides an effective institutional mechanism for addressing the development challenges in todays competitive economy in different countries across the globe.

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Nearly half of the Third World debt, or about $400 million, is owed by Latin America. How this has come about and what it means for Latin America's future are the subjects of twelve essays by experts on the Latin American debt problem.

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Can every allocation in the core of an economy be decentralized by a suitably chosen price system Werner Hildenbrand shows that the answer is yes if the economy has "many" participating agents and if the influence of every individual agent on collective actions is "negligible." To give a general and precise definition of economics with this proper

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This volume offers a framework for formulating an economic development plan for a local community. Stating that planning often focuses on job creation at the expense of long-term goals, the authors emphasize the secondary and long-term effects of local development activities.

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Promoting competition has been a leading theme of public policy over the past 30 years. In the United States, the movement began in the 1970s with efforts to rewrite the rules for aviation, trucking, and telecommunications.

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This book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in capitalism by opening new pathways for creative practices that can become influential. This analysis includes contributions from a variety of fields that will be of interest to both academics and all those who recognize themselves as "creative" in their professional practice.

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Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decision makers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Employing original data produced through both quantitative and qualitative research, this title provides an understanding of how art works as an engine for transforming communities.

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Turbulent Waters: Cross-Border Finance and International Governance advocates faster progress in reforming the international financial system. Its most important theme is the need for national governments and international organizations to upgrade their collective efforts at crisis prevention and prosperity management.

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The 2008 crash was no ordinary crisis, but the harbinger of a much deeper convulsion. This major re-assessment shows how it was initially contained but that the more fundamental challenges to western leadership, democracy and prosperity, unless addressed, will preclude sustained recovery and pave the way for recurrent crises.

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This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series looks at the contributions of critical theorists to the study of Europe.