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An examination of Africas urban residents experimentations with living amidst crisis, to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence and social marginalisation in distressed cities elsewhere in the world.

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An examination of Africas urban residents experimentations with living amidst crisis, to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence and social marginalisation in distressed cities elsewhere in the world.

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Dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative - of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes, this book features case studies that intend to offer substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way.

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The book should prove useful to those considering business in developing countries and to scholars studying economic development and international business and finance.

Written without an extensive use of sophisticated models and jargon, the book is accessible to both academic and nonacademic readers.

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As it emerges as a mass consumer market and an extended, low-cost manufacturing centre, India has problems that pose difficulties for offshore investors. This work examines Indian business thinking and its relationship to Indian life - for those who want to be part of India's future.

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A big book on the economics of sex and love in the style of Freakonomics.

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By the 1930s, banks in America had transformed themselves from passive responders to aggressive seekers of business, converting toward a market orientation by developments in service philosophy, segmentation of customers, and by transformation of staff.

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This work uses the critical theory developed by Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas to analyze the English working class from 1750 to 1867, in particular its social protest activities.

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Primarily focusing on the organization of production and labor use practices in the Caribbean's second largest sugar industry, this work's historical, macroeconomic, political, and sociocultural components depict the reality of today's Dominican sugar economy.

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Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is a sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie provides an account of how these firms have been transformed since the mid-1980s.

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Placing the controversial globalization process in historical context, DeWitt brings this increasingly important topic to life through the experiences of the two most populous states of the Western HemisphereBrazil and the United States.

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The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty.

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Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of change, and examining how these changes affected men, women and children at various social levels. It demonstrates the gains and costs of economic change.

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This study considers the forces behind the East Asian growth miracle, the process of growth, the effect of saving, and the effect of foreign direct investment and multinationals. The authors conclude that rapid growth may resume in East Asia once the crisis of 1997 has been resolved.

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This work, written by a scholar and consultant who has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe, presents important background information and analysis on the economic and political changes that are taking place in that part of the world.

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Integrates environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, from the global to the local, from West to East, and from North to South. This book analyzes environmental issues from the world-systems perspective.

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The key issue confronting empirical economics is to establish sustainable relationships that are both supported by data and interpretable from economic theory. Focusing on modeling, this book aims to give students the statistical foundations of estimation and inference, and also presents a thorough understanding of econometric techniques.

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As most econometricians will readily agree, the data used in applied econometrics seldom provide accurate measurements for the pertinent theory's variables. Here, Bernt Stigum offers the first systematic and theoretically sound way of accounting for such inaccuracies. He and a distinguished group of contributors bridge econometrics and the philosop

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How can a researcher with such tools learn anything about the social reality in which he or she lives This book addresses varied topics in both classical and Bayesian econometrics, offering evidence that its answer to the fundamental question is sound. It represents an account of contemporary economic methodology.

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This study aims to quantify the relationships between the economies of the United States and Japan on an industrially disaggregated basis. It links two large-scale econometric models of the US and Japan in the framework of the world model system (Project LINK).

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The main purpose of this book is to discuss a number of questions which arise in connection with economic aid. The final chapter considers various arguments for and against providing economic aid and draws some conclusions, suggesting that the amount provided should be substantially increased and made more effective.