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Developing a new idea requires money, which poses a problem of trust. This title proposes a legal theory of economic growth that details how property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas. It demonstrates why ineffective private and business laws are the root cause of the poverty of nations in today's world.

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This is an essential companion to Daron Acemoglu's landmark textbook, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth . Designed for students, this manual contains solutions to selected exercises located throughout Acemoglu's text, helping students to maximize and reinforce their understanding of the material. Students will find this book invaluable for coursework and self-study.

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This book looks at the economic impact of the transition from white to black rule in South Africa in the 1990s. -- .

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Since 1925, import substitution programs have diverted South Africa's mineral revenues away from efficient investments and into the creation of an uncompetitive manufacturing sector.

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The twelve papers in this volume provide information on and analysis of trade flows among developing countries (which are mostly in the Southern Hemisphere).

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A sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book by Bray Hammond focuses on how Washington struggled financially to settle the Civil War and how its measures spurred the growth of federal government. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print

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This work illustrates the use of model specification and diagnostic tests applied to a variety of econometric modeling techniques.

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The important data of economics are in the form of time series; therefore, the statistical methods used will have to be those designed for time series data. New methods for analyzing series containing no trends have been developed by communication engineering, and much recent research has been devoted to adapting and extending these methods so that

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A history of the trade that controlled the world and left an indelible impression on our taste buds; a sweeping story of avarice, ingenuity and exploration, spanning the globe and the centuries in its epic reconstruction of this magnificent obsession.

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"According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have stagnated in the U.S. over the last twenty-five years for average Americans. A corollary argument asserts that the combination o"

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Extends previous research in sports economics and provides a valuable resource for professional economists working on sports economics topics.

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Thus, the author claims, the basic objective of the agricultural and rural policy has been political, not socioeconomic.

The failure of the agricultural policy, the study suggests, is rooted in the nature and role of the state.

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Dealing with the extraordinary economic modernization that has been taking place in Japan since 1868, this is a study of Japan's historical opportunities and the human responses that have molded the vigor of her development. The first half of the book concentrates on the Meiji Era, 1868-1911, when the foundations of modern industrial society and th

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A provocative and timely look at the current state of global economics, particularly how the state-owned companies of Russia, China, Latin America, and other emerging markets are influencing how people work, how they consume, and how they prosper.

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Posner discusses the ways state government agencies can and do promote and facilitate the overseas exports of producers in their respective states. He presents detailed case studies of successful state programs and outlines how business can utilize these programs and what opportunities export trading companies can provide.

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In 1950's high income region, the West, the transport cost element in the price of manufactured goods shrank because of (1) transportation improvements and (2) rapid manufacturing growth, which reduced the need for long distance imports from the Manufacturing Belt.

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