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The book is a collection of nine quantitative studies about Renaissance Florentine economy and society. Topics include plague outbreaks, interest rates, wealth distribution, taxes and subsidies, art history, neighbourhood segregation, competitive markets and monopoly power, women's work and business risk.

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Analyzes the changing trends in how composers acquired their skills and earned their living, examining such impacts as demographic developments and modes of transportation. This book offers insight into the diversity of composers' economic aspirations, the strategies through which they pursued success, and the emergence of copyright protection.

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This collection of original essays makes a unique contribution to both the radical and institutionalist economics literature by explicitly identifying and promoting the radical dimension of institutional economics.

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Gives perspective to the increasing evidence of financial and economic anomalies and argues for a comprehensive behavioral framework for economics and finance.

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This text offers a perspective on increasing evidence of financial and economic anomalies and argues for a comprehensive behavioural framework for economies and finance that shows how factors allied to psychological and sociological issues are relevant.

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Previous wage studies of the period before World War I found that real wages remained stable from 1890 to 1914 despite the continued growth of the economy. This study indicates that this conclusion was based on faulty statistics. Using new estimates of money wages and a new cost-of-living index, Mr. Rees shows that real wages rose considerably in t

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Personal Finance for the Real World teaches the basics of personal finance by mentoring the reader through the process of creating a personal financial plan. Instruction culminates in the creation of a budget that includes all investment goals.

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The first and only encyclopedia to focus on the economic and financial behaviors of consumers, investors, and organizations, including an exploration of how people make good-and bad-economic decisions.

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In this book Richard Lester develops an analytical basis for judging sex, race, and age discrimination in professional and executive employment. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Un

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Rebel Economies explores historical, anthropological, and political dimensions of non-state war economies across different periods and regions. Through a variety of conceptual and disciplinary approaches, the authors investigate distinct case studies across three continents, revealing nexuses between the economy, war, and social transformation.

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For many aspects of how our countries are run - from social security and fair elections to communication, and the rule of law - technology can play an increasingly positive, revolutionary role. In this book, the authors argue that technology can reshape our lives, in both the developing and developed world, and shows how this can be achieved.

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The standing of industrialization has fallen in the list of social and economic objectives of developing countries in recent years. The rapid transformation in industrialization strategy from import substitution under heavy state direction to outward orientation has had a profound effect on industrialization of Turkey.

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This book offers an examination of the empirical data of business cycles, the theories that economists have developed to explain them, and major case studies of recessions and depressions both in the United States and internationally.

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In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. Barely a year later the City was in tatters.

Greed, guile and excess - this definitive insider's account charts an intoxicated decade and cogently reveals just how, and why, the City got it so badly wrong.

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