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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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Reclaiming economics for future generations argues that to build economies which serve people and the planet we need a diverse and decolonised curriculum. How does the global economy currently fail people and the planet, and why has mainstream economics knowledge inadequately addressed the pressing issues of today

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Conti examines presidential rhetoric on trade, providing a detailed analysis of presidential trade arguments and strategies throughout American history. She then concentrates on the rhetoric of contemporary presidents contending with a burgeoning trade deficit and the displacement of military competitiveness with post-cold war economic competition.

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Through in-depth explorations and analyses of social dumping and the responsibilities of importing countries, and the relationships of these phenomena to ILO and WTO policies, this book compellingly argues for the creation of a link between international trade and labor standards.

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Although political developments in Central America over the last decade have been profound, the region continues to exhibit sluggish economic growth in some countries and complete stagnation in others. and 6) the prospects for regional economic and political integration.

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Demonstrates the analytical benefits acquired when an analysis with a representative consumer is possible, they also characterize the restrictiveness of assumptions under which a representative household justifies a purely aggregative analysis.

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A frightening wake-up call regarding the surging economic strength of China -- and how the Chinese are quickly strategizing to overtake the United States as the premier economic power in the world today.

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With much of the Asian Miracle destroyed and much of the Western world's awe for Asian ways of management dissipated, organizations there are changing with such speed that most of our knowledge about them is quickly outdated.

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The answer lies in the relationship between inflation and unemployment: we simply cannot push unemployment below the rate that is compatable with stable inflation.

Must we, then, just live with unemployment But to understand how we can reduce unemployment, we must understand the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

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Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 19852000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes analyzes the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic reforms conducted in Russia during the late twentieth century.

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This study analyzes the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic reforms conducted in Russia during the late twentieth century.

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Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a world-wide economy and, just as important, critical functional units in individual American lives.

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For Eastern European and other countries, market democracy offers an organizing principle for reform, a model on which to base movement toward a market economy. Market democracy, the culmination of more than three hundred years of economic and political thought, is centered on a pluralistic democracy with a free-market-oriented society.

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This volume presents an approach to financial sector reform composed of financial sector diagnosis, policy and institutional targeting, macroeconomic reforms, bank regulation and supervisory reform, and privatization. Criteria to help decision-makers apply the approach are also supplied.

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The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform their economies.

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Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses. Why President Nixon assigned the task of proposing reforms to his Advisory Council on Executive Organization. The object of both the Council's report and this paper is to advance the public search for reform.

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A radical and comprehensive review of the practices of governance within one of the world's most important and influential organizations.