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Let's face it: everybody talks about economics, but hardly anyone really understands it. The Instant Economist is easy but essential reading for every modern manager.

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Tackles all the key questions and hot topics of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, including: Why do budget deficits matter What exactly does the Federal Reserve do Does globalization take jobs away from American workers And, why is health insurance so costly

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Nations undergoing rapid economic growth require new institutions--both formal organizations and informal modes of interpersonal behavior. John Powelson develops a theory of institution-building to explain how nations choose such institutions, what kinds they prefer and why, and in what ways the institutions' effectiveness (essentially, their confl

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Scholars attempting to place Veblen in a particular intellectual tradition will only succeed in reaping frustration and confusion until it is recognized that he was primarily ^Isui generis^R and eclectic.

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The fundamental question explored in the book concerns the meaning of co-operation. Was it a social movement or an economic enterprise Did it aspire to challenge capitalism or to reform it Did it contain at its heart a political vision for the transformation of society or was it simply a practical guide for organising a business -- .

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The most severe frost of the twentieth century ravaged Brazilian coffee-growing areas in 1975--leading to a worldwide increase in coffee prices of more than 400 percent. This unique volume traces the political and economic effects of the frost from U.S. consumers to the world coffee market.

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The Internationalization of Capital explores the nature of capitalist expansion, providing a wealth of up-to-date empirical data combined with incisive theoretical analyses of the dynamics of international capitalism within a comparative-historical framework.

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The ROK economy has experienced rapid growth in the last 30 years. The ROK economy is located in the midst of the Pacific Basin, the most promising part of the developing world. Recently, the economy has moved into more highly sophisticated markets, as well as into the global financial markets.

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This book explores growth and structural change in the labor force that accompany economic development. It reports on labor force characteristics in one hundred countries around the world, a project of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Based on a world-wide compilation of labor force and population statistics of censu

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This study examines the labor markets of the United States and Germany, developing a framework for the analysis of labor market dynamics based upon the dynamic flow analysis, instead of the conventional labor stock data.

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Power on hold examines the course of the labour movement in Lebanon since independence in 1943, giving specific attention to the role of state incorporation in the preservation of the sectarian-liberal system.

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Power on hold examines the course of the labour movement in Lebanon since independence in 1943, giving specific attention to the role of state incorporation in the preservation of the sectarian-liberal system.

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This volume examines critical issues that all developing countries must face.

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The major themes of financial regulation in the U.S., the EEC, and Japan are discussed in four interwoven, but independent, essays.

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This work deals with the economic systems of the two monetary revolutionaries of this century. Friedman used the system of testing one hypothesis against another rather than using a naive model. He provided analytical, political, and ideological positions that yield an all-encompassing analytical system.

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