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Examines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fundamentally altered by the growing impact of European trade and finance, and by the internal reforms of the rulers of Egypt.

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The wide variety of reference sources include not only books and journals, but also annual reports, directories, statistics, unpublished documents, computerized data bases, authors, and organizations active in the field.

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This work analyzes how the minimum wage has been differentially applied to the restaurant industry due to the labor intensive nature of the industry.

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This unbiased look at the minimum wage debate in America traces the history of minimum wage policy at both the federal and state levels, discusses the controversies swirling around the issue, and examines the veracity of claims made by people on both sides of the debate.

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An examination of world-system theory from the perspectives of global processes, antisystemic movements, and the aftermath of the colonial system. The volume address three myths tied to Eurocentric forms of thinking: objectivist and universalist knowledges, decolonization and developmentalism.

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Written for international finance executives, economists and policymakers, this book describes in detail the money markets of the eight major developing countries of East Asia - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.

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A comparative study of the international money supply process (MSP), which aims to involve the basic types of economic and institutional economic systems at all levels of economic development. This comparative approach allows an analysis of the differences that occur in MSP across the world.

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Zak has discovered just such a master switch: a molecule in the human brain.

Zaks colleagues call him Dr Love. how the moral molecule operates in the market place, and most importantly, once we understand the moral molecule, how we can consciously use it to make our lives better.

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The Washington financier who first proposed creation of a trust fund to retire the national debt has written a book outlining a new plan that would prevent Congress from raiding the fund to supplement the cost of regular government programs.

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From the impact of rising gas prices to debates over free trade agreements, the workings of the economy remain a mystery to most, even as the demands on our economic resources increase.

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Riahi-Belkaoui's contingency approach to disclosure adequacy identifies determinants based on cultural, linguistic, political, civil, economic and demographic relativisms, on legal and tax relativisms and even on religious relativism.

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What are the sources of the well-known differences in the performance of capitalist and socialist economic systems Peter Murrell argues that the Schumpeterian model has far more power to answer this question than does the neoclassical theory generally used for that purpose. The neoclassical theory focuses on the absence of a price system and the i

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This text examines the characteristics of environments that give rise to political risk, explores the relationship between low economic growth and high political risk, and differentiates between definitions and forecasting models of political risk.

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This work proposes a new American economic Community as a response to the rise of the European Community and the increasing domination of the Asian market by Japan.

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The massive depression of the 1930's detonated the crisis between harsh reality and the vision of material abundance and economic security created by the American industrial order. Amid widespread poverty there was increasing concentration of economic power and loss of individual initiative. Professor Hawley traces the pattern of this conflict. He

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Shows how computers are changing the employment landscape and how the right kinds of education can ease the transition to the new job market. This book tells stories of people at work - a high-end financial advisor, a customer service representative, a pair of successful chefs, a cardiologist, and an automotive mechanic.

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Challenging such established ideas as the inevitability of the business cycle and the taboo on deficit spending, the group of economists associated with the Kennedy Council of Economic Advisers attempted in the 1960s to convert their theories into government policy. The successes, failures, elations. and frustrations of what came to be called the N

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In this lively but profound study, W. David Slawson contends that balancing the government budget will not stop current inflation short of a disastrous depression. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backl

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