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This volume brings together essays that explore the historical, political, and economic dimensions of US-Caribbean relations.

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This study analyzes how, against calculated probabilities and within a relatively short time period, Romania has stabilized and assembled all the basic ingredients for a transformation from a centralized system to a market-driven economy.

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The Economic Naturalist is back with a whole batch of intriguing new questions and answers, drawn from his New York Times columns, that reveal how we really behave when confronted with economic choices.

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The definitive history of the wealthy over more than two millennia.

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Considers the ways in which conservative activists, groupings, parties and interests in the US and Britain responded to the financial crisis and the 'Great Recession' that followed in its wake. -- .

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It analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets

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This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War. -- .

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Throughout, Hwang emphasizes the dynamic interrelationships among the various factors that have created Taiwan's phenomenal success.

Following an overview of Taiwan's postwar economic development, Hwang surveys events in Chinese history which laid the groundwork for Taiwan's rise to a world economic power.

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A leading scholar of international relations tells why the rise of virtual economies will make military conquest obsolete.

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Many scholars of sub-Saharan Africa agree that inward-oriented development policies have hampered economic development in the region.

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This volume presents a perspective on programs and policies designed to enhance the development of local and regional economics.

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Tracing the monetary history of Europe, this study explores the impact of change in the availability and use of bullion, in the form of money, on the economic evolution of Europe.

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The Roots of State Intervention in the Brazilian Economy provides a historical review focusing on the period between 1964's military takeover to today's economic crisis which developed in the late '70s-early '80s.

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The author argues that the concept of class, far from being obsolete, is actually embodied in its modern form by the fusion of banking capital and industrial capital in Great Britain. Thiry-one such groups are identified in Appendix I, and Appendix II is an an analysis of bank directorships.

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Leading national experts examine the importance of sales tax as a revenue source in the U.S. and describe key factors that will determine its role in government revenue structures of the 21st century.

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Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand

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Elisabeth Wynhausen was at her desk writing a story about people being sacked when she was sacked herself. The Short Goodbye is the untold story of a nation forever changed by the global financial crisis and the people whose lives have been glossed over in the grand narratives of politicians and commentators.

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The lack of effective leadership and disciplined workforce is a major contributor to the lack of economic development and progress in the Sub-Saharan African countries.

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Provides an interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. This book offers evidence of differences in the legal architectures erected to standardize the worldview of market participants and the reaction of key societal organizations to a broader marketplace.

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Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it might be--hasn't kept pace. In The So