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This important work offers a new view of the Wobblies by examining not only their connection to American culture but their relationship to early twentieth-century American religion. in American labor history and by scrutinizing the relationship between the Wobblies, progressives, and utopian novelists in the period prior to World War I.

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Describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of everyday life. This title incorporates the developments in the field, including the rise of behavioral finance, the failure of carbon trading, and the growing trend of government bailouts.

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This book describes the creation of a new economy in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1945. The Red Army defeated the Germans in World War II with equipment produced by that economy and not with masses of untrained men as has been often argued.

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The special economic zones that have been established in China are playing an important role in the economic development of the country. This in-depth examination of the zones provides a broad understanding of the formation of the Southern Chinese Economic Block and its effects on the country as a whole.

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Arranged in broad chronological categories, the bibliography lists monographs, periodical articles, and other miscellaneous sources, including pamphlets and maps.

The first chapter includes sources covering more than one time period or the entire history of the spice trade.

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Presents the history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century. This book shows how institutional factors combined to make the Dutch economy a victim of its own success and traces its subsequent emergence as a modern industrial economy. It argues that the economic and political development of the Netherlands can be understood only in tandem.

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The object of this study is to clarify why and how it happened that women remained marginal in the processes of social change that took place during the development of Israeli society.

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The subprime mortgage crisis wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and threatened to derail the US economy and economies around the world. This book calls for a restructuring of the institutional foundations of the financial system that can allow people once again to buy and sell homes with confidence.

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A brilliant narrative history of the most colourful and important summit in history.

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The new super rich and why they should scare you.

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The two historical debates studied here are concerned with the impact of technological change on unemployment and on the economy generally. The history of these 20th century debates has not previously been studied in detail, and the book provides valuable insight into the evolution of the understanding of a fundamental issue in the economy.

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Building on the companion volume on closed economic systems, Dompere develops a theory of aggregate investment, optimal capital, and output dynamics for open economic systems under neo-Keynesian conditions with special reference to growth policy.

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Focusing on capitalist economic systems, this book develops a theoretical approach to the study of aggregate capital dynamics.

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Following a brief historical overview showing how the problem of incentives has come to the fore in the past two centuries, the authors their work to exploring principal-agent models and various extensions thereof in light of three types of information problems: adverse selection, moral hazard, and non-verifiability.

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Firms and farmers, under pure competition, must make production decisions in the face of price uncertainty. The author has integrated diverse theories of behavior under uncertainty to provide a new framework for his mathematical analysis of the impact of price uncertainty on the behavior of the firm. Drawing upon the work of Knight, Hicks, von Neum

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Analyzing the resistance to change that erupted violently in response to that last major economic upheaval, Hinds shows how Communism, Nazism, and fundamentalism owe their triumphs not to the prevalence of poverty or oppression but to the rigidity of societies threatened by profound social changes prompted by rapid technological progress.

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The author's conclusions differ from the conventional wisdom, which suggests that the manufacturing sector is regaining much of its dominance as a result of the declining dollar, that exports will take over as a major source of economic growth, that a recession is unlikely, and that a depression is no longer possible.