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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 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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One of the worlds most powerful business leaders shows how we can confront China and Russia, strengthen our democracies, and safeguard our freedoms.

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Now back in print to Tie-in to the launch of his new book The Great Deformation, David Stockman's bestselling insider account of the failure of the Reagan Revolution that he had helped to invent. "A rich description of life inside the seemingly most successful Presidency of modern times... A valuable document of the American political condition." -Michael Kirsley, The New York Times

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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.

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Gordon maintains that the United States must implement policy measures to reduce the large amounts of capital it is borrowing from the rest of the worlda problem she attributes, mainly, to low private savings rates and high federal budget deficits.

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This work is not intended to be a history of the slave trade, but rather to show that the slave trade was an important economic and cultural factor in the formative days of the U.S.

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Accelerating globalization of world markets and increasing interdependence of the economies of the world has made policy-making very complex, especially in the United States. Is the U.S. is capable of simultaneously dealing with serious domestic challenges and economic challenges from the rest of the world.

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This book traces the development of American private interests in the Pacific before the 1840strading, whaling, sealing, missionary work, etc.and the gradual evolution of U.S. governmental interests in the region beginning with the 1840s.