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Originally published as Le monde est clos et le desir infini by Albin Michel, Paris, France, and is copyright Editions Albin Michel--Paris 2015.

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This wide-ranging text introduces the causes of economic growth and stagnation across countries. It combines consideration of proximate causes as well as systemic factors, and provides the historical context and theoretical background to aid understanding of international disparities.

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An in-depth analysis of the struggles against water privatisation across Europe in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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An in-depth analysis of the struggles against water privatisation across Europe in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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The countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States have opened up their economies to the world economy as a step towards a profound transformation from plan to market. Some have fully integrated into the European market while others have not. This book focuses on the challenges economies face when in transition.

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A presentation of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax policy.

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Developing a new idea requires money, which poses a problem of trust. This title proposes a legal theory of economic growth that details how property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas. It demonstrates why ineffective private and business laws are the root cause of the poverty of nations in today's world.

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This is an essential companion to Daron Acemoglu's landmark textbook, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth . Designed for students, this manual contains solutions to selected exercises located throughout Acemoglu's text, helping students to maximize and reinforce their understanding of the material. Students will find this book invaluable for coursework and self-study.

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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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The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Librar

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In Return to Growth, Jon Moynihan analyses the UK's decades-long stagnant economy and looks at what can be done to resuscitate it.

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A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age - faltering growth, rising inequality and environmental depletion - and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model.

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From the bestselling author of The Storm comes a fascinating insight into the state of the British economy from one of our leading politicians, who was at the heart of the coalition government.

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Edge of Chaos sets out the new political and economic challenges facing the world, and the specific, radical solutions needed to resolve these issues and reignite global growth.

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Mining and the transformation of capitalist modernity

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Offers a reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness.

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Sustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. This title proposes a legal theory of economic growth that details how effective property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas.

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Originally published as Le monde est clos et le desir infini by Albin Michel, Paris, France, and is copyright Editions Albin Michel--Paris 2015.

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The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era The rulers of these states are taking serious measures to ensure the survival of their economies, and indeed their regimes, in a world with scarce mineral resources.