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This collection of essays examines the development of the American South from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II. Each article offers fresh insights or new information on its subject, and collectively the articles help to illuminate how the most traditional of American regions tried to cope with the forces of modernization.

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This work examines the process of development financing through a comparison between some of the less-well-developed Caribbean countries and the More-Developed Commonwealth Caribbean countries of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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This work, written by a scholar and consultant who has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe, presents important background information and analysis on the economic and political changes that are taking place in that part of the world.

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This study aims to quantify the relationships between the economies of the United States and Japan on an industrially disaggregated basis. It links two large-scale econometric models of the US and Japan in the framework of the world model system (Project LINK).

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Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and world view of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. This book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture.

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Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and world view of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. This book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture.

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Providing an empirical look at the Jamaican economy, this careful study examines the impact of the (International Monetary Fund) approach to economic management in the 1980s and compares it to the non-IMF policies of the 1970s.

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Using both a public policy and an economic focus, his work seeks to clarify the debate on high technology industrial policy and to address the policy question of whether and how government should respond to competitive assaults in strategic industries.

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The Information Age has dawned at the same time the global political system is in transition. If U.S. economic, military, and political leadership is to continue, it must depend more on flexible adaptation to the new technical and organizational realities and less on technological dominance.

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A comprehensive text that covers both the microeconomics of banking and risk management in banks. Chapters are self-contained, making it easy to select specific topics for teaching. Striking a balance between analyses of the underlying principles and their practical applications, it is an ideal advanced undergraduate or master's level textbook.

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The second of two works resulting from the author's extensive study of energy and the world economy, this book examines the international macroeconomic aspects of energy adjustment.

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This volume treats various aspects of the Yugoslav economic model and focuses on the long-term program of stabilization undertaken by that country in the last few years.

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The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European Union is a unique historical experiment, as no monetary union of sovereign states has survived to date. This book explores how it could work, and develops scenarios of how things might evolve in case of failure.

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This work focuses on the various phases of budget making, its historical background in fiscal and monetary terms, and special budgetary issues, including the budget balance, credit activities of government-sponsored Enterprises, and the future health of social security.

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Most of the analysis of Latin American exchange rate problems and policies has concentrated on the economic side of things. This volume instead examines the politics of exchange rate management in four nations that had very different approaches and results.

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The primacy of the market has resulted in a more flexible labor market, decentralization of the wage formation, modernization of the social security system, more competition on the goods markets, and liberalization and competition in the financial markets.

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This book offers market-fundamental explanations for the three most famous bubbles, the Dutch Tulipmania (1634-1637), the Mississippi Bubble (1719-1720), and the closely connected South Sea Bubble (1720).

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Could the USSR have been prepared for World War II more humanely and efficiently In this first integrated evaluation of Stalin's economic goals and actions, Holland Hunter and Janusz Szyrmer reconstruct and test Soviet results annually and by sector. Addressing historians, political scientists, and economists, the authors build a new, internally c

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The theory of transnational regimes is advocated as a new way of structuring the global system.

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This volume contains bibliographic information for more than 500 serial publications in the areas of accounting, banking, finance, insurance, and investments.

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Improvements in the PRC's financial productivity, according to the author, can be achieved if Chinese leaders either (1) relax the real interest rate ceiling to discourage unproductive investment and free financial resources or (2) hasten the development of the equity market.