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Analyzes the reconstitution of the Russian polity. This book looks at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. It explains why some of the political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others.

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Chronicles the evolution of economic expertise in Mexico over the course of the twentieth century. This book shows how internationally credentialed experts came to set the agenda for the Mexican economics profession and to dominate Mexican economic policymaking.

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A major focus of the volume as a whole is on economic management and workplace reform in a variety of national settings.

Managing Modern Capitalism is divided into three sections, covering strategies for industrial renewal, workplace democracy in practice and theory, and future perspectives.

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A major focus of the volume as a whole is on economic management and workplace reform in a variety of national settings.

Managing Modern Capitalism is divided into three sections, covering strategies for industrial renewal, workplace democracy in practice and theory, and future perspectives.

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Previously scattered throughout his writings, Marx's wage theory is presented here in its entirety for the first time.

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The privatization revolution, profit or revenue sharing, and employee participation in enterprise decision making are some of the major characteristics of modern capitalism.

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After examining such subjects as the failure of a common currency and the rise of barter economies, pricing in the currency of another country, specie standard monetary regimes with fixed exchange rates, currency boards, and common currency, the book considers the obstacles to the operation and survival of the current fiat monetary system.

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As government officials and political activists are becoming increasingly aware, international nonprofit agencies have an important political dimension: although not self-serving, these private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek social changes of which many of their financial contributors are unaware. As PV

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What are neoliberal lives This trans-disciplinary book investigates the forty-year war by the American business class to restore its power and profits, revealing the devastating implications for human development and dignity. -- .

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This book is about the transformation of America that has occurred over the past thirty-five years as capitalist logic has expanded into previously protected spheres of life. It exposes the processes that need to be confronted if human potential is to be freed from the increasingly cramped quarters to which neoliberalism has confined it.

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Provides a guide to policy priorities in small or regional economies. This work combines some of the world's leading economists' research insights with a discussion of the practicalities of implementing structural reforms. It is aimed at policymakers and scholars seeking avenues to improved growth, greater opportunity, and better governance.

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John Komlos examines the industrial expansion of Austria from a fresh viewpoint and develops a new model for the industrial revolution. By integrating recent advances in the study of human biology and nutrition as they relate to physical stature, population growth, and levels of economic development, he reveals an intense Malthusian crisis in the H

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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle East political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism, the volume contains original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

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The political economy of the world coffee trade.

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This work brings together a collection of original essays on the contemporary study of international political economy (IPE). It provides contrasting and challenging interpretations of the study of IPE and the global political economy in general.

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Business papers are in a triumphant mood, buoyed by a conviction that the economic stagnation of the last quarter century has vanished in favor of a new age of robust growth. This book challenges the economic orthodoxies of the political right and center, popularized by such economists as Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman.

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Explains what makes some Eastern European countries politically victorious and economically prosperous while others fail.

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Examining how political forces affect economic policy decisions, this work provides a systematic treatment, organizing the increasingly influential "new political economy" as a more established field at the highly productive intersection of economics and political science. It is suitable for students in political science and economics.

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This study examines the emerging fiat monetary regime in a world of nation states determined to preserve their sovereignty.