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Reviews changes in the structure of US and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyse the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly.

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In a landmark contribution to the education literature, Berube examines the political activities of the two teachers' unions--the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO (AFT) during the last three decades.

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The Japan Teachers' Union, which represents 500,000 elementary and lower secondary school teachers, is an important interest group in Japanese politics. It is especially significant as a radical group operating both within and outside the political system and in direct conflict with conservative government policies in education and other areas of d

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Looks at how Scandinavia was transformed, from one of the poorest regions of Europe to one of the richest during the 19th century, through the acquisition of advanced technological capability from abroad.

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The book balances broad-brush macro-policy issues with the nitty gritty micro-project orientation. Development professionals and policy makers as well as knowledgeable laypersons, who want to make the process mutually beneficial, will find much food for thought in this book.

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Sahu examines the Indian pharmaceutical and machine-tool industries to test out theories of technological transfer and technological dependence and self-reliance.

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Recent work in the field of telecommunication economics, with particluar emphasis on its international regulatory aspects, is the focus of the present volume, which assembles an annotated bibliography of nearly four hundred authoritative and up-to-date books and articles on more than fifteen related topics.

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This volume explores these issues by using a unique multidisciplinary lens to focus on the problems of market power and cost allocation in long distance telecommunications markets.

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In this collection of essays, leading economic and communication scholars examine major policy issues confronting federal and state regulators in the telecommunications industry.

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This is a research and reference guide to the telecommunications industry in the United States, providing an account of legislative and policy changes up until the publication of the work. Contributions by scholars in telecommunications law and policy survey the post-1996 legislative field.

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This is a research and reference guide to the telecommunications industry in the United States, providing an account of legislative and policy changes up until the publication of the work. Contributions by scholars in telecommunications law and policy survey the post-1996 legislative field.

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The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory and simple measurement to analyze the obraje and its inability to survive Mexico's integration into the world market after 1790.

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Textiles in Transition contributes a valuable new approach to the study of relocation and wage differentials in the U.S. textile industry during the period 1880-1930.

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A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make, this work shows writers precisely where they've gone wrong and how to get on the right track.

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This reference provides extended biographical profiles of 54 men and women who have shaped advertising from the 19th century to the present. Included are copywriters, key business people from major agencies, and people who contributed to advertising theory and psychology.

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The current edition includes a new chapter covering the impact of junk bonds and corporate governance in the 1980s and early 1990s, an age of restructuring and re-creation in giant corporations.

Taking a chronological approach, the volume opens with a chapter on American business during World War I.

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In the second part of his book, he debunks the main myths surrounding oil in our times, addressing whether we are indeed running out of oil, and the real impact of Islamic radicalism on oil-rich regions. We are facing neither a problem of oil scarcity, nor an upcoming oil blackmail by forces hostile to the West.