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African studies volume 104
Pub. Date
2002
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xxiii, 293 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte volume Bd. 60
Pub. Date
2002.
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1 online resource (591 pages).
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Die Arbeitskräftelenkung war ein immanenter und zentraler Bestandteil der Planwirtschaft in der SBZ/DDR. Der Übergang vom System der kriegsbedingten Zwangsbewirtschaftung zur Zentralverwaltungswirtschaft vollzog sich nicht geradlinig und nicht sofort nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Trotz einiger grundlegender Entscheidungen (Bodenreform, Sequestrierung und ""Industriereform"") entwickelte sich erst im Verlauf der fünfziger Jahre ein komplexes...
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©2011
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1 online resource (x, 130 pages) : illustrations
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In the twenty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fifteen new independent republics have embarked on unprecedented transitions from command economies into market-oriented economies. Important motivating factors for their reform efforts included issues of geographic and economic proximity to Europe and the influence of the pre-Soviet era histories in those countries. In the Shadow of Russia builds upon the conceptual frameworks that...
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[2015]
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1 online resource (xi, 312 pages)
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The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters--a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region--since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the rising price of oil. Deindustrialization has yet to be...
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Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread enterprise is fostered through dialogue and relationships, not merely prices in anonymous markets. Yet modern finance blatantly neglects these necessary elements for enterprise. In the last several decades finance has become increasingly centralized, distanced, and mechanistic....
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Routledge frontiers of political economy volume 53
Pub. Date
2004
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1 v. : ill. 24 cm.
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©2014
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1 online resource.
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There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel's Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. While much has changed since, many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain in international development. Chang and Grabel confront this model head-on, combining devastating economic critique with an in-depth analysis of the experiences of leading economies, making this...
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c2007
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xii, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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James Riedel is Professor of International Economics at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Jing Jin is Director of China Strategy for UBS AG Hong Kong, and a professor at Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics. Jian Gao is Vice-Governor of the China Development Bank in Beijing.
Why investment and financial reform are essential to China's continued economic well-being
Although China's economy has...
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[2023]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (some color)
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In examining the key arguments advanced by proponents of a basic income, contributors to this volume take a hard look at Canada's social safety net and propose a different path forward - one that entails a full paradigm shift in social policy and rests on providing the bases of self- and social respect to all Canadians.





