Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Missionary Capitalist
Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The first work to draw on Nelson A. Rockefeller's newly available personal papers as well as research in Latin American archives, Missionary Capitalist details Rockefeller's efforts to promote economic development in Latin America, particularly Venezuela, from the late 1930s through the 1950s.
Rockefeller's...
by Giulio Sapelli
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world’s new geostrategic order and likely future directions. It opens with an unconventional view of the Arab Spring, identifying its origins in the relative US withdrawal from the Middle East caused by both the need for military...
by Ali Kadri
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these countries...
Poor Numbers
How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa. It examines both the historical roots of and contemporary challenges regarding the social, economic, and geo-political causes of migration and its consequences (i.e. xenophobia)...
World Scientific Reference on Globalisation in Eurasia and the Pacific Rim
Volume 1: Foreign InvestmentVolume 2: InnovationVolume 3: Energy: Policy, Legal and Social-Economic Issues under the Dimensions of Sustainability and SecurityVolume 4: Migration: Economic Drivers of Contemporary Labour Mobility in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This multi-volume set focuses on a key region of the world which contains four of the biggest emerging economies, a large number of highly dynamic small- and medium-sized emerging economies, and one of the leading advanced industrial countries. It is a region which contains some of the biggest hydrocarbon...
by Ssemakula Peter Luyima
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Ssemakula Peter Luyima provides a new concept for World Economy in the 21st century, by producing a revised concept of MuRatopian Economy; 30 years after Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi presented a synthesized analysis of the Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian with his own public money economic model....
Economic and Political Change after Crisis
Prospects for government, liberty and the rule of law
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The U.S. Government’s accumulated national debt and unfunded liabilities in social security and Medicare could be pushing the country towards a fiscal crisis. How could such a crisis be avoided? If a crisis does strike, how might it be dealt with? What might be the long term ramifications of experiencing...
Wages, Prices, Profits, and Economic Policy
Proceedings of a Conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967. They have been divided into five sections: "Wage-Price-Profit Relations in Canada—The Problem in Perspective," "A Diagnosis of the Problem,"...
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This timely book will explain, via a number of thematic and case studies, that international economics is not an independent terrain of economic activity reproducing itself throughout history, but a complex articulation of social, political and culturally determined actions that are inextricably linked....
Automation, Innovation and Economic Crisis
Surviving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre. It is also taking place at enormous speed. This development will shape the workplaces of the future, which will be entirely different from the workplaces created by the first, second and third industrial revolutions....
The Soviet Middle East (Routledge Revivals)
A Model for Development?
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1967, The Soviet Middle East provides an analysis of the economic and political status of the national republics of Central Asia and Transcaucasia, which were, at the time of the book’s initial publication, a part of the Soviet Union.
The authors analyse their economic...
Was Stalin Really Necessary?
Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences...