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Taking Property and Just Compensation

Law and Economics Perspectives of the Takings Issue

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

While much has been gained from the traditional legal scholars' doctrinal mode of analysis of the takings issue, this volume is presented in the belief that contributions from scholars from the various schools of thought that comprise Law and Economics can complement the traditional doctrinal approach...
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Tea Party Catholic

The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing

by Samuel Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013

Targeting core tenets of the Tea Party movement, including political economy and economic history, Samuel Gregg makes the case for a new breed of conservative—the Tea Party Catholic. Long married to the conventional liberal ideologies of the past, American Catholics were largely wed to the political...
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Creating Economic Growth

Lessons for Europe

by M. Magnani
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

As national leaders struggle to revive their economies, the people of Europe face a stark reality, which has created an opportunity for local leaders and citizen movers and shakers to rise to the occasion to spur revitalization from the bottom up. The author offers a six-point plan to prosperity.
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The Grand Convergence

Economic and Political Aspects of Human Progress

by J. Yunker
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010

This book describes, evaluates, and advocates for, sweeping changes in our global economic and political structure to ensure the prospects of global human civilization as we confront an uncertain future. It argues both for the Marshall Plan and for a limited federal world government to replace the quasi-anarchic international regime of today.
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by Xiang Wu
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

This book offers an eyewitness account of China’s twenty years of rural reform. It records the successive changes in different types of China’s rural economic systems, from rural cooperatives to the people’s communes to the household responsibility system. It demonstrates that, as the starting...
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The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora

Patterns of Socio-Economic Influence

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013

The South Asian diaspora is a diverse group who settled in different parts of the world, often concentrated in developed countries. This volume explores how transnational politics overlap with religious ideologies, media and culture amongst the diaspora, contributing to diasporic identity building in host countries.
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by R.H. Tawney
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle...
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by Nicholas Kaldor
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

'This is one of those rare technical books which has an importance outside its own field' The Daily Telegraph. 'One of the most stimulating post-war books on public finance' The Guardian. Part 1 examines the issue of Expenditure Tax in principle and includes chapters on the following: * Income,...
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by David Seddon
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

This invaluable Dictionary provides an essential guide to the politics and economics of the African continent. Each individual entry provides clear and concise information, and entries are fully cross-referenced to enhance the book's usability. Organizations listed include contact details wherever...
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by James O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

Fiscal Crisis of the State refers to the tendency of government expenditures to outpace revenues in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but its relevance to other countries of the period and also in today's global economy is evident. When government expenditure constitutes a larger and larger...
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Industrial Relations

Challenges and Responses

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966

Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented...
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by Donald C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history...
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by Global Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

As the BRICS grouping nears a decade of existence, this GP-ORF volume offers commentary from pre-eminent scholars and emerging next-generation researchers on measures that can separate and insulate the group from the vagaries of international discord. It provides area-specific insights and recommendations...
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The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System

A Worker-based Model for Community Investment

by Glenn Beamer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments...
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