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Paul Osterman is Professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market and Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy. He has cowritten and edited several other books and written numerous articles on topics such as labor market policy, job training programs, economic development, anti-poverty programs, and the organization...
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Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental,...
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"Winner of the 1992 Best Book Award of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association"
Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient...
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Barranquilla, al comienzo del siglo XIX, era un pequeño puerto fluvial prácticamente sin acceso al mar debido a las dificultades que representaban para la navegación los bancos de arena en Bocas de Ceniza, no obstante, para finales del siglo XIX se había convertido en el principal puerto colombiano y la ciudad se había transformado en un centro industrial y comercial dinámico que contaba con una pujante población en la que se destacarían empresarios...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996" Douglas A. Irwin is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the editor of Jacob Viner: Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics (Princeton).
About two hundred years ago, largely as a result of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, free trade achieved an intellectual status unrivaled by any other doctrine in the field of economics. What accounts for the success of free trade against...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of George Packer's The Unwinding by Instaread Preview: The Unwinding by George Packer is an account of the decline of American institutions since 1978.The traditional pillars of American middle-class democracy-government, schools, churches, and the media-have eroded. The American Dream has persisted, but it is no longer attainable through adherence to traditional values like hard work, education, and determination. As the...
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The history we can't afford to forget At last, the definitive history of supply-side economics-an incredibly timely work that reveals the foundations of America's prosperity when those very foundations are under attack. In the riveting, groundbreaking book Econoclasts, historian Brian Domitrovic tells the remarkable story of the economists, journalists, Washington staffers, and (ultimately) politicians who showed America how to get out of the 1970s...
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How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today?To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked...
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En sus páginas y en la amplia base de datos que componen el libro, el lector encontrará que nuestra investigación conjugó las grandes posibilidades que ofrece la digitalización de documentos de gran envergadura tales como la Guía general descriptiva de la República Mexicana, historia, geografía, estadísticas, etc. del publicista gallego Jerónimo Figueroa Doménech, editada en 1899 (Figueroa, 1899), además de haber utilizado las herramientas...
71) Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
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Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed this trend. One of America's most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup Company, was one such exception: it found ways to achieve low-cost production while staying in its original location, Camden, New Jersey, until 1990.The first in-depth history of the Campbell...
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Mark J. Roe is a professor at Columbia Law School.
In this major reinterpretation of the evolution of the American corporation, Mark Roe convincingly demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U.S. firms owes its distinctive character as much to politics as to economics and technology. His provocative examination addresses essential issues facing American businesses today as they compete in the new international marketplace. "Economic theory...
73) Telestar
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My book is a scientific description of business combined with psychology and ideas from reading the newspaper. My book also talks about Hollywood and relations between the sexes including Hollywood actresses. I also write about history. My favorite actress is Brooke Shields and most of my ideas come from her. I have known her 25 years and we are often involved. I have written Telestar to describe history of economics and finance with additional history...
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"Winner of the 2000 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies" William M. Tsutsui is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation.
Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices. Yet, as William Tsutsui argues, the origins and implications of "Japanese-style...
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Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coauthor, with Jerome Karabel, of the award-winning study The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985.
Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence...
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In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com. The economy affects more than banks and stock traders. Whether you notice it or not, the power of economics...
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Bhotia is an exclusive ethnic community, different both from the Hindus and the Tibetans who inhabit the eastern and central Himalaya regions. Traditionally and, since time immemorial, they haw drawn their subsistence from trade with Tibet, thus maintaining trade links between India and Tibet. This trans-Himalayan trade of the Bhotias not only influenced their day-to-day life, but had an overwhelming influence on their socio-cultural life, loo. Due...
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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and had previously taught at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976. He was also a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981. Anna Jacobson Schwartz is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which she joined in 1941. She is a Distinguished...
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The human heart of New York State's "Black Dirt" region is Pine Island, population 2,000, a hamlet in the town of Warwick in the South-Central section of Orange County, just 60 miles from New York City.
Here, citizens live on outcrops of limestone that rise out of the fertile soil, like islands in a lake - islands in what was indeed once a massive swamp left by melting glaciers 12,000 years ago. Most Pine Islanders are farmers or connected to farming,...
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Humankind has evolved in many ways. The basic reason for this evolution has been the non-stop urge for more. Innovation has helped humankind to facilitate living and increase the standard of living too. Capitalism has served the same purpose. It was by the way of capitalism that a major part of the population was able to earn higher wages and increase the standard of living. Capitalism has a long history. This history has some positives and some negatives...
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