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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 10:11pm CEST
Undеrstаnding Consumption (Clаrеndon Lеcturеs in Economics)
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1993-01-28
List price: $62.50
This book provides an overview of recent research on saving and consumption, a field in which substantial progress has been made over the last decade. Economists attempting to understand saving and consumption patterns have generated some of the best science in economics. For more than fifty years, there has been serious empirical and theoretical activity--never separating data, theory, and policy as has happened in many branches of economics. Research has drawn microeconomists interested in household behavior, as well as macroeconomists, for whom the behavior of aggregate consumption has alwa...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 9:10pm CEST
Climаtе Chаngе Adаptаtion in thе Wаtеr Sеctor
Publisher: Eаrthscаn Publicаtions Ltd.
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-03
List price: $97.50
Today’s climate variability already has a large impact on water supply and protection. Millions of people are affected every year by droughts and floods. Future climate change is likely to make things worse. Many people within the water sector are aware that climate change is affecting water resource management, but they are unsure how to incorporate climate information into their management structures. This book offers a compendium of specific climate variability and adaptation strategies for water resource management. The book shows how to use climate data in decision support and/or m...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 8:10pm CEST
Thе Environmеnt аnd Emеrging Dеvеlopmеnt Issuеs: Volumе 1 (W I D E R Studiеs in Dеvеlopmеnt Economics)
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-05-08
List price: $146.50
In these volumes, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented, and reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 7:08pm CEST
Thе Jаpаnеsе Entеrprisе Systеm: Compеtitivе Strаtеgiеs аnd Coopеrаtivе Structurеs (Clаrеndon Pаpеrbаcks)
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1994-08-11
List price: $60.00
A fashion for some and a phobia for others, Japan’s economy appears larger than life, the first and only non-Western country to have broken the conventional association between geography, industrial democracy, and international prosperity. But fashions and phobias somehow miss the point. For anyone who wants to understand the real reasons behind Japan’s economic miracle, The Japanese Enterprise System provides a clear and authoritative analysis. Mark Fruin takes into account the main factors usually offered to explain Japanese success: human-resource practices, institutional str...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 6:06pm CEST
Bаnking, Currеncy, аnd Finаncе in Europе bеtwееn thе Wаrs
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1995-11-09
List price: $140.00
In this authoritative study of the interwar financial history of Europe, the policies and practices leading to, and flowing from, the exchange rate crises and banking failures of 1929-33 are explored at three levels: overall themes studies in an international perspective, comparative analyses of the experience of pairs of countries, and detailed surveys of individual countries....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 6:05pm CEST
Foundаtions of Corporаtе Succеss: How Businеss Strаtеgiеs Add Vаluе
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-03-25
List price: $115.00
How did BMW recover from the verge of bankruptcy to become one of Europe’s strongest companies? Why did Saatchi and Saatchi’s global strategy bring the company to its knees? Why has Philips’ outstanding record in innovation not been translated into success in the market? What can be learned from the marriage contract about the conduct of commercial negotiations? Drawing on his own business experience and concepts in economics, legal theory, and sociology, John Kay presents a fresh approach to questions of business strategy. He rejects the military analogy that underpins much ...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 5:05pm CEST
Thе Businеss of Economics
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1997-03-20
List price: $85.00
Medicine and business management share certain similarities, writes John Kay. For centuries, the theories behind medical practice were mostly nonsense. Doctors simply applied fashionable nostrums, bleeding one patient, starving another, and sometimes the patient got better, sometimes not. The prestige of a doctor rested more on the social rank of his patients and the confidence of his assertions than on the evidence of his cures. Much the same can be said of present-day management gurus. But there is one difference between medicine and management, Kay adds. In the last 100 years, medicine ha...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 4:04pm CEST
On Custom in thе Economy
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1998-06-25
List price: $178.00
Drawing on philosophy and psychology, Schlicht seeks to reintroduce the notion of custom in economics. In the process, he provides a link between market processes, which are often analyzed, and customary elements, which have been neglected by economists or at best seen as routines that have been adopted because they were competitively successful....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:04pm CEST
Womеn, Culturе, аnd Dеvеlopmеnt: A Study of Humаn Cаpаbilitiеs (Studiеs in Dеvеlopmеnt Economics)
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1996-01-18
List price: $225.00
Women, a majority of the world’s population, receive only a small proportion of its opportunities and benefits. According to the 1993 UN Human Development Report, there is no country in the world in which women’s quality of life is equal to that of men. This examination of women’s quality of life thus addresses questions which have a particular urgency. It aims to describe the basic situation of all women and so develops a universal account that can answer the charges of ’Western imperialism’ frequently made against such accounts. The contributors confront the iss...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 2:03pm CEST
Criticаl Citizеns: Globаl Support for Dеmocrаtic Govеrnmеnt
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-05-20
List price: $65.00
This stimulating book brings together a distinguished group of international scholars who develop a global analysis of issues that look at trends in established and newer democracies as we approach the end of the twentieth century. It also presents the first results of the 1995-7 World Values Study as well as drawing on an extensive range of comparative empirical evidence....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 1:02pm CEST
Assеt Pricing undеr Asymmеtric Informаtion: Bubblеs, Crаshеs, Tеchnicаl Anаlysis, аnd Hеrding
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $84.99
Asset prices are driven by public news and information that is often dispersed among many market participants. These agents try to infer each other’s information by analyzing price processes. In the past two decades, theoretical research in financial economics has significantly advanced our understanding of the informational aspects of price processes. This book provides a detailed and up-to-date survey of this important body of literature.
The book begins by demonstrating how to model asymmetric information and higher-order knowledge. It then contrasts competitive and strategic equil...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 12:20pm CEST
Why Dеrеgulаtе Lаbour Mаrkеts?
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2000-07-13
List price: $210.00
Europe’s mass unemployment and the call for extensive labor market de-regulation have, perhaps more than any other contemporary issue, impassioned political debate and academic research. With contributions from economists, political scientists and sociologists, Why Deregulate Labour Markets? takes a hard look at the empirical connections between unemployment and regulation in Europe today, utilizing both in-depth nation analyses and broader-based international comparisons....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 11:59am CEST
Rаdicаl Construction Grаmmаr: Syntаctic Thеory in Typologicаl Pеrspеctivе
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-12-27
List price: $300.00
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts". He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 10:58am CEST
Thе Nеw Politics of thе Wеlfаrе Stаtе
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-06-21
List price: $200.00
The welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking essays, an international team of leading analysts rejects simplistic claims about the impact of economic ’globalization’. Economic, demographic, and social pressures on the welfare state are very real, but many of the most fundamental challenges have little to do with globalization. Nor do the authors detect signs of a convergence of national social policies towards an American-style lowest common denominator. The contemporary politics of the we...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 9:58am CEST
Thе Stаtе of thе Europеаn Union: Risks, Rеform, Rеsistаncе, аnd Rеvivаl Volumе 5
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2001-04-19
List price: $188.00
With contributions from leading scholars, this book examines the European Union in a theoretically informed, empirically grounded manner. The book begins by exploring the evolving nature of the European polity and its capacity for change. This is the fifth volume in the biannual series State of the European Union produced under the auspices of the American European Community Studies Association (ECSA)....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 8:57am CEST
Thе Nеw Compеtitivе Advаntаgе: Thе Rеnеwаl of Amеricаn Industry
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-12-15
List price: $195.00
Addresses the resurgence of the American economy and the forces driving its growth. Best argues that America has developed a new model of technology management and regional innovation based on the principle of systems integration. Softcover available....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 7:57am CEST
Thе Russiаn Mаfiа: Privаtе Protеction in а Nеw Mаrkеt Economy
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-10-11
List price: $125.00
Challenging widely held views, this book presents a thorough account of the Russian Mafia. It charts the emergence of the group in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of protection, and pervasive corruption. It includes reports of undercover police operations, in-depth interviews conducted over several years with the victims of the Mafia, criminals and officials, and documents from the Gulag archives. It also provides a comparative study, making references to other Mafia, such as the Japanese Yakuza, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, and the American-Italian Mafia....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 6:55am CEST
Thе Chroniclеs of а Trаvеllеr: Or, A History of thе Afghаn Wаrs with Pеrsiа, in thе Bеginning of thе
Publisher: BiblioLifе
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-04-10
List price: $18.99
PREFACEIn presenting this work to the Public, the Translator found himself compelled, in some measure, to make several remarks on the subject of this volume, and the authors who have treated upon it; these he has collected in an introductory disquisition. They may, perhaps, afford some information to new students in Oriental History: to those who are more deeply read, ^ the volume itself, should the original not have come r’t under their observation, will place some very important events in a different light to that in which they may have been accustomed to regard them from accou...
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 5:54am CEST
Grаcеful Rеаding: Thеology аnd Nаrrаtivе in thе Works of John Bunyаn
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2002-08-29
List price: $245.00
Graceful Reading is a study of the writings of the 17th-century preacher John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. The book reassesses the relationship between Bunyan’s theology and his narrative style, redefining them both according to a more specific understanding of 17th-century "Calvinism", and a more "postmodernist" understanding of narrative....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 4:53am CEST
Thе London Stock Exchаngе: A History
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 2001-06-28
List price: $96.00
In 2001, the London Stock Exchange will be 200 years old, though its origins go back a century before that. This book traces the history of the London Stock Exchange from its beginnings around 1700 to the present day, chronicling the challenges and opportunities it has faced, avoided, or exploited over the years....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:52am CEST
Thе Govеrnmеnt of Risk: Undеrstаnding Risk Rеgulаtion Rеgimеs
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-10-24
List price: $74.00
Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are vast sums spent on controlling some risks but not on others? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? In this work, Hood explores these crucial questions explored. It looks at a number of risk regulations’ regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be justified....
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Posted: June 20th, 2009, 2:50am CEST
Thе Institutionаlizаtion of Europе
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-08
List price: $75.00
In 1950, a European political space existed, but only as a very limited site of international governance; today, the European Union governs in an ever-growing number of policy domains. This book provides an eye-opening account of the development of the European Union, from a relatively specialized assembly of economic cooperation to the complex entity that governs today....
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