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Paperback. Leading experts analyze the impact of the rapid growth of offshore outsourcing in manufacturing and IT. For some it promises more rapid economic growth and for some developing countries it is an opportunity to leapfrog, while others are sidelined but it also means labour and governments may lose bargaining power vis-a-vis globally mobile capital. Editor(s): Paus, Eva. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCD; KCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609099
- ISBN
- 9780230609099
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Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Hardcover. This book uses an analysis of the garment industry in South Asia to uphold the predictions of neo-classical economic trade theory, but suggest that there is little to learn from it about business, structural, and institutional practices or critical linkages and partnerships. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608504
- ISBN
- 9780230608504
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are a massive subset of the healthcare industry that negotiate lower costs for healthcare supplies by buying for several hospitals at once. Group Purchasing Organizations provides an analysis and critique of this industry. Num Pages: 199 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607675
- ISBN
- 9780230607675
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Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estevez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JPVH; KCLT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606555
- ISBN
- 9780230606555
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Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. Mixing economic theory and empirical analysis, this book tackles the economics and econometrics of codetermination, rooted in the German Mitbestimmung. The core themes are an examination of the theory and practice of co-determination at plant (work councils) and enterprise (worker directors) levels. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCF; KCH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606098
- ISBN
- 9780230606098
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604476
- ISBN
- 9780230604476
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Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? This book maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging knowledge economy. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600898
- ISBN
- 9780230600898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
Hardcover. Argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created inequality and lead to economic catastrophe. The author discusses that the rich have confiscated wealth and income from the poor and middle class to a far greater extent than many realize. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCLF; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600461
- ISBN
- 9780230600461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.64
€ 52.64
Paperback. This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements. It describes the WTO's origins, structure, and growing pains as it has had to face challenges from within and without. Num Pages: 239 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; JPSN; KCL; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600218
- ISBN
- 9780230600218
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
The WTO Primer: Tracing Trade's Visible Hand through Case Studies
Fulton, Richard, Buterbaugh, Kevin
Hardcover. This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements. It describes the WTO's origins, structure, and growing pains as it has had to face challenges from within and without. Num Pages: 239 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCLT1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600201
- ISBN
- 9780230600201
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Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; KCM; KNSG; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600058
- ISBN
- 9780230600058
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Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In particular, the contributions explore the premises and implications of plausible reasoning when probabilities are non-measurable or unknown, and when the space of possible events is only partially identified. Editor(s): Scazzieri, Roberto. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCK; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594272
- ISBN
- 9780230594272
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Condition: New
€ 120.00
€ 120.00
Hardcover. Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584648
- ISBN
- 9780230584648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Hardcover. This book examines the new paradigm of change in technology intensive industries, it provides theoretical and empirical analysis, using non-parametric models of efficiency. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCA; KCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328. 176 pages, 22 black & white tables, 3 figures. This book examines the new paradigm of change in technology intensive industries, it provides theoretical and empirical analysis, using non-parametric models of efficiency. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: KCA; KCG. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 15. Weight: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230581913
- ISBN
- 9780230581913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need. Num Pages: 455 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580992
- ISBN
- 9780230580992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.28
€ 121.28
Hardcover. The credit and banking crisis which hit the western world in 2007/2008 has and will continue to have far-reaching after-effects. At their core are Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and Credit Default Swaos (CDSs), the main themes of this book. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 302 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCX; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230578111
- ISBN
- 9780230578111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.00
€ 120.00
Paperback. This comprehensive study of the rise of multinational corporations from emerging economies explores the basis of their success. Andrea Goldstein argues that the history of multinational business offers valuable lessons for the present and shows how emerging multinationals are embedded in dense political, social and ethnic networks. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; KCM; KCP; KJK; KJVG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577947
- ISBN
- 9780230577947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Hardcover. The New Energy Crisis comes from the recent intrusion of climate change issues into energy economics and geopolitics. Global warming reveals that the current evolution of the world energy consumption is on an unsustainable path. This book explores economic and geopolitical tensions and reinforces ways to overcome the crisis. Editor(s): Chevalier, Jean-Marie. Num Pages: 310 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPSL; KCL; RGCP; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577398
- ISBN
- 9780230577398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.69
€ 119.69
Hardcover. This book provides an in-depth analysis of neo-liberal and progressive economic reforms and policies implemented in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship. The core thesis of the book is that there is not just 'one Chilean economic model', but that several have been in force since the coup of 1973. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JJP; KCLF; KCLT; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577381
- ISBN
- 9780230577381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.64
€ 119.64
Hardcover. Every year, financial services organizations make billions of dollars worth of decisions using automated systems. For example, who to give a credit card to and the premium someone should pay for their home insurance. This book explains how the forecasting models, that lie at the heart of these systems, are developed and deployed. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCJ; KFFL; KFFN; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476. A Practical Guide to Forecasting Consumer Behaviour. 296 pages, 31 black & white tables, 32 figures. Every year, financial services organizations make billions of dollars worth of decisions using automated systems. For example, who to give a credit card to and the premium someone should pay for their home insurance. This book explains how the forecasting models, that lie at the heart of these systems, are developed and deployed. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: KCJ; KFFL; KFFN; KNST. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 23. Weight: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577046
- ISBN
- 9780230577046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.88
€ 119.88