Economic systems & structures
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Economic systems & structures
Paperback. Explains why the more capitalism is revealed to be damaging and regressive, the more it gains acceptance in everyday life and popular culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 250.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745328140
- ISBN
- 9780745328140
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.37
€ 37.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. The consequences of the financial crisis may be uncertain, but are sure to reach deep into the body politic, civil society, welfare systems, and reform. This collection of essays by leading international sociologists and social scientists explores the likely outcomes and consequences Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; KCS; KCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199677382
- ISBN
- 9780199677382
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€ 55.23
€ 55.23
Paperback. Tipping points are thresholds of profound changes in natural or social conditions with considerable (largely unforecastable) consequences. This book explores the scientific, economic, social, and spiritual and creative approaches to identifying and anticipating tipping points so that societies can adapt to more sustainable ways of living. Editor(s): O'Riordan, Timothy; Lenton, Timothy. Series: British Academy Original Paperbacks. Num Pages: 300 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: JFFR; KCA; KCS; RNP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265536
- ISBN
- 9780197265536
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Condition: New
€ 55.79
€ 55.79
paperback. Dancing with the Devil explains why public ownership has declined in post-Mao China. Focusing on the behavior of political actors under changing incentives and constraints, the book illustrates how growing concerns about jobs and revenue have forced the country's communist rulers to change their policies toward private capital. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; KCM; KCP; KCS; KFFD; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190682835
- ISBN
- 9780190682835
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€ 60.24
€ 60.24
Hardcover. This volume looks at the privatisation and liberalisation of the UK's energy industries. It exposes why market fundamentalism has been controversial for the UK's oil, gas, coal, and electricity industries, and asks if UK liberalised energy industries and markets are equipped to deal with current and future challenges. Editor(s): Rutledge, Ian; Wright, Philip. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; KCN; KCS; KNB; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 896.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford Institute for Energy Studies United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199593002
- ISBN
- 9780199593002
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Condition: New
€ 131.06
€ 131.06
Paperback. In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, the prominent theorist Georgi Derleugian has gathered together a quintet of eminent macrosociologists to assess whether the capitalist system can survive. Editor(s): Wallerstein, Immanuel; Collins, Randall; Mann, Michael; Derleugian, Georgi; Calhoun, Craig. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JP; KCB; KCP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199330850
- ISBN
- 9780199330850
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Condition: New
€ 58.56
€ 58.56
Hardcover. Shows how consumer society is changing due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, resource scarcity, and steady jobs being replaced by freelancing. It examines how people are striving to find new ways to ensure livelihoods and the role that the role that worker-consumer cooperatives could play. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 Figures. BIC Classification: KCB; KCF; KCN; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 147 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198768555
- ISBN
- 9780198768555
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Condition: New
€ 104.53
€ 104.53
Paperback. This book is a comprehensive and positive study of the special pattern of China's industrialization and economic development, covering all of the relevant, main policies (more than one hundred) from 1949 to the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCL; KCM; KCS; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349999804
- ISBN
- 9781349999804
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Condition: New
€ 133.44
€ 133.44
Paperback. This book explores the new market and its resulting contradictions in a rapidly developing Eastern Europe and Russia. Will Western fast-food industries, such as McDonalds, irrevocably alter local culinary practices? What effect has the privatization of land had upon ownership and exchange? Editor(s): Humphrey, Caroline; Mandel, Ruth. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; JHM; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859735770
- ISBN
- 9781859735770
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€ 50.62
€ 50.62
Paperback. This work contains the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Gerhard Schroder on 13 May 2003. Num Pages: 22 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore
- Number of pages
- 22
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789812302267
- ISBN
- 9789812302267
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Condition: New
€ 16.82
€ 16.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Yusuf, Shahid; Shahid Yusuf. Num Pages: 536 pages, numerous tables. BIC Classification: 1FP; KCA; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 891.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195216004
- ISBN
- 9780195216004
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Condition: New
€ 55.48
€ 55.48
Paperback. Offers an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) that are transitioning away from central planning. Editor(s): Anderson, Kym; Swinnen, Johan. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1D; KCS; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 549.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821374191
- ISBN
- 9780821374191
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€ 45.99€ 45.50
€ 45.99
€ 45.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 207 x 22. Weight in Grams: 926.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821399033
- ISBN
- 9780821399033
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Condition: New
€ 39.26
€ 39.26
Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica (World Bank Latin American and C...
Moser, Caroline O. N., Holland, Jeremy
Paperback. Series: World Bank Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Viewpoints. Num Pages: 48 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JKV; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821338704
- ISBN
- 9780821338704
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Condition: New
€ 27.24
€ 27.24
Hardcover. Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers Japan and Russia as a basis for an original theory of institution-building" Series: Interests, Identities & Institutions in Comparative Politics S. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPJ; JFC; JFF; JP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472112227
- ISBN
- 9780472112227
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Condition: New
€ 104.27
€ 104.27
paperback. Examining eight case studies on the role of law in various arenas, this collection of essays addresses the reconfiguration of the relations between the state, the market, and the family caused by privatization. Editor(s): Cossman, Brenda; Fudge, Judy. Num Pages: 496 pages, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFK; KCS; KJVD; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 675.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802085092
- ISBN
- 9780802085092
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 47.23
€ 52.99
€ 47.23
Paperback. Examining how industrial leaders met the challenge from the democratic movements, this text explores how this has affected democratization processes and management models in the Nordic region. In response, industry developed new kinds of strategies, channels of influence and management styles. Editor(s): Myrvang, Christine; Sejersted, Francis. Num Pages: 379 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; JPHV; KCS; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 716.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Copenhagen Business School Press
- Number of pages
- 379
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763000956
- ISBN
- 9788763000956
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Condition: New
€ 50.94€ 40.17
€ 50.94
€ 40.17
Hardcover. Asks whether the post-crisis acquisitions amounted to a "fire sale" of valuable Asian assets. If so, was there truly no other solution? Zhan and Ozawa discuss whether the role of M&A "vulture funds" in crises of this kind is good, bad, or just an inevitable function of free capital markets. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; KCL; KCS; KJVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Copenhagen Business School Press
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763000871
- ISBN
- 9788763000871
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.10
€ 30.99
€ 22.10
Hardcover. China is changing from a command economy to a market-based one, and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one. This book demonstrates how the success of foreign companies depends on the extent to which they can benefit from structural transformation. Series: Asia Business Development S. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; KCS; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Copenhagen Business School Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763000482
- ISBN
- 9788763000482
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.32
€ 54.99
€ 39.32
Hardcover. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 189 x 261 x 22. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634849371
- ISBN
- 9781634849371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.64€ 178.75
€ 241.64
€ 178.75