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Hardback. '..a tightly argued and excellent book.' - William D. Wray, Journal of Japanese Studies How did Japan, despite her lack of natural resources, become the world's leading iron and steel producing country? This book examines how the collaboration between government and industry created this economic miracle. Series: Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; KCC; KCZ; KNJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 591.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333611319
- ISBN
- 9780333611319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.98
€ 194.98
Hardback. The papers in this volume cover three areas of international business: developments in theory; the foreign-market servicing strategies of multinational firms; and Asia-Pacific issues. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1QSP; KCL; KFFM; KJK; KJVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333613702
- ISBN
- 9780333613702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.38
€ 194.38
Hardback. Covering the enterprise reform in China, this book focuses on the Contract Management Responsibility System (CMRS). The CMRS is an institutional arrangement set up to deal with the relation between the government and the state-owned enterprise which has been at the centre of the enterprise reform. Series: Studies on the Chinese Economy. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCF; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333613856
- ISBN
- 9780333613856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.08
€ 194.08
Hardback. This text challenges the view that the liberal democracy is the inevitable outcome of economic modernization. Focusing on the stable and prosperous societies of Pacific Asia, it argues that existing political arrangements are legitimized by the values of hierarchy, familism and harmony. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QSP; JPHV; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333613993
- ISBN
- 9780333613993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardback. Examines foreign capital's role in stimulating industrialization. Using both conventional and unconventional approaches, the book shows how foreign capital has played a positive role in Malaysia's industrialization. Series: Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMM; GTF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333615058
- ISBN
- 9780333615058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.41
€ 194.41
Hardback. Encompassing the study of the relationship between the governments of liberal democracies in 11 countries, mainly from Western Europe, but also including the United States and India, this work also assesses the parties which support these governments. Editor(s): Blondel, Jean; Cotta, Maurizio. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1FKA; 1KBB; JPFK; JPH; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333616604
- ISBN
- 9780333616604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.56
€ 194.56
Hardback. Examining the dynamics of competence-building processes at the firm level, this book looks at a sample of Japanese and European companies engaged in the field of optoelectronics. It also introduces a technique to assess competences within firms. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; KJMV5; KJT; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333616734
- ISBN
- 9780333616734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.92
€ 194.92
hardcover. This text examines whether authoritarian or democratic governments are best for economic development. Using ten case studies pitting Latin American countries against Southeast Asian ones, the text concludes that political credibility is the key to economic development. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KLC; 1KLS; JPF; JPHV; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1995th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333617694
- ISBN
- 9780333617694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Hardback. This study illuminates the characteristics of the Japanese economy and analyzes how and why they have been changing. It covers such areas as the Japanese firm, consumption and saving patterns, the labour market, financial markets, macroeconomic policies and international economic relations. Editor(s): Okabe, Mitsuaki. Series: Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy. Num Pages: 486 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCB; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333617731
- ISBN
- 9780333617731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.86
€ 129.86
Hardback. This text offers a study of management decision-making in six Beijing state enterprises during the period 1985 to 1989, when the government adopted decentralization as the key to reforming state industries. It examines the relations between managers, Party and planning authorities. Series: Studies on the Chinese Economy. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; JPH; KCC; KJMD; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333619483
- ISBN
- 9780333619483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Hardback. This is a systematic study of monetary policy and financial institutions in China during its decentralization- and market-oriented economic reform. The book identifies the mechanisms of the monetary expansion as the general feature of monetary policy. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; KCBM; KF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333620328
- ISBN
- 9780333620328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.38
€ 194.38
Hardback. This study focuses on the evolution of the Japanese economy and gives an account of the country's attempts to generate the social capacity for technological innovation and absorption. It features case studies written by acknowledged experts, and concludes with a summary of useful lessons. Editor(s): Minami, Ryoshin; Kim, Kwan S.; Maki, Fumio; Seo, Joung-Hae. Series: Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCB; KCP; KN; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333620878
- ISBN
- 9780333620878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.16
€ 195.16
Hardback. This text demonstrates that Japan has for a long time been a world of exchange by agreement rather than by coercion, and that the standard principles of economics explain the dominant patterns of the Japanese economic phenomena. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCB; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333621301
- ISBN
- 9780333621301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.80
€ 194.80
paperback. This text is an attempt to analyze systematically the contrast in the results of post-Stalinist reform in China and Russia. It argues that there emerged a "transition orthodoxy" about how to reform the communist systems of political economy. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPC; JPFC; KCB; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1995th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333622650
- ISBN
- 9780333622650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.60
€ 72.60
Hardback. Emerging trade blocs in North America and the European Community are altering the global economy and Japan's place in it. This book asks: will trade blocs be trade diverting or create new opportunities for Japanese trade and investment?; and will a new Asian-Pacific trade bloc emerge in response? Editor(s): Mason, T. David; Turay, Abdul M. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KB; 1QFE; JPS; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333624852
- ISBN
- 9780333624852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.32
€ 194.32
Hardback. This volume comprises four sections: the first gives an overview of Thai industrialization; the second analyzes the impact of industrialization on government policies; the third section investigates the impact on political development; and the final part looks at Thailand's future role. Editor(s): Krongkaew, Medhi. Series: Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia. Num Pages: 407 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMT; GTF; KCM; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 407
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333625194
- ISBN
- 9780333625194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.19
€ 129.19
Hardback. The fusion of know how and capital from Hong Kong and Taiwan with the substantial labour resources on China has led to the emergence of a dynamic economy of 'Greater China' rivalling the USA, the EU and Japan. What is the nature and trend of trade and inestment within Greater China? What are the impacts? Series: Studies on the Chinese Economy. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 1FPCW; KCL; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333625996
- ISBN
- 9780333625996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardback. Offers several perspectives on the contemporary position of North Korea. The text examines, in the context of the post-Cold War order, US, European Union and British foreign policy towards North Korea, and North Korean responses. Editor(s): Smith, Hazel; etc.; Rhodes, Chris (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, London Guildhall University); Pritchard, Diana (Part-time lecturer, University of Indiana, USA); Magill, Kevin (Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wolverhampton). Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333626337
- ISBN
- 9780333626337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. This is a collection of analytical and graphic descriptions of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East in the 19th and early 20th century. Among the specific topics treated are: community autonomy, religious life and leadership, women and family life, education, and social etiquette. Editor(s): Deshen, Shlomo A.; Zenner, Walter P. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF1; JFC; JFSR1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333626566
- ISBN
- 9780333626566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.65
€ 72.65
Hardcover. An examination of US and UK approaches, in the late 1950s, towards the major alliances in Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. The work analyzes the military relationship between the US and UK and the extent to which they co-operated with allies in countering threats to Western security. Series: Southampton Studies in International Policy S. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FB; 1FM; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HB; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333626696
- ISBN
- 9780333626696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.21
€ 129.21
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333626726
- ISBN
- 9780333626726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.45
€ 128.45
Hardback. This volume provides a comparative picture of the restructuring of five Asian economies: South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and India. The political economy of the policy-making process is examined in each case. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FMN; 1FMS; 1FMT; 1FPK; GTF; KCB; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333628003
- ISBN
- 9780333628003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333628065
- ISBN
- 9780333628065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.83
€ 195.83
Hardcover. This text analyzes the changing nature of centre-province relations in China in a period of rapid economic change. It aims to show how leadership conflicts over the nature and scope of economic change gave rise to an incremental and reactive reform process. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; JPH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333630167
- ISBN
- 9780333630167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.85
€ 126.85