Catálogo de libros: Economía

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  • Colonial Theories of Institutional Development
    Daniel Oto-Peralías / Diego Romero-Ávila
    This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The authors argue that Great Britain and Portugal adopted an ’economically-oriented’ style, wh...
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    120,91 €

  • Simulation Approach Towards Energy Flexible Manufacturing Systems
    Jan Beier
    This authored monograph provides in-depth analysis and methods for aligning electricity demand of manufacturing systems to VRE supply. The book broaches both long-term system changes and real-time manufacturing execution and control, and the author presents a concept with different options for improved energy flexibility including battery, compressed air and embodied energy sto...
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    194,21 €

  • Development Challenges in Bhutan
    Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt
    This book provides essential insights into Bhutan’s developmental challenges. It analyzes and scrutinizes the sovereign state’s developmental approach, including the idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which has replaced Gross National Product (GNP) as a measurement of prosperity. The authors also explore and deconstruct ideational and cultural aspects of knowledge producti...
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    171,79 €

  • A Study into Financial Globalization, Economic Growth and (In)Equality
    Fikret Čaušević
    This book focuses on the impact of financial liberalisation and globalisation on economic growth and inequality worldwide over the past quarter century. It places a particular emphasis on the first fourteen years of this century. It begins by exploring certain assumptions developed as a result of early works in the field, providing a critical review of some of the most importan...
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    71,22 €

  • Financial Access of the Urban Poor in India
    B. P. Vani / BPVani / Meenakshi Rajeev
    This book focuses on the issue of financial exclusion with particular reference to the urban informal sector in India. Continuing the work of its predecessor, the current Government of India is also placing considerable importance on driving policy initiatives for financial inclusion. However, financial exclusion in urban areas, especially of the lower strata of the society has...
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    67,13 €

  • Linear Theory of Fixed Capital and China’s Economy
    Bangxi Li
    This book discusses both linear economic theory and its application to China’s recent economy from, 1987-2000, with an emphasis on fixed capital. It starts with the development of Marx-Sraffa linear economic models with fixed capital. The author then addresses various topics, including formal explanations of Sraffa-Okishio-Nakatani’s (SON) reduction of the whole economy to its ...
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    122,11 €

  • Land!
    John Crowe Ransom
    The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement’s manifesto I’ll Take My Stand. Ransom’s Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites Ransom’s poetic sensibilities w...
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    30,73 €

  • Design with the Desert
    Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its fu...
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    143,56 €

  • Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900
    Vincent Geloso
    This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments delay or halt convergence.  The period from 1945 to 1960, infamously labelled the Great...
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    132,49 €

  • Kalman Filtering
    Charles K. Chui / Charles KChui / Guanrong Chen
    This new edition presents a thorough discussion of the mathematical theory and computational schemes of Kalman filtering. The filtering algorithms are derived via different approaches, including a direct method consisting of a series of elementary steps, and an indirect method based on innovation projection. Other topics include Kalman filtering for systems with correlated nois...
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    83,49 €

  • Beyond the Bottom Line
    The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, with a major influence on business practice. This book is the first to examine head-on the challenges that businesses face in living up to the UNGC’s Ten Principles in both their overall strategy, and day-to-day practice.  ...
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    187,13 €

  • Sustainable Transport Development, Innovation and Technology
    Michał Suchanek
    This proceedings volume presents current research on transport sector development, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport development, innovation and transport enterprise growth and survival. Derived from the 2016 TranSopot Conference held in Sopot, Poland, this book aims to show the possibilities of maximizing the efficiency of transport, while keeping the negative ...
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    208,70 €

  • Impact of the First World War on U.S. Policymakers
    Michael G. Carew / Michael GCarew / Stuenkel
    This study recounts the formulation of American foreign and defense policies through an examination of the background of the policymakers, with specific emphasis on the World War I experience. ...
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    70,57 €

  • Construction Management
    Chris March
    Construction Management: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive textbook for budding construction managers. The range of coverage makes the book essential reading for students studying management courses in all construction related disciplines and ideal reading for those with non-cognate degrees studying construction management masters courses, giving them a broad base of under...
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    91,94 €

  • Land Economics Research
    Originally published in 1962, Land Economics Research brings together papers presented at a symposium in Nebraska in 1961 which deal with ideas, theories and suggestions in land economics to encourage problem-solving in American land issues.This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and Economics as well as professionals. ...
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    66,23 €

  • CoDesign for Public-Interest Services
    Daniela Selloni
    This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field. To do so, it presents an extensive study conducted within a particular community of residents in Milan: this is a social innovation story integrated into the discipl...
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    145,19 €

  • The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods
    This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods. The contributions employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach, and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the theory. Furthermore, they highlight a range of topical empirical applications including climate policy and counterterrorism. ...
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    218,42 €

  • Studies on China’s Special Economic Zones
    Yiming Yuan
    This book offers an authoritative study on special economic zones in China. With articles from economic experts and scholars, the scope of the book includes new theories, methods and discoveries in the field of special economic zone studies. It foscuses on discussing recent advances in the area, including research on current industrial upgrade and transformation, the developme...
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    146,80 €

  • History of Economic Rationalities
    This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems. Through multiple case-studies, situated in different historical contexts of the modern West, the book shows that the development of economic rationalities takes place in the meeting with other regimes of thought, values, and moral discours...
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    120,92 €

  • China Matters
    Bates Gill / Linda Jakobson
    Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready?Australia’s prosperity and security are linked to China as never before. But what kind of a country is China becoming? Will its demand for Australian goods and services increase? Can the Communist Party continue to keep the middle class satisfied while cracking down on political freedoms? How will China use its economic and m...
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    23,36 €

  • The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization
    Lena Lavinas
    This book critically addresses the model of social inclusion that prevailed in Brazil under the rule of the Workers Party from the early 2000s until 2015. It examines how the emergence of a mass consumer society proved insufficient, not only to overcome underdevelopment, but also to consolidate the comprehensive social protection system inherited from Brazil’s 1988 Constitution...
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    157,05 €

  • Become Truly Great
    Charles G Chandler
    Be Virtuous, Discover Effectiveness, Become Truly Great! Recognize why 'efficiencyism’ robs an organization of its potential; Find out why dysfunction is an emergent phenomenon when you set arbitrary goals; Discover how manual workers & knowledge workers become productive; Understand effectiveness, then verify it in the field through direct observation; Adapt offerin...
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    45,82 €

  • Become Truly Great
    Charles G Chandler
    Be Virtuous, Discover Effectiveness, Become Truly Great! Recognize why 'efficiencyism’ robs an organization of its potential; Find out why dysfunction is an emergent phenomenon when you set arbitrary goals; Discover how manual workers & knowledge workers become productive; Understand effectiveness, then verify it in the field through direct observation; Adapt offering...
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    31,71 €

  • Patenting of Life, Limiting Liberty, and the Corporate Pursuit of Seeds
    Ali M. Nizamuddin / Ali MNizamuddin / Hull
    This book examines the impact of genetically modified seeds on traditional societies and the corporate monopolization of the world’s food supply. The time-honored practice of reclaiming and replanting the seed has become a crime, thereby fostering a feudalistic relationship of perpetual dependence on the corporation. ...
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    64,00 €

  • Managerial Economics
    Thomas J. Webster / Thomas JWebster
    This textbook develops tools for identifying optimal solutions to business problems by combining the various business disciplines with quantitative methods to efficiently achieve a firm’s organizational objectives. ...
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    74,31 €

  • Bank Credit Extension and Real Economic Activity in South Africa
    Eliphas Ndou / Nombulelo Gumata
    This book presents empirical evidence that supports and facilitates a practical, integrated approach to how bank regulatory and selected macro-prudential tools interact with monetary policy to achieve price and financial stability. The empirical results contained in various chapters accompany in-depth historical analysis and counterfactual scenarios that enable proper poli...
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    130,61 €

  • Issue Voting and Party Competition
    Anna-Sophie Kurella
    This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition. Based on a study of German elections between 1980 and 1994, it analyzes whether cleavage group members put more weight on policies that address their personal self-interest than voters who are not affected by the cleavage line. Furthermore, it analyzes the consequences of cleavage groups’ dev...
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    65,54 €

  • Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society
    The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) has, with financial support from the V. K. Rasmussen Foundation, been sponsoring a year-long colloquium on social change and sustainable consumption. This book is the capstone of this multifaceted project and brings together leading interdisciplinary experts on these developments and aims to provide a systemati...
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    241,00 €

  • The Western Allies and Soviet Potential in World War II
    Martin Kahn
    This book examines how the two most important Western Allies in World War II, the United States and the United Kingdom, assessed the economic and military potential of the Soviet Union in 1939-1945. Utilising a wide range of documents produced by the Anglo-Americans during and shortly before World War II, the book explores why Soviet strength was underestimated, and how the Sov...
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    240,48 €

  • Chinese Macroeconomic Operation
    Liu Shucheng
    Liu Shucheng is a famous Chinese economist who has a major impact on the study of China’s macroeconomics and quantitative economics. Selecting some of Liu’s representative studies on Chinese macroeconomy, this book will be a valuable reference for understanding and studying Chinese economy. ...
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    295,30 €


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