Catálogo de libros: Economía política

2420 Catálogo de libros: Economía política

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  • Dynamics of an Authoritarian System
    Mária Csanádi / Márton Gerő / Miklós Hajdu
    In this book, six researchers from different professional backgrounds examine the dynamics of the development and reproduction of an authoritarian system. The chapters empirically show how the authoritarian system gradually captures -- and diffuses into -- the society’s and the economy’s subsystems; describe how it captures the national, intermediate, and micro level sub-struct...
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    134,12 €

  • Pawned States
    Didac Queralt
    How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. This reliance on external public finance offered emerging nations endless opportunities to overcome barriers to growth, but it also enabled rulers to bypass ...
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    46,98 €

  • CHINA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
    DA LEI
    This book studies the main characteristics of the operation of the Chinese economy and the world economy after the financial crisis in 2008. The analysis starts from the core logic of the dilemma of the anti-crisis and rebalancing growth of the world economy. It further analyzes the impact of major countries’ macro-economic policies on the global economy and the external risks ...
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    93,50 €

  • Degrowth & Strategy
    Degrowth is a counter-hegemonic movement that has the ambitious aim of transforming society towards social and ecological justice. But how do we get there? That is the question this book addresses. Adhering to the multiplicity of degrowth whilst also arguing that strategic prioritisation and coordination are key, Degrowth & Strategy advances the debate on strategy for social-ec...
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    25,79 €

  • Making America Great by Building it Better
    Melody Young
    Make America Great Again? or Build it back Better? Well it certainly has the potential to be great and better, always has been, but with gun violence, skyrocketing inflation, supply shortages and a deeply divided nation at least in the world of politics, we still have a lot of work to do. The thoughts and opinions in this book are those of an average American, woman, wife, moth...
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    14,48 €

  • The Rise and Decline of Communist Czechoslovakia´s Railway Sector
    Tomáš Nigrin
    Once the pride of interwar Czechoslovakia, and key during the forced industrialization of the Stalinist period, during the 1970s and 1980s the Czechoslovak railway sector showed the symptoms of the political tiredness and economic exhaustion of the Soviet Bloc. This book examines the failure of central economic planning through the lens of this national transport system.Based o...
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    95,48 €

  • Iconomy
    Terry Smith
    Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a 'black aesthetic' in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics-especially constellations of visual images-has become pervasive within contemporary life. It questions the implications for critical thought and political action. ...
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    180,11 €

  • Capitalism for All
    John Mikler / Neil E. Harrison
    Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation. ...
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    42,10 €

  • The Dialectics of Global Justice
    Bryant William Sculos
    Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory. ...
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    121,66 €

  • The Moneywasting Machine
    Dušan Pavlović
    For five months in 2013-2014, Dušan Pavlović took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia’s Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to make a penetrating diagnosis of the economic activity of the postcommunist government. He found that a coterie of tycoons and politicians live off the wealth of the majority of citizens and smaller ent...
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    69,83 €

  • Singapore’s Ecosystem for Technology Startups and Lessons for Its Neighbors
    Asian Development Bank
    This report examines Singapore’s vibrant technology-based startup ecosystem and identifies key lessons that can inform the efforts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to nurture and develop their tech startups.Technology-based startup enterprises are an increasingly important part of the business landscape in Asia and the Pacific. By applying innovative technologies to create ...
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    32,30 €

  • Cambodia’s Ecosystem for Technology Startups
    Asian Development Bank
    This report assesses the current ecosystem for tech-based startups in Cambodia, focusing on agriculture, education, health, and climate change. It discusses the challenges facing tech startups and provides recommendations to overcome them.Technology-based startup enterprises are an increasingly important part of the business landscape in Asia and the Pacific. By applying innova...
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    30,99 €

  • Auditing Practices in Local Governments
    Through a comparative analysis of the development of auditing practices in governments across the globe, Auditing Practices in Local Governments: An International Comparison provides a contemporary overview of public sector auditing practices at both local and state level. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Escaping Maya’s Palace
    Richard Sclove
    'Mind-blowingly insightful.' -Richard B. Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Development BetrayedAn ancient myth’s hidden meaning launches a mind-bending inquiry into the madness of modern civilization.A celebrated saga from ancient India tells of a young king who mysteriously shifts character and gambles away his kingdom. By unraveling this legend’s sec...
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    17,74 €

  • License to Loot
    Pascale Batieufaye
    Make Informed Decisions With This Deep-Dive Into the American Economy and Politics-Minimize and Maximize Your Strengths and Weaknesses With Knowledge So You Can Rely on Your Own Wits to SucceedThe United States is no longer the country of freedom - the country where you can make all your dreams come true.In all honesty, America is facing a dire crisis. With high poverty rates a...
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    12,19 €

  • License to Loot
    Pascale Batieufaye
    Make Informed Decisions With This Deep-Dive Into the American Economy and Politics-Minimize and Maximize Your Strengths and Weaknesses With Knowledge So You Can Rely on Your Own Wits to SucceedThe United States is no longer the country of freedom - the country where you can make all your dreams come true.In all honesty, America is facing a dire crisis. With high poverty rates a...
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    22,59 €

  • Public Policy and Universities
    Andrew Gunn / Michael Mintrom
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    24,06 €

  • BEYOND BARTER
    JOHN SMITHIN
    The conventional macroeconomic theory of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, based on the assumption that the working of complex monetary economy could be analysed on the same principles as those of barter exchange, has demonstrably failed. This book provides a thorough rethinking of the nature of a monetary economy. It builds upon a complete theory of the domest...
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    93,55 €

  • Herding Scientists
    Andrew B. Whitford
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    23,91 €

  • Underground Economy The Rise Of The Shadow Economy
    Fabian Vartez
    During the 1960s, the underground economy began to be discussed as an important economic and social issue in western economies and the U.S.A. In the eighties it became a problem discussed in all economies worldwide. There has been increasing distress about the hidden (or underground) economy among the people, politicians, and social scientists in the last various years. The und...
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    17,65 €

  • Get Wealthy, Not Rich
    Fabian Vartez
    The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language defines wealth (in its first meaning) as "the abundance of goods or precious things." And this is the concept that we all have in mind. A person is rich when he has wealth: a luxurious house, an expensive car (or two or three!), Expensive clothes, trips in first-class ... You know what I’m talking about. But it is helpful to make the di...
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    17,92 €

  • One Road to Riches?
    Carl Henrik Knutsen / Haakon Gjerløw / Tore Wig
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    23,96 €

  • Edmund Burke and the Perennial Battle, 1789-1797
    Edmund Burke’s interpretation of the revolution in France, beginning 1789, is nothing short of an interpretation of human nature, and of Western civilization. Now the most penetrating and timeless passages of Burke’s writings 1789 to his death in 1797 are collected for accessible enjoyment and edification. The passages come from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), A...
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    8,87 €

  • The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan
    Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
    The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian personalities has been described as a crisis of ’the political’ in western societies. But the crisis must be seen as global, rather than focusing on the west alone. Pakistan is experiencing rapid financialization and rapacious capture ...
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    127,25 €

  • Foreign Aid to the Gaza Strip between Trusteeship and De-Development
    Ahmed Tannira
    One of the very few books that focus on the political economy of Gaza under the foreign aid regime that has emerged post Oslo Agreement 1993. ...
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    57,54 €

  • We Have a Choice
    Sharon Thompson
    These lessons represent Sharon Thompson’s personal long-term process of trying to understand the true nature of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. This quest included enrolling in seven college classes-one at Metro State University taught by local peace activist, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, and six at the University of St. Thomas in their Justice and Peace Studies program under the d...
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    16,92 €

  • CHINA’S ECONOMIC CHALLENGE
    ALBERT KEIDEL
    This book analyzes economic strategies responsible for China’s 40 years of 40-fold growth, suggesting how such strategies might be applied elsewhere. It combines a seven-chapter chronological analysis of China’s growth with three additional chapters on the government’s leadership role, success in poverty reduction, and China’s combined international finance and trade experience...
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    190,73 €

  • We Have a Choice
    Sharon Thompson
    These lessons represent Sharon Thompson’s personal long-term process of trying to understand the true nature of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. This quest included enrolling in seven college classes-one at Metro State University taught by local peace activist, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, and six at the University of St. Thomas in their Justice and Peace Studies program under the d...
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    22,40 €

  • Provincial Facilitation for Investment and Trade Index
    Asian Development Bank
    This report presents the findings of the second Provincial Facilitation for Investment and Trade (ProFIT) survey in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.The ProFIT index aims to measure how well provinces support private sector development, notably through economic governance measures that are under their mandate. The report shares analysis in six key areas: (i) ease of startin...
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    32,47 €

  • Provincial Facilitation for Investment and Trade Index
    Asian Development Bank
    This report, the first of its kind, provides a comparative picture of the experiences and perceptions of the business community in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) in complying with government regulations by gender.It presents the findings of the second Provincial Facilitation for Investment and Trade (ProFIT) survey in the Lao PDR that shed light on women’s participa...
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    31,06 €