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View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe Since the Sixteenth Century: A Course of Lectures

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Report copyright infringementby Travers Twiss (Author)Over the course of nine lectures, Travers Triss educates on the evolution of the political economy and how the decisions and actions of previous and current leaders have shaped the most influential countries in Europe. Borrowing from popular publications like Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Adolphe Blanqui's L'Histore de l'Economie Politique in Europe, Triss summarizes and analyzes the effects of each country's political and economi...

A Shangri-La Economy: Exploring Buddhist Bhutan

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmood Ansari (Author)Analysing the status of agrarian justice and its relation with the national slogan of "gross national happiness"(GNH) in Bhutan, this monograph deals with food insecurity, resource asymmetry and growth in the political economy perspective. In this tiny Himalayan nation under absolute democratic monarchy, there are huge inequities in the ethos of general income and consumption poverty and a fundamental transformation in the political econo...

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Report copyright infringementby Everett C. Hughes (Author)Now available in library-quality hardcover edition, 2016, from Quid Pro Books. Part of the Classics of the Social Sciences series, this modern presentation of Hughes' influential work is not a mere photocopy or facsimile edition; yet its text embeds the original version's pagination, for continuity in referencing and assignment. - In this recognized classic of sociology and the study of labor and the professions, Everett C. Hughes deta...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Frederic Bastiat (Author)Must-read classic from the brilliant French economist and philospher. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 30, 2008

The Delusion of Progress: A Fallacy of Western Society

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Report copyright infringementby Pierre Chomat (Author)In The Delusion of Progress Pierre-Auguste Chomat portrays a young individual who gradually becomes an unconditional believer in progress and a full member of an industrial society that sets almost no limits to its material development. The case presented by the author defines Western Society as a whole. Industrialized countries take for granted that Progress characterizes Man and is a natural movement of his being. We have faith in Progre...

Integrated Planning and Management of Natural Resources: A Guide to Writing Sustainable Development Plans for Tropical Coastal Areas

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Report copyright infringementby Dwight Watson (Author)Integrated coastal zone management is a process of good governance that guides decision-making on the equitable allocation and sustainable use of natural resources. Integrated Planning and Management of Natural Resources describes systematic planning procedures for writing a hierarchy of strategic, zoning, management, and action plans. These plans can be adapted to any coastal management area in order to realize the social, economic, and e...

Development in Asia: Interdisciplinary, Post-neoliberal, and Transnational Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Derrick M. Nault (Editor)"Development" is one of the most ubiquitous yet least understood concepts of our age. It is something all governments claim to be engaged in and is considered desirable by scholars, activists, policymakers, and laypeople alike. Yet it is also a highly contested term. For some, development is simply a matter of economic growth. Others maintain that it must entail improving life expectancy, literacy, education levels, and access to resour...

Budget of the United States: Fiscal Year 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Executive Office of the President (Author) Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 23, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Lobna Ali Al-Khalifa (Author)A significant volume of literature has been developed that seeks to provide an explanation for the growth of FDI and its impact on less developed countries. The literature is characterized by diversity and controversy. Based on it, a range of reasons for encouraging investment have been proposed including its favorable effects on employment levels, the balance of payments and balance of trade of the host country and also the potenti...

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Report copyright infringementby Executive Office of the President (Author) Number of Pages: 458 Dimensions: 1 x 9.14 x 6.11 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 01, 2013

Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

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Report copyright infringementby David Ricardo (Author)There can be no rise in the value of labor without a fall of profits. If the corn is to be divided between the farmer and the laborer, the larger the proportion that is given to the latter the less will remain for the former -from "On Value" Friend to, colleague of, and influence on the likes of James Mill, Jeremy Bentham, and Thomas Malthus, revolutionary British writer DAVID RICARDO (1772-1823) was one of the foundational thinkers of cla...

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred C. Pigou (Author)Welfare economics is a branch of economics using microeconomic techniques to simultaneously determine the efficiency of the overall economy and the income distribution consequences associated with it. As a British economist best known for his work in many fields and particularly in welfare economics, Pigou attended the prestigious Harrow School and was a graduate of King's College, Cambridge, where he studied under Alfred Marshall, famou...

The Early Conservation Movement in Argentina and the National Park Service: A Brief History of Conservation, Development, Tourism and Sovereignty

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel (Author)This study explores the emergence and development of the conservation movement in Argentina during the twentieth century. I argue that the development of the conservation movement has been linked to shifts in the broader spectrum of Argentina's political arena as well as the international political situation as nations competed for the sovereignty of newly acquired territories after the Indian Wars. This book explores the developmen...

The New World Order: An Economic Global Regime

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Report copyright infringementby Carlo James (Author)"The New World Order" is anything but new, it has been evolving for over 100 years. This thesis begins with the idea for an elite establishment of one late 19th century individual, and shows how it developed into the many organizations that make up the global regime of today. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.29 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 01, 1999

Towards the Formation of a Sustainable South Florida: An Analysis of Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building in the South Florida Ecosystem Restora

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel (Author)This dissertation examines the sociological process of conflict resolution and consensus building in South Florida Everglades Ecosystem Restoration through what I define as a Network Management Coordinative Interstitial Group (NetMIG). The process of conflict resolution can be summarized as the participation of interested and affected parties (stakeholders) in a forum of negotiation. I study the case of the Governor's Commission for...

Silencing Science: National Security Controls and Scientific Communication

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Report copyright infringementby Harold C. Relyea (Author). . . Relyea's book provides good source material and discussion for an important juncture in American and world history, and also a point of departure for future studies of scientific communication in relation to national security concerns in the so-called Post-Cold War Setting. -Journal of Information EthicsAuthor Biographylyea /f Harold /i C. Number of Pages: 268 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN ...

Local Government Innovation: Issues and Trends in Privatization and Managed Competition

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Report copyright infringementby Robin A. Johnson (Editor), Norman Walzer (Editor), Robin A. Johnson (Other)Nationally recognized scholars and practitioners examine opportunities in which services traditionally provided by local governments are offered by the private sector though a contract or are transferred to a private business completely. Many large U.S. cities have contracted services for many years. With the movement to rightsize governments in recent years there has been renewed intere...

Marijuana and the Workplace: Interpreting Research on Complex Social Issues

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Report copyright infringementby Charles R. Schwenk (Editor), Susan L. Rhodes (Editor)If sound policy is to be made on the issue of marijuana in the workplace, all available empirical evidence about its impact on job performance should be utilized in the decision process. Although a substantial amount of relevant research has been done, the results published in journals in widely divergent fields, are not easily summarized and present no single, simple message for decision makers. Schwenk and ...

Suppressed, Forced Out and Fired: How Successful Women Lose Their Jobs

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Reeves (Author)So entrenched and powerful is the patriarchy within organizations that women have serious difficulty acquiring positions of real importance, even when it is in the organization's best interest to use their talents fully (and reward them equitably). Reeves surveys the structural obstacles to women's advancement and argues that successful women executives threaten their male counterparts and their patriarchal culture, which responds by punis...

Trademark Counterfeiting, Product Piracy, and the Billion Dollar Threat to the U.S. Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Paul R. Paradise (Author)Called the business crime wave of the 21st century, trademark counterfeiting and product piracy are worldwide in scope and cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year. High technology and the globalization of business have made it possible to counterfeit and pirate a seemingly limitless number of products, from t-shirts, designer jeans, films and books to auto and airplane parts, and prescription drugs. The 1995-1996 trade disp...

Offshore Financial Centers, Accounting Services and the Global Economy

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Report copyright infringementby David McKee (Author)The new global climate of free enterprise has brought with it a proliferation of offshore financial centers that presumably have important roles to play in the emergent global economy. The air of secrecy that appears to pervade the activities of offshore financial centers may well slant or obscure any real understanding of the functions of such centers. The authors investigate the role of major international accounting firms and their servic...

Environmental Policy: Transnational Issues and National Trends

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Report copyright infringementby Lynton K. Caldwell (Editor), Robert V. Bartlett (Editor)This edited collection provides a cross-sectional review of environmental legislation and administration in the United States, with comparative chapters relating to Canada and New Zealand. The experts look at a variety of environmental issues that create policy problems, and while the book offers no blueprint or prognosis of environmental policy in the twenty-first century, it does offer insights into tren...

Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination

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Report copyright infringementby William II Shughart (Author)Taxing behavior deemed "politically incorrect" has long been a convenient way for politicians to fund programs benefiting special interest groups, to the public's disadvantage. Government policy toward various goods - drugs, tobacco and alcohol, for example - has been locked into a regulatory cycle of tax and taboo. Support for legalizing other substances is buttressed by the revenue-generating power of so-called "sin" taxesi And the...

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: The New Rural-Urban Interface

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel T. Lichter (Editor), James P. Ziliak (Editor) The volume focuses on the cultural, economic, demographic, and political dimensions of changing social and spatial boundaries that both separate and link urban and rural America. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.65 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: August 08, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Williams (Author), James Duminy (Author)Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Development and environmental challenges are often framed at the global or planetary scale, but in a vague or apolitical manner. This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized concept of the planetary to intervene in contemporary debates on global development and to enhance our critical understanding of development as we approach the second quarter of t...

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Report copyright infringementby Luther Gulick (Author), Francis Biddle (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Number of Pages: 128 ...

Learning Right from Wong, Wrong, Woke, Left

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Stokes (Author)Written with a hint of 'larrikinism' this book discusses the raging battle between left and right that has engulfed the free world. In a technology-driven world, being time poor and confronting massive rises in the cost of living, society has been pounded into submission by three life-changing events simultaneously. Climate change, the covid-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd have taken the world and its globilised village to the edg...

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Report copyright infringementby S. Howard Patterson (Editor)The Future of Democratic Capitalism poses this question: what are the chances of survival for America's present economic and political way of life? Opposing totalitarian communism proclaimed by the USSR stands the democratic capitalism of the United States, which is being attacked from within as well as from without and is undergoing such serious, rapid changes that its fundamental nature has been altered within a single generation. ...

Quantity Planning and Price Planning in the Soviet Union

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Report copyright infringementby Hans Hirsch (Author), William N. Loucks (Editor), Karl Scholz (Translator)Karl Scholz's translation of the study Mengenplanung und Preisplanung in der Sovijunion by Hans Hirsch reproduces the provocative thesis of the author in concise, lucid English. The need for such a book is made dear in Hans Hirsch's introduction: "The question of economic accounting under socialism has attracted much interest for a long time. This is primarily due to its key position in t...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Norton Cook (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Number of Pages: 344 Dimension...

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Report copyright infringementby C. J. Ratzlaff (Author)Theories of the classical and English systems, reviewed in relation to the question of what part government should play in the competitive order. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 29, 1936

Managing Public Sector Projects: A Strategic Framework for Success in an Era of Downsized Government, Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby David S. Kassel (Author) This second edition includes all-new extended case studies examining recent issues including the rollout of healthcare.gov, the controversial California High Speed Rail system, and refurbishing the Harvard Town Hall. Contributing to critical discussions on budgeting for capital projects and cost-benefit analysis for preliminary planning, this authoritative new edition provides strategic recommendations for effective planning, execution...