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Housing Under Platform Capitalism: The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Aguilera (Author), Francesca Artioli (Author), Claire Colomb (Author)Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world's cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation--a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method, multi-level comparative research in twelve large European cities, coauthors Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb ...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold M. Hochman (Editor) Number of Pages: 324 Dimensions: 0.73 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Orley Ashenfelter (Editor), William G. Bowen (Editor) Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions: 0.51 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 17, 1975

The Agony of Argentine Capitalism: From Menem to the Kirchners

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Lewis (Author)This diagnostic history of Argentina's economic prostration is full of timely lessons for readers in the United States about how an irresponsible capitalist elite and cynical politicians can lead a wealthy nation to throw it all away. They say those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. Thus the importance of this book. The Agony of Argentine Capitalism: From Menem to the Kirchners is the capstone of a magisterial trilogy expl...

The Goal of Economic Growth: An Introduction to a Current Issue of Public Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund S. Phelps (Editor) Number of Pages: 268 Dimensions: 0.61 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2008

Destined for Failure: American Prosperity in the Age of Bailouts

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Report copyright infringementby Nicolas Sanchez (Author), Christopher Kopp (Author), Francis Sanzari (Author)This book provides a historical background of the American business cycle, challenges the validity of conventional Keynesian ideology, and presents a bold, alternative theory of how production leads to wealth in our modern economy. The United States is mired in the aftermath of booming economic prosperity, resembling the trouble recently experienced by the Japanese economy due partiall...

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Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Marshall I. Golman (Author)Back JacketGorbachev's Challenge is deeply knowledgeable about the Soviet and Chinese institutional landscapes, and the American system as well...There is no better-informed or more imaginative introduction to the economic problems facing the Russians as the century ends. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.94 x 8.26 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: September 19, 2007

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Report copyright infringementby Merle Fainsod (Author), Lincoln Gordon (Author), Joseph C. Palamountain (Author)Back JacketThis book presents an examination and analysis of one of the profoundly important developments of the last century-the assumption by government of major responsibilities for the guidance and direction of the American economy. Number of Pages: 1014 Dimensions: 1.78 x 8.49 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: April 17, 1959

The United States and the Developing Economies

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Report copyright infringementby Gustav Ranis (Editor) Number of Pages: 382 Dimensions: 0.85 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 05, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby David P. Calleo (Author)Europe's Future analyzes Europe's struggle to forge a new political community to deal with itself, the United States, Russia, and the world at large. It is a penetrating assessment of the conflicting ideals, motives, and programs that are causing the present turmoil in the Atlantic Alliance and Western Europe. David P. Calleo has distilled a long period of first-hand study and observation, during which he interviewed European political a...

Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Handbook of Cultural, Social Science, Management and Legal Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Michele Paludi (Editor), Carmen Paludi (Editor)This essential handbook features overviews of sexual harassment in kindergarten through high school, college and universities, and public and private sector workplaces. The contributors to this volume come from diverse backgrounds; their disciplines include psychology, sociology, law, English literature, and management. Through teaching about this issue, conducting research, creating policies and procedures, workin...

U.S. Development Aid--An Historic First: Achievements and Failures in the Twentieth Century

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Hale Butterfield (Author)The first comprehensive account of U.S. development aid policies and implementation operations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this work is a unique contribution to world history and to the extensive literature on Third World development. Butterfield begins with the remarkable story of why, in 1949, President Truman surprised Americans with his unprecedented development aid policy. He then describes the major alterations in U...

Demystifying the Global Economy: A Guide for Students

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Report copyright infringementby David E. O'Connor (Author)Do your students understand the global economy? This guide, written by a nationally known teacher of economics, provides a clearly explained, engagingly presented introduction to the global economy and a wealth of the most recent information, statistics, and primary materials on all aspects of the topic. Written specifically for students, the guide includes a narrative discussion defining and discussing the global economy in its histor...

Boomer Destiny: Leading the U.S. through the Worst Crisis Since the Great Depression

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Osenton (Author)The U.S. experiences a major crisis about every eighty years, and the last big crisis started more than eighty years ago. If history is any indicator, argues author Tom Osenton, we are in the very early stages of the next major crisis--one that could make the Great Depression seem like a day at the beach. The storm clouds are on the horizon: A slowing U.S. economy, major banks failing, a weakening dollar, the subprime mortgage debacle, a wid...

Social Security Programs: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby John Dixon (Editor), Robert P. Scheurell (Editor), Robert P. Scheurell (With)This volume examines current trends in social security programs around the world. An international group of contributors provide (1) historical perspectives on the development of social security programs (looking at the U.S., Japan, and South Korea); (2) national overviews of programs as adapted to specific populations (in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, and Ma...

Growth and Variability in State Tax Revenue: An Anatomy of State Fiscal Crises

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Report copyright infringementby Randall G. Holcombe (Author), Russell S. Sobel (Author)During recessions state government fiscal crises are widespread, as states find their revenues inadequate to meet their expenditure demands. This volume shows that state fiscal crises have only one significant cause: revenue downturns associated with recessions. Other analysts have argued that fiscal crises are the result of an interaction of many complex causes, including inadequate tax bases, increasing e...

Ideology and Utopia in the Social Philosophy of the Libertarian Economists

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Report copyright infringementby Rick Tilman (Author)Challenging the libertarians' definition of freedom and democracy, this study portrays the social philosophy of Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Friedrich Hayek, and George Stigler as the bulwark of an attack on welfare and regulatory state collectivism and as undermining majoritarian democracy, political and civil liberties, and social equality. The book opens with Frank Knight's doctrines and their impact on the Chicago laissez faire econo...

Arab Employment in Israel: The Quest for Equal Employment Opportunity

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin W. Wolkinson (Author)Although in the 1960s and mid-1970s scholars began to question the ability of Israeli Arabs to find equal employment opportunities, there has been no systematic study of employment discrimination against Arabs. Based on demographic data and fieldwork in 48 large Israeli corporations, this study fills that void. While the demographic data indicates the Arabs' disadvantaged position, Wolkinson also provides new insights obtained from...

The American Fund for Public Service: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy, 1922-1941

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Report copyright infringementby Gloria G. Samson (Author)This study examines one organization from the radical left of the 1920s and 1930s: the American Fund for Public Service. Little known today, but infamous in its time, the American Fund represented a united front of anticapitalists--anarchists, socialists, communists, and left-liberals--which attempted to revitalize the left in order to end capitalism and, therefore, war. Financed by Charles Garland, an eccentric, 21-year-old Harvard dro...

Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes

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Report copyright infringementby Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia (Author), James Macinko (Author), William Waters (Author)Showing that economic development and public health, often thought of as distinct, are both interdependent and dependent on social and political conditions, this book provides a new appreciation of the close relationship between microenterprise development and health in developing countries. Many of the world's poor earn a living from microenterprises, often outside the formal eco...

Black Unemployment: Part of Unskilled Unemployment

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Report copyright infringementby David Schwartzman (Author)In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production by reducing the cost of financing investment. The mechanization of production displaced more blacks than whites because blacks were disproportionately unskilled. In addition, the growth in the import of manufactured goods further reduced the demand for unskilled labor. The author argues that the government should fill the...

Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Paula Denice McClain (Editor), Paula Denice McClain (Other)Although there has been intense interest in racial minorities and public policy, most research has focused on the implementation of policies after legislative passage or on the consequent effects of those policies. Few studies have focused on the definitional stage of the policy process--agenda setting--or have examined the way issues of concern to minority populations are raised. This volume fills that...

Comparative Studies in Local Economic Development: Problems in Policy Implementation

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Report copyright infringementby Peter B. Meyer (Editor)These expert case studies focus on ways in which a variety of innovative local economic development programs have been implemented in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Authorities with varied experience show how policies and programs must fit into a political and legal system, meet specific external and environemtnal requirements, serve certain groups and settings, and bring about tangible results. Students and scholars,...

World Debt and the Human Condition: Structural Adjustment and the Right to Development

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Report copyright infringementby Ved P. Nanda (Editor), George W. Shepherd (Editor), Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds (Editor)Set against the backdrop of deteriorating living conditions for hundreds of millions of people in developing and debtor countries, this volume concentrates on the structural adjustment policies designed to facilitate debt repayment and to stabilize indebted economies and the effects these policies have on the human rights of affected peoples. Conducted by contributors from vario...

Police Under Pressure: Resolving Disputes

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Coulson (Author)What is it like to be a cop in America today in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict? In a risky environment when dangerous weapons are used and snap decisions are required? How should police officers be treated and their grievances be resolved? A long-time expert in the settlement of disputes writes in a popular vein for those engaged in or studying police administration, labor arbitration, or industrial relations. He uses real cases...

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Report copyright infringementby Amir Ben-Porat (Author)This study examines the development of capitalism in Israel. Taking a different view from the traditional modernization perspective, Ben-Porat argues that since 1948--when Israel became a state--the process of forming a capitalist society has underlain all other major processes. To explain capitalism in Israel, a perspective is needed that treats the problems of implanting capitalism in post-colonial states. Problems include the undevelop...

Public Authorities and Public Policy: The Business of Government

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Report copyright infringementby Unknown (Author), Jerry Mitchell (Editor)Public authorities are an increasingly important form of government in the United States. Every year, various public policies are entrusted to public authorities for implementation in the manner of a private firm but for the public interest. This edited collection presents an in-depth examination of the theory and practice of public authority administration and the current issues confronting public authorities in general...

Corporatist Decline in Advanced Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Mark James Gobeyn (Author)Gobeyn presents the first book-length treatment of the declining significance of corporatist governance in advanced capitalism, linking that decline to international political economic forces. He contends that current patterns of conflict within corporatist political bargaining institutions in capitalist states can be traced to attitudinal shifts on the part of capitalists toward corporatist institutional arrangements. Business interes...

Soviet Political Economy in Transition: From Lenin to Gorbachev

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Report copyright infringementby A. F. Dowlah (Author), Abu Dowlah (Author)Situating Gorbachev and perestroika historically and ideologically, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Soviet political economy in the context of socialist theory and seven decades of its application in the Soviet Union. A. F. Dowlah challenges the belief that socialism is sternly committed to centralized economic and political structures, and claims that socialism contains several theories, some more decent...

Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86

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Report copyright infringementby Neala Schleuning (Author)The strike by Local P-9 against the Hormel Co. in 1985-86 marked a turning point in American labor history. The central role played in the strike by the Austin United Support Group brought the issues of economic justice and community survival to the forefront of the labor movement agenda. In response to isolation from their traditional communities, these women created a vital and successful strike culture that was characterized by coope...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Gereffi (Editor), Miguel Korzeniewicz (Editor), Gary Gereffi (Other)The current restructuring of the world-economy under global capitalism has further integrated international trade and production. It thus has brought to the fore the key role of commodity chains in the relationships of capital, labor, and states. Commodity chains are most simply defined as the link between successive processes of manufacturing that result in a final product available for i...