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Report copyright infringementby Robert Esteban Martinez (Author)This work deals with the political transition in Spain from authoritarianism to democracy and its impact on business. It addresses the fundamental questions of how business was affected by the transition and how business, in turn, influenced the course of democratization, through collective action, and how it influenced the marketplace through the aggregate of individual business decisions. The work has a strong empirical base. D...

Contemporary Economic Systems: A Regional and Country Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Gianaris (Author)Gianaris examines the theoretical and practical aspects of different economic systems in countries with varying ideologies. These include the United States, the European Community, and Japan with their capitalist or free market economies; the Swedish welfare state; communist China; and the former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe with their movement toward free markets and democratization. This interplay of economics and politics see...

Modernizing Foreign Assistance: Resource Management as an Instrument of Foreign Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Foreign Policy Council American (Author), The Americah Foreign Policy Council (Author)The United States' foreign assistance program has become an instrument of declining efficacy in foreign policy. The ebbing of Soviet-American competition offers an occasion to restructure U.S. foreign policy objectives and modernize those instruments most likely to support the execution of new foreign policy objectives. This book sets out to identify new approaches to the mana...

Trade Union Growth and Decline: An International Study

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Galenson (Author)After a century of growth, trade union membership and influence have begun to decline in most of the economically advanced countries. This comprehensive analysis of membership trends covers developing as well as industrialized countries. The author's thesis is that the unions have failed to pay sufficient attention to the concerns of a labor force that is more educated, with a higher participation of women, and with a greater concern for...

Socialism Revised and Modernized: The Case for Pragmatic Market Socialism

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Report copyright infringementby James a. Yunker (Author)This volume advocates pragmatic market socialism and offers a penetrating critique of the entire range of capitalist apologetics. As James A. Yunker envisions it, pragmatic market socialism would virtually duplicate the everyday economic functions of market capitalist economies, such as the United States' economy. However, public ownership of large, established corporations would enable profits to be distributed among the entire labor fo...

Implementing State Government Export Programs

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Frazier (Author)During recent years, American states have launched programs to promote direct foreign investment and product export, but there has been little self-scrutiny of these efforts. This book presents the findings of Michael Frazier's detailed empirical study of four, state-supported export trade agencies. Using the evaluation techniques of Mazmanian and Sabatier (the M-S Model), Frazier pinpoints the factors that determine how well states deve...

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Report copyright infringementby George Macesich (Author)For Eastern European and other countries, market democracy offers an organizing principle for reform, a model on which to base movement toward a market economy. Macesich stresses the importance of such an organizing principle, asserting that without it the state will again assume dominance and the political and economic structure will be taken over by well-organized special interests to the detriment of the rest of society. In such a sce...

Economic Development Programs for Cities, Counties and Towns

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Report copyright infringementby John Levy (Author)This completely updated and revised edition of Levy's highly regarded work examines the important changes in the economic world faced by communities since publication of the first edition in 1981. Much new material has been added to reflect the increasingly important role of state government, heightened intermunicipal competition, rising foreign investment, the diminished availability of federal development funds, and more. Like the previous e...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Raimondo (Author)While nearly everyone in the United States pays careful attention to the federal government in Washington, it is the state and local officials and bodies who are generally providing education, protecting the environment, caring for AIDS patients, financing affordable housing, and putting police and firefighters on the streets. In this text, Henry Raimondo gives these local governments some of the notice they are due, examining why state a...

Inequality: The Political Economy of Income Distribution

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Report copyright infringementby Folke Dovring (Author)A worsening economic crisis due to the shift in wealth over the past decade is the central concern of this carefully documented study. It profiles the current status of income inequality in the United States and discerns disturbing trends for the future. A wealth of data are collected, evaluated, and simplified into a straightforward look at both the economic changes brought on by misguided reforms of the 1980s and a proposed system for me...

Political Economy, Ideology, and the Impact of Economics on the Third World

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Report copyright infringementby Derrick Gondwe (Author)This work examines the practical impact of economics and economic ideology on the Third World. Gondwe argues that the scientific and technical veil covering economics reduces its capacity to affect current and future economic problems. Further, by attempting to shed itself of its ideological underpinnings, economics--particularly neoclassical economics--is running the risk of becoming socially irrelevant. The author concludes that economi...

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Report copyright infringementby Avraham Shama (Editor), Avraham Shama (Other)The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have begun an unprecedented process of rapid change in their political, economic, and social characters. Using a unique comparative perspective, this volume brings together leading scholars from the United States and Eastern Europe to describe and analyze the political democratization and economic decentralization in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Germany, and the fragmen...

The Political Economy of the Family Farm: The Agrarian Roots of American Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Sue E. Headlee (Author)Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that the family farm system, with its progressive nature and egalitarian class structure, revolutionized this transition to capitalism. The family farm is examined in light of its economic and political implications, showing the relationship between the family farm and fledgling industri...

Congress, Human Nature, and the Federal Debt: Essays on the Political Psychology of Deficit Spending

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Report copyright infringementby Cole Speicher Brembeck (Author)This volume takes a non-economic approach to the issue of the federal deficit. By identifying fiscal problems as merely the visible symptoms of a basic behavioral dynamic common to all people, Cole S. Brembeck undertakes a singular study of how human interests perpetuate the deficit and how, therefore, the deficit issue reflects the nature of the representation in the federal government. Solutions to the worsening deficit crisis c...

Perspectives and Issues in International Political Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Polychronis Polychroniou (Author), Chronis Polychroniou (Editor)This work brings together a collection of original essays on the contemporary study of international political economy (IPE). It provides contrasting and challenging interpretations of the study of IPE and the global political economy in general. It also exposes the reader to major issues and problems in international political economy such as European unification, U.S.-Japanese trade tensions, Afr...

Schumpeter and the Political Economy of Change

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Report copyright infringementby David L. McKee (Author)Throughout this century, economics as a discipline has not always been distinguished by its insightful treatment of temporal and spatial considerations. The exponents of neoclassical synthesis have often been criticized for failing to incorporate the dimension of time into their machinations, and while the concept of space has fared somewhat better, it still suffers from semantic debate. Structural and/or sectoral considerations have also...

Latin America to the Year 2000: Reactivating Growth, Improving Equity, Sustaining Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Archibald R. M. Ritter (Editor), Maxwell a. Cameron (Editor), David H. Pollock (Editor)Can the experience of the 1980s in Latin America be analyzed and evaluated to shed light on prospects for the 1990s? The central objective of this volume is to survey the development experience of the Latin American region in the 1980s and explore prospects for the coming decade. In this context, themes of crucial importance for the region are examined, including democratic c...

Beyond Blue Economic Horizons: U.S. Trade Performance and International Competitiveness in the 1990s

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Lenz (Author)Designed as a primer for policymakers and students, this volume focuses on two critical problems the United States faces as we move into the 1990s: the unprecedented size of U.S. trade deficits and the nation's declining international competitiveness. The author uses contemporary data to identify and explain the linkages among trade deficits, budget deficits, international competitiveness, the future of manufacturing in the United States, the...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry K. H. Woo (Author)A deepening economic crisis and a demoralized work force are the primary issues of concern in Henry K.H. Woo's examination of the overall direction of reform in China. Untenable reform initiatives during the 1980s which led to public disillusionment, financial chaos, and ultimately to the bloody collision between government and students in 1989 are closely scrutinized with a commitment to their remedy. Woo's recommendations for viable re...

A Classical Approach to Occupational Wage Rates

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Report copyright infringementby David Gleicher (Author), Lonnie Stevans (Author), Rodney Green (Author)David Gleicher and Lonnie Stevans present a theory of occupational wage rates that is a classical alternative to human capital theory. They introduce the net employment reserve, a novel explanatory variable that measures the bargaining power of employees in an occupation. An econometric model which includes net reserves is designed and tested. Results suggest standard empirical tests of huma...

The Economics of Welfare: A Contemporary Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby David Z. Rich (Author)Building on his earlier Praeger work, Contemporary Economics, Rich here examines current and historical, theoretical and practical, notions of welfare economics. Through an in-depth discussion of the theories of Edgeworth, Pareto, and Slutsky, the author analyzes how the present approach to welfare economics developed and how it has failed in significant ways to alleviate the problems of poverty and unemployment. Rich then develops a new t...

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Report copyright infringementby John M. Levy (Author)This completely updated and revised edition of Levy's highly regarded work examines the important changes in the economic world faced by communities since publication of the first edition in 1981. Much new material has been added to reflect the increasingly important role of state government, heightened intermunicipal competition, rising foreign investment, the diminished availability of federal development funds, and more. Like the previou...

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Report copyright infringementby George Macesich (Author)In his latest work, Macesich examines democracy and its economic counterpart, the free market, and the place of money (monetary and fiscal policy as controlled by the state bureaucracy) in such a system. DeTocqueville warned in the first half of the 19th century that democracy could falter as a consequence of citizens' diminished interest in restraining central authority. And now, there is evidence that vote-maximizing behavior of politi...

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Report copyright infringementby David Schwartzman (Author) Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: July 10, 1989

Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth M. Jennings (Author)Impressively researched and well written, this valuable study by a business professor at the Universiy of North Florida. . . traces the erosion of the reserve clause and the rise of arbitration in salary disputes, examining the participants in negotiations--players, owners, managers, agents, even commissoners--and showing the stake each has in the money game. Many striking points are made, i.e., there is no discrimination in salaries...

Modernization in East Asia: Political, Economic, and Social Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Harvey Brown (Editor), William T. Liu (Editor), Richard Harvey Brown (Other)In this volume East Asia is used as a unit of political and economic analysis to reveal an approach to modernization that is distinct from the Western model. The volume especially focuses on the interaction between nations of East Asia; the advantages and limits of export-led growth; relations between such processes as state formation, industrial growth, urbanization, and the mo...

Disarmament, Economic Conversion, and Management of Peace

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Rennie Forcey (Author), Manas Chatterji (Editor), Linda Rennie Forcey (Editor)This important volume tackles the potential problems of international military disarmament. Distinguished scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences, including unemployment, conversion costs, and the related hampered growth of research and development, associated with the conversion from a military industrial economy to a civil...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry John Raimondo (Author)While nearly everyone in the United States pays careful attention to the federal government in Washington, it is the state and local officials and bodies who are generally providing education, protecting the environment, caring for AIDS patients, financing affordable housing, and putting police and firefighters on the streets. In this text, Henry Raimondo gives these local governments some of the notice they are due, examining why st...

The Economic Consequences of State Lotteries

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Report copyright infringementby Mary O. Borg (Author), Paul M. Mason (Author), Stephen L. Shapiro (Author)Since the modern wave of lotteries began over twenty-five years ago in New Hampshire, state-operated lotteries have become an area of tremendous growth for public sector financing. Gambling taxes of all kinds have been steadily increasing, and thirty-three states are now operating lotteries. In this work, Mary Borg, Paul Mason, and Stephen Shapiro examine the economic impact and consequen...

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin: A Centenary Appraisal

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas N. Kozlov (Author), Eric D. Weitz (Author), Nicholas N. Kozlov (Other)Both the Russian and Western press now recognize the importance of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin as a Soviet historical figure. Fifty years after his execution in Stalinist Russia, Bukharin has been rehabilated by the Communist Party and invoked as the intellectual antecedent of Gorbachev. Challenging this view, contributors to this volume reevaluate the intellectual and political legac...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Balkin (Author)In this work, Balkin examines whether low-income people should be encouraged to engage in self-employment as a route for economic improvement. The author has gathered ideas and material from a diverse literature and experience base to provide practical suggestions for those who operate self-employment programs, fund self-employment programs, consider policy concerning self-employment, and look for alternative strategies to alleviate povert...

Nonfinancial Economics: The Case for Shorter Hours of Work

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Report copyright infringementby Eugene J. McCarthy (Author), William McGaughey (Author), William McGuaghey (Author)This book is written in support of proposals to reduce work time in order to improve employment opportunities. The authors, both of whom have been deeply involved in shorter workweek policy debates, argue that the failure of the U.S. to enact shorter workweek legislation when it was first proposed in the late 1950s was a significant policy mistake. They argue further that reduced...