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The Friedman System: Economic Analysis of Time Series

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Report copyright infringementby William Frazer (Author), Unknown (Author)This elaboration of the writings and statements of Milton Friedman is intended to create an economic system that moves the subject along theory-, fact-, and policy-oriented lines. Items directly attributable to Friedman are used in combination with an awareness of the unique breadth of his experience connected to statistical matters, and his work with Wesley C. Mitchell and others. In addition, some of the author's exper...

The Globalization of Capitalism in Third World Countries

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Report copyright infringementby Priyatosh Maitra (Author), Unknown (Author)The transformation and growth of capitalism in third world countries is examined by first looking at the beginnings and growth of capitalism in the developed industrialized world and at the various stages in which it is transplanted to less developed countries. This transplantation of capitalism brings about only the rapid growth of capital sector and not the complete capitalist transformation of a country. An interest...

Women and Sustainable Development in Africa

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Report copyright infringementby Valentine James (Author)Sustainable development has traditionally neglected the contributions of women until recently. Government and institutions in developing countries, as well as foreign aid agencies, are just beginning to realize the important roles filled by women as farmers, entrepreneurs, food providers, educators, and role models in developing countries and are attempting to integrate women into nongovernmental organization projects and voluntary organ...

To Have and To Hold: The Meaning of Ownership in the United States

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Report copyright infringementby Neala Schleuning (Author)Dr. Neala Schleuning provides a wide-ranging interdisciplinary exploration of the idea of ownership. She focuses primarily on the transition in modes and meaning of ownership since the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. Her primary argument is that the experience of ownership has been one of enclosure, which in turn conflicts with the goals of democratic society. Topics include land ownership, private property in a capitalist socie...

In Search of Security: A Socio-Psychological Portrait of Today's Germany

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Report copyright infringementby Gerd Langguth (Author), Dirk Johnson (Translator)Germany is the only country in the world where two major transformations are taking place at the same time: a process of modernization in the west and a transition from command economy to free market economy in the east. In this work, Langguth highlights the dramatic social and political changes occurring in east and west Germany. He concludes that the increasingly complex European political and social landscape ...

It's in the Cards: Consumer Credit and the American Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Lloyd Klein (Author)This is the first comprehensive account of the development of consumer credit. Consumer credit is a vital force driving the development of our economic system. Rather than look at consumer credit solely as an economic phenomenon, Klein examines the social impact of the consumer credit industry within the framework of economic and cultural change. His analysis offers a concise examination of the industry from the perspective of marketing, the...

Levels of Socio-economic Development Theory

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Report copyright infringementby David Jaffee (Author)Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and social scientists interested in a wide-ranging but concise review of contemporary theories of social and economic development will find this second edition invaluable. The coverage spans the disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics, political science, political economy, geography, and management. The theories are organized by level of analysis--individual, organizational, societal, and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Candice Fredrick (Author), Camille Atkinson (Author), Unknown (Author)As women are entering the workforce in record numbers, there is an urgent need to address the specific ethical problems that working women face. Providing a conceptual framework from which practical issues can be addressed, the authors focus on sexual harassment, comparable worth, leadership, advertising, and working-class women. Theoretical concepts, applied cases, personal narratives, stati...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Cohn (Author)Since 1648, Eastern Jews have moved west in large numbers. They brought with them skills learned in ghettos that could be adapted to fit social problems and commercial niches in the industrialized societies of the west. Jews from Eastern Europe played a particularly strong role in the fields of social work, the fur trade, textiles, and entertainment. They have also played a major part in the ideologies of Zionism and Marxism. This book exam...

Industrial Control Over the Socialist Town: Benevolence or Exploitation?

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Report copyright infringementby Boleslaw Domanski (Author), Unknown (Author)The author addresses the neglected issue of the relations between the functioning of powerful state industrial firms and the town under socialism. As they strived for labor force, the manufacturing and mining employers in Central and Eastern Europe became prominent gatekeepers controlling access to scarce goods and services, which reflected a specific labor market segmentation. The distribution of social benefits and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gerd Langguth (Author)Germany is the only country in the world where two major transformations are taking place at the same time: a process of modernization in the west and a transition from command economy to free market economy in the east. In this work, Langguth highlights the dramatic social and political changes occurring in east and west Germany. He concludes that the increasingly complex European political and social landscape and the new diversity of li...

Urban Environments in Emerging Economies

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Report copyright infringementby David L. McKee (Author)Those concerned with growth and development at national or local levels must pay significantly more attention to the physical structure of urban settings which house many of the leading sectors of the economies of nations. These metropolitan areas must retain the flexibility necessary to meet the needs of an ever-changing mix of activities. Structural, environmental, and economic concerns are brought together to help the reader better und...

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Report copyright infringementby Valentine Udoh James (Editor)Sustainable development has traditionally neglected the contributions of women until recently. Government and institutions in developing countries, as well as foreign aid agencies, are just beginning to realize the important roles filled by women as farmers, entrepreneurs, food providers, educators, and role models in developing countries and are attempting to integrate women into nongovernmental organization projects and voluntary ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Knapp (Author), Jane C. Kronick (Author), R. William Marks (Author)IThe Assault on Equality R critiques the social theory underpinning the social policies of the new political right. It focuses on the attempt by Herrnstein and Murray in IThe Bell Curve R to provide theoretical justification for social program cutbacks and coercive social policies. IThe Assault on Equality R reanalyzes Herrnstein and Murray's own data and demonstrates that their conclusi...

Chaotics: An Agenda for Business and Society in the 21st Century

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Report copyright infringementby Georges Anderla (Author), Anthony Dunning (Author), Simon Forge (Author)The new discipline of chaotics will alter our thinking about the real forces of change in our society. As presented here, chaotics emphasizes that the real world cannot be understood in terms of conventional deterministic philosophies or standard chaos theory, but that complexity in itself has a powerful but subtle role to play. How does this apply to business and society? To what degree ar...

Invisible, Outlawed, and Untaxed: America's Underground Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Harry I. Greenfield (Author)This work examines America's growing underground economy--its size, nature, and economic effects. The study begins with a critical analysis of the various methods used for measuring the size of the underground economy in the United States. It then develops a definition of the underground economy which is consistent with our system of national accounts. A sector-by-sector approach is used to measure the actual size of this sub-economy...

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Report copyright infringementby Rose M. Rubin (Author), Bobye J. Riney (Author)This book analyzes the effects of wives' employment on the economic status of families, using both descriptive and empirical research. The historical and socio-economic causes of change in the employment status of wives and husbands are detailed. The empirical studies respond to some basic questions about dual-earner families: How does having an employed wife influence family lifestyles? What effects do dual-earner...

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Report copyright infringementby Roy D. Laird (Author)Laird accomplishes two major goals: he provides an analytical, blow-by-blow description of the collapse of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership, and he explores the legacy left by the experiment in communism by the Soviet Union. Laird concludes that the burden of that legacy is so great that for many years--probably generations--authoritarian systems, perhaps disguised as democracies, will prevail in the newly independent r...

Debt Reduction and Development: The Case of Mexico

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Report copyright infringementby Sudarshan Gooptu (Author)This study provides an in-depth analysis of the external debt problem of a country--Mexico--that allegedly faces a debt overhang, which inhibits long-term growth-oriented investment. Issues facing the debtor nation and its commercial bank creditors are simultaneously examined in order to move closer towards an understanding of the situation of debt-distressed developing countries. The need to address these issues on a case-by-case basis...

The Emergence of Technopolis: Knowledge-Intensive Technologies and Regional Development

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Report copyright infringementby Robert W. Preer (Author)This study examines the rise of the technopolis--high technology-based regional development. It explores how and why these regions emerged and the policies that have been devised to promote them. The rapid, propulsive growth of the technopolis in the 1960s and 1970s caught many people by surprise. Silicon Valley arose in an agricultural area; Route 128 in a stagnant manufacturing region. Throughout the rest of the world, a new generation...

Telecity: Information Technology and Its Impact on City Form

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Report copyright infringementby Tarik A. Fathy (Author)This study examines the growth of the information society and the impact of its technologies on city form and urban life. It establishes a theoretical framework that integrates the consequences of technology on the physical city, the dynamics of its economic activities and location decisions, and its social processes. Tarik A. Fathy's main concern in this work is the relationship between socioeconomic forces of social change and the physi...

The USSR and the World Economy: Challenges for the Global Integration of Soviet Markets Under Perestroika

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Anne Palmieri (Editor), Deborah Anne Palmieri (Other)This volume provides research and analysis to understand the role of the former Soviet Union and its involvement in the global economy through the end of the Gorbachev period. It lays essential groundwork for understanding the issues and problems encountered in the contemporary marketization efforts to reform and overhaul the planned economies of Russia and the republics. Various essays provide analys...

Switzerland and the European Common Market

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Report copyright infringementby Rene Schwok (Author)The first study in English on the subject, this volume explores the challenges facing Switzerland as the European Community (EC) moves toward the 1992 goal of a Europe without economic borders. The primary question addressed by the author is whether or not Switzerland can ultimately avoid becoming a full-fledged member of the EC. Rene Schwok fully explores the alternatives open to Switzerland, including marginalization and a Third Way betwee...

Foreign Aid and Economic Development in the Middle East: Egypt, Syria, and Jordan

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Lavy (Author), Eliezer Sheffer (Author)The acquisition of large amounts of foreign aid, handled improperly by a struggling economy, can weaken rather than strengthen it. This study reaches this sobering conclusion by examining how the economic boom enjoyed by Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the 1970s turned into financial crisis by the 1980s. The analysis involves the political, economic, and social similarities and differences among the three countries and ...

African Emigres in the United States: A Missing Link in Africa's Social and Economic Development

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Report copyright infringementby Kofi Konadu Apraku (Author), Kofi K. Apraku (Author)The people of Africa emerged from colonial rule with optimism and determination to transform their society and bring prosperity to the continent, but today there is neither economic nor political freedom. In order to seize control of its destiny, Kofi Apraku contends, Africa must mobilize all of its resources, and recognize the contributions that emigrants in the United States can make toward its development. ...

The State Offshore: Petroleum, Politics, and State Intervention on the British and Norwegian Continental Shelves

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Report copyright infringementby Brent F. Nelsen (Author), Brent Nelson (Author)Governments have been involved in the exploration, development, production, and abandonment of offshore oil and gas since the early years of the century. With the 1965 discovery of oil and natural gas in the North Sea, both Great Britain and Norway faced the immense challenge of extracting an energy bonanza out of one hundred meters of water and two thousand meters of rock. In this book Brent Nelsen explains the fa...

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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 Law and Economic Development in the Third World

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Bondzi Simpson (Author), P. Ebow Bondzi-Simpson (Editor)This volume examines critical issues that all developing countries must face. Subjects covered include an historical insight into and description of the legal system of a Third World country; considerations of intellectual property regimes and suggestions for developing countries; insights into the patterns of investment on a continent the bulk of whose members are Third World countries, and suggest...

The Wages of Sin: America's Dilemma of Profit Against Humanity

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Huer (Author), John H. Huer (Author)This is an incisive book about what has gone wrong with the social fabric of American society. Jon Huer postulates two models of society: one that pursues profit and self-interest, and the other that cherishes community values. Huer holds that these two types of ethics cannot coexist in a truly just society. One prominent result of the current dominance of the profit-driven model of behavior is that American society incre...

From Middle Income to Poor: Downward Mobility Among Displaced Steelworkers

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Report copyright infringementby Allison Zippay (Author)Allison Zippay charts the decline of displaced blue-collar workers, part of the fallout of the past decade's dramatic economic shift from manufacturing to an expanded, service-based economy. She challenges the widely held assumption that these workers have been absorbed into the post-industrial economy and raises questions regarding the real nature of their occupational transition. Actually a case study of the Shenango Valley in western P...

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...

China's Strategic Demographic Initiative

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Report copyright infringementby H. Yuan Tien (Author)What has been the effect of China's focus on minimal reproduction as the centerpiece of the country's effort to regulate population growth? This book tells the full story of China's Strategic Demographic Initiative, tracing its evolutions and assessing its results and significance in the context of China's socioeconomic development. Early consensus in population planning gave rise to voluminous rules, massive drives, vigorous exhortations, ...