Economic history

In mid-2009 Simeon Djankov, who had dealt with a variety of economic and financial crises as chief economist for finance and private sector development at the World Bank, was suddenly thrust into the job of finance minister of his native Bulgaria.

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En 'Mercaderes de la duda', Naomi Oreskes y Erik M.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world's major tax havens.

Extensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas Frank In the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as synonymous.

After nearly five decades of insulation from world markets, state controls, and slow growth, India embarked in 1991 on a process of liberalization of controls and progressive integration with the global economy in an effort to put its economy on a path of rapid and sustained growth.

Is America a Christian Nation?

Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history.

"e;Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked,"e; the editors of The Economist recently observed, "e;few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself.

This is the first significant study of the entrepreneurial society created by the Welsh coal boom (most books up to now having concentrated upon the workers and the unions).

The must-read summary of Robert Lacey's book: "e;Ford: The Men and the Machine"e;.

Un guide pratique et accessible pour tout savoir sur l'OCDE

Avec la globalisation, vers laquelle nous tendons depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les efforts entrepris s'inscrivent majoritairement dans une réflexion de libre-échange.

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With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis.

With one side of the political aisle proposing increasingly more socialistic and anti-capitalistic ideas, the other side has been quick to defend our country's great economic model, with good reason.

In mid-2009 Simeon Djankov, who had dealt with a variety of economic and financial crises as chief economist for finance and private sector development at the World Bank, was suddenly thrust into the job of finance minister of his native Bulgaria.

With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis.

The Gottingen-based Sartorius family business during the Third Reich - an exemplary case of economic normality and adaptation to the regime.

The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being.

The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being.

A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian.

Selected writings from one of the most important commentators of our generation covering the wreckage of Labour's 10 year love affair with the RightBY THE SUMMER of 2007, Britain was close to crashing.

A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul Cartledge'Courageously grand in scale yet sensitive to the details that make Athens' extraordinary history come alive' Sofka Zinovieff'Bruce Clark brings an eye for the quirky, human detail, a pithy turn of phrase, and an affection for his subject honed over many decades' Roderick Beaton'Bruce Clark's enchantingly readable history revealed how little I knew' Literary ReviewDominated by the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, the ancient Greek city of Athens is for many synonymous with civilization itself.

Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s.

Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionIn Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.

The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 yearsWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket.

The Dismal Science.

The seventh in a series chronicling the remarkable history of The Times newspaper and the media mogul who bought and reshaped it in the early 1980s.

El proceso de estratificacion economica dentro de las sociedades rurales durante la Edad Media y el periodo Premoderno es el eje central de este volumen.

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Der Financial-Times-Journalist Dan McCrum hat getan, wofür eigentlich Wirtschaftsprüfer und Finanzaufsicht zuständig sind: Er hat den größten Betrug der DAX-Geschichte aufgedeckt.

El libro fundamental de José Manuel Naredo, la voz más prestigiosa de la economía ecológica en este país.

Este libro analiza las consecuencias del estilo de crecimiento peruano desde la década de 1990 y sus diferencias con lo que ocurrió entre 1950 y 1980.

Wie die Deutschen wirklich reich wurdenDeutschland ist reich, aber die gängigen Erklärungen sind falsch.

Esta tercera edicion revisada y actualizada de la ?

¿Cuáles son las causas de la pobreza?

De acuerdo a la economia institucional, las instituciones serian agentes esenciales del progreso economico y del progreso agricola.

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