Economic systems and structures

Thirty years after its global triumph, neo-liberalism is an abject failure.

Gerard Comeau, a retiree living in rural New Brunswick, never thought his booze run would turn him into a Canadian hero.

From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments.

From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments.

During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "e;mania.

El 8 de marzo de 2012 se constituyó en La Paz, Baja California Sur la Coalición Sudcaliforniana frente el G-20, coadyuvante de las Coaliciones Mexicana e Internacional frente al G-20, en la organización de la Cumbre de los Pueblos alternativa a la Cumbre del Capital que se desarrollaría en Los Cabos los días 18 y 19 de junio de ese año.

Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing - with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call 'the economy'.

Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing - with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call 'the economy'.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum (1980) provides an analysis of the relevance of the Soviet planning system to oil production levels: why it is that planning has been the source of so many petroleum industry problems, and the nature of the measures that are being taken to overcome them.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum (1980) provides an analysis of the relevance of the Soviet planning system to oil production levels: why it is that planning has been the source of so many petroleum industry problems, and the nature of the measures that are being taken to overcome them.

Lo más importante es que no es una buena idea cambiar el régimen económico de la Constitución vigente en la dirección que proponen sus principales críticos, que es elevar la participación del Estado en la economía creando más empresas públicas o eliminar la categoría constitucional de los contratos.

Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam.

Multilevel marketing and pyramid schemes promote the idea that participants can easily become rich.

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society.

Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed.

Sovereign debt crises are a little like the weather: One can get ready to endure them and maybe take some steps to lessen their impact, but so far it hasn't been possible to prevent them.

The answer to remaining competitive and keeping steady growth for your business is not ground-breaking, business-altering innovations, but by simply making one tweak at a time.

Transport is key to our daily lives.

Addressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societiesRapid technological change-likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic-is reshaping economies and how they grow.

From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults-about ten million people-lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments.

All you need to execute a project perfectlyA new edition of the classic project management book is here, revised and updated with even more guidelines and real-world examples.

Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics.

This report examines how existing implementation structures established under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and National Government investment programs could be used to channel subnational government resources toward priority infrastructure investments more effectively.

This publication highlights how public-private partnerships (PPPs) can be effective to meet Asia's growing infrastructure needs.

Imagine thinking about your company's information technology in the same way that you think about its investment portfolio: as a bundle of assets thatwhen managed rightwill generate revenues and savings.

Occupational Health Practice is a comprehensive account of the practice of protecting and improving the health of people at work, with some emphasis on the special needs of workers in developing countries.

Process and input-output analysis have emerged as the two principal methods of analyzing health risks of energy technologies.

The combined budgets of the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and every other development organization in the world make up just a drop of the economic fuel needed to power billions of people into greater prosperity.

Introducing a Powerful New Business Model for Today's ITBlogger, speaker, software executive, and bestselling author Jill Dyche has been thinking about leadership a lot lately.

Understand value stream mapping in no time!

The highly anticipated follow up to The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure-the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestsellerThe Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure reveals the integrated principles he sees as critical to the success of any leader--all of which are modern day reflections of the American Founders' concept of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything-and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing.

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches.

The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers, engineers, security specialists, managers, building and grounds superintendents, and/or supervisors and responsible-managers-in-charge.

The sixth of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Dam Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise U.

Agriculture represents one of America's critical infrastructures.

Underwriting Services and the New Issues Market integrates practice, theory and evidence from the global underwriting industry to present a comprehensive description and analysis of underwriting practices.

Neoliberalism is based on the systematic use of state power to impose, under the veil of 'non-intervention', a hegemonic project of recomposition of capitalist rule in most areas of social life.

Japan's economy is invariably seen as a prime example of a capitalist system, and a consideration of the elements upon which the Japanese economy is founded seems to lead inexorably to the conclusion that Japan is an established member of the group of highly developed capitalist nations.

The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced.

Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband.

First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of 'specificity', general theory and social change.

This book provides the analysis on capital markets in China, focusing attention upon (1) the bubble phenomena (whether or not a Chinese bubble really exists and might burst), (2) foreign direct investment and (3) integration, through all of which we could recognize the current situation and the future prospects of Chinese marketization.

An exploration of product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable benefits as improved environmental conditions or more equitable market transactions.