Economics

This is the first study to apply to the topics of workplace democracy or change in political culture both before"e; and "e;after"e; sample survey data as well as long-term participant observation.

In a historical treatment of Mexico beginning with the pre-Revolutionary period and focusing on the administration of Lazaro Cardenas (1934-1940), Nora Hamilton explores the possibilities and limits of reform in a capitalist society.

A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure of an American colony from its founding up to the Revolution.

The problem of economic integration is treated from a purely theoretical standpoint in a manner which far exceeds in thoroughness any prior attempt to deal with this problem in a similar fashion.

THE FORGOTTEN MENTOR: Earl Shoaff, Jim Rohn and the Architecture of SuccessBefore Tony Robbins inspired millions, there was Jim Rohn.

Joseph Bowring places the dual economy in a historical context and analyzes the evolution of core and periphery competition.

Although the Soviet Union has the most abundant energy reserves of any country, energy policy has been the single most disruptive factor in its industry since the mid-1970s.

The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories.

Raymond Goldsmith's book provides annual estimates of national wealth and its components for the period 1945-1958 in current and in constant (1947-1949) prices, and on a gross (undepreciated) and net (depreciated) basis.

Florencia E.

Is it the central purpose of American antitrust policy to encourage decentralization of economic power?

A picture of a relentless drive for industrialization at the expense of living standards is presented in this authoritative comparison of the economic development of China in the Communist and pre-Communist periods.

Here is a sober consideration of the relationship between war and economics as reflected in the history of economic thought of the 19th century.

Say's Law-the idea that "e;supply creates its own demand"e;-has been a basic concept in economics for almost two centuries.

The problems connected with anti-trust policies in an economy based upon competition are many and varied.

The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in economic history.

This thought-provoking study of academic job markets over the next quarter century uses rigorous analysis to project substantial excess demand for faculty starting in the 1997-2002 period.

The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest.

In this book Richard Lester develops an analytical basis for judging sex, race, and age discrimination in professional and executive employment.

This book questions the notion that South Africa can exert effective political leverage over its economically dependent neighbors while itself remaining free of regional influences.

There exist eight reliable ways to increase poverty and the United States is now pursuing seven of them, according to Lebergott.

In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America.

Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled Soviet economy.

Making the case that population growth does not hinder economic progress and that it eventually raises standards of living, Julian Simon became one of the most controversial figures in economics during the past decade.

The groundbreaking work that transformed the way the world understands economics, trade, and society.

What are the sources of the well-known differences in the performance of capitalist and socialist economic systems?

This study of Peru's transformation from a tottering colonial economy based on extraction of precious bullion to a massive exporter of bulk goods like guano shows how a struggle between protectionists and free traders shaped the state.

Dieses Buch fuhrt in die Grundlagen der modernen Makrookonomik ein.

Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool.

In Europe after World War II, U.

Dieses Buch fuhrt in die Grundlagen der modernen Makrookonomik ein.

The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and scholarly disciplines.

As economic adviser and manager of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski observed at first hand the crisis that preceded the overthrow of the Belaunde administration on October 3, 1968.

International trade liberalization historically has taken many organizational forms--unilateral, bilateral, minilateral, and multilateral.

If any single characteristic differentiates current, neoclassical economics from the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, it is the use of mathematics.

Over the past fifty years game theory has had a major impact on the field of economics.

Peru's self-proclaimed "e;revolution"e;-surprisingly extensive reforms initiated by the military government-has aroused great interest all over Latin America and the Third World.

In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions.

In today's digital economy, a website is your global storefront.

Is globalization leading us toward a world of fewer and fewer currencies and, consequently, simplified monetary management?

Postbellum economic change in the United States required an efficient system by which capital could be transferred to areas where it was relatively scarce.

John Komlos examines the industrial expansion of Austria from a fresh viewpoint and develops a new model for the industrial revolution.

Negotiations on an international commodity policy have been the central issue on the North-South agenda for the past three years.

Governments use them to sell everything from oilfields to pollution permits, and to privatize companies; consumers rely on them to buy baseball tickets and hotel rooms, and economic theorists employ them to explain booms and busts.

In 1989, Poland became the first Eastern Bloc country to shake off the dominance of its ruling Communist party.

In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system.

In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort.

A professional outlook on Prop Firm trading.

Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer behavior.

In this provocative work, Gerald Scully develops and empirically tests a theory about how a nation's constitutional setting affects its economic growth.