Technology and U.S. Competitiveness

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• Technology and U.S. global competitiveness is a major concern today, and yet there is no study that surveys the key issues describing federal and stat... Lees meer

Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-1949

C X George Wei

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• The economic relationship between the U.S. and China during the 1940s has long been neglected, with few scholarly works focusing on the period. This e... Lees meer

Famine in Peasant Societies.

Ronald E Seavoy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• In this controversial study, Seavoy offers a new approach to the problem of periodic peacetime famine based on the actual behavior of peasants. He mai... Lees meer

Silver and Gold

Steven P Reti

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History | nr. 194
• For many observers of international politics, the classical gold standard is the premier example of successful international monetary cooperation. Cur... Lees meer

The Rise of a New World Economic Power

Y Dolly Hwang

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• In the most comprehensive analysis of Taiwan's economic development available to date, Y. Dolly Hwang traces the economic, political, and historical f... Lees meer

The Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates

Gregory R Woirol, Gregory Ray Worrol

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• The two historical debates studied here are concerned with the impact of technological change on unemployment and on the economy generally. The topic ... Lees meer

Aspirations and Realities

James L Wiles, Richard B Finnegan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• Focusing on the period since Irish independence, this documentary history provides a record of the policies the Irish government has followed to encou... Lees meer

Opening the West

Laurence J Malone

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History | nr. 196
• Following Frederick Jackson Turner's lead, most economic historians assume the West and its people were shaped by economic determinism. This study pro... Lees meer

Latin American Merchant Shipping in the Age of Global Competition

Rene de la Pedraja

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History | nr. 209
• Although Latin America had a substantial merchant fleet by the 1950s, at the end of the century most of the major shipping companies have disappeared ... Lees meer

Marxism and Workers' Self-Management

David L Prychitko

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• This book comes to terms with Marxism and its relationship to workers' self-management. David L. Prychitko offers a reinterpretation of Marx's vision ... Lees meer

Oil and Coffee

Rene de la Pedraja

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History | nr. 206
• Latin Americans as sailors? This remark caused laughter among 19th-century foreign observers, particularly British observers. Yet, Latin Americans did... Lees meer

American Trade Policy, 1923-1995

Edward S Kaplan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• This work covers trade policy from 1923 to 1995 taking the history of American tariffs from the Prelude to Trade Wars to the present. It begins during... Lees meer

Dollars Through the Doors

Richard Germain

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• By the 1930s, banks in America had transformed themselves from passive responders to aggressive seekers of business, converting toward a market orient... Lees meer

Electricity in the American Economy

Sam H Schurr, Calvin C Burwell, Warren D Devine

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• Electricity has penetrated deeply into virtually every aspect of American life, be it in industry, the home, or in the rapidly growing commercial and ... Lees meer

Perspectives on an Economic Future

Shripad Pendse

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• The decade of the 1990s has opened on a note of major change, with events in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and South Africa moving at an astonishi... Lees meer

Ideology and Utopia in the Social Philosophy of the Libertarian Economists

Rick Tilman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• Challenging the libertarians' definition of freedom and democracy , this study portrays the social philosophy of Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Frie... Lees meer

Corporate Hegemony

William M Dugger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• With the continuing consolidation of corporate holdings through wave after wave of mergers and acquisitions, the ubiquitous power of major corporation... Lees meer

Workforce Management in the Arabian Peninsula

Patrick Montana, George Roukis

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• This timely volume contains a series of informative and thought-provoking articles by experts in their fields. Together they provide a detailed assess... Lees meer

Information Technology as Business History

James W Cortada

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• This comprehensive overview of the history of computing and its industry, and of commercial applications of the computer also outlines the history of ... Lees meer

Soviet Economy Today

Novosti

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• Fifteen Soviet spokesmen report on the current state of their nation's economy. Lees meer

Economic Models and Methodology

Randall G Holcombe, William Obrien

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• The world is too complex for anyone to ever hope to understand all of its interrelationships simultaneously. Yet small aspects of the world we live in... Lees meer

The Theory of Aggregate Investment in Closed Economic Systems

Kofi K Dompere, K K Dompere

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History
• Although economic theory has increased our understanding of some economic problems, it has rendered others, including the problem of capital accumulat... Lees meer

Machines and Economic Growth

Natalie McPherson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History | nr. 156
• This book demonstrates the historical relationship between growth and mechanization since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in light of class... Lees meer

Poverty, Female-Headed Households, and Sustainable Economic Development

Kartik Roy, Nerina Vecchio

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Economics and Economic History | nr. 190
• This book examines female-headed households (FHHs) in the world economy, aspects of their poverty, and the implications of those for sustainable devel... Lees meer