Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
America Unraveled
2008-2012 the Political, Cultural and Economic Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Most Americans are concerned about their politicians inability to identify, much less solve their nations problems. America Unraveled explores a number of Americas most pressing social issues, the economy, justice system, culture, and many historical events occurring between 2008 and 2012. Incompetence...
Global Commodity Governance
State Responses to Sustainable Forest and Fisheries Certification
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Forest and the Marine Stewardship Councils constitute new global governance institutions using voluntary certification and labelling as market incentives to encourage sustainable management. Utilizing a comparative political economic framework, the authors analyse shifting British, Canadian and Australian responses to the stewardship councils.
by Chi Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Since the beginning of the 21st century, China's energy diplomacy has been expanding rapidly and the country is searching for energy resources worldwide. This movement has not only improved China's energy security and international relations, but also enabled the Chinese national oil companies (NOCs)...
China Joins Global Governance
Cooperation and Contentions
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
For many years, political leaders and analysts have debated the impacts of China’s rise on the stability of the existing international system. International observers have also debated whether China would be a status quo power or a revisionist power, and whether China would observe the rules and...
The New Rich in China
Future rulers, present lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification...
Intervention de l'État en économie
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2017
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The concept of employability has provided a foundation for much current labour market policy. It has also provided a useful framework for analyzing national and urban labour markets and related policies in a variety of different circumstances both for those in and out of work.
The papers in...
by Kathleen Thelen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties...
by George F. Warren, Frank A. Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in the US to the reestablishment of the gold standard in many European countries and resulting deflation. The authors' recommendations were successfully implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Gold, Credit and Employment
Four Essays for Laymen
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Originally published in 1930, the essays in this book discuss some of the leading financial controversies of the early 1930s in non-technical language. Rationalisation, the Gold Standard and the problems of currency and credit in their relation to unemployment are among the questions discussed. The...
The New International Division of Labour
Global Transformation and Uneven Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various...
Afghanistan
Transition under Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Many have questioned the wisdom of the international intervention in Afghanistan in light of the escalation of violence and instability in the country in the past few years. Particularly uncertain are Canadians, who have been inundated with media coverage of an increasingly dirty war in southern Afghanistan,...
Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie
Theorie der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Im Mittelpunkt des Werks "Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie" stehen der Wert der Waren in seiner doppelten Darstellungsform von Gebrauchswert und Tauschwert, die konkrete und die abstrakte Arbeit, die Arbeitszeit als quantitatives Maß der Arbeit, das Geld, die Zirkulation, Akkumulation,...
Lohn, Preis und Profit
Schriften zur Volkswirtschaftslehre: Mehrwerttheorie
Language: German
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Lohn, Preis und Profit" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Karl Marx (1818-1883) war ein Philosoph, Ökonom, Gesellschaftstheoretiker, politischer Journalist, Protagonist der Arbeiterbewegung sowie...