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Over the past two decades there has been a prevailing shift in economic policy in many countries. This reflects the continuing rise of neo-liberalism--the doctrine that economic policy should "leave it to the market" and that governments should retreat from market intervention. This book...
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economic activity. The book promotes real-world economic issues and explores them without adopting any particular …
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Modern evolutionary economics is now nearly two decades old and in this excellent book, a distinguished group of evolutionary economists identify the most important developments and discuss the direction of future research. By moving away from traditional concerns with the operation of selection...
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This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of the first, and definitive, biographical dictionary of dissenting economists. It is an extensive and authoritative guide to economists both past and present, providing biographical, bibliographical and critical information on over 100 economists...
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This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Mark Casson's modern classic The Entrepreneur presents a novel synthesis of the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight and Friedrich Hayek, according to which the defining characteristic of the entrepreneur is the exercise of judgement in...
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"This fascinating book examines international business and multinational enterprise as part of a bigger picture, considering the importance of two main components: space and time. Summarising the past five years, Mark Casson reviews the changing role of multinational enterprises within the...
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social democratic parties throughout the world. This book is an attempt to dissect the ideas and economic theory behind the … World? -- 13. Coping with globalisation : Australian economic policy and the Third Way …
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This valuable and engaging new book bears eloquent testimony to A.P. Thirlwall's substantial contribution to economics over the last 40 years. The volume does not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of such a prolific figure, but rather demonstrates the considerable influence that his work...
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The origin of markets is a central issue in economics and economic history, but until now there has been no definitive reference source on the subject. This authoritative collection fills the gap by reprinting key papers analysing the evolution of markets over the past millennium. These papers,...
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: The Rise and Fall of a Sectarian Patriciate', in Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn (eds), The World of William Penn …, New York, NY: Octagon Books, 11-44 -- S.D. Goitein (1967), 'The World of Commerce and Finance: Part A: The Merchants and … their Employees', in A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the …
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