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The handbook of technology foresight : concepts and practice

Georghiou, Luke (ed.) - 2008

Foresight has emerged as a key instrument for the development and implementation of research and innovation policy. The main focus of activity has been at the national level. Governments have sought to set priorities, to build networks between science and industry and, in some cases, to change...

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Globalization and the environment : risk assessment and the WTO

Kellow, Aynsley John (contributor); … - 2001

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with:...

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30 years of transition in Europe : looking back and looking beyond in CESEE countries

Holzmann, Robert (ed.); Ritzberger-Grünwald, Doris (ed.); … - 2020

Contents: Preface -- PART I A historic transformation: heterogeneity in CESEE in a changing global context -- 1 Looking back on 30 years of transition - and looking 30 years ahead / Robert Holzmann -- 2 1989: the year of the great ambivalence / Anton Pelinka -- 3 The price of unity: the...

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The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good : interdisciplinary perspectives

Akrivou, Kleio (contributor); Sison, Alejo G. (contributor) - 2016

Introduction / Kleio Akrivou -- Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the …'s influence in western history / Agustín González Enciso -- 2. The 'medieval', the common good and accounting / Alisdair Dobie … inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue. Editors Kleio Akrivou and Alejo José G …

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Research handbook of expatriates

McNulty, Yvonne (contributor); Selmer, Jan (contributor) - 2017

Contents: Foreword / J. Stewart Black -- Part I History of expatriate studies and its current state of play -- 1 … expatriates / Yvonne McNulty and Chris Brewster -- 3. Expatriates : a thematic research history / Jan Selmer -- Part II Historical … the field's most distinguished academics, contributions review the history of the literature in relation to expatriates …

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Conversations on growth, stability and trade : an historical perspective

Snowdon, Brian - 2002

debates in economic history. The author examines the many controversies relating to the role of government in a modern economy …

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Global control : information technology and globalization since 1845

McMahon, Peter - 2002

1. Social organization, control and information technology -- 2. Telecommunications and the nineteenth-century liberal-international world order -- 3. Information technology and US industro-military development -- 4. Telematics and the post-war international order -- 5. Telematics as a...

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Markets versus hierarchies : a political economy of Russia from the 10th century to 2008

Brancato, Ekaterina - 2009

This unique book uses a transaction cost perspective to illustrate how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and present-day Russia

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The economics and ideology of free trade : a historical review

Gomes, Leonard - 2003

The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade makes an important contribution to the debate on globalization by providing much needed intellectual and historical perspective on the issue of Free Trade versus Protection

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A comparative history of central bank behavior : consistency in monetary policy in the US and UK

Wood, John H. - 2022

and US over the course of the last two centuries. Professors and students of finance will find A Comparative History of …

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