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During the current economic crisis recurring questions on the validity of the liberal economic system have resurfaced concerning the role of the state and the free market, the proactive use of fiscal policies, economic nationalism, and environmental sustainability. However, due to the depth and...
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The growth of neo-liberalism has been the dominant political force in the past two decades. This volume concentrates on understanding the political economy of neo-liberalism. It focuses on a number of the most critical issues and examines the essence of neo-liberalism, namely, the dominance of...
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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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This unique book compares the effects of globalization on two differing Latin American countries, Argentina and Chile … political crises in Argentina and Chile. The contributors offer a pioneering comparative study of the complex and non … Globalization on Argentina and Chile will be a valuable resource for economic and business historians, Latin Americanists, and …
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: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru … Henrique Corseuil -- 5. Chile : trade liberalization, employment and inequality / José de Gregorio ... [et al.] -- 6 Colombia …
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1. The place of science in society : progress, pragmatism, pluralism -- 2. Thorstein Veblen on the origins and meaning of private property -- 3. Capital and the modern corporation -- 4. Pecuniary institutions : their role and effects -- 5. Veblen's missing theory of markets and exchange, or, Can...
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Contents: 1. Towards radical subjects: Workplace spirituality as neoliberal governance in American business / James Dennis LoRusso -- 2. Running to stay in the same place? Personal development work and the production of neoliberal subjectivity among Israel's "last republican generation" / Ariel...
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The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do? And if not, how should it be changed? This book raises a set of provocative questions that encourage readers to look at the economics major in a different light than it is...
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'Whatever happened to the Swedish model? Once the prime example of a Nordic welfare state, Sweden's labour market is now a highly individualized competitive arena. With attention to detail as well as global trends, this important book describes the dismantling of the Swedish welfare state across...
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Richard Ebeling's insightful and highly readable book explains and applies the ideas of the Austrian economists to a wide range of contemporary public policy issues. He combines intellectual political-economic history with the modern Austrian theory of the market process to challenge the...
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