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The living wage : lessons from the history of economic thought

Stabile, Donald - 2008

For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill...

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Ageing and the labor market in Japan : problems and policies

Hamada, Kōichi (contributor); Katō, Hiromi (contributor) - 2007

1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor …

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Economic liberalization, distribution, and poverty : Latin America in the 1990s

Taylor, Lance (contributor); Vos, Rob (contributor); … - 2002

Barros and Rob Vos -- 3. Argentina : macroeconomic behaviour, employment and income distribution in the 1990s / Roberto … Henrique Corseuil -- 5. Chile : trade liberalization, employment and inequality / José de Gregorio ... [et al.] -- 6 Colombia …-of-payments liberalization, remittances, employment and poverty / Alexander Segovia and Jeannette Larde -- 9. Mexico : trade liberalization …

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New directions in the study of work and employment : revitalizing industrial relations as an academic enterprise

Whalen, Charles J. (contributor) - 2008

Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations...

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Productivity in Asia : economic growth and competitiveness

Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau (contributor); … - 2007

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial...

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Conversations on growth, stability and trade : an historical perspective

Snowdon, Brian - 2002

1. Introduction : the world economy in historical perspective -- 2. Economic growth and development : a very long-run view -- 3. Growth theories : old and new -- 4. Managing aggregate economic instability : from Keynes to Lucas -- 5. International economic integration in the Second Global Age.

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The new economy and beyond : past, present and future

Jansen, Dennis W. (contributor) - 2006

What is the New Economy, what makes it new, and what are the implications for antitrust, regulation and macroeconomic policy? Providing a non-technical and compelling analysis of the modern macro-economy, the contributors to this volume, eminent scholars all, provide their views on the New...

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Organizational innovations and economic growth : organosis and growth of firms, sectors, and countries

Sanidas, Elias - 2005

Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of …1. Introduction -- 2. Organizational innovations from the 1860s in the USA and Japan -- 3. The role of OIs in the … the USA and Japan -- 7. Empirical evidence on the links between industrial sectoral growth and the Lean Production System …

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The future of economic growth : as new becomes old

Boyer, Robert - 2004

In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the "new economy" and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story that also requires understanding of the...

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World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin

Tobin, James - 2003

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851797

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