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The early history of financial economics, 1478-1776 : from commercial arithmetic to life annuities and joint stocks
Poitras, Geoffrey - 2000
invaluable to scholars of financial economics and the history of economic thought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473873
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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record
Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001
The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851212
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The life and times of J. Neville Keynes : a beacon in the tempest
Deane, Phyllis - 2001
This fascinating biography of an economist who was also a logician and administrator, is based mainly upon his virtually continuous diary. The diary provides an intimate commentary on the academic developments and conflicts in which he was closely involved as well as on his life as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851772
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420073
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537820
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416716
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419817
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419930
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420112
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850770