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<i>In Gold We Trust</i> is a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry--even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe's...
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growth, 1000-1800 -- 3. Between feudalism and freedom, 1000-1350 -- 4. Capitalism and civil society in late Medieval Holland …, 1350-1566 -- 5. A capitalist revolution? The Dutch revolt, 1566-1609 -- 6. New capitalism at home and overseas -- 7. The … Republican State and "varieties of capitalism" -- 8. Capitalism and inequality in the eighteenth century -- 9. Conclusion …
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capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China …
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capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China …
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writers teach better than anyone. Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a freewheeling dialogue between economics … and the humanities by addressing a wide range of problems drawn from the economics of higher education, the economics of … the family -- The ultimate question : case study 3--why do some countries develop faster than others? : economics, culture …
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In mainstream economics, and particularly in New Keynesian macroeconomics, the booms and busts that characterize … capitalism arise because of large external shocks. The combination of these shocks and the slow adjustments of wages and prices …
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around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this … of capitalism is the human resource departments of large corporations, where changes in markets and technology turn into …
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capitalism but Westernization, and "new dirigistes" who oppose not Westernization but capitalism. In response, Lal contends that … capitalism doesn't have to lead to Westernization, as the examples of Japan, China, and India show, and that "new dirigiste … bases his case on a historical account of the rise of capitalism and globalization in the first two liberal international …
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are certainly part of economics, but <i>Moral Markets</i> shows how the rules of market exchange have evolved to promote …</i> provides a surprising and fundamentally new view of economics--one that also reconnects the field to Adam Smith's position that … Smith (winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics), and Bart Wilson; law professors Oliver Goodenough, Erin O’Hara, and …
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<i>From Communists to Foreign Capitalists</i> explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a...
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