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Change and the Planning System, from <i>The New Industrial State</i>
Galbraith, John Kenneth - Princeton University Press
a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand …
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Analytic Narratives
Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; … - Princeton University Press
Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important...
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Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; Jean-Laurent - Princeton University Press
Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important...
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Introduction to Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European Gap
Gregory, Mary; Salverda, Wiemer; Schettkat, Ronald - Princeton University Press
Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically … Europe's 25 million "missing" jobs can be attributed almost entirely to its relative lack of service jobs. The jobs gap is … greater rate than Europe? <i>Services and Employment</i> is the first systematic and comprehensive international comparison on …
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Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650
Gelderblom, Oscar - Princeton University Press
all over Europe. Cities of Commerce intervenes in an important debate on the growth of trade in Europe before the …
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Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries
Kander, Astrid; Malanima, Paolo; Warde, Paul - Princeton University Press
development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern … Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the … eighteenth century--fueled by coal and steam engines--redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world …
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Introduction
Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity....
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Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy
Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity....
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Introduction
Berghahn, Volker R. - Princeton University Press
rebuild Europe’s economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in …
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Introduction
Greif, Avner; Kiesling, Lynne; Nye, John V. C. - Princeton University Press
, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning …
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