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In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill—even though the...
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, especially financial history. They also contain dollops of sociology and political science. Kindleberger views himself as a … reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history … between Europe and the United States), on economic or financial history, and on social science beyond the confines of …
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Designed for use by undergraduate and graduate students in sociology and MBA courses on organizational development … Organizations is recommended for graduate courses in the Sociology of Work and Organizations, and Complex Organizations, as well as …
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China is now the world’s second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world’s largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a “socialist-market economy,” suggesting that the government still plays a major role in the...
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advance in the fields of historical demography, history, and sociology. Eurasian Population and Family History series … human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is meeasured by … European standards, Prudence and Pressure develops a Eurasian perspective. Drawing on rich new data and the tools of event-history …
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countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Corden focuses on how economies react to negative and positive shocks under …
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sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only … worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational … in law, history, and philosophy. Brams's strategic exegesis of texts helps the reader relate characters' goals to their …
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When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming...
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The market for U.S. Treasury securities is a marvel of modern finance. In 2009 the Treasury auctioned $8.2 trillion of new securities, ranging from 4-day bills to 30-year bonds, in 283 offerings on 171 different days. By contrast, in the decade before World War I, there was only about $1 billion...
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repetition of history. In The Prosperity of Vice, the influential French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather than … nations? Cohen guides us through history, describing the European discovery of the “philosopher’s stone”: the possibility of …
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