Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 289
Cover Image
Global governance and the role of the EU : assessing the future balance of power
Villafranca, Antonio (contributor);  … - 2011
Three years after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, economic growth has resurfaced across the world, but with significant variation. This timely book illustrates that although mature economies (the EU in particular) are still confronting sluggish economic performance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850619
Cover Image
The rise of China and structural changes in Korea and Asia
Hahn, Chin-hŭi (contributor); Itō, Takatoshi (contributor) - 2010
pt. 1. China as a growth engine of Asia and the world -- pt. 2. Impacts on Korea's economy -- pt. 3. Impacts on Korean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850715
Cover Image
Social innovations, institutional change and economic performance : making sense of structural adjustment processes in industrial sectors, regions and societies
Hämäläinen, Timo J. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420026
Cover Image
Handbook of employment and society : working space
Herod, Andrew (contributor); Rainnie, Al (contributor);  … - 2010
This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851009
Cover Image
Work after globalization : building occupational citizenship
Standing, Guy - 2009
1. Work and labour in great transformations -- 2. Fictitious decommodification : the failure of industrial citizenship -- 3. Labour recommodification in the global transformation -- 4. Inequality, class and the 'precariat' -- 5. Crumbling barriers to decommodification -- 6. Occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851023
Cover Image
The globalization of the Chinese economy
Wen, Guanzhong James (contributor);  … - 2002
This forward-looking volume offers insights into the globalization of the Chinese economy and its accession to the WTO …. The contributors provide updated accounts of recent developments in the Chinese economy and examines the implications of …pt. 1. Transformation in the Chinese economy -- pt. 2. Social implications -- pt. 3. Linkage with the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851883
Cover Image
Crisis or recovery in Japan : state and industrial economy
Bailey, David (contributor); Coffey, Dan (contributor);  … - 2007
Japanese economy / Donald W. Katzner -- The cause of Japan's recession and the lessons for the world / Richard A. Werner … -- Globalization and the Japanese subcontractor system / Ulrike Schaede -- Institutionally driven growth and stagnation - and struggle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420068
Cover Image
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David B. (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2009
, José A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1992), 'Growth in Cities', Journal of Political Economy, 100 (6), 1126-52 -- Jane … Jacobs (1969), 'How New Work Begins', in The Economy of Cities, Chapter 2, New York, NY: Vintage Books (Random House), 49 … Political Economy, Chapter VI, 4th Edition, Philadelphia, PA: Grigg and Elliott [translated by C.R. Prinsep], 79-85 -- William J …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852273
Cover Image
Media, development and institutional change
Coyne, Christopher J. - 2009
Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851126
Cover Image
Economic reform in developing countries : reach, range, reason
Fanelli, José María (contributor); Squire, Lyn (contributor) - 2008
This book offers insights into the process of economic reform in developing countries. It is organized around three factors that are critical to the success of any reform. According to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, these key dimensions are Reach, Range, and Reason. "Reach" refers to the ability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851651