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Management Consultancy and the British State : A Historical Analysis Since 1960

Weiss, Antonio - 2019

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking...

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Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility : Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management

Burton, Nicholas (ed.); Turnbull, Richard (ed.) - 2019

This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility, as well as to...

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UK Business and Financial Cycles Since 1660 : Volume I: A Narrative Overview

Dimsdale, Nicholas; Thomas, Ryland - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019

1. Introduction -- 2. Business, Monetary and Credit Cycles in Theory -- 3. Statistical and Econometric Analysis of the Cycle -- 4. GDP data for Analysing Business Cycles -- 5. Metrics and Turning Points of Cycles 1660-2018 -- 6. A Narrative History of UK Business Cycles -- 7. Conclusions

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The Prince of Slavers : Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698–1732

Mitchell, Matthew David - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade under the Royal African Company Monopoly -- Chapter 3: Morice’s Peers: The Early British Separate Traders -- Chapter 4: Morice’s Beginnings:1704-1719 -- Chapter 5: Morice at the Peak, 1720-1727 -- Chapter 6:...

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Contracts and Pay : Work in London Construction 1660–1785

Stephenson, Judy Z. - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

Chapter 1: A short history of builder’s wages in Economic History -- Chapter 2: The market for building -- Chapter 3: Contractors -- Chapter 4: Contracts and ways of working in the building trades -- Chapter 5: What did bosses (in London construction) do? -- Chapter 6: Contracts and Pay at St....

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Bills of Union : Money, Empire and Ambitions in the Mid-Eighteenth Century British Atlantic

Graham, Aaron - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...

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Brazil-China Relations in the 21st Century : The Making of a Strategic Partnership

Rocha, Maurício Santoro - 2022

Commodities Boom and the Sino-Brazilian Trade -- Chapter 3. The Chinese Are Coming: China´s Investments in Brazil -- Chapter 4 …. China, the Amazon and Climate Diplomacy -- Chapter 5. The Dragon and the Captain: China in the perspective of Brazil … diplomatic ties with Mao’s China. By then, Chinese communists were interested in learning from Brazil’s industrialization …

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Political Economy of Reform in China

Kajitani, Kai; Kamo, Tomoki - 2022

: Evaluating the sustainability of Innovation in China from the Perspective of Institutional Economics -- Chap.3: Political Capital … and Enterprise Performance in China: Empirical Analysis Using Data from the People’s Congress of Yangzhou City and …This book contains four research papers that clarify the issues behind China's rapid economic growth, using empirical …

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China's Renaissance: Global Strategies in 21st Century

Zhou, Tianyong - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

Development: Global Strategy of the Balance of Population Potential and Resource -- Chapter III Global Warming and China …’s Development -- Part II Strengthening the External Competitiveness of China -- Chapter IV The Current situation and Gaps of China …’s Competitiveness in Science and Technology -- Part III China’s Trade and Monetary Strategies Chapter V China’s Trade in Economic …

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Spirit of the Silk Road : Chinese Trade and Investment throughout the Eurasian Corridor

Bai, Yongxiu; Wang, Songji - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

Industrial Cooperation and Upgrading -- 5 Construction and Upgrading of Urbanization in Western China -- 6 Regionalization and … book which will interest scholars of geopolitics, of economic growth, and of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Dr. Yongxiu … Bai is professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Economics and Management at China’s Northwest University, and a …

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