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Culture and Institutions in the Economic Growth of Japan
Teranishi, Juro - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
1 The culture and institutions of Japan -- 2 Mental models and the cost of institutions -- 3 The process of long …-term growth before the Meiji Restoration -- 4 Religious changes in Kamakura-era Japan -- 5 Institutions and trust level during the … Restoration -- 8 Culture and collective behavior in Japan -- References -- Indices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012400011
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Rules, Contracts and Law Enforcement in the Ottoman Empire : The Case of Tax-Farming Contracts
Altay, Bora; Oğuz, Fuat - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
1 The Rule of Law in the Historical Context -- 2 The Institutional Change: Historical Background -- 3 Fundamental economic indicators of the Ottoman Economy -- 4 A comparison with European societies under the State Finance -- 5 Tax -farming contracts -- 6 Law and economics of tax-farming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650533
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Whatever Happened to the Third World? : A History of the Economics of Development
de Haan, Peter - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Whatever happened to the Third World -- Chapter 3: What preceded development economics -- Chapter 4: The first generation of development economists -- Chapter 5: The second generation of development economists -- Chapter 6: Main components of the third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399496
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Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2017
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723200
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Introduction to Buddhist Economics : The Relevance of Buddhist Values in Contemporary Economy and Society
Ng, Ernest C. H - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
1. What is Buddhist Economics? -- 2. The Four Noble Truths: A Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Framework -- 3. What is the Problem with the Market Economy? -- 4. Drivers behind the Shortcomings of the Market Economy -- 5. Buddhist Economics Theory -- 6. Buddhist Ethics and Moral Life -- 7....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399167
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Corporate Conservatives Go to War : How the National Association of Manufacturers Planned to Restore American Free Enterprise, 1939–1948
Whitham, Charlie - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The war before the war: Limiting the New Deal, 1933-39 -- Chapter 3: Making the most of mobilization, 1939-41 -- Chapter 4: Life on the Periphery, 1941-43 -- Chapter 5: Coming in from the cold: post-war visions crystalize, 1944-45 -- Chapter 6: From strength...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399437
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Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China
Tahir, Pervez - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019.
produced a long list of writings on China between the 1950's to the 1970's. These writings were neither theoretical nor … China’s development, Joan Robinson's interpretation and predictions, and how her 1950's lectures in China match up to China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399120
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The Political and Economic History of North Cyprus : A Discordant Polity
Ekici, Tufan - 2019
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What kind of Polity? -- Chapter 3: Economic and Institutional Foundations of Turkish Cypriot Governance and the ‘ITEM’ Law -- Chapter 4: From Separation to Convergence: The Economic Development of the Republic of Cyprus and Turkification of Northern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398492
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Coordination, Cooperation, and Control : The Evolution of Economic and Political Power
Holcombe, Randall G. - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
1. The Concept of Power -- 2. Political Power -- 3. Economic Power -- 4. The Separation of Economic from Political Power -- 5. Power in Pre-Agricultural Societies -- 6. Power in Agrarian and Feudal Societies -- 7. Institutions That Support Commerce and Industry -- 8. Power in Commercial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399560
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Money and Government : A Study of China and Japan from a Historical Perspective
Sui, Qing-yuan - 2022
-- Chapter 3. The Divergence between China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Worst Currency or The Best Arrangement? -- Chapter 5. An …This is the first book to focus comparatively on the development processes of finance in China and Japan during the … China and Japan started from a similar pre-modern situation in the middle of 19th century in that the monetary conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163621