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The Rise of Empires : The Political Economy of Innovation
Ramesh, Sangaralingam - 2018
This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...
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Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe
Bellavitis, Anna - 2018
In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...
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Economic Development in the Twenty-first Century : Lessons for Africa Throughout History
Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2019
: Mercantilism as a world economic order -- Part III: African Experience in the Long Run -- Chapter 6: Medieval African economies …
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Macroeconomic Forecasting in the Era of Big Data : Theory and Practice
Fuleky, Peter (ed.) - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020
Introduction: Sources and Types of Big Data for Macroeconomic Forecasting -- Capturing Dynamic Relationships: Dynamic Factor Models -- Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressions, Panel VARs, and Global VARs -- Large Bayesian Vector Autoregressions -- Volatility Forecasting in a Data Rich...
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Confucian Capitalism : Shibusawa Eiichi, Business Ethics, and Economic Development in Meiji Japan
Sagers, John H. - 2018
With the life story of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of the most important financiers and industrialists in modern Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challenges of importing modern business enterprises to Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered...
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Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society : The Japanese Experience
Yamada, Toshio - 2018
This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the … the world economy including today’s neoliberal trend. The original benefits of the book consist in 1) reviving a Japanese …) offering theoretical reflections on the conception of the world economy. Consequently, the author pays special attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396839
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Poland From Partitions to EU Accession : A Modern Economic History, 1772–2004
Koryś, Piotr - 2018
industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the … Consolidation from Above and the Fragmentation of the State (1795-1830) -- Chapter 5: On the Peripheries of the Modern Western World …: Polish lands during World War II (1939-1945) -- Chapter 10: Communist Modernization?: Economic Development of Poland between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396969
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China's economic rise : lessons from Japan's political economy
Ramesh, Sangaralingam - 2020
1. Introduction -- 2. The Kamakura Period (1185AD-1333AD) -- 3. The Muromachi Period (1333AD-1568AD) & Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568AD-1600AD) -- 4. The Tokugawa Period (1600AD-1868AD) -- 5. The Meiji Period (1868AD-1912AD) -- 6. The Taisho Period (1912AD-1926AD) -- 7. The Showa Period...
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Historical Perspectives on Chinese Economics (1949–2011)
Zhang, Zhuoyuan (ed.) - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Security Theoretical System -- Chapter 25 The Deepening and Development of the Theory on Opening Up to the Outside World in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399835
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Managing Information in the Roman Economy
Rosillo-López, Cristina (ed.); García Morcillo, Marta (ed.) - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
Century BC -- 6. Domum pestilentem vendo: Real Estate Market and Information Asymmetry in the Roman World -- 7. Marriage and … -- Part 4: Trade and Financial Markets -- 10. Information Landscapes and Economic Practice in the Roman World -- 11. Roman …This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing …
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