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Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies : And Other Pricing Puzzles
McKenzie, Richard D. (contributor) - 2008
'Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies, and Other Pricing Puzzles' seeks to unravel an array of pricing puzzles from the one captured in the book’s title to why so many prices end with '9' (as in $2.99 or $179) to why ink cartridges can cost as much as printers to why stores use sales,...
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Data you need to know about China : Research Report of China Household Finance Survey•2012
Gan, Li - 2014
Since the beginning of the 21st century, China has been experiencing a dramatically rapid economic development. What is … the real life of Chinese people like under China’s steady GDP fast growth? How rich are the rich and how poor are the poor … questions. The Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance conducted the first and only nationally representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016889
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China 2030
Hu Angang - 2014
Brief Introduction -- 1 China’s Dream and Roadmap -- China’s Dream: Common prosperity and a harmonious world -- China …: A society with common wealth -- Common prosperity for China and the world -- Co-existence and prosperity between man and … nature -- China’s roadmap -- Logic of China’s development -- Theme and structure of the book -- 2 A world of Common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014020395
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Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages : The Unreliable Data, Sources and Methods that have been used for Measuring Standards of Living in the Past
Hatcher, John (ed.); Stephenson, Judy Z. (ed.) - 2018
Acceptable Data for Nominal and Real Wages for Pre-Modern China? -- Chapter 4: What is Wrong with the History of Wages? Or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397048
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Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran : Developments since the Revolution
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (ed.); Alaedini, Pooya (ed.) - 2016
This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic...
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Industrial Clusters, Institutions and Poverty in Nigeria : The Otigba Information and Communications Technology Cluster
Oyeyinka, Oyebanke - 2017
This book provides a systematic examination of the relationship between industrial clusters and poverty, which is analyzed using a multidimensional framework. It examines the often-neglected concept of social protection as a means of mitigating the risks and vulnerabilities faced by workers and...
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The Good Society : A Comparative Study of Denmark and Switzerland
Christoffersen, Henrik - 2014
Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Quality of Life in Two Different Good Societies: Denmark and Switzerland -- 2 Two Wealthy Economies and Their Development -- 3 Are the Standards of Living Similar or Dissimilar?- 4 Happiness in Denmark and Switzerland.- Part II: Two Models of Good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017153
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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement : Concepts and Applications
Wagle, Udaya - 2008
Multidimensional approaches have increasingly been used to understand poverty, but have yet to be fully operationalized. This methodical and important book uses factor analysis and structural equations modelling to develop a multidimensional framework that integrates capability and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521139
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Britain, Europe and EMU
Eltis, Walter - 2000
This book shows how the transformation of Britain's economic performance has been based on control of public expenditure, improving competitiveness, co-operative industrial relations and a large favourable contribution from inward investment. In contrast, Europe has suffered from rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054278
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Just Enough : The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency
Ingleby, Matthew (ed.); Randalls, Samuel (ed.) - 2019
This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of ‘enough’. Acknowledging the prominence of notions of sufficiency in debates about sustainability, it argues for a more complex, culturally and historically informed understanding of how these might be manifested across...
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