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The European Enterprise : Historical Investigation into a Future Species
Schröter, Harm G. (contributor) - 2008
Though in its infancy, the European enterprise has the power to change both the perception and the actual face of Europe. This book evaluates the future potential of this new type of enterprise. The contributors look for European convergence at all levels of the economy: firm, branch, state, and...
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Wie wirtschaftet die Welt? : Von der ersten Arbeitsteilung zur Globalisierung
Kalus, Kunigunde - 2017
Zukunft gestalten: Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftspolitik -- So läuft es rund: Der Wirtschaftskreislauf. … Nachfrage, der Umgang mit Geld, das Gesetz der Massenproduktion bis hin zu Wirtschaftspolitik und jüngster Finanzkrise … gestalten: Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftspolitik So läuft es rund: Der Wirtschaftskreislauf Die Autorin Kunigunde Kalus war 20 …
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Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy : New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975
Hall, David - 2017
This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396803
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The Rise and Fall of Korea’s Economic Development : Lessons for Developing and Developed Economies
Jwa, Sung-Hee - 2017
This book provides a unique and refreshing look at the Korean economy over the past 60 years. While most books and articles on the Korean economy would be technical or specifically address some aspect of Korea, this text takes a overarching view of Korea’s economic development. It assesses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397457
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German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Plumpe, Werner - 2016
German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398130
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Americanization of the European Economy : A compact survey of American economic influence in Europe since the 1880s
Schröter, Harm G. (contributor) - 2005
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An Economist’s Guide to Economic History
Blum, Matthias (ed.); Colvin, Christopher L. (ed.) - 2018
Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding ‘how we got here’. Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics...
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Japan and the Great Divergence : A Short Guide
Francks, Penelope - 2016
This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397128
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Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History : Volume 1
Hall, Joshua (ed.); Witcher, Marcus (ed.) - 2018
This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides fresh...
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