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BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis - National Economic Accounts
United States / Bureau of Economic Analysis
(GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending, and personal saving. …
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The State of Welfare
Glennerster, Howard; Hills, J. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
Reform of the welfare state is at the centre of political debate. In a new book, CASEmembers analyse changes in social policies over the last twenty-five years, trends inspending, outcomes of policies, and impacts on institutions and families.The stereotypes of both left and right are wrong....
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CALCULATING TRAGEDY:ASSESSING THE COSTS OF TERRORISM
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> - 2006
The trends and consequences of terrorist activities are often captured bycounting the number of incidents and casualties. More recently, the effects of terroristacts on various aspects of the economy have been analyzed. These costs aresurveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are...
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Industrialisierung der Dienstleistungen
Scheer, August-Wilhelm - 1996
Trotz einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Reorganisationskonzepte haben sich in den letzten Jahren die Geschäftsprozesse als zentraler Betrachtungsgegenstand organisatorischer Umgestaltungen herausgebildet. Während Geschäftsprozesse in der Fertigung seit langem methodisch beherrscht sind,...
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Industrialising the Services?
Potratz, Wolfgang; Evans, Michaela - 2004
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Precocious British Industrialization: A General Equilibrium Perspective
Crafts, Nicholas F. R.; Harley, Charles Knick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
The British industrial revolution created an industrial economy. While casual discourse conflates industrialization and …
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Shanghai-Based Industrialization in The Early 20th Century: A QuantitativeAnd Institutional Analysis
Ma, Debin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
A significant but uneven spurt of industrialization started in China during the first three decades of the 20th century …, secure property rights and provision of public goods – as a crucial determinant to such growth. Using a historical GDP … framework, this paper shows that the Shanghai-based industrialization exerted a significant quantitative impact on her immediate …
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Provincializing the First Industrial Revolution
O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
In 1967 Marshal Hodgson (the godfather of global economic history) wrote these percipient words: “Without the cumulative history of the whole Afro-Asian Oikumene of which the Occident had been an integral part, the western transmutation would be almost unthinkable”. Alas, the recommendation...
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Japanese Imperialism in Global Resource History
Sugihara, Kaoru - 2004
This paper explores the ways in which global resourceallocation affected the pattern of Japanese (and later East Asia’s)industrialisation, and how it eventually came to underpin the courseof Japanese imperialism and aggression in the 1930s.The Western impact on Asia during the second half of...
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“Consumerist Predators”? Emerging lifestyles between McDonaldization and sustainability perspectives: the case of highly qualified employees (HQEs) in India
Lange, Hellmuth; Meier, Lars - Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit (Artec) <Bremen> - 2007
In industrializing countries new groups of consumers with remarkable purchasing power are emerging. Representing a “new middle class” they are seen as a carrier and promoter of a so-called “western way of life” beyond the OECD countries. They are presented as having a consumerist...
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