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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Governance of the Corporation in the Context of Global Markets -- 1 Canadian Corporate Governance Reform: In Search of a Regulatory Role for Corporate Law -- 2 Oversight, Hindsight, and Foresight: Canadian Corporate...
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Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Building the Postwar Order -- 2 Welfare States and Social Rights -- 3 Internationalism versus Regionalism in the Cold War -- 4 Canada and the Cold War: The Shift to Regionalism -- 5 Canada-US Free Trade: From the Regional to the...
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Analyzes power relations within the arena of global communications from the inception of the telegraph onward, focusing on the struggle for control of the communications infrastructure that occurred in part because the growing economic power of the United States was hindered by British control...
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Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Chapter 1: How Trade Agreement Critics Redefined the Terms of Trade -- Chapter 2: Same Agruments, Different Context: A Brief History of Protectionism from 1789 to the 1960s -- Chapter 3: How the GATT Came to Intersect with...
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What Is Financial Statecraft? -- Part I. Of Banks and Bombs -- 2. Banking and Foreign Policy -- 3. Finance and the "War on Terror" -- 4. Capital Markets Sanctions -- Part II. Of Currencies and Crises -- 5. The Security Dimensions of Currency Crises --...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Understanding World Bank Power -- 2. The Rise of the Bank -- 3. Producing Green Science inside Headquarters -- 4. The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Environmental Knowledge for the World -- 5. Eco-Governmentality and the...
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Crisis at the Core -- Chapter 2. The Kansas City Royals: Shopping Without a Credit Card -- Chapter 3. The Los Angeles Dodgers: Bright Lights, Big Market -- Chapter 4. The Dominican Republic: Fishing Where the Fish Are --...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Preface -- 1 Interests of the Elite -- 2 The International Financial System -- 3 Credit and Crises, 1850 to 1875 -- 4 Coffee Planters -- 5 Abolition -- 6 The Encilhamento -- 7 Orthodox Reaction: The Unsuccessful Phases -- 8 Stabilization --...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Pursuit of Plumes -- CHAPTER 1 The Cape of Southern Africa: Atlantic Crossings -- CHAPTER 2 London: Global Feather Hub -- CHAPTER 3 The Trans-Saharan Trade: Mediterranean Connections -- CHAPTER 4 The American Feather World -- Conclusion: Global...
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In this keenly argued book, Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds offer the most powerful defense of economic liberalism since F. A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom more than sixty years ago. The authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary na.
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