The issue of income inequality was neglected in the recent economic literature until perhaps the last two decades or so. The reason for this neglect may stem from the deterministic and mechanical way the issue has been treated in the works of the neoclassical economists. However, the classical...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is essential in international business and FDI in China has experienced rapid growth in the past three decades. The objective of this thesis is to analyze the political, economic, and cultural influences on FDI development at four stages of China's economy growth:...

The Internet is the latest in a long succession of communication technologies. The goal of thiswork is to draw lessons from the evolution of all these services. Little attention is paid to technologyas such, since that has changed radically many times. Instead, the stress is on the steady growth...

This course will focus on the environment of firms with particular emphasis on economic variables such as GNP, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and international trade. The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on...

This one-box collection contains the papers of Willard and Bessie Ballard, primarily consisting of correspondence, financial papers, personal papers, and other Ballard family papers. Fifty per cent of the papers contained in this collection concerns Bessie Ballard, mostly in the form of her...

Several studies have measured the effects of regulation on a particular industry. These studies range widely in sophistication, from simple observation (comparison) of pre-transformation and post-transformation actual industry performance to econometric analysis that attempt to separate the...