In recent years the definition of an economic transfer-a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity-has been subject to even wider interpretation. This volume addresses that trend and introduces new methods of measuring transfers in the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- Table of abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I The ambivalent nature of bailouts -- II Bank bailouts and sovereign indebtedness -- III Bailout policy approaches -- Part...

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The History of Oil and International Affairs -- 2 The Illiberal Political Economy of Oil -- 3 Oil, American Diplomacy, and Weak Institutions -- 4 Oil and International Security -- 5 Oil and US Grand Strategy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with the first generation of wage-earning women, Tentler reconstructs the day-to-day realities of life on the job, in the home, and in the industrial neighborhoods of major cities

What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors and Participants -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Small World of Corporate Governance: An Introduction -- 2 Is There an Anglo-Saxon Model? -- 3 The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics -- 4 Ownership Networks and New Institutional...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Twilight Rails -- 1. A Road with a Bright Future: Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad -- 2. Crazy Willie & Dandy Molly: Creston, Winterset & Des Moines Railroad -- 3. The Handy Lines: Detroit, Bay City & Western Railroad and Port...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Motive Powers and Mechanisms -- 2 Getting Traction, 1884 to 1888 -- 3 Assessing Richmond -- 4 Restless and Rising -- 5 Fighting for Control -- 6 Elusive Control -- 7 Mainline Electrification -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.