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Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth : The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth

McLean, Ian W. - 2013

Biographical note: McLeanIan W.: Ian W. McLean is currently a visiting research fellow in economics at the University of Adelaide, where he taught for many years. He is the coeditor of "The Australian Economy in the Long Run".

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The Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Levinson, Marc - 2016 - Second edition with a new chapter by the author

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade...

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The Long Divergence : How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East

Kuran, Timur - 2011

Biographical note: KuranTimur: Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of "Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism" (Princeton).

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Essays on the Great Depression

Bernanke, Ben S. - 2000

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links...

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A short history of film

Dixon, Wheeler W.; Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey - 2018 - Third edition.

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema--especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers--an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book...

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Christlich Demokratische Union : Beiträge und Positionen zur Geschichte der CDU

Lammert, Norbert (ed.) - 2020 - Erste Auflage

Geschichte und stellte bis heute über fünfzig Jahre lang den deutschen Kanzler bzw. die Kanzlerin. Die Essays im vorliegenden … Sammelband widmen sich der Geschichte der CDU aus ganz verschiedenen, mitunter kontroversen Blickwinkeln und von divergierenden … Standpunkten aus. Dabei geht es nicht nur um ihre historischen Rolle in der deutschen Geschichte – ebenso werden ihre politisch …

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Russland auf dem Wege zur Katastrophe : Tagebücher des Großfürsten Andrej und des Kriegsministers Poliwanow, Briefe der Großfürsten an den Zaren

Frantz, Gunther (ed.); … - 1926 - 1. Aufl.

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Der Ursprung des Christentums : eine historische Untersuchung

Kautsky, Karl - 1926 - 14. Auflage

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A History of Global Capitalism : Feuding Elites and Imperial Expansion

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

Capitalism and Elite Feud: A Short Introduction -- PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- A Unified Theory of Rent, Elite Feuds and Imperial Expansion -- PART II: RENT, ELITE FEUDS AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN EUROPE -- Atlanticism, the Slave Trade and Westward Expansion of...

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Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science

Backhaus, Jurgen G. (ed.); Chaloupek, Günther (ed.); … - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most...

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