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A General Theory of Competition develops a ground-breaking new theory of competition - `resource-advantage theory'. Recent thinking on competition has assumed the premises, structure and implications of the theory of perfect competition. In his long-awaited book Shelby Hunt draws on economics,...
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First published in 1978, Professor O'Brien's Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a controversial place in the debate on the question of French retardation in the 19th century and as a...
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Praise for previous editions of Accounting Best Practices'For a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read guide to fixing those all-too-common shortcomings in your accounting department, look no further than this excellent book. Steve Bragg provides hundreds of fixes, many of them requiring surprisingly...
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The connection between productive labour and effective demand has often been ignored and disputed in political economy, even by giants like Ricardo and Marx. This book traces the historical development of theories, concentrating in particularly on those of Malthus, Marx and Keynes. Particular...
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The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a ""stylized fact"" of agriculture in …
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, performance as well as productivity. Addressing these questions, this book focuses on the implications of changes in productivity … conclusions -- 3 Management tools for supporting productivity in organizations - empirical evidence from Slovenia -- 3 …4 Economic and social efficiency: The case for inverting the principle of productivity in public services -- 4 …
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"Authors show that gender inequality and men's dominance are implicit or explicit, and that in times of both stability and change, the burden of many if not most aspects of food production and provisioning falls upon women and is an integral part of the care work they perform. Food is shown to...
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-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (i) we look explicitly at …
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A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that TFP processes for the U.S. and the ""rest of the world,"" is characterized by a vector error...
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Barriers to Riches -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- International Income -- Facts -- Growth Theory with -- No TFP Differences -- Growth Theory with a -- Human Capital Sector -- Growth Theory with -- TFP Differences -- Constraints on Firm --...
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