Intro -- Emerging From an Entrenched Colonial Economy -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Primary Producers: A Conservative or Innovative Community? -- 1.3 Chapter Themes -- 1.4 Sources -- 2 Changing Relationships...

The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world's most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the 'industrialization paradigm' and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

The Golden Age of postwar capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. In his first major book since The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Europe's leading analyst of the welfare state presents a...

What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the...

A Store Almost in Sight tells the story of commercial development in central Missouri from the early days of American settlement following the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War. Focusing on those counties near or on the Missouri River, historian Jeff Bremer confirms that the history of the...

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: - The Economy's a-Tanking and There's an Energy Crisis in ... -- Chapter 1 - PROMISSORY NOTES From Crisis to Commons -- CRISIS: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT IS NOT -- 1. CRISES PAST AND CRISIS PRESENT: FROM...

Key Features:Clearly and succinctly explains all terminology in economics, economic development as well as peculiar features in the Arabic contextAdopts a multidisciplinary approach with full cognizance of globalisation's good, bad or ugly as opportunities and/or challenges in sustainable...

This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more-and more productive and rewarding-jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's...

Drawing on literature such as the industrious revolution and consumer revolution, this book is a thorough study of the economic and structural changes taking place in the Norwegian economy prior to the Industrial revolution.