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First Published in 1952, Problems of Nationalized Industry presents the first serious discussion on the issues related to nationalization of industries in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. Part I includes fourteen essays on the...

This book is an engaging narrative history of New Mexico's 19th and 20th century identities. Today officially known as the Land of Enchantment, it has also been the Land without Law, the Land of Heart's Desire, the Land of the Well Country, the Land of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833033666Author Mark A. LorellFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833034366Author D.J. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833037466Author Somi SeongFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 381g

A major new approach to the study of the social and economic history of colonial French West Africa, this book traces French efforts to establish a cotton export economy in the French Soudan from the early nineteenth century through the end of World War...

The pharmaceutical industry has long and vehemently insisted that it has the willingness, the dedication, and the ability to police itself to insure that the public will not be unnecessarily harmed or defrauded. As the record shows with painful clarity,...

Although observers of the Pakistani economy are well aware that a small number of family groups, popularly called "the twenty-two families," dominates the industrial structure of the country, the actual effects of this concentration of economic...

Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by interrelating world market forces, Egyptian class structure, and the Egyptian nationalist movement and state apparatus. Originally...

Beginning with the nationalized British coal industry and then raising more general issues concerning the contemporary state, Joel Krieger studies the day wage structure for face workers (National Power Loading Agreement) introduced by the National Coal...

The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory and simple measurement to analyze...

Michelle McAlpin moves beyond the concerns of previous studies of famine (most of which focus on governmental procedures designed to alleviate it) and examines hitherto neglected problems, such as the quantitative evaluation of food grain shortages, the...

Gary Gereffi first explains how foreign corporations took over the flourishing Mexican steroid industry in the 1950s and 1960s and thwarted the country's later attempts to establish a more equitable distribution of industry benefits. In this valuable...

Beginning with the nationalized British coal industry and then raising more general issues concerning the contemporary state, Joel Krieger studies the day wage structure for face workers (National Power Loading Agreement) introduced by the National Coal...

The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory and simple measurement to analyze...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670081462Author R. M. LalaFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Penguin PortfolioPublisher Penguin Random House India

The study of varieties of capitalism is moving on from the analysis of static national types to embrace local and sectoral diversity and the study of systems in the process of major change. This volume addresses the issue by examining four localised...

The textile industry is one of the oldest in the country, going back several centuries. The industry experienced recession from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. However, this trend is reversed after the early 1990s when domestic demand for textiles products...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264313385Author OecdFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Publisher Organization for Economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189766238Author Yogendra SharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187966074Author Jasjit SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 257Imprint Knowledge World InternationalPublisher Knowledge World International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173044434Author Shuji UchikawaFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575864Author Chris HergesheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 350g

Surviving the Storm is an analysis, undertaken by the Windsor Energy Group over the past 12 years, focusing on the availability of an ample global energy supply over the next 35 to 50 years. It charts a way through the storm but warns of the many...

A fascinating look at the rich history of business in 'the first modern industrial district'. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Manchester area.Book InformationISBN 9781859362099Author John F. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

On April 8, 2014 the Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing entitled "Protecting Taxpayers from Incompetent and Unethical Return Preparers". This book describes the rules governing paid tax return preparers and provides background relating...

The health of the U.S. manufacturing sector has been a long-standing concern of Congress. Although Congress has established a wide variety of tax preferences, direct subsidies, import restraints and other federal programs with the goal of retaining or...

Delivering ships on time and within budget are imperatives in commercial shipbuilding. To ensure the design and construction of a ship can be executed as planned, commercial shipbuilders and buyers do not move forward until critical knowledge is attained...

This book provides an overview of select programs relating to federal agricultural assistance. Topics discussed include the status and issues concerning the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP); technical assistance for agriculture conservation; emergency...

This book provides an overview and examination of the Vietnamese services sector. Vietnam is growing rapidly as it transitions from a state-planned economy to a hybrid economy with an expanded private sector. Besides broadening its international trade...

According to conventional economic wisdom, it is believed that the beneficial functioning of competition is not secured spontaneously but must be supported by state action, ie: specific antitrust laws and agencies. Hence, competition is regarded as an...

Professional economists believe that the development of basic industries in general and the steel industry in particular is the best beginning step in the process of economic development of underdeveloped countries. This book discusses these positions by...

This book explores the world economic crisis that began in 2008, and which has had major consequences for U.S. agriculture. The weakening of global demand because of emerging recessions and declining economic growth results in reduced export demand and...

This book presents and discusses research in the study of natural gas systems. Topics discussed include flammability and individual risk assessment for natural gas pipelines; guidelines for developing gas fields associated with edge-water drive; fuzzy...

This book presents a modern framework for understanding and improving agrarian sustainability and its governance. It incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organisation, Law, Sociology,...

Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of private equity capital typically provided for early-stage, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realisation event such as an IPO or trade...

This book examines the economic implications for sustainable forest management of globalisation and related structural changes in the forest sector of the United States. Globalisation has accelerated structural change in the U.S. forest sector, favoured...

Thirty years ago, China began implementing a series of reforms to improve efficiency in agricultural production. These, and subsequent, reforms reshaped China's position in the world economy. China's rapid economic development and transformation from a...

This book explores America's family farms today. Farmers face many challenges like making daily decisions on when to plow, till, plant, fertilise, and harvest, or management decisions involving their sizeable assets, numerous employees, a multitude of...

To better understand how changes in domestic and international petroleum products markets have affected prices, this book evaluated trends in: (1) the international trade of petroleum products, (2) refining capacity and intensity of refining capacity use...