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Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. As national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets, the book argues...

Arms Industry Limited is an empirical account of the size and structure of the world arms industry with special case studies of the United States, the former Soviet Union, Canada, countries in both Western and Central Europe, and countries in the less...

This book collects results from ad hoc surveys on firms pricing behavior conducted in 2003 and 2004 by nine National central banks of the Euro area in the context of a joint research project (Eurosystem Inflation Persistence Network). These surveys have...

The Earth's climate is constantly changing. Some of the changes are progressive, while others fluctuate at various time scales. The El Ni~no-la Ni~na cycle is one such fluctuation that recurs every few years and has far-reaching impacts. It generally...

This volume presents the results of research which represent a significant contribution to the knowledge of equity in the finance and delivery of health care in ten countries. It compares the experience of nine European countries and the US using a...

A host of previously unpublished photographs and a wealth of new information bring together the story of a region’s transition from horses, oxen and mules to bicycles and then horseless carriages, transforming the way people move around. Also shown is...

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...

Through a study of French petroleum policy over the last fifty years, Harvey B. Feigenbaum presents a theoretical analysis of public enterprise and a general analysis of the relationship of state to society. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton...

Looking at the uses and abuses of high-talent manpower in the United States, Dael Wolfle analyzes the ways in which this country produces, distributes, and utilizes its vital human resources. He examines changing trends in academic and professional...

The success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429679282Author Mary LindeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 3g

In 1983 The Economics of Health in Devloping Countries was published. This was a basic text, designed to illuminate ways in which economic concepts and techniques can be applied to health and health services, each chapter eviewing `the state of the art'...

During the 1980s and continuing into the 1990s, more than 1,000 Japanese firms established `transplant' manufacturing operations in the US. Many of these have been in mature industries like steel and automobiles, but many have also been in high...

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. Virtually all farms were owned by whites, but the soil was largely...

Innovation is among the most important topics in understanding economic sustained economic growth. Jason Potts argues that the initial stages of innovation require cooperation under uncertainty and draws from insights on the solving of commons problems...

This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day. Chapters include classical theories of competition, the U.S. founding era, classicism and neoclassicism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543508406Author Blake A. HoenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

Americans love ""this year's model,"" relying on the ""new"" to be always ""improved."" Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to American business, where innovation and change...

An interdisciplinary framework for managing sustainable agrifood supply chains Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides an up-to-date and interdisciplinary framework for designing and operating sustainable supply chains for...

While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Distillers enshrine local history in their branding and time-tested recipes, and rightfully so. Kentucky's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567937558Author Steph BernellFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 0g

This book had its genesis in Alexandria, Egypt in March 2002 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, when the new library hosted a conference on Biotechnology and Sustainable Development: Voices of the South and North. Here, a group of modern scholars met to...

How do governments choose which industries to favor? If governments are largely motivated by the national economic interest, then industrial selection would be biased in favor of picking winners. If, on the other hand, governments are motivated by an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678203849Author Clara MaccaraldFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Brightpoint PressPublisher Brightpoint Press

In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. Focusing his study on the town of La Salina, Joshua M...

Forest policy involves a complex balance of governmental, social and industrial objectives in an environment where the forests and the institutions are also constantly changing. Across the various forestry jurisdictions there is a wide variety of policy...

A collection of essays from specialist scholars evaluating tourism as a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic inequalities in poor countries: As a tool for poverty reduction in economically underdeveloped regions, tourism has been at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700633555Author Pamela Riney-KehrbergFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567939750Author Kristin ReiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 0g

The problems caused by the proposed enlargement of the EU to include the associated Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) are discussed. The two main agricultural issues raised by this are the relative competitiveness of CEEC agriculture and its...

China currently produces more crude steel than any other country in the world. This book, by an internationally acknowledged expert on the world steel industry, covers all aspects of the steel industry in China. It begins with an outline of the existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789242201Author Jean Vasile AndreiFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint CABIPublisher CABIWeight(grams) 451g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780925168559Author Patrick FarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 612g

Why did President Clinton's efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton's health care plan. What did planners do right? And what did...

Measuring government effectiveness is essential to ensuring accountability, as is an informed public that is willing and able to hold elected officials and policy-makers accountable. There are various forms of measurement, including against prior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815715078Author Linda R. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope. An active international discussion is underway, and the ideological viewpoint that the reversal of globalization and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815709497Author Margaret M. BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as...