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Perestroika at the Crossroads by Alfred J. Rieber
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35The contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or... -
Soviet Society Under Gorbachev: Current Trends and the Prospects for Change Maurice Friedberg 9780873324434
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $60.14The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy,... -
Chinese Urban Reform: What Model Now?: What Model Now? by Kwok Yin-Wang 9780873325899
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $231.82Based on a 1987 conference on urban development at the Centre for Urban Planning and Development at Hong Kong University.About the AuthorKwok Yin-WangBook InformationISBN 9780873325899Author Kwok... -
Alternatives to Economic Orthodoxy: Reader in Political Economy: Reader in Political Economy by Randy Albelda
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46Exploring the question of whether China's peasantry was a revolutionary force, this volume pays particular attention to the first half of the 20th century, when peasant-based conflict was central to... -
Socio-economics: Toward a New Synthesis: Toward a New Synthesis by Amitai Etzioni
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27This work is organized in seven sections around major themes of socio-economics. The first section outlines socio-economics in an historical perspective, drawing on the "Methodenstreit" in the German... -
The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 George R. Taylor 9780873321013
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.Book InformationISBN... -
World War Two: Crucible of the Contemporary World - Commentary and Readings: Crucible of the Contemporary World - Commentary and Readings by Lily Xiao Hong Lee 9780873327329
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.41This anthology contains 16 readings by English-language scholars that deal with military, political, diplomatic, and social aspects of World War II and its consequences for the contemporary world... -
What are the Questions and Other Essays: Further Contributions to Modern Economics: Further Contributions to Modern Economics by Robert K. Robinson
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27A study of environmental degradation, this work presents the environmental problems of South Korea. The effects of rapid industrialisation and modernisation are documented along with the choices and... -
A Voice of Reform: Essays: Essays by Tatiana I. Zaslavskaia
Booksplease Price: $97.63First Published in 1989. It has become common, both in Soviet and in Western writings about the USSR, to characterize the early 1980s (the immediate pre-Gorbachev period) as years of stagnation or,... -
The Asian Dilemma in United States Foreign Policy: National Interest Versus Strategic Planning: National Interest Versus Strategic Planning by K.Holly Maze Carter
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Focuses on the problem through the identification of specific trends in foreign policy: isolationism, intervention, containment, detente, and disengagement. The conclusion of this analysis is that... -
Dynamic Economic Systems: A Post Keynesian Approach John M. Blatt 9780873323062
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.89The bicentenary of The Wealth of Nations has passed, and so has the centenary of the neoclassical revolution in economics. Yet the present state of dynamic economic theory leaves very much to be... -
Morality, Rationality and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-economics: New Perspectives on Socio-economics by Richard M. Coughlin 9780873328227
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50The papers in this collection were selected from nearly 200 that were presented at the 50 sessions of the second annual International Conference on Socio-Economics held at The George Washington... -
Chinese Rural Development: The Great Transformation: The Great Transformation by William L. Parish 9780873323444
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78This text examines the Pacific War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, from the perspective of those who fought the wars and lived through them. The relationship between history and memory informs... -
Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection by Martin Rein 9780873324984
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic... -
Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia by Michael Rywkin
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is... -
Soviet Emigre Artists by Marilyn Rueschemeyer 9780873328104
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set... -
Revival: Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union (1977) by Murray Yanowitch
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82This title was first published in 1977Book InformationISBN 9780873321051Author Murray YanowitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Marxist Thought on Imperialism: Survey and Critique Charles A. Barone 9780873323451
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82First Published in 2015. Classic and contemporary Marxist theoretical works on imperialism are systematically summarized and critiqued in this useful survey. Throughout the discussion, attention is... -
The Contemporary Soviet City by Henry W. Morton
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War,... -
Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan Edwin A. Winckler 9780873327718
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50This work compares IT parks in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hawaii, in search of strategies that policy makers can employ to reduce the Global Digital Divide, advance distributional... -
Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History: v. 1 by Joshua A. Fogel
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to present... -
Political Economy of Reaganomics by Stephen Rousseas
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35According to Stephen Rousseas, economics cannot be separated from politics. Here, he provides theoretical background and insight into the ideology of supply-side economics, commonly referred to as... -
Foundations of Radical Political Economy by Howard J. Sherman
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82First published in 1987. Similar in content to Sherman's previous book, Radical Political Economy, it covers most of the same issues and reaches the same overall conclusion in favour of democracy and... -
Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia by Michael Rywkin 9780873326131
Booksplease Price: $231.82A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is... -
Labor Markets in a Global Economy: A Macroeconomic Perspective: A Macroeconomic Perspective by Ingrid H. Rima 9780873327381
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $66.13This introductory text on labour economics covers topics such as: the shift in America from a manufacturing-based economy to a service economy; the changes in the economic conditions in the US; the... -
Making America's Budget Policy from the 1980's to the 1990's by Joseph J. Minarik 9780873326216
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $60.14This collection of articles traces the evolution over the 1980s of budget policy and tax reform by an architect of the Bradley tax reform bill. The articles present a chronological analysis of tax... -
Yin Jiaqi and China's Struggle for Democracy by David M. Bachman 9780873327817
RRP: $77.68Booksplease Price: $74.42In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen incident, Yin Jiagi has emerged as a leading Chinese dissident and theorist of the Democracy Movement. This collection of essays documents his views on a range of... -
Morality, Rationality and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-economics: New Perspectives on Socio-economics by Richard M. Coughlin 9780873328210
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $191.06The papers in this collection were selected from nearly 200 that were presented at the 50 sessions of the second annual International Conference on Socio-Economics held at The George Washington... -
Dilemmas of the Dollar: Economics and Politics of United States International Monetary Policy: Economics and Politics of United States International Monetary Policy by C. Fred Bergsten
Booksplease Price: $63.61An examination of the role of the dollar in the global financial system which presents a long-term historical perspective on the international monetary system in this century. The main focus is on... -
Depression Decade: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41 by Broadus Mitchell
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.97Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of American commerce from the era of the Great Depression until World War II... -
Radical Political Economy: Explorations in Alternative Economic Analysis by Victor Lippit
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $96.45Radical political economy is built upon the formal analysis of neoclassical economics and the tradition of Marxian/radical analysis. The essays presented in this book offer a representative sampling... -
Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis by Peter B. Doeringer 9780873323321
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27This book provides a description of a number of institutional features of the U.S. labor market and prompts an analytical debate about the origins of the institutions it describes and their... -
Beijing Spring 1989: Confrontation and Conflict - The Basic Documents: Confrontation and Conflict - The Basic Documents by Michel C. Oksenberg 9780873326841
Booksplease Price: $57.18A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are... -
Japanese Capitalism Since 1945: Critical Perspectives: Critical Perspectives by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the five essays - on economic policy, agriculture, big... -
Capitalism and the American Political Ideal by Jeanine Grenberg
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63This practical handbook has been revised to provide in-depth coverage of the Office of Thrift and Supervision rules as well as those of the OCC. It includes up-to-date information on every of trust... -
Military Expansion, Economic Decline: Impact of Military Spending on United States Economic Performance by R.W. DeGrasse
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34By assessing the costs and benefits of military spending, the authors provide a "second opinion" on the subject of military economics. While advocates of increased military spending often stress the... -
Perestroika Era Politics: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms by Robert T. Huber 9780873328296
Booksplease Price: $97.63This book is an evaluation of the new legislative politics in the Soviet Union. The contributors examine the uneven progress of electoral and constitutional reform, the composition, organisation,... -
Starting, Managing and Promoting the Small Library by Robert Berk 9780873325769
Booksplease Price: $97.63A guide to the establishment of the library which covers materials acquisition, the organization and usage of the library's collection to provide a variety of services and the use of automation. This... -
The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work by Michael Fabricant 9780873326438
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50This book has emerged in response to social service workers' vivid descriptions of changes in the practice of their craft during the past 15 years and to the scanty literature that addressed their... -
Beyond Welfare Harrell R. Rodgers 9780873324618
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $60.14A selection of 50 Slovak folk tales assembled from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky. The translator seeks to preserve the poetic qualities of the originals, and the book includes an...