Global justice and transnational politics : essays on the moral and political…

If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking and extension of normative political theory. Global Justice and Transnational Politics encourages and advances that work.The book'…

Global migration and the world economy : two centuries of policy and performance

World mass migration began in the early nineteenth century, when advances in transportation technology and industrial revolutions at home enabled increasing numbers of people to set off for other parts of the globe in search of a better life. Two centuries later, there is no distant African, Asian, or Latin American village that is not within reach of some high-wage OECD labor market. This book…

Global trade and conflicting national interests

Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy.In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the class…

Globalization and History : the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Ec…

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Globalization and its enemies

A provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.The enemies of globalization--whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures--see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want …

Globalization and the poor periphery before 1950

"In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both the economist and the historian, analyzing its economic impact on industrially lagging poor countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Williamson argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe and their overseas settlements, combined wi…

Quantified; Redefining Conservation For The Next Economy

Pendekatan konservasi yang inovatif dan berorientasi pada hasil, Disusun oleh pelopor restorasi sungai dan arsitek konservasi terukur, Strategi inovatif diambil dari perusahaan-perusahaan paling efisien, paham teknologi, dan sukses di dunia

Quandaries of the Small-District Superintendency

Difokuskan pada kebutuhan khusus pengawas distrik sekolah yang jumlah siswanya kurang dari sepuluh ribu, bab-bab tersebut mengajarkan siswa kerangka kerja kritis untuk memikirkan dan menangani masalah serta praktik yang dihadapi pengawas sekolah sehari-hari, sehingga memungkinkan mereka membentuk pemahaman terperinci dan praktis tentang administrasi dan kepemimpinan

My picture book of railways

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Tales of the trains : being some chapters of railroad romance

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