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Multinational firms and the theory of international trade
Despite the great importance of multinational firms in international economics, theoretical and empirical research on these firms has generally been conducted separately from that on international trade. In this book, James Markusen provides a comprehensive integration of the two fields. Drawing on twenty years of research, he focuses on the interaction of scale economies, trade costs, factor e…
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- 9780262279154
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 440 pages) :illustrations
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Mercury stories :understanding sustainability through a volatile element
"Mercury offers an opportunity to trace a millennial-scale history of human interactions with an element whose use has both benefited and harmed human well-being in complex and interacting ways. The book develops and applies an analytical framework using the perspective of a human-technical-environmental system to learn from the long history of human mercury use and exposure, and to inform stra…
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Food justice /
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of Americ…
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- 1 online resource (vii, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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Oil, illiberalism, and war: An analysis of energy and US foreign policy
The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and other illiberal behaviors that hide behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The symbiotic relationship between the state and the oil industry has produced dev…
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- 9780262327527
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 210 pages) :map
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China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled every two and a half years through the 1990s and continues to grow. In China Shifts Gears, Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry…
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- 9780262273381
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- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :illustrations.
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The craft of economics :lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework
In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher--Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn't do. Claiming "a lifetime relationship with Heckscher--Ohlin," Leamer argues that Bertil Ohlin's original idea offered something useful though vag…
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- 9780262301589
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- 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) :illustrations.
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Government's place in the market
In his first book, the former New York governor and current CNN cohost offers a manifesto on the economy and the public interest.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295987
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- 1 online resource (83 pages).
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Comparative Political Economy: A Retrospective
The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277143
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- 1 online resource (viii, 500 pages) :illustrations
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A world trading system for the twenty-first century
"A book in the Ohlin Lectures series on trade agreements"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371308
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Worn out :how retailers surveil and exploit workers in the digital age and ho…
"Worn Out connects scholarship on digital capitalism and surveillance to the specific setting of retail work in fast fashion"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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