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Networks and state : The global politics of Internet governance
"When the prevailing system of governing divides the planet into mutually exclusive territorial monopolies of force, what institutions can govern the Internet, with its transnational scope, boundless scale, and distributed control? Given filtering/censorship by states and concerns over national cybersecurity, it is often assumed that the Internet will inevitably be subordinated to the tradition…
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- 0262289660
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- 1 online resource (313 pages) :illustrations.
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Democracy's dilemma: environment, social equity, and the global economy
A call for a balancing of economic, environmental, and social concerns in the age of global economic integration.The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity to the neglect of such other imp…
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- 9780262281164
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- 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages)
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Firms in the International Economy :Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Bu…
International Economics (IE) and International Business (IB) are usually treated as two separate disciplines. With the advent of new trade theory the firm was reintroduced in IE and the fields more and more discuss the same topics. This book shows that IE as well as IB could benefit from each other.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Digital capitalism: networking the global market system
Schiller traces the transformation of the Internet from government, military, and educational tool to agent of "digital capitalism" through three critically important and interlinked realms.The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however, a growi…
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- 9780262283137
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Privacy on the ground : driving corporate behavior in the United States and E…
"Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and their citizens. Polls reflect this concern, and show majorities for more, broader, and stricter regulation -- to put …
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- 0262331349
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages).
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Illicit Trade and the Global Economy
Economists explore the relationship between expanding international trade and the parallel growth in illicit trade, including illegal drugs, smuggling, and organized crime.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262298686
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- 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) :illustrations.
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A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century
This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It covers events including World War I, hyperinflation and market crashes in the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, stagflation of the 1970s, the Latin American debt crises of the 1980s, the post-socialist transitions i…
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Feeling extended : sociality as extended body-becoming-mind
Within the Extended Mind Thesis (EMT) debate Robinson explores the world of affect and conation as intermediate realms of human being between the physical movements of 'body' and the qualitative movements of 'mind', and shows that affect is not only always in the process of becoming conation, but that affect is transcranial, and tends to become interpersonal conation. Affective-becoming-conativ…
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- 9781461939542
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Newsgames: Journalism at Play
Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they would be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of doing good journalism: videogames. Videogames are native to computers rather…
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Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability
A proposal for a new global approach for fisheries focused on reducing fishing capacity and providing incentives for long-term sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262312769
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- 1 online resource (x, 276 pages)
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