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The Power of the Chinese Dragon
This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include trade relations, investment in sub-Saharan Africa, global politics of development and more.
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- 978-1-137-57449-7
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- XII, 275
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- Palgrave Readers in Economics
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Analytics for Smart Energy Management: Tools and Applications for Sustainable…
This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them. It uses a number of illustrative examples to explain energy management in automotive manufacturing, which involves most types of manufacturing technology and various l…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-32729-7
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- XI, 295
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- Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
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- 658 OHS a
The Global Financial Crisis and the Indian Economy
After tracing the causes of the global financial crisis, the book focuses on two fundamental systemic issues connected with its manifestation: financial-sector regulation and the problem of the dollar-centric international monetary system, both of which have been widely cited among the important factors leading to the 2008 financial crisis. The important analytical question of monetary policy t…
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- 1
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- 978-81-322-2395-5
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- XI, 142, 31 b/w illustrations
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- The Global Financial Crisis and the Indian Economy
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The Global Crisis of 2008 and Keynes's General Theory
This book describes the international context and some of the factors that have weakened the influence of Keynesian economic thought. It illustrates economic responses offered by the new Keynesian school and the alternative perspective on the global crisis presented by the monetary circuit theory, with a special emphasis on Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis. The authors present a comm…
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- 978-3-319-11451-4
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- XII, 99 17 b/w illustrations ,
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ICT Diffusion in Developing Countries: Towards a New Concept of Technological…
This book provides an extensive overview of the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2012. It covers issues such as country-specific ICT diffusion patterns, technological substitution and technological convergence. By identifying social, economic and institutional prerequisites and analyzing critical country-specific conditions,…
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- 978-3-319-18253-7
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- XI, 308
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- 330 ICT
Building the Impact Economy : Our Future, Yea or Nay
This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale. It relates the power of entrepreneurship, investment and technology to four areas in which progress is urgently needed to get out of the world’s current impasse. These are: game-changing innovations in companies; a way forward for the global fashion industry that reconciles compet…
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- 330
Building Trust in Information : Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance
This book reports on the results of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary workshop on provenance that brought together researchers and practitioners from different areas such as archival science, law, information science, computing, forensics and visual analytics that work at the frontiers of new knowledge on provenance. Each of these fields understands the meaning and purpose of represent…
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- 978-3-319-40226-0
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- 332
The Future of Work in Information Society
This book investigates the question as to whether technological developments will ultimately mean the end of work and, if so, what the consequences will be. The author addresses this question from the perspective of a technologist well versed in econometrics and game theory, and argues that it is not technology alone that could lead to the end of work, but its utilization by the capitalist syst…
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- 978-3-319-33909-2
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- X, 72
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics SpringerBriefs in Economics
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The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking
By its very nature ‘wasta’ is an area of grey or even black information, and, like corruption to which it is most often associated, is hard to assess although country corruption perception indexes attempt to provide a quantifiable basis. In the final analysis such ratings are based on perceptions of corruption, and this perception may vary strongly depending on different societal structure…
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- 978-3-319-22201-1
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- XLIII, 204
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The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis
Anastasios Karasavvoglou is Professor in economics, Editor in chief of the “International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research” and the President of the annual International Conference "The Economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe Countries in the changed world". He has published many books and papers regarding immigration, regional development and labour market. Zoran Aranđe…
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- 978-3-319-24267-5
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- XII, 192, 19 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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- Contributions to Economics
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