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Politics and Markets
Charles Lindblom
Издател: Basic Books
Scrutinizes the world's major political-economic systems to reveal the role of free markets in fostering liberty and democracy and to warn of the debilitating impact of big business on democratic institutions.
Reagan and the U.S. Economy
Мichael Boskin
Издател: ICS Press
In the eighties, there have been considerable changes in the U.S. economic policy and the development of the economy. There seems to have been barely any change – be it considered good or bad – for which Reaganomics had not been made responsible at one point or another. Hence, the public as well as many economists have differing and often
The Quest for Self-Determination
Dov Ronen
Издател: Yale University Press
Dov Ronen proposes in this interpretive essay that ethnic nationalism is simply the newest form of a basic human drive for self-determination that has been manifested in four other movements since the French Revolution: nineteenth-century nationalism, Marxist-Leninist class self-determination, self-determination for minorities as espoused by
The New Germany and the New Europe
Paul Stares
Издател: Тhe Brookings Institution
Since the first heroic and largely spontaneous acts precipitated the end of the Cold War, Europe has been transformed in a truly remarkable and wholly unforeseen manner: Germany has been unified, the Warsaw Pact has collapsed, and the Soviet Union has disintegrated, leaving in its wake many new independent states.These momentous events have taken
The Uncertain Promise of Retiree Health Benefits
Mark Warshawsky
Издател: Тhe AEI Press
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) established a federal program to insure that an employee received promised pension benefits when the employee's pension plan is underfunded. Unfortunately, the protections provided by ERISA do not extend to retiree health benefits. With the aging of the working population and the rising
The Transition to Democracy in Spain and Portugal
Howard Wiarda
Издател: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Most of this book consists of essays published by the author during the period 1976-87. Five present a restatement of Wiaeda’s now-familiar argument that Iberian political culture and social relations are, and have been, characterized by elements of corporatism and organic statism. While the empirical evidence in support of this claim is not
Dictionary of Economics
collective
Издател: John Wiley & Sons
Accessible, easy to use, and practical, the Dictionary of Economics is the first dictionary of its kind you don't need a degree in economics to use. Accomplished lexicographers and financial experts Jae K. Shim and Joel G. Siegel define more than 2,200 essential economics terms clearly, simply, and with a minimum of technical jargon and economic
Industrial Development Through Small-Firm Cooperation
Frank Pyke
Издател: International Labour Office
The object of this short monograph is to draw on research and ideas from recent sectoral and local development studies in order to propose elements that could form part of an appropriate institutional framework for upgrading industrial sectors - particularly in the manufacturing sphere, such as those producing clothing, ceramics, machinery or
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