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  • 1
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    Wretched refuse? : the political economy of immigration and institutions (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108776899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 330.9
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    LB 56000
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    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Economic arguments favoring increased immigration restrictions suggest that immigrants undermine the culture, institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is this actually true? Nowrasteh and Powell systematically analyze cross-country evidence of potential negative effects caused by immigration relating to economic freedom, corruption, culture, and terrorism. They analyze case studies of mass immigration to the United States, Israel, and Jordan. Their evidence does not support the idea that immigration destroys the institutions responsible for prosperity in the modern world. This nonideological volume makes a qualified case for free immigration and the accompanying prosperity.
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  • 2
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    Governing complexity : analyzing and applying polycentricity (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108325721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 295 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 117
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    QP 320
    Abstract: There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it in contemporary settings involving complex natural resource systems, as well as a critical evaluation of the utility of the concept. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book makes the case that polycentric governance arrangements exist and it is possible for polycentric arrangements to perform well, persist for long periods, and adapt. Whether they actually function well, persist, or adapt depends on multiple factors that are reviewed and discussed, both theoretically and with examples from actual cases.
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  • 3
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    Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany : immigration, space, and belonging, 1961 - 1990 (2018)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 1108427308 , 9781108427302 , 1108446051 , 9781108446051
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten , 24 cm
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 305.8943504309045
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    MS 3600
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    NQ 6085
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    NR 6870
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    NR 6910
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    NW 2250
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    QF 620
    Keywords: Geschichte 1961-1990 ; Türkischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Integration ; Zugehörigkeit ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung: "As the largest national group of guest workers in Germany, the Turks became a visible presence in local neighbourhoods and schools and had diverse social, cultural, and religious needs. Focussing on West Berlin, Sarah Thomsen Vierra explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children from the early days of their participation in the post-war guest worker program to the formation of multi-generational communities"--(Provided by publisher.)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Settling in at work -- At home in Almanya -- Around the neighborhood -- Learning to belong -- Making space for religion -- Belonging in reunified Germany -- Conclusion : integration as history, reciprocity, and space.
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    Incentives : motivation and the economics of information (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139547390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 685 pages)
    Edition: Third edition.
    DDC: 302/.13
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    QC 010
    Abstract: When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective, and institutional standpoints. This third edition is fully updated and expanded, including a new section on the 2007-08 financial crisis and a new chapter on networks as well as specific applications of school placement for students, search engine ad auctions, pollution permits, and more. Using worked examples and lucid general theory in its analysis, and seasoned with references to current and past events, Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information examines: the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs; the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to medical panels deciding who gets kidney transplants; a wide range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets to the entire economy. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying incentives as part of courses in microeconomics, economic theory, managerial economics, political economy, and related areas of social science.
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  • 5
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    Climate change and cities : second assessment report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316563878
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 811 Seiten)
    DDC: 304.2/091732
    RVK:
    RB 10438
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Klimaänderung ; Anpassung ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: The Urban Climate Change Research Network's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk, adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly seeks to explore the implications of changing climatic conditions on critical urban physical and social infrastructure sectors and intersectoral concerns. The primary purpose of ARC3.2 is to inform the development and implementation of effective urban climate change policies, leveraging ongoing and planned investments for populations in cities of developing, emerging, and developed countries. This volume, like its predecessor, will be invaluable for a range of audiences involved with climate change and cities: mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban planners; policymakers charged with developing climate change mitigation and adaptation programs; and a broad spectrum of researchers and advanced students in the environmental sciences.
    DOI: 10.1017/9781316563878
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  • 6
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    Expert failure (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316481400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 279 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 001
    RVK:
    QX 840
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    MS 6960
    Keywords: Expertise ; Fehler ; Wissenssoziologie
    Abstract: The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the consequences of their decisions. This book argues that, in the market for expert opinion, we need real competition in which rival experts may have different opinions and new experts are free to enter. But the idea of breaking up expert monopolies has far-reaching implications for public administration, forensic science, research science, economics, America's military-industrial complex, and all domains of expert knowledge. Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and uses a wide range of examples - from forensic science to fashion - to explain the applications of his theory, including state regulation of economic activity.
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  • 7
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    Tomorrow 3.0 : transaction costs and the sharing economy (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108602341
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 338.5/1
    RVK:
    LB 85000
    RVK:
    MS 5560
    RVK:
    QD 140
    RVK:
    QW 300
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    QC 131
    Keywords: Sharing Economy ; Transaktionskostenansatz
    Abstract: With the growing popularity of apps such as Uber and Airbnb, there has been a keen interest in the rise of the sharing economy. Michael C. Munger brings these new trends in the economy down to earth by focusing on their relation to the fundamental economic concept of transaction costs. In doing so Munger brings a fresh perspective on the 'sharing economy' in clear and engaging writing that is accessible to both general and specialist readers. He shows how, for the first time, entrepreneurs can sell reductions in transaction costs, rather than reductions in the costs of the products themselves. He predicts that smartphones will be used to commodify excess capacity, and reaches the controversial conclusion that a basic income will be required as a consequence of this new 'transaction costs revolution'.
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  • 8
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    The political economy of everyday life in Africa : beyond the margins (2017)
    Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781787440517
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 364 pages)
    DDC: 338.96
    RVK:
    MI 10020
    RVK:
    QG 700
    RVK:
    LB 85465
    RVK:
    LB 40465
    Keywords: Alltag ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Politische Ökonomie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the political economy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press). ...
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  • 9
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    Faith and money : how religion contributes to wealth and poverty (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 201/.73
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    QD 100
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    BE 2260
    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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  • 10
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    Too smart for our own good : the ecological predicament of humankind (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 599.93/8
    RVK:
    LB 65000
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    WU 3800
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    QT 200
    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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    Adapting to climate change : thresholds, values, governance (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511596667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 514 pages)
    DDC: 304.25
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    AR 23100
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    MF 9150
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    UT 8970
    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Umweltpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents top science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of governance act as barriers to action. As a review of science and a holistic assessment of adaptation options, it is essential reading for those concerned with responses to climate change, especially researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and graduate students. Significant features include historical, contemporary, and future insights into adaptation to climate change; coverage of adaptation issues from different perspectives: climate science, hydrology, engineering, ecology, economics, human geography, anthropology and political science; and contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.
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  • 12
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    Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt? (2008)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511438338 , 0511437668 , 9780511438332 , 9780511437663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 294 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rudra, Nita Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Keywords: Globalization Economic aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; Globalization ; Economic aspects ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Social policy ; Internationalisatie ; Sociaal-economische aspecten ; Armoede ; Globalisierung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Sozialpolitik ; Armut ; Sozialhilfe ; Developing countries Social policy ; Ontwikkelingslanden ; Developing countries ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but this new study argues for a more complex conceptualization of the subject. Nita Rudra demonstrates how and why domestic institutions in developing nations have historically ignored the social needs of the poor; globalization neither takes away nor advances what never existed in the first place. It has been the lower- and upper-middle classes who have benefited the most from welfare systems and, consequently, it is they who are most vulnerable to globalization's race to the bottom
    Abstract: The race to the bottom in developing countries -- Who really gets hurt? -- LDC welfare states : convergence? What are the implications? -- Globalization and the protective welfare state : case study of India -- Globalization and the productive welfare state : case study of South Korea -- Globalization and the dual welfare state : case study of Brazil -- Introduction -- Appendix A: LDC social spending -- Appendix B: Assessing potential labor power -- Appendix C: Additional tests for the RTB hypothesis -- Appendix D: Variables in the inequality model -- Appendix E: Technical notes on Gini coefficients -- Appendix F: LDC Gini coefficient statistics -- Appendix G: Robustness check -- Appendix H: Conditional impact of trade on inequality -- Appendix I: Descriptions and sources of variables -- Appendix J: Cluster results minus outcome variables -- Appendix K: Dendogram for cluster analysis -- Appendix L: Poverty tables -- Appendix M: Social expenditures on social security, health, and education in India (percent of GDP) based on national data.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index , Electronic reproduction
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    Incentives : motivation and the economics of information (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511617430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 591 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    DDC: 302/.13
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    QC 010
    Keywords: Motivation ; Informationsökonomie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Anreiz ; Asymmetrische Information ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2006, examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid general theory, and illustrations drawn from news stories. Of the seventy different topics and sections, only twelve require a knowledge of calculus. The second edition offers new chapters on auctions, matching and assignment problems, and corporate governance. Boxed examples are used to highlight points of theory and are separated from the main text.
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    Organizational design : a step-by-step approach (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511812415
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 235 pages)
    DDC: 302.35
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    QP 340
    Abstract: In today's volatile business environment, organizational design is a serious challenge for any manager, whether of a multinational enterprise or a small team. This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. All the key aspects of organizational design are covered, including goals, strategy, structure, process, people, coordination and control, and incentives. The text engages with critical issues affecting organisations, such as globalization, worldwide competition, deregulation and ever-new technologies, and contains many helpful features such as end-of-chapter reviews and unique step-by-step diagrams to orientate the reader in the design process. Diagnostic questions help the reader to determine the changes needed in an organization. The action oriented approach of this text helps the reader to assess and re-design the complex organizations of today, and plan for the information-rich organizations of tomorrow.
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    Age discrimination : an historical and contemporary analysis (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511550560
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 pages)
    DDC: 331.3/98133
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2005 ; Alter ; Diskriminierung ; USA ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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    A sociology of work in Japan (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511610387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 303 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Japanese society
    DDC: 306.3/6/0952
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    Abstract: What shapes the decisions of employees in Japan? The authors of this comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the relationship between work and society in Japan argue that individual decisions about work can only be understood through the broader social context. Many factors combine to affect such choices including the structuring of labour markets, social policy and, of course, global influences which have come increasingly to impinge on the organisation of work and life generally. By considering labour markets, social policy and relationships between labour and management, the book offers penetrating insights into contemporary Japanese society and glimpses of what might come in the future. Underlying the discussion is a challenge to the celebration of Japanese management practices which has dominated the literature for the last three decades. This is an important book for students of sociology and economics.
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    The escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100 : Europe, America, and the Third World (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511214154 , 0511215940 , 0511817649 , 9780511214158 , 9780511215940 , 9780511817649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 191 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 38
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fogel, Robert William Escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100
    DDC: 304.6/4
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    Keywords: Food supply History ; Malnutrition History ; Medical care History ; Mortality History ; Life Expectancy trends ; Diet trends ; Mortality trends ; Socioeconomic Factors ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Food supply ; Malnutrition ; Medical care ; Mortality ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Unterernährung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Ernährungspolitik ; Voeding ; Gezondheid ; Levensverwachting ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: 1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900 -- 2. Why the twentieth century was so remarkable -- 3. Tragedies and miracles in the Third World -- 4. Prospects for the twenty-first century -- 5. Problems of equity in health care -- Postscript : how long can we live?
    Abstract: A compelling new study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, examining health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-181) and index
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    Rational herds : economic models of social learning (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511165978 , 0511165382 , 0511616376 , 0511164823 , 9780511165382 , 9780511616372 , 9780511164828 , 9780511165979
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 402 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chamley, Christophe Rational herds
    DDC: 303.3/2
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    Keywords: Social learning ; Social learning Mathematical models ; Decision making ; Collective behavior ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Collective behavior ; Decision making ; Social learning ; Soziales Lernen ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Mathematisches Modell ; Sociaal leren ; Wiskundige modellen ; Aprendizagem social ; Aprendizagem social (modelos matemáticos) ; Tomada de decisão ; Comportamento coletivo ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Social learning : 2. Bayesian tools : The bayesian framework ; Binary and Gaussian information ; Private signals and beliefs ; Martingales -- 3. Social learning with a common memory : A canonical model of social learning ; Efficient learning ; Observation noise ; Extensions -- 4. Cascades and herds : The basic model of herding ; The standard model with bounded beliefs ; The convergence of beliefs ; Herds and the slow convergence of beliefs ; Pricing the informational externality ; Crashes and booms -- 5. Limited memories : The sequential model with sampling ; The welfare-improving principle ; Sampling in a very large population ; Social learning or sampling in a large population? -- 6. Delays : The simplest model ; A general model with heterogeneous beliefs ; Properties -- 7. More delays : The length of a period ; Continuous times ; Buildup of private information ; Observation of payoffs -- 8. Outcomes : Incomplete learning ; The determinant of economic success: luck or effort? ; Complete learning with a diversity of private beliefs -- 9. Networks and diffusion : Optimization and diffusion of innovations ; Learning in networks -- 10. Words : Advice by one expert ; Larger sets of states and messages ; Panel of experts ; The receiver does not make the evaluation -- Part II. Coordination : 11. Guessing to coordinate : Overview ; Eductive stability in a standard market ; Strategic complementarities ; Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate -- 12. Learning to coordinate : A distribution with a cluster ; Observation noise -- 13. Delays and payoff externalities : Strategic substitutability ; Strategic complementaries -- Part III. Financial herding : 14.l Sequences of financial trades : Learning in the model of Glosten and Milgrom ; Herds ; Avalanches ; Herding in auctions -- 15. Gaussian financial markets : Actions in the CARA-Gauss model ; Markets ; The convergence of beliefs ; Multiple equilibria, crashes, and booms -- 16. Financial frenzies : Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate ; Information delays in financial markets ; The crash of a bubble.
    Abstract: This book is the first in the exciting new field of social learning
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-394) and indexes , English
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    Macrojustice : the political economy of fairness (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511082150 , 9780511082153
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 537 pages , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Macrojustice
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    Keywords: Economics Moral and ethical aspects. ; Distributive justice. ; Income distribution. ; Wealth. ; Poverty. ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Wealth ; Poverty ; Income distribution ; Distributive justice ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Distributive justice ; Income distribution ; Wealth ; Poverty ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects. ; Distributive justice. ; Income distribution. ; Wealth. ; Poverty. ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; General ; Distributive justice ; Economics ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Income distribution ; Poverty ; Wealth ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Economische ethiek ; Distributieve rechtvaardigheid ; Inkomensverdeling ; Rijkdom ; Armoede ; Répartition du revenu ; Justice distributive ; Science économique ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
    Abstract: "The concept of equalization labour is a measure of the degree of community, solidarity, reciprocity, redistribution, and equalization of the society under consideration. It is determined by a number of methods presented in this study, which also emphasizes the rationality, meanings, properties, and ways of practical implementation of this optimum distribution. This result is compared with the various distributive principles found in practice and in political, philosophical, and economic thinking, with the conclusion that most have their proper specific scope of application. The analytical presentation of the social ethics of economics is particularly enlightening."--Jacket
    Abstract: pt. 1. Bases: consensus, freedoms, and capacities -- pt. 2. Overall distributive justice: Elie (equal labour income equalization) -- pt. 3. Comparisons with policies and philosophies -- pt. 4. The degree of community, equality, reciprocity, and solidarity -- pt. 5. Comparison with economics' social ethics.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-523) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2005
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    Alternatives for welfare policy : coping with internationalism and demographic change (2003)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511064845 , 9780511064845 , 0511120540 , 9780511120541
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 383 pages , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Print version Alternatives for welfare policy
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    Keywords: Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare Scandinavia ; Public welfare OECD countries ; OECD countries ; Scandinavia ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Services ; Public welfare ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Services & Welfare ; OECD countries ; Scandinavia ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Nordische Staaten ; Wohlfahrtsstaat
    Abstract: International integration and the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen -- The changing age structure and the public sector / Thomas Lindh -- Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states / Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder -- Productivity and costs in public production of services / Jørn Rattsø -- Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries / Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed -- Privitisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden / Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner -- Occupational welfare / Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg -- Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Social insurance and redistribution / Pierre Pestieau -- Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden / Stefan Fölster ... [et al.] -- Taxation in a global economy / Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman -- Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector / Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad -- Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe / Martin Flodén -- Policy options for reforming the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander
    Description / Table of Contents: International integration and the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen -- The changing age structure and the public sector / Thomas Lindh -- Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states / Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder -- Productivity and costs in public production of services / Jørn Rattsø -- Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries / Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed -- Privatisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden / Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner -- Occupational welfare / Ann-Charlotte St°ahlberg -- Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden / M°arten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Social insurance and redistribution / Pierre Pestieau -- Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden / Stefan Fölster ... [et al.] -- Taxation in a global economy / Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman -- Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector / Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad -- Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe / Martin Flodén -- Policy options for reforming the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander
    Description / Table of Contents: International integration and the welfare state / Torben M. AndersenThe changing age structure and the public sector / Thomas Lindh -- Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states / Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder -- Productivity and costs in public production of services / Jørn Rattsø -- Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries / Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed -- Privitisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden / Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner -- Occupational welfare / Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg -- Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Social insurance and redistribution / Pierre Pestieau -- Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden / Stefan Fölster ... [et al.] -- Taxation in a global economy / Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman -- Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector / Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad -- Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe / Martin Flodén -- Policy options for reforming the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander.
    Note: Subtitle on cover: Reconciling policy goals with demgraphic change and internationalism , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    Rethinking performance measurement : beyond the balanced scorecard (2002)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511064632 , 0511753829 , 9780521812436 , 0521812437 , 9780511064630 , 0511073097 , 9780511073090 , 0511120370 , 9780511120374 , 9780511753824
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 202 pages , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Meyer, Marshall W Rethinking performance measurement
    DDC: 658.4/01
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    Keywords: Organizational effectiveness Measurement. ; Performance Measurement. ; Total quality management. ; Organizational effectiveness Measurement ; Performance Measurement ; Efficacité organisationnelle Mesure ; Rendement au travail Mesure ; Qualité totale ; Total quality management ; Organizational effectiveness Measurement ; Performance Measurement ; Organizational effectiveness Measurement. ; Performance Measurement. ; Total quality management. ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Corporate Governance ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Leadership ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Organizational Development ; Organizational effectiveness ; Measurement ; Performance ; Measurement ; Total quality management ; Bedrijfsresultaten ; Balansanalyse ; Efficacité organisationnelle ; Analyse coûts-avantages ; Évaluation de la performance ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Workplace Culture ; Leistungsmessung ; Unternehmen ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Leistungsmessung ; Unternehmen ; Leistungsmessung
    Abstract: Why are performance measures so bad? -- Running down of performance measures -- In search of balance -- From cost drivers to revenue drivers -- Learning from ABPA -- Managing and strategizing with ABPA
    Abstract: A major new study by a leading management scholar from top-ranked Wharton School of Business on problems of performance measurement systems. Highlights particular shortcomings of the widely adopted 'balanced scorecard' technique. Outlines an alternative approach capturing fundamentals of firm performance. Essential reading for management faculty, MBA students and thoughtful practitioners
    Description / Table of Contents: Why are performance measures so bad? -- Running down of performance measures -- In search of balance -- From cost drivers to revenue drivers -- Learning from ABPA -- Managing and strategizing with ABPA
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England : a study in international trade and economic development (2002)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780521811934 , 0521811937 , 9780521010795 , 0521010799
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 576 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    DDC: 382/.44/096
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    Keywords: Industrialisierung ; Sklaverei ; Handelsgeschichte ; England ; Afrika ; International trade History ; Industrial revolution History ; Slave trade History ; Slavery Economic aspects ; History ; Slavery Economic aspects ; History ; International trade History ; Industrial revolution England ; History ; Slave-trade Africa ; History ; Slavery Economic aspects ; England ; History ; Slavery Economic aspects ; America ; History ; Great Britain Commerce ; History ; America Commerce ; History ; England Commerce ; America ; History ; America Commerce ; England ; History ; Bibliographie enthalten ; England ; Afrikaner ; Sklaverei ; Industrielle Revolution ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Welthandel ; Geschichte 1650-1850
    Description / Table of Contents: The English economy in the Longue Durʹee -- A historiography of the first Industrial Revolution -- Slave-based commodity production and the growth of Atlantic Commerce -- Britain and the supply of African Slave labor to the Americas -- The Atlantic slave economy and English shipping -- The Atlantic slave economy and the development of financial institutions -- African-produced raw materials and industrial production in England -- Atlantic markets and the development of the major manufacturing sectors in England's industrialization.
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    Decisions and elections : explaining the unexpected (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511606076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 240 pages)
    DDC: 658.4/03
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    Keywords: Arrow, Kenneth Joseph ; Sen, Amartya ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Wahl ; Entscheidungsfindung
    Abstract: It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem has been interpreted to mean 'no decision procedure is without flaws'. Similarly, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen dashes hope for individual liberties by showing their incompatibility with societal needs. This highly accessible book offers a new, different interpretation and resolution of Arrow's and Sen's theorems. Using simple mathematics, it shows that these negative conclusions arise because, in each case, some of their assumptions negate other crucial assumptions. Once this is understood, not only do the conclusions become expected, but a wide class of other phenomena can also be anticipated.
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    Global nation? : Australia and the politics of globalisation (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511552250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 202 pages)
    DDC: 337.94
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    Abstract: Globalisation was one of the most ubiquitous buzzwords of the late twentieth century, yet its meaning was often elusive. Retrenchments, trade alliances, global warming, currency devaluations, and so on are often explained as unavoidable consequences of globalisation, and even everyday things - from the food we eat to the television we watch and the clothes we wear - are apparently impacted upon by globalisation. This 1998 book provides an accessible exploration of the meanings and implications of globalisation. The discussion is carefully grounded in the changing social, economic, ecological, and political relationships of Australia. Global Nation? also looks at a range of existing and potential responses to the globalisation process, arguing that there may be alternatives, even though we are increasingly told that there are not.
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    The New economics of human behavior (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511599040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 238 pages)
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Wirtschaftspsychologie
    Abstract: This 1995 volume views important social and political issues through the eyes of economists. Pioneered by Gary Becker, this approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analysed using economic reasoning. Intended as an introduction to the current state of the field, the essays are informal and non-technical, while still using up-to-date economic reasoning to illuminate such topics as crime, marriage, discrimination, immigration, fads and fashions. The expanding domain of economics is illustrated, as problems from sociology, political science, anthropology, and public policy are all included in this Beckerian view: the world of human interaction, as seen by an economist.
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    Age, class, politics, and the welfare state (1989)
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    ISBN: 9780511557781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 199 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
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    Keywords: Alter ; Sozialpolitik ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Sozialausgaben ; Sozialstaat ; Politik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Soziale Klasse
    Abstract: This analysis of the growth of welfare spending examines the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structures. Special attention is given to the role of the aged as representative of the importance of ascription and middle-class groups in welfare growth, and to the effect of welfare spending on income inequality. Aggregate cross-national data from the UN, ILO, and the World Bank are analysed and the conclusion is drawn that a large aged population, especially in combination with democratic political processes, is a direct and crucial influence on the level of welfare spending.
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    Demographic behavior in the past : a study of fourteen German village populations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1988)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511523403
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 587 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 6
    DDC: 304.6/0943
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    Keywords: Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Waldeck-Höringhausen ; Bad Arolsen- Massenhausen ; Diemelsee-Vasbeck
    Abstract: This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany. It is based on the reconstituted family histories of vital events (births, deaths and marriages) compiled by genealogies for the entire populations of these villages. The book applies the type of micro-level analysis possible with family reconstitution data for the crucial period leading to and encompassing the early stages of the demographic transition, including the initial onset of the decline of fertility to low modern levels. The analysis explores many aspects of demographic behavior which have been largely ignored by previous macro-level investigations of the demographic transition. These include infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, marriage, marital dissolution, bridal pregnancy and illegitimacy. The core of the study, however, deals with marital reproduction, examining the modernization of reproductive behavior in terms of the transition from a situation of natural fertility to one characterized by pervasive family limitation.
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    People, food, and resources (1986)
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    ISBN: 9780511559419
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 118 pages)
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    Abstract: The current problems of sub-Saharan peoples who are subject to recurrent famine and shortages of food are only one facet of a wider problem which confronts the peoples of the world. This problem, which is a vast in scale, concerns the relationship between the physical and biological resources which the world can muster and the provision of food for the adequate nutrition of its peoples. Overshadowing much of the thought about the future is the theorem propounded by Malthus almost 200 years ago, namely that population, unless checked in some way, has the capacity to outstrip the productivity of the earth in supplying food. Malthus' views are examined in this 1986 book and estimates are made of the need to increase and the possibilities of increasing both the nutritional status of the world's population and the production of food and other essentials. The enormous dilemmas that face mankind, the economic arguments that, while apparently logical, pose large moral questions, and the possible role of new scientific advances are outlined.
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    The first industrialists : the problem of origins (1985)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511896774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 229 pages)
    DDC: 338.0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1830 ; Sozialgeschichte 1700-1800 ; Industrielle Revolution ; Unternehmer ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: The 'first industrialists' were the pioneers and leaders of the British Industrial Revolution, the men who founded factories and other large establishments, which were typical of the new economic system. They had a number of precursors since the sixteenth century, but, on the whole, they were a new breed, which emerged in the late eighteenth century. They were markedly different from the leaders of traditional industry. This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of those founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study (based on Professor Crouzet's 1983 Ellen McArthur Lectures) makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.
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    Population and development projects in Africa (1985)
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    ISBN: 9780511898402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 329 pages)
    DDC: 304.6/096
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    Keywords: Demographie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The urgent needs of economic development and of specific development projects throughout Africa have marked effects on the mobility, distribution and demography of local populations. In this wide-ranging volume, professional geographers and others examine the problems of relating development goals to their potential impact on populations and population change. Attention is paid to developments in Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and particularly to the Republic of the Sudan, where there is concern for the balance between urgent needs for the economic development of the Nile's waters, and the effects on patterns of human settlement. This book, brought together for the Commission on Population Geography of the International Geographical Union, will be of value to all concerned with the economic, social and political development of Africa.
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