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Crisis and Dollarization in Ecuador: Stability, Growth, and Social EquityEarly in 2000, Ecuador, confronted with a serious economic and governance crises, adopted the U.S. dollar as its national currency. The economic situation was dire with high inflation, government intervention in the banking system including freezing of deposits to prevent further flight from the...
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Victory at HomeVictory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded...
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Groups in Context: A New Perspective on Group DynamicsThis volume revitalizes the field of group dynamics, collecting the best of experts in the field of group process. Groups in Context integrates new knowledge about group dynamics with an understanding of the turbulent organizational environments in which work groups now function, providing conceptual...
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Gambling with Other People's Money, 692: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial CrisisWhat caused the Financial Crisis of 2008? While government mandates and private sector mistakes did contribute to the crisis and can be blamed at least in part for what happened, this book takes a different approach. Russ Roberts argues that the true underlying cause...
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Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse EconomiesThere is no doubt that "economy" is a keyword in contemporary life, yet what constitutes economy is increasingly contested terrain. Interested in building "other worlds," J. K. Gibson-Graham have argued that the economy is not only diverse but also open to experimentations that foreground...
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Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in JapanIn Anime's Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that is today...
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The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History"From the first logging operation to the closing of the last mill this book is so thorough, so comprehensive, so well organized, and so useful that it must take its place with the outstanding monographs of economic and western history." --Journal of Economic HistoryThe...
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A Postcapitalist PoliticsIs there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued follow-up to their book The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), J. K. Gibson-Graham offer already existing alternatives to a global capitalist order and outline strategies for building alternative economies. A Postcapitalist Politics reveals...
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Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global EconomyWith new markets opening up for goods produced by artisans from all parts of the world, craft commercialization and craft industries have become key components of local economies. Now with the emergence of the Fair Trade movement and public opposition to sweatshop labor, many...
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Government Failure Versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance" When should government intervene in market activity and when is it best to let market forces take their natural course? How does the existing empirical evidence about government performance guide our answers to these questions? In this clear, concise book, Clifford Winston offers...
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Reversals of Fortune: Public Policy and Private Interests" In this book, Gary Mucciaroni examines the shifting fortunes of economic interest groups in Washington. He addresses such compelling questions as: Why do policymakers bestow benefits on these groups in some areas of public policy but refrain from doing so in others? Why...
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The Future of MicrofinanceA major source of financing for the poor and no longer a niche industryOver the past four decades, microfinance--the provision of loans, savings, and insurance to small businesses and entrepreneurs shut out of traditional capital markets--has grown from a niche service in Bangladesh and...
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Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry"The role of industry in low income countries is important. Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of industry. Africa doesn't have enough industry to reach the Sustainable...
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The Arab Spring Five Years Later: Toward Great InclusivenessThe dilemma felt by Arab youth was captured in Tunisia by the selfimmolation in 2010 of Mohamed Bouazizi, who was frustrated by restrictions on his small street-vending business. His death became the catalyst for revolts throughout the Middle East. The frustration had been building...
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Emerging Markets: Resilience and Growth Amid Global Turmoil" Emerging market economies (EMEs) have become the darlings of international investors and the focus of enormous attention in academic, media, and policy circles. M. Ayhan Kose and Eswar Prasad present the definitive account of the evolution of EMEs and use the lens of...
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Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence" Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations. Based on interviews with 250 leading thinkers from...
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Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive FeaturesIn Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive Features, Claudia Nagel presents a comprehensive overview of the unique features of psychodynamic coaching. As leaders and managers acknowledge the need to understand themselves and their context by looking underneath the surface to improve their decision-making, psychodynamic approaches offer unique...
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Strategic Management for Hospitality and TourismStrategic Management for Hospitality and Tourism is an essential text for both intermediate and advanced learners aspiring to build their knowledge related to the theories and perspectives on the topic. The book provides critical and analytical insights on contemporary theoretical models and management practices while enhancing the learning process through worked examples and cases applied to the hospitality and tourism setting. This new edition highlights the rapidly...
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Celebrity Fans and Their Consumer Behaviour: Autoethnographic Insights into the Life of a FanEver since the dawn of the Hollywood star system in the early 1920s, consumers have been fascinated by film stars and other celebrities and their seemingly glamorous private lives. The public demand for celebrities has become so pervasive that it is arguably an essential...
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Pmp(r) Exam Preparation: Test Questions, Practice Test, and Simulated ExamFully updated to be aligned with the Project Management Body of Knowledge(R) (PMBOK(R) Guide), Sixth Edition, this study guide is structured per the PMP(R) Examination Content Outline (ECO), 2015 edition, which is the blueprint for the PMP(R) exam. The study guide has a chapter...
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