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Sex Trafficking "Inside The Business Of Modern Slavery"
Inside The Business Of Modern SlaveryKara, Siddarth
Columbia University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780231139618
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form ...
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A Theory Of Narrative
Altman, Rick
Columbia University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780231144292
- Páginas: 377
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.29,05 €
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Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience narrative in words, pictures, and film, ...
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Bailouts "Public Money, Private Profit"
Public Money, Private ProfitWright, Robert
Columbia University Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780231150552
- Páginas: 128
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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Today's financial crisis was caused by the dismal failures of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives, yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have ...
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The Value Of Money
Patnaik, Prabhat
Columbia University Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780231146760
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.32,05 €
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Why is money more valuable than the paper on which it is printed? Monetarists link the value of money to its supply and demand, believing the latter depends on the total value of the commodities ...
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The Aid Trap "Hard Truths About Ending Poverty"
Hard Truths About Ending PovertyHubbard, Glenn R.
Columbia University Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780231145626
- Páginas: 128
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.20,30 €
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Two leading scholars of business and finance introduce a bold idea for the world's poorest countries. Over the past twenty years, more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty then anywhere ...
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Pensions, Social Security, And The Privatization Of Risk
Furman, Jason
Columbia University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780231146951
- Páginas: 128
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.16,40 €
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Jason Furman brings together leading economists and policy advisors to discuss the complex and timely issue of retirement and risk. Employers, increasingly called upon by elected officials, have begun to shift from a model of ...
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When Principles Pay.
Heal, Geoffrey
Columbia University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780231144001
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.32,70 €
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Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits. Yet some of the worst lenders are ...
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Privatization: Successes And Failures.
Roland, Gerard
Columbia University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780231141604
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.32,70 €
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The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century. Right wing governments have privatized in an effort to decrease the size of government, while left ...
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Spatial Optimization In Ecological Applications
Hof, John
Columbia University Press (2007)
- EAN: 9780231125444
- Páginas: 257
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.90,95 €
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Whether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or black-tailed prairie dog or strategies for controlling exotic pests, this book explains how capturing ecological relationships across a landscape with pragmatic optimization models can be ...
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Present As History: Critical Perspectives On Global Power
Shaikh, Nermeen
Columbia University Press (2007)
- EAN: 9780231142991
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.27,20 €
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The contributors to this volume treat the United States as an object to be historically and politically scrutinized rather than as the norm from which all else is to be evaluated, and they assess the ...
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Corporate Risk Management: Theory And Practice
Chew, Donald H.
Columbia University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780231143639
- Páginas: 470
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.42,80 €
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"Risk management" encompasses a number of corporate sins, but in this collection, more than thirty experts and scholars focus specifically on assessing enterprise-risk management (ERM) for increasing corporate value. ERM is the corporate-wide effort to ...
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International Trade And Labor Standards: a Proposal For Linkage
Barry, Christian Reddy, Sanjay G.
Columbia University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780231140485
- Páginas: 207
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.48,50 €
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Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy examine how the international trading system can be reformed to support efforts by poor countries to promote the well-being of their peoples. Progressive governments in poor countries fear that ...
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Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today'S Problems
Delong, Bradford Edlin, Aaron S. Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Columbia University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780231143646
- Páginas: 317
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.27,59 €
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In this volume, more than thirty of the world's top economists contribute informative, lively essays on a range of contemporary topics. Contributors are Nobel Prize winners, former presidential advisers, academics, and practitioners from across the ...
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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom In Unconventional Places
Mauboussin, Michael J.
Columbia University Press (2007)
- EAN: 9780231143721
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.30,05 €
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Translated into seven languages, "More Than You Know" was one of 2006's top business books. Offering invaluable tools to better understand the concepts of choice and risk, "More Than You Know" is a unique blend ...
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Escaping The Resource Curse.
Humphreys, Macartan Sachs, Jeffrey D. Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Columbia University Press (2007)
- EAN: 9780231141963
- Páginas: 408
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.36,35 €
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The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, ...
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Hong Kong Taxation: Law And Practice
Macpherson, Ayesha Smith, Bruce D.
Columbia University Press (2006)
- EAN: 9789629962548
- Páginas: 1000
- Fecha de edición: 2006
pvp.50,00 €
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Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 2005-6 explains in detail the taxes under the Inland Revenue Ordinance'Property Tax, Salaries Tax and Profits Tax. Two chapters covering Stamp Duty and Estate Duty are also included. Written ...
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Probability And Evidence.
Ayer, Alfred
Columbia University Press (2006)
- EAN: 9780231132756
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha de edición: 2006
pvp.30,00 €
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In this new edition of Probability and Evidence, first published in 1972, one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the twentieth century addresses central questions in epistemology and the philosophy of science. Based on Ayers ...
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Globalization. What'S New.
Weinstein, Michael
Columbia University Press (2005)
- EAN: 9780231134590
- Páginas: 279
- Fecha de edición: 2005
pvp.27,85 €
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With contributions from some of globalization's cheer-leaders (David Dollar), its most vocal critics (Joseph E. Stiglitz), and those in between, this collection of essays analyzes globalization's impact on wages and the environment; the degree to ...
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Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions From The Middle Ages
Mccuaig, William
Columbia University Press (2004)
- EAN: 9780231128124
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.25,00 €
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Once regarded by historians as a period of intellectual stagnation, the Middle Ages were actually a period of extraordinary technological innovation. This romp through the inventions of the period tells the story of the first ...
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Economic Governance In The Age Of Globalization.
Tabb, William K.
Columbia University Press (2004)
- EAN: 9780231131551
- Páginas: 520
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.34,40 €
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Rapid growth, reduced poverty, and stable societies: the announced benefits of the world economy celebrated by neoliberal proponents of "the Washington consensus" have failed to materialize. What does this failure mean for future world order ...
