Libros de: Cornell University Press

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  • Domestic Budgets In a United Europe: Fiscal Governance From The End Of Bretton Woods To Emu.

    Hallerberg, Mark

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801442711
    • Páginas: 245
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    Under European Monetary Union, member states lose the ability to steer their economies by manipulating monetary policy. Domestic Budgets in a United Europe, which explains the content, evolution, and effectiveness of fiscal institutions, will be ...

  • Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security And American Foreign Policy.

    Yetiv, Steven

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801442681
    • Páginas: 239
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy ...

  • Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs In China.

    Tsai, Kellee S.

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801489174
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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  • The New Structure Of Labor Relations: Tripartism And Decentralization.

    Katz, Harry Lee, Joohee Lee, Wonduck

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801441844
    • Páginas: 266
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    Tripartism'the national-level interaction among representatives of labor, management, and government'occurs infrequently in the United States. Based on the U.S. experience, then, such interactions might seem irrelevant to economic performance and policymaking. The essays in this ...

  • Employment With a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, And Voice.

    Budd, John

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801442087
    • Páginas: 263
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional view ...

  • What'S Class Got To Do With It?: American Society In The Twenty-First Century.

    Zweig, Michael

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801488993
    • Páginas: 211
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    This title promotes the study of working class life, an approach that is broader than labor studies, which tends to focus on unions. The book encompasses a number of important debates and discussions around issues ...

  • Leaders And Their Followers In a Dangerous World: The Psychology Of Political Behavior.

    Post, Jerrold

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801441691
    • Páginas: 302
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    'Policy specialists and academic scholars have long agreed that for U.S. leaders to deal effectively with other actors in the international arena, they need images of their adversaries. Leaders must try to see events, and, ...

  • The River Runs Black. The Environmental Challenge To Chinas'S Future.

    Economy, Elizabeth

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801442209
    • Páginas: 337
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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  • Dams And Development: Transnational Struggles For Water And Power.

    Khagram, Sanjeev

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801489075
    • Páginas: 270
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    Examines changing attitudes toward dams as examples of Western-style economic development and their impact on human rights, indigenous peoples, and the environment

  • Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment In American Industries.

    Crystal, Jonathan

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801441233
    • Páginas: 230
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

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    Since the late 1970s, the US economy has been transformed by a large inflow of direct investment from abroad. Foreign companies, mainly from Europe and Japan, have built factories and acquired US firms at an ...

  • Beyond The Ruins: The Meanings Of Deindustrialization.

    Bluestone, Barry

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801488719
    • Páginas: 372
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

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    The immediate impact of deindustrialization - the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families and their communities - has been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this volume, the authors seek to move discussion of ...

  • Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, And The Farm Workers.

    Martin, Philip L.

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801488757
    • Páginas: 232
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

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    In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions. ...

  • Third-Sector Development: Making Up For The Market.

    Gunn, Christopher

    Cornell University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780801488818
    • Páginas: 218
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

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    Non-profit corporations, co-operatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in the normal operation of the market economy. These organizations comprise the third sector, ...

  • Corporate Warriors. The Rise Of The Privatized Military Industry.

    Singer, Peter

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801489150
    • Páginas: 330
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

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    Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals", but P.W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?". Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mould of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell ...

  • Collective Bargaining In Private Sector.

    Clark, Paul Delaney, John Frost, Ann

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780913447840
    • Páginas: 380
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.39,00 €

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    Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward unions by managers and the declining effectiveness of ...

  • Monetary Orders. Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitous Politics.

    Kirshner, Jonathan

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801488405
    • Páginas: 319
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

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    Wherever there is money, there is money politics-a subject demanding ever greater attention at a time when monetary policies lead and the real economy follows. A principal defining characteristic of the contemporary global economy, Jonathan ...

  • Agricultural Product Prices

    Tomek, William

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801440939
    • Páginas: 428
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.57,00 €

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    In an excellent synthesis of theory and measurement as they relate to agricultural prices, William G. Tomek and Kenneth L. Robinson set out principles for understanding the operation of markets for agricultural products. This heavily ...

  • The Offshore World. Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, And Nomad Millionaires.

    Palan, Ronen

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801440557
    • Páginas: 225
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.37,90 €

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    The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial center in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable "offshore" ...

  • A Certain Idea Of Europe

    Parsons, Craig

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801440861
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.51,00 €

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    The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans--and only Europeans--beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture. Craig Parsons argues ...

  • Public Pensions. Gender And Civic Service In The United States, 1850-1937.

    Sterett, Susan

    Cornell University Press (2003)

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    • EAN: 9780801439841
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

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    In Public Pensions, Susan M. Sterett traces the legal and constitutional structures underlying early social welfare programs in the United States. Sterett explains the status of state and local government payments for public servants and ...