Libros de: Harvard University Press

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  • The Development Of Modern Spain: An Economic History Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries.

    Tortella, Gabriel

    Harvard University Press (2000)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674000940
    • Páginas: 544
    • Fecha de edición: 2000

    pvp.86,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This re-interpretation of the history of modern Spain from the Enlightenment to the threshold of the 21st century explains the surprising changes that took Spain from a backward and impoverished nation, with decades of stagnation, ...

  • What The Best College Teachers Do

    Bain, Keith

    Harvard University Press (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674013254
    • Páginas: 207
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.27,50 €

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    What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields ...

  • Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, And The Continental European Model

    James, Harold

    Harvard University Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674021815
    • Páginas: 440
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.47,20 €

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    This history of three powerful family firms located in different European countries takes place over a period of more than 200 years. The interplay and the changing social and legal arrangements of the families shaped ...

  • The New Geography Of Global Income Inequality

    Firebaugh, Glenn

    Harvard University Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674019874
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.30,85 €

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    The surprising finding of this book is that global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalisation and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarising the worldwide distribution of income. But as ...

  • Profiles, Probabilities, And Stereotypes

    Schauer, Federick

    Harvard University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780674021181
    • Páginas: 348
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.36,30 €

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    This book employs a careful, rigorous, yet lively approach to the timely question of whether we can justly generalise about members of a group on the basis of statistical tendencies of that group. For instance, ...

  • The Palestinain Peasant Economy Under The Mandate: a Story Of Colonial Bungling

    Nadan, Amos

    Harvard University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780674021358
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.30,80 €

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    Challenging the claim that Palestine's peasant economy progressed during the 1920s and 1930s, Amos Nadan skilfully integrates a wide variety of sources to demonstrate that the period was actually one of deterioration on both the ...

  • The Emergence Of China: Challenges And Opportunities For Latin America And The Caribbean

    Devlin, Robert Estevadeordal, Antoni Rodriguez Clare, Andres

    Harvard University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780674021266
    • Páginas: 300
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.32,60 €

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    China is emerging as a truly global economic and political power. China's impact on Latin America and the Caribbean region is mixed, however - fostering a trade market for some countries, but creating competition for ...

  • Capitalism As Religion?: a Study Of Paul Tillich'S Interpretation Of Modernity

    Yip, Ching-Wah

    Harvard University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780674021471
    • Páginas: 210
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.27,20 €

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    The relationship between religion and modern culture remains a controversial issue within Christian theology. This book focuses on Paul Tillich's interpretation of modern culture and the influence of capitalism, highlighting the context of his work ...

  • The Making Of The State Enterprise System In Modern China: The Dynamics Of Institutional Change.

    Bian, Morris

    Harvard University Press (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674017177
    • Páginas: 346
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.54,50 €

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    When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. ...

  • The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle And Execution.

    Hovenkamp, Herbert

    Harvard University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780674018976
    • Páginas: 328
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.58,15 €

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    After thirty years, the debate over antitrust's ideology has quieted. Most now agree that the protection of consumer welfare should be the only goal of antitrust laws. Execution, however, is another matter. The rules of ...

  • Strategies Of Commitment And Other Essays.

    Schelling, Thomas C.

    Harvard University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780674019294
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.47,25 €

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    All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. This perspective has several characteristics: it is strategic in that it assumes that an important part ...

  • Technology, Institutions, And Economic Growth.

    Nelson, Richard

    Harvard University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780674019164
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.58,15 €

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    The broad theory of economic growth Nelson presents sees the process as involving the co-evolution of technologies, institutions, and industry structure.

  • The Economy Of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, And The Circulation Of Cultural Value

    English, James

    Harvard University Press (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674018846
    • Páginas: 362
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.39,25 €

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    This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as ...

  • Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: a Determined Scientist

    Hahn, Roger

    Harvard University Press (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674018921
    • Páginas: 298
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.39,95 €

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    Often referred to as the Newton of France, Pierre Simon Laplace has been called the greatest scientist of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. He affirmed the stability of the solar system and offered ...

  • An Introduction To Sustainable Development

    Rogers, Peter

    Harvard University Press (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674019645
    • Páginas: 300
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.39,31 €

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    Presents the concept and practice of sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

  • The Emergence Of Modern Business Enterprise In France, 1800-1930

    Smith, Michael

    Harvard University Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674019393
    • Páginas: 575
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.78,50 €

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    In this magisterial study, Michael Smith explains how France left behind small-scale merchant capitalism for the large corporate enterprises that would eventually dominate its domestic economy and project French influence throughout the world. Arguing against ...

  • Lectures On Economic Growth.

    Lucas, Rosemary

    Harvard University Press (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674016019
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.30,85 €

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    In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal On the Mechanics of Economic Development to his previously unpublished 1997 Kuznets Lectures.

    The chapters ...

  • Reconstructing Macroeconomics: Structuralist Proposals And Critiques Of The Mainstream.

    Taylor, Lance

    Harvard University Press (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674010734
    • Páginas: 456
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.72,75 €

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    Lance Taylor focuses his critique on mainstream monetarist, new classical, new Keynesian and growth models. He examines them from a historical perspective, tracing monetarism from its eighteenth-century roots and comparing current monetarist and new classical ...

  • Capital Resurgent: Roots Of The Neoliberal Revolution.

    Dumenil, Gerard Levy, David

    Harvard University Press (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674011588
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.65,45 €

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    The advent of economic neoliberalism in the 1980s triggered a shift in the world economy. In the three decades following World War II, now considered a golden age of capitalism, economic growth was high and ...

  • A Political Explanation Of Economic Growth.

    Wu, Yanrui

    Harvard University Press (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674017795
    • Páginas: 475
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.58,15 €

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    Taiwan is a classic case of export-led industrialization. But unlike South Korea and Japan, where large firms have been the major exporters, before the late 1980s Taiwan's successful exporters were overwhelmingly small- and medium-sized enterprises ...