International Economics
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:Bremmer, Ian & Keat, Preston [Bremmer, Ian]

A number of economic factors also affect the likelihood of expropriations. One is an overtly statist economic policy. In 1975, Great Britain expropriated the (already bankrupt) British Leyland Motor Corporation, ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

The problem with Clive is that being a larger-than-life risk taker, who operated in a savage, frontier environment in which he made up his own rules accordingly, the very traits ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-07 | Author:Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

SuperFreakonomics CHAPTER 4 THE FIX IS IN—AND IT’S CHEAP AND SIMPLE It is a fact of life that people love to complain, particularly about how terrible the modern world is ...
( Category: Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Ben Judah

Time to Switch to the Sports Channel Supporters of a Medvedev policy agenda had by September 2011 started to become increasingly shrill. Members of the factions answering directly to Putin ...
( Category: Russia March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Robert Skidelsky

5 Limits to Growth: Natural or Moral? Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. – Oscar Wilde As well as failing ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Chrystia Freeland

Bringing this dream to life required the robber barons: “To be made real, it required use of the talents of men of tremendous will, and tremendous ambition, since by no ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Lanchester, John [Lanchester, John]

FIVE THE MISTAKE And yet the financial industry could still have got away with it. All the things described up until now could have been survived, and the resulting chaos ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-08 | Author:Cavanagh, John & Mander, Jerry [Cavanagh, John]

196 CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING SCALE Changes in energy, transportation, and agriculture systems will make them more compatible with local economies and eliminate the wasteful resource uses that go with long-distance ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-29 | Author:John Perkins

It was a classic game of international chess. President Nixon asked Congress for $2.2 billion in aid to Israel on October 19. The next day, led by Saudi Arabia, Arab ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Levi, Michael, Economy, Elizabeth [Levi, Michael, Economy, Elizabeth]

Law to the Rescue? Many hope that international law will impose a resolution to the conflicts over resource ownership. This would, however, be a strong departure from historical precedent. (Moreover, ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )