Economic and financial crises in emerging market economies

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world. The crises eventually spread to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America, and impacted the economies of many industrialized nations as ...

Modern labor economics

theory and public policy

Social construction and the logic of money

financial predominance and international economic leadership

While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally ...

The handbook of water economics

principles and practice

Water is vital to social and economic development whilst both arable land and water are scarce. Managing water is highly capital intensive, and capital is also scarce. Simultaneously, there are environmental consequences to any intervention in the water cycle whilst the economy depends on the ...

The essential guide to managing small business growth

A cliche it may be but we are living in ever more turbulent times. Business decision-making has become more challenging and unpredictable than ever: we see unforeseen and often cataclysmic changes in consumer demand, both at home and in export markets; customers continue to demand ...

New consumer marketing

managing a living demand system

The retail sector has experienced exponential change in the wake of the internet revolution and globalization. Supply-chain management has been turned on its head, competition has grown tougher, brand wars have increased and distribution channels have developed. This text synthesizes emerging marketing thinking in the ...

Broadbandits

inside the $750 billion telecom heist

"Broadbandits weaves together a story of greed, money, power, and crime to reveal to the millions of people who lost their investments in telecom stock where, and to whom, their hard-earned dollars went." #Charles Dubow, Executive Editor, Forbes.com INDICE PART I:THE FIBER BARONS ...

Enterprise marketing management

the new science of marketing

This is truly the ideal companion book to The End of Marketing as We Know It. It is the #playbook# that allows business leaders to begin transforming their Marketing function and accelerating to realize business results by applying my principles in a systematic and logical ...

Corporate aftershock

the public policy lessons from the collapse of Enron and other major corporations

"The greatest tragedy of the Enron debacle is not likely to be the consequences of its bankruptcy, but from the erroneous institutional reforms that will take hold if its causes are not well understood. This thorough and thoughtful set of essays touches on all aspects ...

Viejos y nuevos pensamientos

ensayos sobre la filosofía de Wittgenstein

Islam under siege

living dangerously in a post-honor world

Aristóteles en el mundo cuántico

una investigación acerca de la aplicabilidad del concepto de sustancia de Aristóteles a los objetos cuánticos

Human resources in the 21st century

The indian ocean in world history

From norman conquest to Magna Carta

England 1066-1215

Shinto

a short history

Ancient cities

The archaeology of urban life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome

Image and reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict

First published in 1995, this acclaimed study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexamines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current failures of the peace process

Medieval worlds

a sourcebook

Themes in modern European history since 1945