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Self-interest before Adam Smith

a genealogy of economic science

Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self- interest ...

Turkey

the quest for identity

A decade of light and shadow

Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s

The 1990s were a transitional period that marked a turning point in the economic, social, and political development of Latin America and the Caribbean. This volume looks back at the decade to evaluate the major events associated with the consolidation of the region's reform ...

Asia and Africa in the global economy

The book brings a crucial issue to the fore: how to manage the process of strategic integration into the global economy. The performance of Asian and African economies over recent decades clearly shows that engagement with the global economy can play a key role in ...

Perspectives on growth and poverty

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may ...

Regionalism, multilateralism, and economic integration

the recent experience

In recent years, the central question relating to regional trade agreements has been whether or not they have led to a new form of economic cooperation by promoting deeper integration in the regulatory structures of the participating countries. The answer to this question has profound ...

High-stakes antitrust

the last hurrah?

Turbulent waters

cross-border finance and international governance

The world economy at the end of the twentieth century was afflicted with financial turbulence. Millions of people in emerging-market nations endured severe recessions, and many residents of wealthy nations also experienced losses. Some scholars describe this instability as a consequence of a progressively integrated ...

The future of domestic capital markets in developing countries

Now in its fifth year, the "Emerging Markets Series" from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Brookings Institution offers financial policymakers and practitioners a unique resource. Drawn from the proceedings of the 2003 Financial Markets and Development conference, this volume brings together financial sector ...

Structural reform in Japan

breaking the iron triangle

In this unusually candid book, Japan#s former top financial diplomat asserts the urgent need for wholesale structural reform to revitalize the long-stagnant Japanese economy. Eisuke Sakakibara, whose influence over global currency markets earned him the nickname of #Mr. Yen,# envisions a social and economic ...

Las edades del hombre

el árbol de la vida

A grand strategy for America

Retrench and regeneration in rural newfoundland

Set against the background of momentous economic changes over the last decade, this collection of essays looks at the economic, political, and social circumstances thet have led to the current crisis in rural newfoundland. In this timely work, twelve social scientits explore outporters ways of ...

The other war

global poverty and the millennium challenge account

A history of online information services, 1963-1976

Software ecosystem

understanding an indispensable technology and industry

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are ...

Digital library use

social practice in design and evaluation

The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz observes ...

Rethinking rights and regulations

institutional responses to new communications technologies

The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post- bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)-- traditionally a showcase for the best ...

Inventing the organizations of the 21st century

Technological changes have displaced the hierarchical corporation as the model for business organization; the large corporations of the new century are decentralizing and externalizing, creating networks of "industry ecosystems" that will replace the top-down organizations of the last century. Inventing the Organizations of the 21st ...

Management

inventing and delivering its future

The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT ...