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Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification
ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...
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£30,00
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Citizen's Share Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300209334, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
In the largest study of profit-sharing and employee ownership in years, Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse investigated dozens of large- and medium-sized companies across all sectors of the United States' economy. The ten-year e...
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£15,99
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Captive Audience The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300205701, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-base...
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£19,99
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Cost Disease Why Some Things Keep Getting More Expensive - and Why it's Not the Problem We Think it is
ISBN: PB: 9780300198157, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol expl...
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£22,00
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Chicago Business and Industry From Fur Trade to E-Commerce
ISBN: PB: 9780226709369, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 24 halftones
From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. With its blue-collar work ethic and an economic history that extends into virtually every segment of American industry, it...
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£18,00
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Capitalizing China
ISBN: HB: 9780226237244, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 tables, 51 line illus.
China's economic boom over the last two decades has taken many analysts by surprise, given the ongoing role of central government planning. Its current growth trajectory suggests that the size of its economy could soon surpass that of the United Stat...
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£102,00
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Clariant Clareant The Beginnings of a Specialty Chemicals Company
ISBN: HB: 9783593393742, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 62 halftones, 4 colour illus.
From its very beginning, the specialty chemicals group Clariant has been in a continual process of transformation. This, the first book-length study of the company, gives an insightful account of its historical foundations, starting with the successf...
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£32,00
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Crisis and Control Institutional Change in Financial Market Regulation
ISBN: PB: 9783593396712, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
299 pp., 21.6x14 cm
In reaction to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets, and this book presents their results. The articles published herein sh...
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£44,00
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China's Growing Role in World Trade
ISBN: PB: 9780226239743, ISBN: HB: 9780226239712, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 104 line illus.
In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in world trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source o...
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£73,50
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£95,50
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Corporate Policy and Governance How Organizations Self-Organize
ISBN: PB: 9783593395456, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
356 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 colour illus.
In "Corporate Policy and Governance", Fredmund Malik offers insights into his cybernetic toolkit along with instructions for its use. He argues that businesses and other societal institutions can function "autodynamically" – in much the same fashion...
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£37,50
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