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"Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits. Richard Heinberg's latest landmark work goes to the heart of the...
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"Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. Born in Berlin in 1915, Hirschman grew up amid the promise and turmoil of the Weimar era, but fled...
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"A leading thinker's groundbreaking examination of women's economic empowerment"--
"Linda Scott coined the phrase "Double X Economy" to address the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. In The Double X Economy, Scott argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those barriers to women's success is a win for everyone, regardless of gender. Scott opens our eyes to the myriad economic injustices...
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La tentación del rey Midas es un libro en contra de la abstracción, pero a favor del pensamiento. intenta contribuir al análisis de la realidad económica, social y política, partiendo del principio de que cualquier tipo de conocimiento sólo puede captar una fracción de la realidad y de que la realidad, previa a los conceptos e inabarcable por ellos, acaba siempre por salir a la luz en el choque de contradicciones y relaciones sociales y de...
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Innovation requires supportive innovation ecosystems. This book is about building innovation ecosystems and improving existing ones. These have the character of complex adaptive systems. Innovation ecosystems do not just happen; they need to be engineered. Cases and examples in the book of how to engineer innovation ecosystems illustrate widely applicable fundamentals. No previous knowledge of complexity is assumed.
Innovation ecosystems are systems...
6) Somaliland
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This publication, which focuses on Somaliland, lays out a strategy for inclusive growth that creates jobs, reduces poverty, improves the lives and livelihoods of the population, and enhances the government's revenue base so that it can deliver basic services to the public. Based on the private sector, which accounts for 90% of Somaliland's GDP, the proposed strategy aims at just growth but also the transformation of the economic base to a diversified,...
7) América Latina en su Laberinto: La maraña multifacética que condiciona el destino latinoamericano
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Desde finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los países latinoamericanos han venido ensayando, en lo político, con dictaduras militares, regímenes autoritarios, democráticos, socialistas y comunistas; y en el campo económico, con políticas proteccionistas, neoliberales, intervencionistas e híbridas, que combinan cualidades de las anteriores. Sin embargo, con ninguno de estos experimentos lograron resultados exitosos ni perdurables. No obstante,...
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Ce manuel propose une démarche pédagogique pour comprendre les trois principales dimensions du développement territorial, soit l'occupation, la gouvernance et l'innovation. Les théories, les modèles et les concepts pertinents sont à cet effet exposés et illustrés à travers la diversité des territoires qui fait la richesse du Québec.
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"Flow" is a book that examines the core question of: How can financial systems open flow of finance for all?
An impediment to delivering sustainable development is that finance is not flowing to everywhere that it is needed. "Flow" unpacks why this is the case, and what we can do about it.
This is a book about hope. In the end, the book comes down to a single proposition captured in a single word. Flow. It is the flow of finance to all that ultimately...
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The author, an attorney for small businesses, describes what individuals and small communities can do to protect their town, local property values, local jobs and business opportunities, and standard of living. This book is essential reading for every resident and small retailer in a town trying to compete with the major retailers already in town, or making plans to come to your town, such as Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, BJ's, Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond,...
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International business and economic literature counts Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as one of the most essential components of the globalization process. This research book consists of two parts and presents evidence of the impact of foreign direct investment on the U.S. economy and the economy of Central and Eastern Europe. Foreign direct investment plays an extraordinary and growing role in the global markets and represents an integral part of...
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The biggest and most controversial offset programme in Hungary was the one connected with the acquisition of the Swedish Gripen jetfighters. The primary topic of the research is the influence of the Hungarian Gripen offset agreement on the domestic economy and its potential in terms of economic development, technology transfer and other benefits during the programme period. Moreover the research evaluates the implementation of the offset programme...
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Chile hoy tiene el enorme desafío de generar una matriz productiva que asegure el bienestar social, la democracia y la sostenibilidad medioambiental. En ese desafío, resulta crucial analizar ejemplos exitosos de desarrollo productivo que nos puedan proveer lecciones sobre éxitos y fracasos en los intentos de transitar hacia el crecimiento sostenible, con empleos de calidad e inclusión social. Este libro contribuye un relevante e interesante análisis...
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Les modles de dveloppement les plus souvent appliqus dans nos pays ont des faiblesses, car il sagit le plus souvent des conceptions dhommes de science et de dirigeants politiques qui ne tiennent pas compte de certaines ralits vivantes surtout dans les pays en dveloppement. Cest la raison pour laquelle il faut en proposer dautres. Lorsque nous nous livrons quelques rflexions sur notre tude, nous ralisons combien il est difficile de russir une recherche...
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We live in the midst of one of the greatest technological revolutions in history, an era of deep-seated transformation-a macro shift in civilization, says preeminent scholar and futurist Ervin Laszlo. Its signs and manifestations are all around us, from the deadly HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping Africa and the dangerous fire-trap sweatshops routinely killing workers in Bangladesh, to the environmental havoc created by genetic engineering, power plant pollution...
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Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the rest of the population, especially the very poor. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires...
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La década de 1980 marca un punto de inflexión en el desarrollo de América Latina. Durante esa década se produjo la coincidencia de cuatro fenómenos que desde entonces han marcado el desarrollo de América Latina: el colapso del "régimen proteccionista" que venía siendo empleado por los países latinoamericanos desde la década de 1950; la crisis de la deuda externa; la generalizada aceptación de la política neoliberal, y el surgimiento de...
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La bioeconomía se fundamenta en paradigmas de producción basados en procesos biológicos. Contribuye a transformar el conocimiento de las ciencias biológicas en productos nuevos, sostenibles, ecoeficientes y competitivos capaces de mejorar la calidad de vida de la creciente población mundial. Esta publicación establece a la bioeconomía como uno de los paradigmas de América Latina y el Caribe, ya que son regiones con una enorme riqueza y bien...
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El libro presenta un conjunto de ensayos escritos por diversos autores especialistas en el sector empresarial, donde comparten su preparación y experiencia en este ámbito. Propone una visión original, eficaz y competitiva de las empresas modernas, además de que incita al lector a emprender y crear nuevos proyectos que solucionen las problemáticas actuales.
El coordinador de la obra, Jose Antonio Dávila, es director del Centro de Investigación...
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2021 So many issues developed during COVID-19. Systematic Racial Injustice left another blemish on are judicial system.
This short easy to follow manual was published to make "Process Servers". For the times of 2022 short sweet and direct. The amount of the whole process will truly amaze you. And also because I myself am a Californian this manual offers assistance while completing the tasks if needed. Building brand and a good name is relevant to...
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