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Unemployment, Inequality...
Collected Papers, Vol. 4
by L. M. Bhole
Unemployment, Inequality, Entrepreneurship, and other Collected Papers contains fifteen research papers on important, topical, socially relevant themes such as the extent of unemployment in India, the true nature and the degree of success of Government unemployment alleviation...
(2008)
Collected Papers on Cred...
Collected Papers, Vol. 2
by L. M. Bhole
The volume on Collected Papers on Credit and Finance contains twenty-eight research papers on the themes such as the importance, evolution, and drawbacks of the Indian capital market, inflation and equity returns, financial derivatives, global depository receipts, working capi...
(2008)
Recessions and Depressio...
When it first appeared in 2004, the first edition of _Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles_ offered readers an expertly guided tour through fundamental business cycle theories and the latest research on pivotal market failures. In the aftermath o...
(2009)
Do They Walk on Water?
Federal Reserve Chairmen and the Fed
A crowd gathers. People crane their necks. Cameras flash. The limo door opens. Who is it—Mick Jagger? Oprah? Tiger Woods? No. It's Alan Greenspan—and the crowd still goes wild. Many felt Greenspan walked on water during his lengthy term as Chairman of the...
(2009)
The Encyclopedia of Money
by Larry Allen
The original edition of _The Encyclopedia of Money_ won widespread acclaim for explaining the function—and dysfunction—of the financial system in a language any reader could understand. Now a decade later, with a more globally integrated, market-oriented ...
(2009)
North American Homeland ...
Back to Bilateralism?
by Imtiaz Hussain, Satya R. Pat..., and Anil Hira
Did 9/11 revive a North American guns-butter trade-off? Established in the largest administrative overhaul since World War II, the Department of Homeland Security was charged with keeping the United States safe within a wider security community, but confronted the Wa...
(2009)
The Canton Trade
Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845
This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in...
(2009)
Moving Millions
The Commercial Success and Political Controversies of Hong Kong's Railway
by Rikkie Yeung
In contrast to many economics texts, which are often abstract and mathematical, this book uses simple language and graphs to demonstrate the general applicability of basic economic concepts, informed by ideas of the transaction cost paradigm, to a wide range of social, physica...
(2008)
Profits, Politics and Pa...
Hong Kong's Banks and the Making of a Miracle Economy, 1935-1985
The mixture of different interested parties, from the elite locals, made up mostly of businessmen, the British Hongs, the expatriate civil servants and their local counterparts, the British Government and its Foreign Office gurus, the mainland Chinese and last but not least th...
(2008)
Friendship in Art
Fou Lei and Huang Binhong
Is Hong Kong's approach to economic policy really as 'hands off' as we are led to believe? How are economic policies determined within Hong Kong's unique governance structure?Tony Latter draws on his deep knowledge of Hong Kong drawn from years in senior positions in the Hong ...
(2007)
Madmen and Other Survivors
Reading Lu Xun's Fiction
The tremendous success of China's program of economic reform and the rapid integration of China into the global economy have prompted this study on the economic and financial integration between mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan – a grouping sometimes referred to as Greate...
(2007)
Above The City
Hiking Hong Kong Island
by Alicia M. Ke... and Ginger Thrash
This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in...
(2005)
Spanish Experience in Ta...
The Baroque Ending of a Renaissance Endeavour
by Tony Cavoli and Ramkishen S....
This volume analyzes Asia’ post crisis experience with using monetary policy to manage the resurgence in capital inflows post crisis. It also examines the theoretical and policy issues associated with international capital flows, the increasing degree of
(2010)
Common Careers, Differen...
Women Managers in Hong Kong and Britain
While there is extensive data on the experiences of women working in managerial positions in Britain, there is a dearth of such information in Hong Kong. Consequently much of our understanding and beliefs about these women's lives are based on issues that concern women in the ...
(2010)
The Making of Women Entr...
This book provides a detailed account of Chinese industrial entrepreneurs, and describes and explains the phenomena of women entrepreneurship in Hong Kong. It addresses two main issues: first, the characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurs; second, the...
(2010)
The Political Economy of...
A Greater China Perspective
In the post-Cold War world, the United States and China together forms one of the most significant relationships in the Asian Pacific region. However, this relationship cannot be considered in isolation from the dynamic economic integration of China with Hong Kong and Taiwan i...
(2010)
The Power of Supply and ...
Thinking Tools and Case Studies for Students and Professionals
Key Points 1. An effective guide to the economics of property rights; 2. An overview of the power of economic analysis and its foundations; 3. A companion for business and development practitioners; 4. A set of tools for meaningful discussion of government policies and law; 5....
(2010)
Spatial Disparities in H...
Perspectives from Asia
by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. V..., and Guanghua Wan
Spatial inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political stability. This book contains a selection of papers from the UNU-WIDER conferen...
(2006)
Sustainable Cities
Japanese Perspectives on Physical and Social Structures
Developing countries are rapidly urbanizing and most of the world's population will soon be living in cities, making it crucial to examine how cities can be developed on a sustainable basis. Japan is one of the most urbanized countries in the world and offers a remarkable s...
(2006)
