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Transform Your Business into E
By Bennet Lientz, Kathryn Rea. 2001
Surveys indicate that many E-Business efforts either fail or disrupt the basic business processes and transactions. E-Business is sometimes not…
aligned with the business or IT. Vague vision statements are not translated into specific actions related to E- Business. It is because of these factors that Transform Your Business into e was written. The book covers E-Business from the review of the business at the start to expanding E-Business after it is live.This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together in one…
place some of his key writings on a variety of economic issues.The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy Ser. #Vol. 34)
By Ernesto Screpanti. 2001
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a…
number of provocative arguments that expose common ground in both neoclassical and Marxist orthodoxies. It will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists including advanced students and professioTime and Money argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust,…
may best be analysed with the aid of a capital-based macroeconomics. The primary focus of this text is the intertemporal structure of capital, an area that until now has been neglected in favour ofBased on previously unpublished archival records, this book studies the origins of Hong Kong's post war rise to global prominence.…
It explores the expansion of the gold market, stock market, banking system, foreign exchange market, and insurance in the years 1945-1965. This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the developmeCovering a diverse range of topics, case studies and theories, the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on…
which the existing international human rights regime has been constructed. She argues that the decolonization of human rights, and the creation of a global community that is conducive to the well-being of all humans, will require a radical restructuring of our ways of thinking, researching and writing. In contributing to this restructuring she brings together feminist and indigenous approaches as well as postmodern and post-colonial scholarship, engaging directly with some of the prevailing orthodoxies, such as 'universality', 'the individual', 'self-determination', 'cultural relativism', 'globalization' and 'civil society'.Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology: New Perspectives for a New Century (Routledge Studies In Global Competition Ser. #Vol. 11)
By Robert E. Lipsey, Jean-Louis Mucchielli. 2001
For decades governments, politicians, and trade unions have feared that firms investing abroad involved a loss of employment and a…
decline in wages for the home country, the implied assumption being that global production and consumption are somehow fixed. Similarly, research on multinational firms has tended to present them as having a number of aEconomic Life in the Modern Age
By Werner Sombart. 2001
Werner Sombart (1863-1941) may well have been the most famous and controversial social scientist in Germany during the early twentieth…
century. Highly influential, his work and reputation have been indelibly tainted by his embrace of National Socialism in the last decade of his life. Although Sombart left an enormous opus spanning disciplinary boundaries, intellectual reaction to his work inside and outside of Germany is divided and ambivalent. Sombart consistently responded to the social and political developments that have shaped the twentieth century. Economic Life in the Modern Age provides a representative sampling of those portions of Sombart's work that have stood the test of time.The volume opens with a substantial introduction reviewing Sombart's life and career, the evolution of his major intellectual concerns, his relation to Marx and Weber, and his political affiliation with the Nazis. The editors' selection of texts emphasizes areas of Sombart's economic and cultural thought that remain relevant, particularly to those intellectual trends that seek a more broadly based, cross-disciplinary approach to culture and economics. Sombart's writings on capitalism are represented by essays on the nature and origin of the market system and the diversity of motives among the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Also included is an excerpt from Sombart's controversial The Jews and Modern Capitalism, exploring the widely perceived relation between economic life and Judaism as a religion. In essays on the economics of cultural processes, Sombart's comprehensive and expansive idea of cultural science yields prophetic insights into the nature of urbanism, luxury consumption, fashion, and the cultural secularization of love. The volume's final section consists of Sombart's reflections on the social influences of technology, the economic life of the future, and on socialism, including the influential essay "Why is there no Socialism in the United States."Encapsulating the most valuable aspects of his work, Economic Life in the Modern Age provides clear demonstration of Sombart's sense for fine cultural distinctions and broad cultural developments and the predictive power of his analyses. It will be of interest to sociologists, economists, political scientists, and specialists in cultural studies.Nico Stehr is professor at the Max Planck-Instit³t f³r Meteorologie in Hamburg. Reiner Grundmann is professor at the Aston Business School of Aston University in Birmingham, U.K.Business as a System of Power
By Robert Brady. 2001
Business as a System of Power was the direct product of extensive and continuing study of the rise of bureaucratic…
centralism. The project was begun in 1934, and resulted a decade later in this volume, arguably the most important work in comparative and historical economics to emerge in the World War Two period. Indeed, Brady's theorems such as the bureaucratic authoritarian model of development, became a touchstone for the study of Third World economies.Brady saw the direction of business moving in a variety of directions: from the totalitarian model set by fascism with its highly centralized approach to special interests, profit making and policy made in the interests of those who rule; and the alternative democratic model set by the democracies of the West, which expound the latitude of direct public participation in decision-making and social organization of the economy as a whole. Brady does not indulge in cheap conspiracy theory. Rather he sees the business classes worldwide as possessing a collective mind, but not a collective will. In this setting the business civilization itself is at stake.The volume offers a fascinating study of German Nazism, Italian fascism and Japanese militarism as a series of policies rather than historical inevitabilities. But the work is also a foreboding and a warning to democratic varieties of capitalism. As business becomes increasingly global in character, unbound by national interests or democratic aims, it also becomes more rational in its own terms. Its drive for maximizing profits with scant regard to what may be less cost effective, but more open to popular control or participation, becomes transparent. Brady provides a remarkably prescient, albeit controversial, study of trends in Western democracy and big business. Robert S. Lynd, in his Preface, writes, "Brady cuts through to the central problem disrupting our worldàa world-wide counter-revolution against democracy." More than a half century later, in his outstanding review of the life and career of Robert Brady, Douglas Dowd points to the same lessons: economic inequities, economic globalization and political concentration of power. "In such a world, the counsel of a Brady never loses its vitality."Robert A. Brady was professor of economics at Columbia University, and author of The Rationalization Movement in German Industry; The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism; and The Scientific Revolution in Industry. Douglas F. Dowd was professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University and author of a number of important books on economics, including Modern Economic Problems in Historic Perspective.Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of…
the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of different policy choices and how these are being adapted toIn arguably his most important book to date, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to try and…
explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths. He argues that you need different theories to analyze different economic phenomena and systems and that historical context must be taF.A. Hayek as a Political Economist: Economic Analysis and Values (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)
By Thierry Aimar, Jack Birner, Pierre Garrouste. 2001
Whilst some of Hayek's contributions to economics are purely analytical, others are inspired by a broader vision that could be…
characterized as political economy. In this authorative volume, some of the world's leading Hayek scholars examine the link between these two essential components of Hayek's thought, and consider them against a wider background of thought in the Austrian tradition.Britain's financial and economic relations with Nazi Germany are assessed in this book. The structure and formulation of British policy,…
the interaction of government and business and the relationship between British business interests and Nazi germany are looked at. A particular focus of the book is on the crisis of uncertainty felt in Britain over the rejection of economic internationalism. Sterlings devaluation and the imposition of tariffs opened up a breach with Europe which exerted a severely destabilising influence. In the face of economic nationalism at home and agroad, leading figures in British commercial and political life struggled to prevent a complete breakdown of relations with Germany - the most important trading partner in Europe.Presenting new material and a fresh perspective, Technology, Trade and Growth in OECD Countries, provides a unifying framework for the…
exploration of the role played by specialisation in economic growth and international competitiveness.The Emergence of Social Enterprise (Routledge Studies In The Management Of Voluntary And Nonprofit Organizations Ser. #No. 4)
By Jacques Defourny, Carlo Borzaga. 2001
What are the characteristics of social enterprises? What are the future prospects for social enterprises? What do social enterprises contribute?…
Analyzing social enterprises in fifteen different countries, The Emergence of Social Enterprise seeks to answer these important questions while investigating the remarkable growth in the 'third sector'. UsNicholas Georgescu-Roegen deserves to be called the father of ecological economics. This book connects Georgescu-Roegen's earlier work such as consumer…
choice theory and a critique of Leontief's dynamic model, with his later ambitious attempt to reformulate the economic process as 'bioeconomics', a theoretical alternative to neoclassical economics.Reflections on the Classical Canon in Economics: Essays in Honour of Samuel Hollander (Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics Ser. #Vol. 41)
By Evelyn L. Forget, Sandra Peart. 2001
In this discipline-defining volume, some of the leading international scholars in the history of economic thought re-examine the concepts of…
'classical economics' and the 'canon', illuminating the roots and evolution of the contemporary discipline.Dependency Theory Revisited (Routledge Revivals)
By B. N. Ghosh. 2001
This title was first published in 2001. An important critical study of the theories of dependency both past and present.…
Since the theories of dependency are based on the Marxian notion of exploitation and backwardness, the book starts with the elaboration of the Marxian theory of development and underdevelopment. The book analyses various concepts and precepts of dependency as well as critically discussing the individual theories of Baran, Frank, Amin, Emmanuel, Prebisch and Singer. The contributions of more recent writers including Furtado, Kay, Wallerstein and Marini are also considered. The main focus of the book lies in the thorough analysis of all the important traditional as well as modern theories of dependency. The main message of the present book is that the phenomenology of dependency is still relevant as a methodology of study of development and underdevelopment. The book incorporates some pressing contemporary issues to give fresh flavour to the old dependency debate. A special feature of the book lies in the critical appraisal for each of the theories studied. The book is designed to serve as a valuable compendium for students of economic development and political economy and for those interested in the study of the economic backwardness of the Third World countries.With the increasing acceptance of evolutionary and institutional thinking among economists, general interest in the German Historical School has risen…
steadily during the last decade. This book traces the development and transformation of the School, covering its leading figures such as Adam Muller, Wilhelm Roscher, Karl Knies and Lujo Brentano.The Political Economy of Corruption (Routledge Contemporary Economic Policy Issues Ser. #Vol. 2)
By Arvind K. Jain. 2001
'Grand' corruption, generally used to define corruption amongst the top political elite, has drawn increasing attention from academics and policy…
makers during recent years. Our understanding of the causes and mechanisms of this type of corruption, however, falls short of its importance and consequences. This volume provides theoretical analysis of