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UNINA9910450970203321 |
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Autore |
Wallace Iain <1946, > |
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The global economic system / / Iain Wallace |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; Boston : , : Unwin Hyman, , 1990 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-88722-1 |
0-585-45308-X |
1-280-32135-0 |
0-203-41935-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic history |
Capitalism - History |
Socialism - History |
Electronic books. |
Developing countries Economic conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of tables; The global economy: orientations; Society, the economy and the environment; Population and resources in an industrialized world-economy; The evolution of the modern world-economy; States and the global economic system; The corporation and the global production system; Transnational corporations in a world of sovereign states; The industrialized western nations in a turbulent global economy; Industrialized state-socialist economies; The Third World: varieties of underdevelopment; Challenges of Third World development |
Prospects for the global economyBibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Provides a unique treatment of world economic geography as a whole and examines the principle philosophies that have shaped our study of it, identifies the importance of the biophysical as well as cultural and political environments. |
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