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UNINA9910455884703321 |
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Autore |
Hinks John (A. John) |
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Titolo |
The technology of building defects / / John Hinks, Geoff Cook |
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London ; ; New York : , : E&FN Spon, , 1997 |
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1-138-17739-3 |
1-135-82217-4 |
1-280-40486-8 |
9786610404865 |
0-203-47536-4 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Buildings - Defects |
Building materials - Defects |
Building failures |
Buildings - Repair and reconstruction |
Structural dynamics |
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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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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Defects with materials; Failure mechanisms in cementitious materials; Failure mechanisms in ceramic materials; Failure mechanisms in timber; Failure mechanisms in metals; Defects in components: general mechanisms; Defects in external joinery; Defects in elements: soil and foundation-related problems; Walls; Movement and distortion problems in walls generally; Defects in floors; Problems with internal finishes; Defects in roofs; Radon in buildings; Distortion in buildings; Wind around buildings; Measuring movement; Index |
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The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique review of the subject. Defects are considered as part of the whole building rather than in isolation. General educational objectives are set out which offer the reader the opportunity of self-assessment. Each section is generously illustrated with photographs and diagrams, |
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forming an accessible self contained review covering the following: objectives; core information; exercises; revision notes; further reading. Taken together these sections build up to offer the reader an understanding of a range of tec |
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UNINA9910777571103321 |
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Autore |
Calvo Guillermo |
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Emerging capital markets in turmoil : bad luck or bad policy / / Guillermo A. Calvo |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2005 |
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1-282-09710-5 |
9786612097102 |
0-262-26972-4 |
1-4237-4678-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (564 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Financial crises |
Capital market |
Financial crises - Developing countries |
Capital market - Developing countries |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-532) and index. |
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Analysis of financial crises in emerging market economies, including Mexico, Argentina, and Russia; traces the evolution of crisis theory and challenges the conventional wisdom.Since the mid-1990s, emerging market economies have been hit by dramatic highs and lows: lifted by large capital inflows, then plunged into chaos by constrained credit and out-of-control exchange rates. The conventional wisdom about such crises is strongly influenced by the experience of advanced economies. In Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil, Guillermo Calvo examines these issues instead from the perspective of emerging market economies themselves, taking into account the limitations and |
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vulnerabilities these economies confront. A succession of crises--Mexico in 1994-5, East Asia in 1997, Russia in 1998, and Argentina in 2001--prompted an urgent search in economic policy circles for cogent explanations. Calvo begins by laying the groundwork for a new approach to these issues. In the theoretical chapters that follow, he argues that financial crisis theory regarding emerging markets has progressed from focusing on such variables as fiscal deficits, debt sustainability, and real currency devaluation to stressing the role of the financial sector--emphasizing stocks rather than flows as well as the role credibility plays in containing financial crises. He then returns to a more empirical analysis and focuses on exchange-rate issues, considering the advantages and disadvantages of flexible exchange rates for emerging market economies. Coming after a decade of ongoing crises, Calvo's timely reassessment of the importance of external factors in making emerging market economies safer from financial turmoil offers important policy lessons for dealing with inevitable future episodes of financial crises. |
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