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UNINA9910465695803321 |
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Goncalves Marcus. |
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Eastern European economies : a region in transition / / Marcus Goncalves and Erika Cornelius Smith |
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2016 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) |
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Economics collection, , 2163-7628 |
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Electronic books. |
Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index. |
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1. The European context for integration and accession -- 2. The role of the European Union in Eastern European economies -- 3. Eastern Europe regional bloc: CEE and CIS -- 4. The economic impact of integration -- 5. Challenges for entering Eastern European markets -- 6. Political risk in Eastern Europe -- 7. Future considerations and challenges -- Appendix A. A brief scanning of the CEE countries -- Appendix B. A brief scanning of the CIS countries -- Endorsements -- References -- Index. |
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Nearly seven decades ago, six countries in Western Europe (Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) decided to take economic cooperation to the next level. The vision of the European Union (EU) founding states, epitomized by the Schuman Declaration in 1950, was to tie their economies--including the reemerging West German economy-- so closely together that war would become impossible. Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity--Robert Schuman. In 1973, Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom joined what was then referred to as the "European Community." The 1970s were also a decade of deep social and political transformations in Greece, Portugal, and Spain, where military regimes and dictatorships were overthrown. Inspired by the prosperity and stability of the European Community, |
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these countries joined the European project within 10 years, strengthening their emerging democracies. The countries benefited enormously from free trade and common economic policies, in particular structural funds designed to foster convergence by funding infrastructure and investments in poorer regions. This book examines how these larger trends were experienced in individual member states throughout the Eastern European states. This book also scans the regional block of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), South East Europe (SEE), and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and the macroeconomic dynamics of these states and the EU. |
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UNINA9910797167503321 |
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Autore |
Bodei Remo <1938-> |
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The life of things, the love of things / / Remo Bodei |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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0-8232-6659-1 |
0-8232-6445-9 |
0-8232-6446-7 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (145 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Object (Philosophy) |
Object (Aesthetics) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Translation of La vita delle cose. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Objects and Things -- 2. Opening Up to the World -- 3. Living Nature -- NOTES -- COMMONALITIES |
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From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware. The meaning of “thing” is richer than that of “object,” which is something |
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that is manipulated with indifference or according to impersonal technical procedures. Things also differ from merchandise, objects that can be sold or exchanged or seen as status symbols. Things, in the philosophical sense, are nodes of relationships with the life of others, chains of continuity among generations, bridges that connect individual and collective histories, junctions between human civilizations and nature. Things incite us to listen to reality, to make them part of ourselves, giving fresh life to an otherwise suffocating interiority. Things also reveal the hidden aspect of a “subject” in its most secret and least explored side. Things are the repositories of ideas, emotions, and symbols whose meaning we often do not understand. In an unexpected but coherent journey that includes the visions of classic philosophers from Aristotle to Husserl and from Hegel to Heidegger, along with the analysis of works of art, Bodei addresses issues such as fetishism, the memory of things, the emergence of department stores, consumerism, nostalgia for the past, the self-portraits of Rembrandt and Dutch still-lifes of the seventeenth century. The more we are able to recover objects in their wealth of meanings and integrate them into our mental and emotional horizons, he argues, the broader and deeper our world becomes. |
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