Applied economics / / edited by Alan Griffiths & Stuart Wall |
Edizione | [12th ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Harlow, : Pearson, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxii, 696 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 338.941 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GriffithsAlan <1944->
WallStuart <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Economics
Economic history |
Soggetto genere / forma | Libros electrónicos. |
ISBN |
1-283-33397-X
9786613333971 0-273-73693-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Changes in the economic structure -- Part I: Theory of the firm -- 2. Financial reports as a source of corporate information -- 3. Firm objectives and firm behaviour -- 4. Entrepreneurship and small/medium-sized enterprises (SMES) -- 5. Mergers and acquisitions in the growth of the firm -- 6. Oligopoly in theory and practice -- 7. The multinational corporation -- 8. Privatization and deregulation -- 9. Beyond markets : critical approaches to microeconomics -- Part II: Environmental, regional and social economics -- 10. The economics of the environment -- 11. Transport -- 12. Health economics -- 13. Distribution of income and wealth -- 14. Trade unions, wages and collective bargaining -- 15. Corporate social and ethical responsibility -- Part III: Macroeconomics -- 16. Consumption and saving -- 17. Investment -- 18. Public expenditure -- 19. Taxation -- 20. Money and monetary policy -- 21. Financial institutions and markets -- 22. Inflation -- 23. Unemployment -- Part IV: International economics -- 24. Globalization -- 25. Exchange rates and trade performance -- 26. Free trade, regional trading blocs and protectionism -- 27. The European Union -- 28. The BRIC economies : Brazil, Russia, India and China -- 29. Growth and development -- 30. Managing the global economy : post 'credit crunch' -- A guide to sources -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150235003321 |
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Britain and World War One / / Alan G.V. Simmonds |
Autore | Simmonds Alan G. V. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 326 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 940.3/41 |
Soggetto topico |
World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain
World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain - Influence |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-45958-2
9786613459589 1-136-62997-1 0-203-80289-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Summer's end -- 2. For king and country -- 3. The industry of conflict -- 4. The eclipse of party government -- 5. Workplace women -- 6. Society, family and welfare -- 7. Food, farming and rural society -- 8. A question of propaganda -- 9. War culture -- 10. After rejoicing. |
Altri titoli varianti | Britain and World War I |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461356403321 |
Simmonds Alan G. V.
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Britain and World War One / / Alan G.V. Simmonds |
Autore | Simmonds Alan G. V. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 326 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 940.3/41 |
Soggetto topico |
World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain
World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain - Influence |
ISBN |
1-136-62996-3
1-283-45958-2 9786613459589 1-136-62997-1 0-203-80289-6 |
Classificazione | 8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Summer's end -- 2. For king and country -- 3. The industry of conflict -- 4. The eclipse of party government -- 5. Workplace women -- 6. Society, family and welfare -- 7. Food, farming and rural society -- 8. A question of propaganda -- 9. War culture -- 10. After rejoicing. |
Altri titoli varianti | Britain and World War I |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790474503321 |
Simmonds Alan G. V.
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Britain's trade and economic structure : the impact of the European Union / / Lynden Moore |
Autore | Briscoe Lynden |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.941/085 |
Soggetto topico | Industrial policy - Great Britain |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-70144-6
0-203-01849-4 1-280-33465-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Britain's comparative position Changes in population, total income, per capita income Investment and investment ratio Allocation between industries of employment and output Changes over time in employ; The theory of trade, protection, and discrimination Benefits of trade Theory of tariffs and quotas Theory of preferential trading systems: Trade creation and trade diversion
UK trade policy and agreements that have affected trade System of Commonwealth preference Membership of EFTA EEC. Anticipated effects of Britain joining The Uruguay Round Agreements Moves towards monetary integration; Other EU policies affecting trade Competition policy Industry policy Policies towards the Steel industry and European Computing and Telecommunications industry; The impact of preferential trading areas and international direct investment on the development of UK trade Shift from Commonwealth and EFTA to EEC: How much Trade Creation, how much Trade Diversion... The energy sector and the development of North Sea oil Decline in the use and output of coal average cost pricing policy so that lower cost pits subsidizing higher cost ones. Development of North Sea; The Common Agricultural Policy and its effect on UK agricultural production, trade and consumption Agricultural Act of 1947 and effects The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Present position after the... Trade and production of motor vehicles Britain's historical position as a major exporter Agreement with Japan limiting imports to 11% of market in cars and commercial vehicles Entry to EEC changed Textiles and clothing Commonwealth preference, then 'voluntary' exports restraints. Cotton re-organization scheme. EFTA Regional employment premium and its discontinuance Multi-fibre arrangement Urug; High-technology industries and research and development Innovation record up to 1970 good. But take up by British manufacturing poor. High proportion of RD financed by government. High proportion of... Trade in services: Liberalization and growth Liberalization under the SEM and Uruguay round Privatization Growth of alliances Regional policy and taxation Divergent effect on manufactures and services Emergence of the poverty trap. Reduces any multiplier effect in depressed regions; Conclusion; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450426403321 |
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Britain's trade and economic structure : the impact of the European Union / / Lynden Moore |
Autore | Briscoe Lynden |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.941/085 |
Soggetto topico | Industrial policy - Great Britain |
ISBN |
1-134-70143-8
1-134-70144-6 0-203-01849-4 1-280-33465-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Britain's comparative position Changes in population, total income, per capita income Investment and investment ratio Allocation between industries of employment and output Changes over time in employ; The theory of trade, protection, and discrimination Benefits of trade Theory of tariffs and quotas Theory of preferential trading systems: Trade creation and trade diversion
UK trade policy and agreements that have affected trade System of Commonwealth preference Membership of EFTA EEC. Anticipated effects of Britain joining The Uruguay Round Agreements Moves towards monetary integration; Other EU policies affecting trade Competition policy Industry policy Policies towards the Steel industry and European Computing and Telecommunications industry; The impact of preferential trading areas and international direct investment on the development of UK trade Shift from Commonwealth and EFTA to EEC: How much Trade Creation, how much Trade Diversion... The energy sector and the development of North Sea oil Decline in the use and output of coal average cost pricing policy so that lower cost pits subsidizing higher cost ones. Development of North Sea; The Common Agricultural Policy and its effect on UK agricultural production, trade and consumption Agricultural Act of 1947 and effects The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Present position after the... Trade and production of motor vehicles Britain's historical position as a major exporter Agreement with Japan limiting imports to 11% of market in cars and commercial vehicles Entry to EEC changed Textiles and clothing Commonwealth preference, then 'voluntary' exports restraints. Cotton re-organization scheme. EFTA Regional employment premium and its discontinuance Multi-fibre arrangement Urug; High-technology industries and research and development Innovation record up to 1970 good. But take up by British manufacturing poor. High proportion of RD financed by government. High proportion of... Trade in services: Liberalization and growth Liberalization under the SEM and Uruguay round Privatization Growth of alliances Regional policy and taxation Divergent effect on manufactures and services Emergence of the poverty trap. Reduces any multiplier effect in depressed regions; Conclusion; Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996199891403316 |
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Britain's trade and economic structure : the impact of the European Union / / Lynden Moore |
Autore | Briscoe Lynden |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.941/085 |
Soggetto topico | Industrial policy - Great Britain |
ISBN |
1-134-70143-8
1-134-70144-6 0-203-01849-4 1-280-33465-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Britain's comparative position Changes in population, total income, per capita income Investment and investment ratio Allocation between industries of employment and output Changes over time in employ; The theory of trade, protection, and discrimination Benefits of trade Theory of tariffs and quotas Theory of preferential trading systems: Trade creation and trade diversion
UK trade policy and agreements that have affected trade System of Commonwealth preference Membership of EFTA EEC. Anticipated effects of Britain joining The Uruguay Round Agreements Moves towards monetary integration; Other EU policies affecting trade Competition policy Industry policy Policies towards the Steel industry and European Computing and Telecommunications industry; The impact of preferential trading areas and international direct investment on the development of UK trade Shift from Commonwealth and EFTA to EEC: How much Trade Creation, how much Trade Diversion... The energy sector and the development of North Sea oil Decline in the use and output of coal average cost pricing policy so that lower cost pits subsidizing higher cost ones. Development of North Sea; The Common Agricultural Policy and its effect on UK agricultural production, trade and consumption Agricultural Act of 1947 and effects The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Present position after the... Trade and production of motor vehicles Britain's historical position as a major exporter Agreement with Japan limiting imports to 11% of market in cars and commercial vehicles Entry to EEC changed Textiles and clothing Commonwealth preference, then 'voluntary' exports restraints. Cotton re-organization scheme. EFTA Regional employment premium and its discontinuance Multi-fibre arrangement Urug; High-technology industries and research and development Innovation record up to 1970 good. But take up by British manufacturing poor. High proportion of RD financed by government. High proportion of... Trade in services: Liberalization and growth Liberalization under the SEM and Uruguay round Privatization Growth of alliances Regional policy and taxation Divergent effect on manufactures and services Emergence of the poverty trap. Reduces any multiplier effect in depressed regions; Conclusion; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910669675603321 |
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The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes . Volume 19 Activities 1922-1929 : The return to gold and industrial policy / / edited by Donald Moggridge [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Keynes John Maynard <1883-1946, > |
Edizione | [[New edition].] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 923 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 332.4/941 |
Collana | The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes |
Soggetto topico |
Gold standard - Great Britain
Monetary policy - Great Britain - History |
ISBN | 1-139-52414-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910573823703321 |
Keynes John Maynard <1883-1946, >
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The decline of industrial Britain, 1870-1980 / / Michael Dintenfass |
Autore | Dintenfass Michael <1952, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (115 p.) |
Disciplina |
330.941
338.0941 |
Collana | Historical connections |
Soggetto topico |
Industries - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Industries - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-93748-2
1-280-14891-8 9786610148912 0-203-98745-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The historical record; 2 Tools and techniques; 3 A question of skill; 4 The bias of capital; 5 Not a nation of shopkeepers; 6 An anti-industrial society?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457317003321 |
Dintenfass Michael <1952, >
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The decline of industrial Britain, 1870-1980 / / Michael Dintenfass |
Autore | Dintenfass Michael <1952, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (115 p.) |
Disciplina |
330.941
338.0941 |
Collana | Historical connections |
Soggetto topico |
Industries - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Industries - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-134-93747-4
1-134-93748-2 1-280-14891-8 9786610148912 0-203-98745-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The historical record; 2 Tools and techniques; 3 A question of skill; 4 The bias of capital; 5 Not a nation of shopkeepers; 6 An anti-industrial society?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784691903321 |
Dintenfass Michael <1952, >
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Escaping poverty : the origins of modern economic growth / / Peer Vries |
Autore | Vries P. H. H |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Göttingen : , : V&R Unipress, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (516 p.) |
Disciplina |
339.4
339.46 |
Soggetto topico |
Poverty
Poverty - China Poverty - Great Britain |
ISBN |
3-7370-0168-5
3-8470-0168-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; 1. The emergence and non-emergence of modern economic growth; 2. Taking off and falling (further) behind; 3. Two case studies: Great Britain and China in the very long eighteenth century; 4. Continuity and change, inevitability and contingency; 5. Old clichés about Asia''s economic past that are no longer tenable; 6. Income, growth and wealth: problems of measurement; 7. Industrial Revolution and Great Divergence; 8. Malthusian constraints, premodern growth and modern growth; Part one: Economists and theories of economic growth
1. Introduction2. Land, resources, geography; 3. Labour: the effect of quantities; 4. Labour quality: human capital; 5. Consumption; 6. Capital and capital accumulation; 7. Specialisation and exchange; 8. Innovation; 9. Institutions: property rights, markets and states; 10. Culture and economic growth; Part two: Actual explanations of the Great Divergence; 1. The Great Divergence and geography; 2. Geography, factor endowments and institutions; 3. Geography and institutions: Britain and China, wheat versus rice; 4. Geography: town versus countryside, urbanising Great Britain and rural China 5. Labour: scarcity and abundance6. Factor endowments: labour-saving Britain versus labour-absorbing China; 7. High wages and low wages: stimuli and traps?; 8. Labour-extensive and labour-intensive routes to growth?; 9. Human capital: labour and its skills; 10. Human capital: labour and discipline; 11. Consumption; 12. Accumulation, income and wealth; 13. Primitive accumulation: bullion and slaves; 14. Intercontinental trade; 15. Globalisation and Great Divergence: How the Third World came into existence; 16. Ghost acreages 17. Innovation provides the key rather than accumulation or ghost acreage18. Innovation: technology and science; 19. A seriously underestimated factor: enhanced productivity because of institutional and organisational innovation; 20. Ultimate causes: institutions; 21. Markets and property rights; 22. Institutions: markets and varieties of pre-industrial capitalism; 23. Wage labour and world-system: Why it does not make sense to call Qing China capitalist and why capitalism''s origins should be considered uniquely Western; 24. Markets: sizes and characteristics 25. The institution of institutions: The role of the state, in particular that of Britain26. Was industrialising Britain a developmental state?; 27. The European state system and the development of civil society: the non-monopolisation of the sources of social power; 28. Culture and growth: Western cultural exceptionalism and how to measure it; 29. Culture does make a difference. But how can one convincingly prove that?; Why not China?; A world of striking differences; Concluding comments; 1. Geography; 2. Labour and consumption; 3. Accumulation; 4. Specialisation and exchange; 5. Innovation 6. Institutions: markets, property rights and states |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910169179503321 |
Vries P. H. H
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